NYT Crossword May 14, 2026 Answers

Across

1A Cliff formed by a fault 5 6A Avoided a tag, say 4 10A Penultimate Greek letter 3 13A "My fault entirely" 5 14A Taste perception first identified in 1908 5 15A Physics unit named for a physicist 3 16A Feature that debuted on Page 1 of The New York Times in 1997 11 18A Confucian "way" 3 19A Prime breeding environment for mosquitoes 9 20A Impression on some fancy sheets 5 22A Puente of "The Mambo Kings" 4 23A Traveled path 5 24A At sea, say 6 27A Powerful fireboat gear 8 30A Rationalist's theology 5 31A Decree 4 32A Part of an analogy 4 33A "___'s da breaks!" 3 34A Lovestruck 7 37A Flesh and blood 3 38A Biblical locale guarded by a flaming sword 4 40A Direction to bow, in music 4 41A Squeezing (out) 5 43A Gets bloated, say 8 45A Pair for a pool 6 46A Ruthless Athenian lawgiver 5 47A Tidy up, in a way 4 48A What collects in a puddle 5 49A Things often getting free refills 9 54A Simile segment 3 55A Broadcasting giant with hundreds of stations 11 57A ___ Friday 3 58A Origin of the words "sky" and "scrape" 5 59A Heather genus that's also a woman's name 5 60A Good periods 3 61A Former small-sized G.M. cars 4 62A Compound with a caret-shaped molecule, as depicted by this puzzle's circled letters 5

Down

1D Anatomical containers 4 2D Thicken 4 3D Palindrome on an Italian restaurant menu 4 4D September to April, in the oyster industry 7 5D Alternatives to hourly wages 8 6D Ecological concern 4 7D Trellis piece 4 8D "If u ask me" 3 9D Gossip about, informally 6 10D A peeling that's appealing? 10 11D Prolifically posting about one's kids online, in a neologism 10 12D Reassuring reply 4 14D "That … ain't it" 4 17D Essence 4 21D Certain tax-free bond, informally 4 23D Velocity, e.g. 4 24D Relatively unusual 5 25D Had to have right away 10 26D Races against the clock 10 27D Travel by pick-up? 5 28D "The Elder" or "The Younger" Roman 4 29D Strains to hear? 5 31D Hemlock relatives 4 35D Hand, at a hacienda 4 36D Group with a satellite truck 8 39D Palindrome on an Indian restaurant menu 4 42D Seven-stringed instrument that gave the guitar its name 7 44D Ancient book of divination 6 45D Member of a sluglike "Star Wars" species 4 47D Presaging disaster 4 48D Meaty pasta sauce 4 49D Long lunch? 4 50D Get ahead of 4 51D Cut and paste, e.g. 4 52D Force through a food mill 4 53D Go way up 4 56D Uprooting tool 3