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NYT Crossword — May 7, 2026

Thursday’s 15 × 15 puzzle, 74 clues. The full solution is below — answers stay masked until you reveal them, one clue or all at once.

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Across

35 clues

1Representative Raskin of Maryland

6Coffee container

9One who measures meter by the feet?

13Plant used to make a Mexican beverage called "pulque"

16Guthrie who wrote "Alice's Restaurant"

17BAD ___ER MOVE

20Wine aperitif

21Pioneering Philips product of the 1970s, in brief

22Does to perfection

23Equipment that attaches to a mask

26Locale in the Christmas story

35Blanchett of 2025's "Black Bag"

36Products of oogenesis

37Admission of defeat

39Garnish amount

41Pewter, mostly

42Pre-calc course

43Minority group in Iraq and Turkey

44P___ANT QUEEN

48Video game franchise featuring 100+ species of dinosaurs

52"C'mon, speak up!"

54Prefix with label

60Tea brand once owned by Starbucks

61Kind of high-fat diet

62Prey for a ladybug

64"You can no more win a ___ than you can win an earthquake": Jeannette Rankin

65___ Park (gateway to Rocky Mountain National Park)

Down

39 clues

1Powerful cards in euchre

3Ingredient in osso buco

4"___ gotta run"

5Metaphor for slipperiness

6Chargers and Challengers

7Country that boycotted the 1984 Olympics

8Something a lapidary cuts

9Green film on copper, e.g.

11Animals that bugle

12Pedicure target

15Gary of "Apollo 13"

18Knievel in the Motorcycle Hall of Fame

24Classic barbecue fare

28Hindi honorific

29One providing timely delivery?

30One's appearance after a difficult journey, say

31"Metamorphoses" writer

32Bothers, bothers, bothers

33Meter maid in a Beatles hit

34Sacha Baron Cohen character

39Arctic seabird nicknamed "aerial pirate"

40Counterparts to calls, in stock lingo

46___ Triangle (coastal section of Pennsylvania)

47Spanish sweetheart

50Kemper of "The Office"

51Toys that may be carried or pulled

53Woodworking tool

56Saucer contents, informally

58Nation ruled by six royal families, in brief

59Driver's guide, for short

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Stats & info

Thursday, May 7, 2026

15×15

Grid size

74

Total entries

40/185

Black / letter cells

5.0

Avg entry length

15 ltrs

Longest entry

Tricky

Thursday difficulty

PuzzleThe Crossword

PublishedMay 7, 2026

DayThursday

ThemeUntitled

ConstructorJohn Guzzetta and Jeff Chen

EditorWill Shortz

Clue split35 across · 39 down

Longest entries

17ABAD ___ER MOVE15 ltrs 56A___EAVOR15 ltrs 27A___TER13 ltrs 44AP___ANT QUEEN13 ltrs 3DIngredient in osso buco10 ltrs

Thursday is the gimmick day: rebus squares, reversed entries and other tricks are fair game. This grid has 40 black squares and averages 5.0 letters per entry.