The full solution for the NY Times May 16 2026 Crossword puzzle is displayed below. This puzzle was authored by Byron Walden and edited by Will Shortz.
Quick searchNYT Across Clues
- 1A Modern “go-to’s” URLS
- 5A Curtain for silhouetting on stage SCRIM
- 10A Bird on the South Carolina state quarter WREN
- 14A Capote or chesterfield COAT
- 15A Emulates E.T., in a way PHONESHOME
- 17A Roman goddess who drives a two-horse chariot LUNA
- 18A Precious self-reference LITTLEOLME
- 19A Name shared by the singer of the #1 hit “Rock Me Gently” (1974) and the first Korean American elected to the U.S. Senate (2024) ANDYKIM
- 21A Double-___ cassowary (bird of Indonesia and Australia) WATTLED
- 22A Matches with forensics DEBATECONTESTS
- 24A Occasions to relax and recharge MEDAYS
- 25A Obama’s third secretary of defense (2013-15) HAGEL
- 26A Gasoline brand that offered the Torch Club credit card AMOCO
- 27A Aid in making salsa DICER
- 28A Operculum, e.g. LID
- 31A Capital of Greenland NUUK
- 32A They’re hard to pull off FEATS
- 33A Spa service, in brief MANI
- 34A Up to snuff, facetiously EPT
- 35A Trickles SEEPS
- 36A Cup holders ZARFS
- 37A Many a Porsche 911 COUPE
- 38A Practical types who are often perfectionists, it’s said VIRGOS
- 39A Don’t start with me! SECONDSTRINGER
- 43A Difficult effort TRAVAIL
- 44A Cut out EXCISED
- 46A Setting for Seurat’s “A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte” RIVERSEINE
- 48A Cold-smoked lox NOVA
- 49A 7 up, perhaps EVENSTEVEN
- 50A Gulf of ___, waters that abut Djibouti and Somaliland ADEN
- 51A Vanilla units PODS
- 52A Spouts SPEWS
- 53A Romp LARK
NYT Vertical Clues
- 1D Victor over Washington on 11/12/1955 in “Back to the Future, Pt. II” ? and in real life UCLA
- 2D Cattle call ROUNDEMUP
- 3D Went wide or long, as a tennis ball LANDEDOUT
- 4D “No closer!” STAYBACK
- 5D Takes off SPLITS
- 6D Wind pipe? CHIME
- 7D Blight ROT
- 8D Getting a break on Broadway? INTWOACTS
- 9D Medleys MELANGES
- 10D Marriott property with the slogan “Whatever Whenever” WHOTEL
- 11D Triumphs smoothly ROLLS
- 12D ___ Brickowski (“The Lego Movie” protagonist) EMMET
- 13D “What this country ___ ?” NEEDS
- 16D Certain volleyballer SETTER
- 20D Deck KAYO
- 23D Once-popular terra-cotta figurine CHIAPET
- 24D Trigger hair MANE
- 27D State in which Gulliver is discovered by the Lilliputians DEEPSLEEP
- 28D Combo meal upgrade LARGESODA
- 29D Going back ages INFOREVER
- 30D ___ track DISS
- 32D Folks who enjoy a well-aged beef? FEUDISTS
- 33D Borderline MARGINAL
- 35D Echolocation systems SONARS
- 36D Element between copper and gallium on the periodic table ZINC
- 37D Spelling combinations? COVENS
- 38D They’re concerned with feeding kits VIXENS
- 39D Pharyngeal woe STREP
- 40D Cynthia ___, Tony winner for “The Color Purple” ERIVO
- 41D Buckled CAVED
- 42D Extend, in a way RENEW
- 45D Chilly and damp DANK
- 47D “___ noticed” IVE
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