NYT Crossword Clues for April 28, 2026

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Across Clues

Sore 4 letters / Daily

ACHY Reveal Hide

Nail polish brand 3 letters / Daily

OPI Reveal Hide

Some cantina fare 5 letters / Daily

TACOS Reveal Hide

13A

"Hip hip hooray!," e.g. 5 letters / Daily

CHEER Reveal Hide

15A

Sink-or-swim competition? 9 letters / Daily

WATERPOLO Reveal Hide

17A

Handles a few unresolved issues 15 letters / Daily

TIESUPLOOSEENDS Reveal Hide

19A

Like tears 6 letters / Daily

SALINE Reveal Hide

20A

Site to build on 3 letters / Daily

LOT Reveal Hide

21A

Gossip, slangily 3 letters / Daily

TEA Reveal Hide

22A

Build on 5 letters / Daily

ADDTO Reveal Hide

24A

Welcome at the door, say 5 letters / Daily

ASKIN Reveal Hide

27A

Linguist's concern 7 letters / Daily

GRAMMAR Reveal Hide

30A

Serious in manner 5 letters / Daily

STERN Reveal Hide

31A

Bagel topping 3 letters / Daily

LOX Reveal Hide

32A

Not perfect, but acceptable 11 letters / Daily

CLOSEENOUGH Reveal Hide

36A

Bickering 4 letters / Daily

ATIT Reveal Hide

38A

Blade that's pulled 3 letters / Daily

OAR Reveal Hide

39A

Casual farewell often used outside its language of origin 4 letters / Daily

CIAO Reveal Hide

40A

Station set up in a kitchen 11 letters / Daily

MISEENPLACE Reveal Hide

45A

Bit of intel 3 letters / Daily

TIP Reveal Hide

46A

Coins of Cuba 5 letters / Daily

PESOS Reveal Hide

47A

Ingredients in some tropical smoothies 7 letters / Daily

PAPAYAS Reveal Hide

49A

Foreign Service assignments 5 letters / Daily

POSTS Reveal Hide

50A

Madrid mister 5 letters / Daily

SENOR Reveal Hide

51A

Church seat 3 letters / Daily

PEW Reveal Hide

52A

Promise to pay 3 letters / Daily

IOU Reveal Hide

54A

Journalist, informally 6 letters / Daily

SCRIBE Reveal Hide

58A

Like children, ideally, in an old adage ... or a hint to a four-letter word hidden in 17-, 32- and 40-Across 15 letters / Daily

SEENANDNOTHEARD Reveal Hide

62A

Rigorous 9 letters / Daily

STRINGENT Reveal Hide

63A

Astronomer Carl 5 letters / Daily

SAGAN Reveal Hide

64A

Irritable 5 letters / Daily

TESTY Reveal Hide

65A

[As written] 3 letters / Daily

SIC Reveal Hide

66A

Civil rights activist Parks 4 letters / Daily

ROSA Reveal Hide

Down Clues

Play parts 4 letters / Daily

ACTS Reveal Hide

Kind of seed or pet 4 letters / Daily

CHIA Reveal Hide

Sometimes-raised part of a shoe 4 letters / Daily

HEEL Reveal Hide

Emphatic confirmation 6 letters / Daily

YESIAM Reveal Hide

Nocturnal hooter 3 letters / Daily

OWL Reveal Hide

Painter Veronese 5 letters / Daily

PAOLO Reveal Hide

Langston Hughes poem 4 letters / Daily

ITOO Reveal Hide

Due + 1 3 letters / Daily

TRE Reveal Hide

Mimic 3 letters / Daily

APE Reveal Hide

10D

Script supervisor's concern 10 letters / Daily

CONTINUITY Reveal Hide

11D

___ days 5 letters / Daily

OLDEN Reveal Hide

12D

Slugger Sammy 4 letters / Daily

SOSA Reveal Hide

14D

"Raising Hell" rap trio 6 letters / Daily

RUNDMC Reveal Hide

16D

Council ___ (British equivalent of a housing project) 6 letters / Daily

ESTATE Reveal Hide

18D

Part of a piano or loom 5 letters / Daily

PEDAL Reveal Hide

23D

Boots on the ground 6 letters / Daily

TROOPS Reveal Hide

25D

Rep.'s counterpart 3 letters / Daily

SEN Reveal Hide

26D

Ray of McDonald's 4 letters / Daily

KROC Reveal Hide

27D

Genre for Ziggy Stardust, informally 4 letters / Daily

GLAM Reveal Hide

28D

Naan alternative 4 letters / Daily

ROTI Reveal Hide

29D

Coalition that opposed the Allies in W.W. II 10 letters / Daily

AXISPOWERS Reveal Hide

30D

Mexican wrap 6 letters / Daily

SERAPE Reveal Hide

33D

Kid-lit girl with a blueberry pail 3 letters / Daily

SAL Reveal Hide

34D

Greek goddess of the earth 4 letters / Daily

GAIA Reveal Hide

35D

Brewing need 4 letters / Daily

HOPS Reveal Hide

37D

They help you drive farther 4 letters / Daily

TEES Reveal Hide

41D

Ballpark fig. 3 letters / Daily

EST Reveal Hide

42D

Snooping (around) 6 letters / Daily

NOSING Reveal Hide

43D

"___ thou not minister to a mind diseased ...?": Macbeth 5 letters / Daily

CANST Reveal Hide

44D

Significant periods 6 letters / Daily

EPOCHS Reveal Hide

48D

Overdue debt 6 letters / Daily

ARREAR Reveal Hide

49D

Golfer Calvin or QB Rodney 5 letters / Daily

PEETE Reveal Hide

50D

Islam's largest branch 5 letters / Daily

SUNNI Reveal Hide

51D

Alternative to a tap on the shoulder 4 letters / Daily

PSST Reveal Hide

53D

Works of praise 4 letters / Daily

ODES Reveal Hide

55D

"Othello" villain 4 letters / Daily

IAGO Reveal Hide

56D

Some supports 4 letters / Daily

BRAS Reveal Hide

57D

___ Lewis, the "Grande Dame of Southern Cooking" 4 letters / Daily

EDNA Reveal Hide

59D

Minor complaint 3 letters / Daily

NIT Reveal Hide

60D

Unspecified amount 3 letters / Daily

ANY Reveal Hide

61D

Not Rx 3 letters / Daily

OTC Reveal Hide