The NYT Midi Crossword May 26, 2026 puzzle by Hanh Huynh is solved below. The answers were grouped based on their orientation on the grid.
Across
- 1 “Wahoo!” YAY
- 4 Animal that brays ASS
- 7 Per person APOP
- 9 Grabbed a chair SAT
- 10 Word of praise KUDOS
- 12 ___ carte ALA
- 13 What’s being checked in a fit check video APPAREL
- 15 “I really don’t want to hear it” OHSPAREME
- 17 Takes off, as a plane DEPARTS
- 18 Fury IRE
- 19 Pho and bun bo hue SOUPS
- 22 It “holds one in its net of wonder forever,” per Jacques Cousteau SEA
- 23 Ye ___ Shoppe OLDE
- 24 “Shame!” TSK
- 25 Government revenue source TAX
Down
- 1 Shaggy Tibetan ox YAK
- 2 Kwik-E-Mart shopkeeper on “The Simpsons” APU
- 3 “Read this clue you must,” for example YODASPEAK
- 4 Thus ASARESULT
- 5 Capital of Oregon SALEM
- 6 Like most crackers buried in a booster seat STALE
- 8 “Big ___” (The Notorious B.I.G. hit song) POPPA
- 11 Practices taekwondo SPARS
- 14 “Star Wars” droid, familiarly ARTOO
- 15 Praiseful poem writer ODIST
- 16 “___ to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels …” (start of an iconic Apple commercial) HERES
- 20 K-I-S-S-I-N-G in a tree for all to see, for short PDA
- 21 Question on a form to which Austin Powers answers “Yes, please” SEX
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