The NYT Midi Crossword June 11, 2026 puzzle by Ian Livengood is solved below. The answers were grouped based on their orientation on the grid.
Across
- 1 Unstated, yet understood TACIT
- 6 Chimp or bonobo APE
- 9 How the card game FreeCell is usually played ALONE
- 10 It’s cool for a hot second FAD
- 11 Investigative journalist Farrow RONAN
- 12 ___ Newton (cookie … or is it fruit and cake?) FIG
- 13 Rolled-up grass SOD
- 14 Parenthetical comment ASIDE
- 16 World Cup sport, in Spanish FUTBOL
- 18 World Cup sport, in Italian CALCIO
- 20 Nursery rhyme with the line “Put it in the oven for baby and me” PATTYCAKE
- 23 Swelled heads EGOS
- 24 French “to be” ETRE
- 25 As ___ usual PER
- 26 100% genuine REAL
Down
- 1 Covers, as a road TARS
- 2 Standoffish and chilly ALOOF
- 3 Leader with a baton CONDUCTOR
- 4 Catch lightning ___ bottle INA
- 5 Viably TENABLY
- 6 Locally-owned TV station licensed to air network programming AFFILIATE
- 7 Ponied up PAID
- 8 Small advantage EDGE
- 15 World Cup sport, in American English SOCCER
- 17 Pics on a pec, say TATS
- 19 Vegetable in gumbo OKRA
- 20 Lively energy PEP
- 21 900 years, for Yoda in “Return of the Jedi” AGE
- 22 Fish that becomes a piece of fishing equipment when an “R” is added to the front EEL
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