NYT Crossword April 28, 2026 Answers

Across

1A Sore 4 5A Nail polish brand 3 8A Some cantina fare 5 13A "Hip hip hooray!," e.g. 5 15A Sink-or-swim competition? 9 17A Handles a few unresolved issues 15 19A Like tears 6 20A Site to build on 3 21A Gossip, slangily 3 22A Build on 5 24A Welcome at the door, say 5 27A Linguist's concern 7 30A Serious in manner 5 31A Bagel topping 3 32A Not perfect, but acceptable 11 36A Bickering 4 38A Blade that's pulled 3 39A Casual farewell often used outside its language of origin 4 40A Station set up in a kitchen 11 45A Bit of intel 3 46A Coins of Cuba 5 47A Ingredients in some tropical smoothies 7 49A Foreign Service assignments 5 50A Madrid mister 5 51A Church seat 3 52A Promise to pay 3 54A Journalist, informally 6 58A Like children, ideally, in an old adage … or a hint to a four-letter word hidden in 17-, 32- and 40-Across 15 62A Rigorous 9 63A Astronomer Carl 5 64A Irritable 5 65A [As written] 3 66A Civil rights activist Parks 4

Down

1D Play parts 4 2D Kind of seed or pet 4 3D Sometimes-raised part of a shoe 4 4D Emphatic confirmation 6 5D Nocturnal hooter 3 6D Painter Veronese 5 7D Langston Hughes poem 4 8D Due + 1 3 9D Mimic 3 10D Script supervisor's concern 10 11D ___ days 5 12D Slugger Sammy 4 14D "Raising Hell" rap trio 6 16D Council ___ (British equivalent of a housing project) 6 18D Part of a piano or loom 5 23D Boots on the ground 6 25D Rep.'s counterpart 3 26D Ray of McDonald's 4 27D Genre for Ziggy Stardust, informally 4 28D Naan alternative 4 29D Coalition that opposed the Allies in W.W. II 10 30D Mexican wrap 6 33D Kid-lit girl with a blueberry pail 3 34D Greek goddess of the earth 4 35D Brewing need 4 37D They help you drive farther 4 41D Ballpark fig. 3 42D Snooping (around) 6 43D "___ thou not minister to a mind diseased …?": Macbeth 5 44D Significant periods 6 48D Overdue debt 6 49D Golfer Calvin or QB Rodney 5 50D Islam's largest branch 5 51D Alternative to a tap on the shoulder 4 53D Works of praise 4 55D "Othello" villain 4 56D Some supports 4 57D ___ Lewis, the "Grande Dame of Southern Cooking" 4 59D Minor complaint 3 60D Unspecified amount 3 61D Not Rx 3