NYT Crossword Clues for May 23, 2026

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Across Clues

They might be settled atop stools 7 letters / Daily

BARBETS Reveal Hide

Shell, say 5 letters / Daily

ARMOR Reveal Hide

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Places to put fliers 8 letters / Daily

AVIARIES Reveal Hide

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Surgical specialty, informally 5 letters / Daily

NEURO Reveal Hide

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A boxer's might knock you out 9 letters / Daily

DOGBREATH Reveal Hide

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Substitute for "etc." 5 letters / Daily

YADDA Reveal Hide

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Begrudges 6 letters / Daily

ENVIES Reveal Hide

20A

Old auto company based in Lansing, Mich. 3 letters / Daily

REO Reveal Hide

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Jazz drummer DeRosa 4 letters / Daily

CLEM Reveal Hide

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One of the seven depicted in the 1995 thriller "Se7en" 5 letters / Daily

GREED Reveal Hide

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Daytime regulars 9 letters / Daily

SOAPSTARS Reveal Hide

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What some prisoners earn, in brief 4 letters / Daily

GEDS Reveal Hide

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Old black-and-white police autos, to Brits 9 letters / Daily

PANDACARS Reveal Hide

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___ weekend 3 letters / Daily

SPA Reveal Hide

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Walk on water? 9 letters / Daily

GANGPLANK Reveal Hide

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Top that screams "Look at me!" 9 letters / Daily

LOUDSHIRT Reveal Hide

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Clay-and-calcium-carbonate mix used in cement making 9 letters / Daily

MARLSTONE Reveal Hide

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"Lovely!" 3 letters / Daily

FAB Reveal Hide

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Chess puzzle challenge, maybe 9 letters / Daily

MATEINONE Reveal Hide

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Make do 4 letters / Daily

COPE Reveal Hide

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Many an epithet 9 letters / Daily

DIRTYNAME Reveal Hide

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Common con game 5 letters / Daily

MONTE Reveal Hide

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Petite ___ (certain French partner) 4 letters / Daily

AMIE Reveal Hide

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Epithet lead-in 3 letters / Daily

AKA Reveal Hide

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Bit of back-and-forth 6 letters / Daily

BANTER Reveal Hide

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Farrow with a Pulitzer for his investigative journalism 5 letters / Daily

RONAN Reveal Hide

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Eerie substance faked in 19th-century ghost hoaxes 9 letters / Daily

ECTOPLASM Reveal Hide

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Bygone leaders 5 letters / Daily

TSARS Reveal Hide

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Tourist nickname for a Southern mecca, to the chagrin of many locals 8 letters / Daily

HOTLANTA Reveal Hide

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Until, in Uruguay 5 letters / Daily

HASTA Reveal Hide

49A

Destination for wagons, once 7 letters / Daily

THEWEST Reveal Hide

Down Clues

No-goodniks 7 letters / Daily

BADEGGS Reveal Hide

Sales job that Forbes magazine once dubbed "the original side hustle," informally 7 letters / Daily

AVONREP Reveal Hide

Ancient collection of Hindu hymns 7 letters / Daily

RIGVEDA Reveal Hide

Pampers 6 letters / Daily

BABIES Reveal Hide

Handled something poorly, say 5 letters / Daily

ERRED Reveal Hide

Gets even with? 4 letters / Daily

TIES Reveal Hide

Tac preceder 3 letters / Daily

SEA Reveal Hide

At least one 3 letters / Daily

ANY Reveal Hide

Substance that undergoes change, as in a lab 8 letters / Daily

REACTANT Reveal Hide

10D

Magpie lookalike with black-and-white plumage 7 letters / Daily

MUDLARK Reveal Hide

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Bosses (around) 6 letters / Daily

ORDERS Reveal Hide

12D

Gads about 5 letters / Daily

ROAMS Reveal Hide

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Figurative ability to withstand almost anything 13 letters / Daily

STRONGSTOMACH Reveal Hide

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Canal blocker? 9 letters / Daily

HEADPHONE Reveal Hide

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th-century German novelist Theodor 7 letters / Daily

FONTANE Reveal Hide

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Milky and iridescent 7 letters / Daily

OPALINE Reveal Hide

24D

Lizard predator of Africa 9 letters / Daily

SANDSNAKE Reveal Hide

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Close call 5 letters / Daily

SCARE Reveal Hide

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Swedish American model Porizkova 7 letters / Daily

PAULINA Reveal Hide

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Edward who wrote and illustrated "The Gashlycrumb Tinies" 5 letters / Daily

GOREY Reveal Hide

30D

Foam designs, perhaps 8 letters / Daily

LATTEART Reveal Hide

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Berth places 7 letters / Daily

MARINAS Reveal Hide

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th-century German novelist Theodor 7 letters / Daily

FONTANE Reveal Hide

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Stressors for some H.S. seniors 7 letters / Daily

APTESTS Reveal Hide

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Accessory on a pub counter 7 letters / Daily

BEERMAT Reveal Hide

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Brunch beverage 6 letters / Daily

MIMOSA Reveal Hide

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Standard 1L course, informally 6 letters / Daily

CONLAW Reveal Hide

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Title for some fictional lords 5 letters / Daily

DARTH Reveal Hide

38D

Sugar ___ 5 letters / Daily

MAPLE Reveal Hide

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Choice for the undecided 4 letters / Daily

BOTH Reveal Hide

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Org. with a "Cryptographic Support Services" page on its website 3 letters / Daily

NSA Reveal Hide

45D

Little squirt 3 letters / Daily

TOT Reveal Hide