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NYT Crossword — May 30, 2026

Saturday’s 15 × 15 puzzle, 68 clues. The full solution is below — answers stay masked until you reveal them, one clue or all at once.

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33 clues

1Man's name that, like Otto, is also an Italian number

4Missing unexpectedly

16Poogle or Cybunny

17Movie trailer narrator's first words, often

18Fresh Rolls, for example?

19Prominent ingredient in a Taiwanese chicken soup

212014 historical drama in which Stephan James plays the civil rights activist John Lewis

23Roti alternative

25Last name in magazine publishing

29"French" or "sliced" haircut

31Music recording space, informally

32Old political slogan of the women's suffrage and labor movements

36"No more games!"

37Drinks popular among bodybuilders

38Quintana ___, easternmost of Mexico's 31 states

39Peaceful, so to speak

40What's represented by a jiggled thumbs-up, in sign language

41Org. that includes the Forest Service

43Agency-issued rules, for short

46Prosperous period

50Express misgivings

52Mutual aid event that originated in 1920s Harlem

55Like Marilyn Monroe's beauty mark

57Gathering with grills and grilles

58Popular export from Islay or Speyside

59Part of a cabinet that's made overseas

60Osaka's island

61Word used in conditional coding

62Settings for some residents, for short

Down

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2Flying ___ (train between Mumbai and Surat)

6Fabric debuted by DuPont in the 1940s

7Olympic golf gold medalist ___ Ko

8Princess played by Audrey Hepburn in "Roman Holiday"

9Some gift shop merch

10Former "S.N.L." comic ___ Yang

11Students might get credit from them

12Semi professional?

13Low-level cloud

15Rodent that lives in South American marshes

20Mideast yogurt dip eaten with pita

24Acknowledges, in a way

27Singer Jessie with the hit 2020 album "Before Love Came to Kill Us"

28Like Cheerios vis-à-vis Lucky Charms, say

30Strapped for cash

32Color effect of a lunar eclipse

33Evening call to kids playing in the yard

35They hold roasts

36Italian sparkling wine

37Pearl-clutching

42High-ranking women in "The Handmaid's Tale"

44"See what I mean?"

45Perpetual homebody?

47Make a delivery, in a way

48Mammal with webbed feet

49Personality test co-inventor Isabel Briggs ___

51Rolling in it

53Popcorn holders

54Ballet term from the French for "folded"

56"Wicked" director Jon M. ___

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Stats & info

Saturday, May 30, 2026

15×15

Grid size

68

Total entries

34/191

Black / letter cells

5.6

Avg entry length

13 ltrs

Longest entry

Hardest

Saturday difficulty

PuzzleThe Crossword

PublishedMay 30, 2026

DaySaturday

ThemeThemeless

ConstructorMalaika Handa and Erik Agard

EditorWill Shortz

Clue split33 across · 35 down

Longest entries

32AOld political slogan of the women's suffrage and labor movements13 ltrs 36A"No more games!"13 ltrs 37ADrinks popular among bodybuilders13 ltrs 19AProminent ingredient in a Taiwanese chicken soup9 ltrs 52AMutual aid event that originated in 1920s Harlem9 ltrs

Saturday is the hardest grid of the week, themeless and clued as obliquely as the editor allows. This grid has 34 black squares and averages 5.6 letters per entry.