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NYT Crossword — November 14, 2026

Saturday’s 15 × 15 puzzle, 66 clues. The full solution is below — answers stay masked until you reveal them, one clue or all at once.

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Across

33 clues

1Leaves with a pungent taste in one's mouth?

5Artist's pad, perhaps

14Country that celebrates Stork Day on March 25 to honor the return of its national bird

16It follows that

17Orchestrator's work

18Hot potato or cold fish, e.g.

19S-shaped hanger

21Very long span

23Like some saws and bobsleds

26Light refreshments?

28With 30-Across, kind of movement

30See 28-Across

31First Day observers

33Intel component, for short

36Break dancing?

38Alex Honnold's "How I climbed a 3,000-foot vertical cliff — without ropes" and others

39Kind of concrete that does not require pre-mixing

40Lengths at the London Olympics

41"He clasps the ___ with crooked hands": Tennyson, "The Eagle"

42Eponymous Ontario brewer John

43Kind of catfish or screw

48Spicy, savory South Asian dish

49Vape marketing claim

50Depiction on a 1969 postage stamp honoring the Apollo 8 mission

52Cabinets used by cantors

Down

33 clues

1Kind of juice in a bloody Caesar

3Name amusingly hidden in "cutthroat razor"

4End of a riddle

5Biscayne Bay, for example

6Whopper topper

8Word with dog or ear

9Bunch of dubious characters?

101988 comedy with Arnold Schwarzenegger as Ivan Danko

11Creature features?

12Confection named for Yankee legend Phil Rizzuto

13Finishes a shift?

15Country house?

20"Go ___" (environmentalist's catchphrase)

22Fast bowler, in cricket

24Noted DC locale since 1939

25Freewheeling exchange

26Toys from China, for short

27Set back the growth of

29Starts to make a move

32Available, as an apartment

35Pontiac and others

37Ethnic group in China's Xinjiang region

39Works in progress

41Supreme Court position

42Stuff in a trap

43"In time we hate that which we often ___": "Antony and Cleopatra"

44Fort ___, Ontario

45Rump of Parliament?

46Processed with bloodroot or butternut

48Actress/comedian Benaderet

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Stats & info

Saturday, Nov 14, 2026

15×15

Grid size

66

Total entries

26/199

Black / letter cells

6.0

Avg entry length

14 ltrs

Longest entry

Hardest

Saturday difficulty

PuzzleThe Crossword

PublishedNov 14, 2026

DaySaturday

ThemeThemeless

ConstructorByron Walden

EditorWill Shortz

Clue split33 across · 33 down

Longest entries

9DBunch of dubious characters?14 ltrs 15DCountry house?14 ltrs 11DCreature features?10 ltrs 12DConfection named for Yankee legend Phil Rizzuto10 ltrs 24DNoted DC locale since 193910 ltrs

Saturday is the hardest grid of the week, themeless and clued as obliquely as the editor allows. This grid has 26 black squares and averages 6.0 letters per entry.