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NYT Crossword — May 28, 2026

Thursday’s 15 × 15 puzzle, 70 clues. The full solution is below — answers stay masked until you reveal them, one clue or all at once.

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36 clues

1Surname of two Indian prime ministers

7Fly-by-night types?

14Drew Carey, Halle Berry or Guy Fieri, originally

15Baroque instrument

16Long-handled gardening tool or immoral pleasure seeker, per contestant Ken Jennings on "Jeopardy!" (incorrectly)

17Walking-around money for Pavarotti?

20Whistling stickup man on "The Wire"

21Cry of frustration

22McGwire's rival in 1990s M.L.B.

23Hajj destination

25Baseball team formerly known as the Colt .45s

27Preacher's gift?

30Kind of a drag?

35Icy passage to Antarctica's McMurdo Station

37Get ___ (shine scholastically)

38Muscle exercised with a shoulder press, familiarly

40Billionaire Musk

415 and 8 go into 42, for example?

45Fan of "I" statements

46Dissect with a diagram

47"___, actually ..."

48Start of many first-year course names

50Lawman who got out of Dodge

55Local leader is prohibited?

58Bum around Europe

59Intentional creases

60Org. targeting Walter White on "Breaking Bad"

61Changes the locks?

62Acted all crabby?

Down

34 clues

1Programming statement that can result in spaghetti code

3Totenberg of public radio

4People who get walked all over

5Bit of a laugh

7Throwing style

10Machiavellian, in a way

11Answer to "Why's your report card in the trash?"

12Written with venom

13Oil, they say

18Birthplace of Dr Pepper

22Fremont and Folsom in S.F., for two

24México's Tabasco, Jalisco and others

26Guardians of bushido tradition

27National drink of Puerto Rico

28Two, for many a putt-putt hole

29It's a zoo out there

32Blue stop sign?

33Third in order

34Resident of Rivendell, in Tolkien

36Dark and sultry, like a femme fatale's gaze

39Comes on little cat feet

42"___ death do us part"

43Comedian Jimmy

44Opposite of 39-Down

49Where to look if you're looking for LUV (i.e., Southwest Airlines)

51Fussbudgety, say

52Mindless repetition

53Affliction for many first responders, in brief

55"Spy vs. Spy" magazine

56Who said "I'm so mean I make medicine sick"

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Stats & info

Thursday, May 28, 2026

15×15

Grid size

70

Total entries

35/190

Black / letter cells

5.4

Avg entry length

13 ltrs

Longest entry

Tricky

Thursday difficulty

PuzzleThe Crossword

PublishedMay 28, 2026

DayThursday

ThemeUntitled

ConstructorJohn Kugelman

EditorWill Shortz

Clue split36 across · 34 down

Longest entries

27APreacher's gift?13 ltrs 41A5 and 8 go into 42, for example?13 ltrs 17AWalking-around money for Pavarotti?11 ltrs 55ALocal leader is prohibited?11 ltrs 11DAnswer to "Why's your report card in the trash?"10 ltrs

Thursday is the gimmick day: rebus squares, reversed entries and other tricks are fair game. This grid has 35 black squares and averages 5.4 letters per entry.