NYT Crossword hints and answer for April 11, 2026
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Clues68
Across29
Down39
ConstructorKareem Ayas
Today’s NYT Crossword clues, hints & answers
Every clue from this puzzle with a hint and the answer behind separate buttons, so you only see what you need. Click a clue for its own page.
Across
1A
"How telling" (12)
Starts with T, ends with TTHATSAYSALOT→
13A
Rued remark? (13)
Starts with W, ends with EWHATHAVEIDONE→
14A
Question to one who's down (14)
Starts with W, ends with EWHYTHELONGFACE→
15A
There's a Black, White and Red one (3)
Starts with S, ends with ASEA→
16A
"Such a blast!" (5)
Starts with S, ends with NSOFUN→
17A
Buff bros (5)
Starts with H, ends with NHEMEN→
18A
Maintained, as a position (4)
Starts with H, ends with DHELD→
20A
Part of E.S.T.: Abbr. (3)
Starts with S, ends with DSTD→
21A
Downed (3)
Starts with A, ends with EATE→
22A
They have sticking points in competition (5)
Starts with E, ends with SEPEES→
24A
Some gaming centers, in brief (3)
Starts with P, ends with SPCS→
25A
"Darn it!" (3)
Starts with M, ends with NMAN→
28A
Arboreal symbol in Billie Holiday's "Strange Fruit" (10)
Starts with P, ends with EPOPLARTREE→
32A
Fulfill ... or fill (4)
Starts with S, ends with ESATE→
33A
Give a very wide berth (15)
Starts with A, ends with SAVOIDATALLCOSTS→
35A
Heading in a wine list (4)
Starts with R, ends with SREDS→
36A
A significant accomplishment (10)
Starts with N, ends with TNOMEANFEAT→
37A
House and Howser: Abbr. (3)
Starts with D, ends with SDRS→
38A
___-eared (3)
Starts with L, ends with PLOP→
39A
Figures in a speed trap? (5)
Starts with N, ends with SNARCS→
40A
Something most people have memorized (3)
Starts with P, ends with NPIN→
41A
Iowa college (3)
Starts with C, ends with ECOE→
44A
Writer of "Esmé" and "The Open Window" (4)
Starts with S, ends with ISAKI→
45A
Not a good way to run? (5)
Starts with A, ends with LAFOUL→
48A
Old Syrian political party whose name means "resurrection" (5)
Starts with B, ends with HBAATH→
51A
Flip remark? (14)
Starts with C, ends with RCALLITINTHEAIR→
54A
"Saturday Night Live" features that aren't live (13)
Starts with D, ends with SDIGITALSHORTS→
55A
Term for an ambiguously worded news headline (12)
Starts with C, ends with MCRASHBLOSSOM→
Down
1D
Your of yore (3)
Starts with T, ends with YTHY→
2D
They're tipped out of respect (4)
Starts with H, ends with SHATS→
3D
Alexandre Dumas's Count de la Fère (5)
Starts with A, ends with SATHOS→
4D
It's a steal! (5)
Starts with T, ends with TTHEFT→
5D
Spanish blessing (5)
Starts with S, ends with DSALUD→
6D
Big publisher of romance novels (4)
Starts with A, ends with NAVON→
7D
Hunger (3)
Starts with Y, ends with NYEN→
8D
Aiming mechanisms on bows (6)
Starts with S, ends with SSIGHTS→
9D
Plug amount (5)
Starts with A, ends with EADFEE→
10D
Moldable soil (4)
Starts with L, ends with MLOAM→
11D
At some time (4)
Starts with O, ends with EONCE→
12D
___ idol (4)
Starts with T, ends with NTEEN→
13D
Groups studied by cetologists (9)
Starts with W, ends with SWHALEPODS→
14D
Become inconsolable about (8)
Starts with W, ends with RWEEPOVER→
15D
"True West" playwright Sam (7)
Starts with S, ends with DSHEPARD→
19D
Providers of chops and chips (5)
Starts with D, ends with SDELIS→
21D
Line running roughly parallel to Interstate 95 (5)
Starts with A, ends with AACELA→
23D
Disconsolate (3)
Starts with S, ends with DSAD→
24D
"The King of Football" (4)
Starts with P, ends with EPELE→
25D
Cars with a trident logo (9)
Starts with M, ends with SMASERATIS→
26D
Person playing forward (8)
Starts with A, ends with RATTACKER→
27D
Calls home, as a bird might (7)
Starts with N, ends with NNESTSIN→
29D
Gabbed, gabbed, gabbed (5)
Starts with R, ends with NRANON→
30D
Car roof with removable panels (4)
Starts with T, ends with PTTOP→
31D
Farm male (3)
Starts with R, ends with MRAM→
32D
Remote locations (5)
Starts with S, ends with SSOFAS→
34D
TV channel that has received a Four Freedoms Award for Freedom of Speech (3)
Starts with C, ends with NCNN→
38D
Adam's first wife, in Jewish myth (6)
Starts with L, ends with HLILITH→
40D
Hungarian sheepdogs (5)
Starts with P, ends with SPULIS→
41D
Schoolyard retort (5)
Starts with C, ends with OCANSO→
42D
Vows you may stand for (5)
Starts with O, ends with SOATHS→
43D
Spirit of an era (5)
Starts with E, ends with SETHOS→
45D
Down Under band with 10 multiplatinum albums (4)
Starts with A, ends with CACDC→
46D
All right (4)
Starts with F, ends with RFAIR→
47D
___ Tokarczuk, 2018 Literature Nobelist (4)
Starts with O, ends with AOLGA→
48D
Unwanted bit of mail (4)
Starts with B, ends with LBILL→
49D
"Show me a ___ and I'll write you a tragedy": F. Scott Fitzgerald (4)
Starts with H, ends with OHERO→
52D
Something you owe (3)
Starts with T, ends with BTAB→
53D
Producer of notes (3)
Starts with A, ends with MATM→
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How many clues are in the NYT Crossword for April 11, 2026?+
68 clues: 29 Across and 39 Down. The puzzle was constructed by Kareem Ayas and edited by Will Shortz.
What are some answers in today’s NYT Crossword?+
For example: "How telling" (THATSAYSALOT); Rued remark? (WHATHAVEIDONE); Question to one who's down (WHYTHELONGFACE).
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