NYT Crossword Clues for May 28, 2026

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Across Clues

Surname of two Indian prime ministers 6 letters / Daily

GANDHI Reveal Hide

nd 8 go into 42, for example? 13 letters / Daily

FACTORFICTION Reveal Hide

Fly-by-night types? 4 letters / Daily

OWLS Reveal Hide

11A

Go (for) 3 letters / Daily

OPT Reveal Hide

14A

Drew Carey, Halle Berry or Guy Fieri, originally 6 letters / Daily

OHIOAN Reveal Hide

15A

Baroque instrument 4 letters / Daily

VIOL Reveal Hide

16A

Long-handled gardening tool or immoral pleasure seeker, per contestant Ken Jennings on "Jeopardy!" (incorrectly) 3 letters / Daily

HOE Reveal Hide

17A

Walking-around money for Pavarotti? 11 letters / Daily

TENORTWENTY Reveal Hide

19A

Veto 3 letters / Daily

NIX Reveal Hide

20A

Whistling stickup man on "The Wire" 4 letters / Daily

OMAR Reveal Hide

21A

Cry of frustration 5 letters / Daily

AARGH Reveal Hide

22A

McGwire's rival in 1990s M.L.B. 4 letters / Daily

SOSA Reveal Hide

23A

Hajj destination 5 letters / Daily

MECCA Reveal Hide

25A

Baseball team formerly known as the Colt .45s 6 letters / Daily

ASTROS Reveal Hide

27A

Preacher's gift? 13 letters / Daily

PASTORPRESENT Reveal Hide

29A

Fly catcher? 4 letters / Daily

MITT Reveal Hide

30A

Kind of a drag? 4 letters / Daily

MAIN Reveal Hide

31A

Parrot 3 letters / Daily

APE Reveal Hide

32A

Perceptive 7 letters / Daily

SENSATE Reveal Hide

35A

Icy passage to Antarctica's McMurdo Station 7 letters / Daily

ROSSSEA Reveal Hide

37A

Get ___ (shine scholastically) 3 letters / Daily

ANA Reveal Hide

38A

Muscle exercised with a shoulder press, familiarly 4 letters / Daily

DELT Reveal Hide

40A

Billionaire Musk 4 letters / Daily

ELON Reveal Hide

41A

and 8 go into 42, for example? 13 letters / Daily

FACTORFICTION Reveal Hide

45A

Fan of "I" statements 6 letters / Daily

EGOIST Reveal Hide

46A

Dissect with a diagram 5 letters / Daily

PARSE Reveal Hide

47A

"___, actually ..." 4 letters / Daily

WELL Reveal Hide

48A

Start of many first-year course names 5 letters / Daily

INTRO Reveal Hide

50A

Lawman who got out of Dodge 4 letters / Daily

EARP Reveal Hide

54A

minuti 3 letters / Daily

ORA Reveal Hide

55A

Local leader is prohibited? 11 letters / Daily

MAYORMAYNOT Reveal Hide

57A

Clear 3 letters / Daily

RID Reveal Hide

58A

Bum around Europe 4 letters / Daily

ARSE Reveal Hide

59A

Intentional creases 6 letters / Daily

PLEATS Reveal Hide

60A

Org. targeting Walter White on "Breaking Bad" 3 letters / Daily

DEA Reveal Hide

61A

Changes the locks? 4 letters / Daily

DYES Reveal Hide

62A

Acted all crabby? 6 letters / Daily

SIDLED Reveal Hide

Down Clues

Programming statement that can result in spaghetti code 4 letters / Daily

GOTO Reveal Hide

[Excuse me] 4 letters / Daily

AHEM Reveal Hide

Totenberg of public radio 4 letters / Daily

NINA Reveal Hide

People who get walked all over 8 letters / Daily

DOORMATS Reveal Hide

Bit of a laugh 3 letters / Daily

HAR Reveal Hide

Not separated 6 letters / Daily

INTACT Reveal Hide

Throwing style 7 letters / Daily

OVERARM Reveal Hide

Bit of a lark 4 letters / Daily

WING Reveal Hide

Lady-killer 8 letters / Daily

LOTHARIO Reveal Hide

10D

Machiavellian, in a way 3 letters / Daily

SLY Reveal Hide

11D

Answer to "Why's your report card in the trash?" 10 letters / Daily

OHNOREASON Reveal Hide

12D

Written with venom 9 letters / Daily

POISONPEN Reveal Hide

13D

Oil, they say 8 letters / Daily

TEXASTEA Reveal Hide

18D

Birthplace of Dr Pepper 4 letters / Daily

WACO Reveal Hide

22D

Fremont and Folsom in S.F., for two 3 letters / Daily

STS Reveal Hide

24D

México's Tabasco, Jalisco and others 7 letters / Daily

ESTADOS Reveal Hide

26D

Guardians of bushido tradition 7 letters / Daily

SENSEIS Reveal Hide

27D

National drink of Puerto Rico 10 letters / Daily

PINACOLADA Reveal Hide

28D

Two, for many a putt-putt hole 3 letters / Daily

PAR Reveal Hide

29D

It's a zoo out there 9 letters / Daily

MENAGERIE Reveal Hide

32D

Blue stop sign? 8 letters / Daily

SAFEWORD Reveal Hide

33D

Third in order 8 letters / Daily

TERTIARY Reveal Hide

34D

Resident of Rivendell, in Tolkien 3 letters / Daily

ELF Reveal Hide

36D

Dark and sultry, like a femme fatale's gaze 8 letters / Daily

SLOEEYED Reveal Hide

39D

Comes on little cat feet 7 letters / Daily

TIPTOES Reveal Hide

42D

"___ death do us part" 3 letters / Daily

TIL Reveal Hide

43D

Comedian Jimmy 4 letters / Daily

CARR Reveal Hide

44D

Opposite of 39-Down 6 letters / Daily

TROMPS Reveal Hide

49D

Where to look if you're looking for LUV (i.e., Southwest Airlines) 4 letters / Daily

NYSE Reveal Hide

51D

Fussbudgety, say 4 letters / Daily

ANAL Reveal Hide

52D

Mindless repetition 4 letters / Daily

ROTE Reveal Hide

53D

Affliction for many first responders, in brief 4 letters / Daily

PTSD Reveal Hide

55D

"Spy vs. Spy" magazine 3 letters / Daily

MAD Reveal Hide

56D

Who said "I'm so mean I make medicine sick" 3 letters / Daily

ALI Reveal Hide