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NYT Crossword — November 7, 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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31 clues

1Beetle alternative beginning in 1961

11Texting tech, for short

14"Lord willing!"

15Word with square or value

16Krypton, to Superman

17"... approximately"

18Forest Service employee responsible for winter rescues

19Head of Togo or Congo

20Beatles song subject who is "filling in a ticket in her little white book"

21Football blocking group, informally

23"The breath of art," per Frank Lloyd Wright

25Kid-friendly business?

28Sporty car type

29Post-run activity

30Start of many cathedral names

31"12 Angry Men" director, 1957

33Beginning of many French team nicknames

34It features one leg perpendicular to the other

37Practices salat, in Islam

39Twistable kitchen item

41Nurse back to full strength

42Cries of enlightenment

43Job for which you might offer a hand, informally

44Withdrawal takeaway

50Beowulfian, say

51One looking over a shoulder?

52Father of King Minos

53Plea from lazy children, perhaps

54First to seven?

55"Oof, I'm struggling"

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35 clues

3Titular Pixar character who's mistakenly called names like Bingo, Chico and Fabio

4Cold application for a pitcher

6Airing during the wee hours, say

7Hawaiian word for "family"

8Atari release of 1972

9Literally, "sword"

10Nostalgia-inducing illustrations and typography

11Tennis feat completed by Novak Djokovic in 2016 (but named for a different player)

12Things on superintendents' rings

13Fizzy cocktail flavor

15Recurring images, in literary analysis

22Smartphone tech abbr.

23What the Fox evidences in an Aesop fable

24Brilliant stuff

25Someone who might need to get a life?

26Reveal, poetically

28Digs for a dove

31Football coach who famously said "Winning isn't everything; it's the only thing"

35U.S. House committee since 1967

36Women's soccer coach Sundhage

37Woolen outerwear

40Band whose "Live at Leeds" album went double platinum

42Makeup titan Elizabeth

43Group of Mediterranean appetizers

45Warning to an inattentive driver

47Retail chain whose first two letters are the first and last initials of its founder

48Common condo no-no

49City east of Ithaca

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Stats & info

Saturday, Nov 7, 2026

15×15

Grid size

66

Total entries

34/191

Black / letter cells

5.8

Avg entry length

10 ltrs

Longest entry

Hardest

Saturday difficulty

PuzzleThe Crossword

PublishedNov 7, 2026

DaySaturday

ThemeThemeless

ConstructorAdrian Johnson

EditorWill Shortz

Clue split31 across · 35 down

Longest entries

1ABeetle alternative beginning in 196110 ltrs 14A"Lord willing!"10 ltrs 16AKrypton, to Superman10 ltrs 18AForest Service employee responsible for winter rescues10 ltrs 44AWithdrawal takeaway10 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 5.8 letters per entry.