NYT Crossword September 28, 2026 Answers

Across

1A Widespread disorder 5 6A Like the exteriors of armadillos 5 11A Fall behind in payments 3 14A Boxing locale 5 15A Classic radio song 5 16A Dessert with a crust 3 17A Solid baseball hit 5 18A Complete shocker 9 20A Bicycle built for two 6 22A Round Table title 3 23A "___ time will tell" 4 24A Prefix with physics or thermal 3 25A Make into law 5 27A Alternative to French fries 9 31A Skill needed to solve sudoku 5 35A Suffix with fail or forfeit 3 36A Apple platform 3 37A "Time flies like an [50-Down]; fruit flies like a ___" 6 38A With 41-Across, ball hit out of the park by the very first batter for either side … or a hint to the starts of 18-, 27-, 46- and 60-Across 7 41A See 38-Across 7 42A Coconut Girl Scout cookies 6 43A "La Cage ___ Folles" 3 44A Frat member 3 45A Liability's opposite 5 46A Detonation region 9 49A "___ I compare thee to a summer's day?": Shak. 5 51A Before, poetically 3 52A What's more 4 55A Spoil 3 56A Performs a stylish ballroom dance 6 60A Tropical tree whose product is sometimes used as a meat substitute 9 63A San Francisco ballplayer 5 64A Actress de Armas 3 65A "Take a look!" 5 66A Helper for computer problems, informally 5 67A Kylo ___ of "Star Wars" 3 68A Stockholm native 5 69A Pursue 5

Down

1D "Stop!" 4 2D Puccini's "O mio babbino caro," e.g. 4 3D Kind of diagram with overlapping circles 4 4D Antsy 6 5D One's employment pursuit 6 6D Bawl 3 7D Places to hang clothes 7 8D Forum overseers 6 9D The Scales, zodiacally 5 10D "Definitely!" 3 11D Certain golf or tennis tournament 4 12D Funny Ferrell or Rogers 4 13D Slippery 4 19D Scorcher 6 21D Recurring thematic elements 6 26D Happy as a ___ 4 27D City NE of Oklahoma City 5 28D Fields 5 29D The N.H.L. has 32 5 30D Cartoon brawl sound effect 3 32D Actress Greta of "Queen Christina" 5 33D Store, as ashes 5 34D Dugout, e.g. 5 37D Complete series, maybe 6 39D Gets by 6 40D Solemn vow 4 41D ___ Guofeng, successor of Mao Zedong 3 43D Like the score going into extra innings 7 46D Top to accompany a skirt 6 47D Like the fate of Ophelia 6 48D Peak 6 50D See 37-Across 5 52D Cracked slightly, as a door 4 53D Word following bike or memory 4 54D Look at carefully 4 57D "Shallow" singer Lady ___ 4 58D Burden 4 59D Ailment that aptly rhymes with "eye" 4 61D N.F.L. three-pointers: Abbr. 3 62D Top to accompany shorts 3