The NYT Midi Crossword May 5, 2026 puzzle by Aaron Gee and Avery Gee Katz is solved below. The answers were grouped based on their orientation on the grid.
Across
- 1 Ultra-manly MACHO
- 6 Airplane ___ (in-flight phone setting) MODE
- 10 Old-timey dental anesthetic ETHER
- 11 Cooling lotion ingredient ALOE
- 12 [Tap, tap] “Is this thing on?” SOUNDCHECK
- 14 “Let me think” HMM
- 15 Historic period ERA
- 16 Soup ingredient that is often removed before eating BAYLEAF
- 20 Make invalid, as a marriage ANNUL
- 23 Language suffix ESE
- 24 Hustlers in a billiards hall POOLSHARKS
- 27 Workplace freebie PERK
- 28 Sign after Pisces ARIES
- 29 Absolutely crush it, in slang SLAY
- 30 Cook slowly, as tomatoes STEW
Down
- 1 See-through dress fabric MESH
- 2 Something about a million times smaller than a grain of sand ATOM
- 3 Buddy CHUM
- 4 Coop resident HEN
- 5 Trials and tribulations ORDEALS
- 6 Taj ___ MAHAL
- 7 Shout from a flamenco dancer OLE
- 8 One of the Seven Dwarfs DOC
- 9 Scared reaction to a spider EEK
- 13 “Summon” a new parent, maybe CRY
- 16 Like oversized luggage BULKY
- 17 Spooky EERIE
- 18 Slightly crooked, as a picture frame ASKEW
- 19 Spill the beans, with “up” FESS
- 20 Venmo and Splitwise APPS
- 21 Holiday tune NOEL
- 22 Ephron who wrote “When Harry Met Sally …” NORA
- 25 “Every dog ___ its day” HAS
- 26 What DALL-E, OpenAI’s text-to-image tool, can create ART
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