NYT Crossword April 8, 2026 Answers

Across

1A "I'm afraid not," quaintly 6 7A Food brand for Fido 4 11A Like major-city airports, typically: Abbr. 4 15A Cash in 6 16A Avocado dip, informally 4 17A Take a risk 4 18A Audience's reverent response to a symphony finale? 11 20A Keenly interested 4 21A Shakespearean "soon" 4 22A That certain je ne sais quoi in Beethoven's "Moonlight"? 11 24A Commotion 3 25A Measure of college readiness, for short 4 26A Knuckled rub to the scalp 6 27A Publishing house workers: Abbr. 3 28A Goal 3 29A Wood-shaping hand tool 4 31A Tagging symbols 3 32A ___-Magnon 3 33A Vegas opener? 3 34A Perry of pop 4 36A Opportunity for a choral understudy? 12 39A Belgrade native 4 40A "Beats me," in a text 3 41A Caviar, essentially 3 42A Miss Piggy, for one 3 43A Assns. 4 45A Extended comedic riff 3 46A Hindi for "rule" 3 49A Chant heard at the start of "Hot Hot Hot" 6 51A Girl in Glasgow 4 52A Alias initialism 3 53A When to play a note with sudden strong emphasis? 11 56A "Groovy, man" 4 57A Popular flavor of bubble tea 4 58A "What's Opera, Doc?," e.g.? 11 60A Volunteer's offer 4 61A Hits hard 4 62A Respond, as a pupil might 6 63A Ending with kitchen 4 64A Painter Paul 4 65A Key of Brahms's Symphony No. 4 6

Down

1D Covered passageway 6 2D Meteor in a November shower 6 3D Enhancing accessories 6 4D Actor Astin of the "Lord of the Rings" films 4 5D Original Super Mario Bros. console 3 6D Oversight 8 7D Author's representative 5 8D Moon over Managua 4 9D Treaty 4 10D What Saturn's moon Enceladus and Jupiter's moon Europa are both believed to have 6 11D The Gem State 5 12D Find one's way 8 13D Dublin college founded in 1592 7 14D Apartment planter sites, perhaps 6 19D Good gardening soil 4 23D Traditional samurai hairstyles 8 25D Graph of y = ax^2 + bx + c, for example 8 29D Frame for a game of pool 4 30D Forehead marking at the start of Lent 3 32D Convention bldg., in a mailing address 3 33D Dudes, in British English 4 35D Big name in hardware stores 3 36D Underground scurrier 8 37D Half of a darting motion 3 38D Jean-Bertrand ___, 1990s Haitian leader 8 39D One-man band, for example 7 42D Sentimental sort 6 44D Comment 6 45D Make ___ (earn vast sums) 4 46D Unit of angular measurement 6 47D Like 6 48D Rolling Stones frontman 6 50D Absorber of UV light 5 51D Charter 5 54D Word with cavity or contraceptive 4 55D One acting rather quiet? 4 56D Savory South Asian rice cake 4 59D Lower, as lights 3