NYT Crossword May 11, 2026 Answers

Across

1A ___ Spiegel (German magazine) 3 4A Animal that ranges around Peru 5 9A Pointed, as a weapon 5 14A Lumberjack's tool 3 15A Cameroon neighbor 5 16A Yell "#$%!" 5 17A Rankings of song popularity used as the music industry standard 15 20A Swells up 6 21A Number in a septet 5 22A Pb, in chemistry 4 23A Own (up) 4 24A Freeze's opposite 4 28A Whirling water 4 29A Up to, as a certain time 3 30A Take fowl foully 5 31A Canapé or deviled egg, for example 11 34A Clears of charges 7 38A A million gazillion 7 39A Movie production facilities with controlled acoustics 11 41A Leave stunned 5 42A Monk's counterpart 3 43A Cut of pork or lamb 4 47A Spa service on the toes, in brief 4 48A "Please, no more!" 4 50A "That is so funny" 4 51A Braid 5 53A Helping for someone very, very hungry 6 55A Insignificant amount 15 59A Tired from overexposure 5 60A "It was the ___ I could do" 5 61A Big part of an elephant 3 62A Storage places for lawn mowers 5 63A Go kaboom, as a volcano 5 64A Deadpan 3

Down

1D Practice casually, with "in" 6 2D Kicked out, as from a country 6 3D Fill with more ammunition 6 4D Pride letters 4 5D Vientiane is its capital 4 6D Lawyers' org. 3 7D Tasty little bites 7 8D Peruvian mountains 5 9D Tennis star Arthur 4 10D "Don't involve me anymore" 8 11D French for "sea" 3 12D Gobble down 3 13D Medical pros: Abbr. 3 18D Noblewoman 4 19D Rival of Walgreens 3 23D Winning a blue ribbon 5 25D Possess 4 26D Unit initially conceived as the amount of land that can be plowed in a day 4 27D "___ in doubt ..." 4 29D Pre-K enrollees 4 30D Enlivens, with "up" 4 31D ___-and-seek 4 32D Unearthed 5 33D Rain clouds, to some 4 34D Rapper ___ Rocky 4 35D "___ as you are" 4 36D College courtyard 4 37D Opened, as a fly 8 40D Request from someone craving more 7 43D Fashionable 4 44D Listened, poetically 6 45D "Goodness me!" ... or a phonetic hint to 17-, 31-, 39- and 55-Across 6 46D Croissant, éclair or Danish 6 48D The "S" of S.F. 3 49D Mr., Ms. or Mrs. 5 52D Tube tops? 4 53D Recipe amt. 4 54D Jabba the ___ ("Star Wars" villain) 4 55D Party pros playing tunes 3 56D "Go team!" 3 57D Poem of praise 3 58D Contents of l'océan 3