NYT Crossword November 14, 2026 Answers

Across

1A Leaves with a pungent taste in one's mouth? 4 5A Artist's pad, perhaps 4 9A ___ pad 5 14A Country that celebrates Stork Day on March 25 to honor the return of its national bird 9 16A It follows that 5 17A Orchestrator's work 9 18A Hot potato or cold fish, e.g. 5 19A S-shaped hanger 8 20A Saps 6 21A Very long span 4 22A Nudge 6 23A Like some saws and bobsleds 6 26A Light refreshments? 8 28A With 30-Across, kind of movement 5 29A Nutty pastry 9 30A See 28-Across 3 31A First Day observers 7 33A Intel component, for short 3 34A Emcee 9 36A Break dancing? 5 38A Alex Honnold's "How I climbed a 3,000-foot vertical cliff — without ropes" and others 8 39A Kind of concrete that does not require pre-mixing 6 40A Lengths at the London Olympics 6 41A "He clasps the ___ with crooked hands": Tennyson, "The Eagle" 4 42A Eponymous Ontario brewer John 6 43A Kind of catfish or screw 8 47A Stupefied 5 48A Spicy, savory South Asian dish 9 49A Vape marketing claim 5 50A Depiction on a 1969 postage stamp honoring the Apollo 8 mission 9 51A Lock 5 52A Cabinets used by cantors 4 53A Sow what? 4

Down

1D Kind of juice in a bloody Caesar 4 2D Charter 4 3D Name amusingly hidden in "cutthroat razor" 4 4D End of a riddle 7 5D Biscayne Bay, for example 6 6D Whopper topper 5 7D Bad tipper? 4 8D Word with dog or ear 3 9D Bunch of dubious characters? 14 10D 1988 comedy with Arnold Schwarzenegger as Ivan Danko 7 11D Creature features? 10 12D Confection named for Yankee legend Phil Rizzuto 10 13D Finishes a shift? 4 15D Country house? 14 20D "Go ___" (environmentalist's catchphrase) 5 22D Fast bowler, in cricket 5 23D "My ___" 5 24D Noted DC locale since 1939 10 25D Freewheeling exchange 10 26D Toys from China, for short 5 27D Set back the growth of 5 29D Starts to make a move 5 32D Available, as an apartment 5 35D Pontiac and others 7 37D Ethnic group in China's Xinjiang region 7 39D Works in progress 6 41D Supreme Court position 5 42D Stuff in a trap 4 43D "In time we hate that which we often ___": "Antony and Cleopatra" 4 44D Fort ___, Ontario 4 45D Rump of Parliament? 4 46D Processed with bloodroot or butternut 4 48D Actress/comedian Benaderet 3