The NYT Midi Crossword November 6, 2026 puzzle by Ian Livengood is solved below. The answers were grouped based on their orientation on the grid.
Across
- 1 Restaurant chain with a red pepper in its logo CHILIS
- 6 Maze runners trying to thwart this puzzle’s subject GHOSTS
- 7 Flew high SOARED
- 8 Not as good WORSE
- 9 Sitting around not doing much IDLE
- 10 Surgery marks SCARS
- 12 Empty, boastful talk HOTAIR
- 14 Iconic maze runner hinted at in this puzzle PACMAN
- 16 Snapple rival NESTEA
Down
- 1 Total fraud CHARLATAN
- 2 Jockeys jockey for position in it HORSERACE
- 3 “Yes, that makes sense” ISEE
- 4 British abbreviation similar to “Inc.” LTD
- 5 “What ___ the meaning of all this?!” IS
- 6 One member of a police interrogation team GOODCOP
- 7 Nothing-but-net sound SWISH
- 11 Virtual people in a 2000s computer game franchise SIMS
- 13 Member of order Rodentia RAT
- 15 The Cornhusker State, in a mailing address NE
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