The NYT Midi Crossword June 26, 2026 puzzle by Tarun Krishnamurthy is solved below. The answers were grouped based on their orientation on the grid.
Across
- 1 Movement-sensing Nintendo console WII
- 4 Make it big in life GOFAR
- 9 Rainbow’s shape ARC
- 10 Crème de la crème ELITE
- 11 Get out in a hurry SKEDADDLE
- 13 Something that may turn onto a turnpike CAR
- 14 ___ pal (female friend) GAL
- 15 Device that uses an Apple Pencil IPAD
- 17 Total pigsty MESS
- 18 Surgical areas, for short ORS
- 19 Animal hanging in a cave BAT
- 20 Petty way to respond to insults TITFORTAT
- 24 Roy Scheider’s “You’re gonna need a bigger boat” in “Jaws,” e.g. ADLIB
- 25 Have bills to pay OWE
- 26 Crystal ball gazers SEERS
- 27 Affirmative vote YEA
Down
- 1 “That ___ a close one!” WAS
- 2 Rub the wrong way IRK
- 3 Showy-but-nonpermanent winter structure ICECASTLE
- 4 Park, neutral or reverse GEAR
- 5 Word before “Faithful,” “flame” or “fashioned” OLD
- 6 Handheld object used to relieve stress FIDGETTOY
- 7 Book of maps ATLAS
- 8 Pulls (in), as a fish REELS
- 12 Stereotypical teller of many groan-inducing jokes DAD
- 15 Minuscule amounts IOTAS
- 16 LGBTQ+ celebration, affectionately PRIDE
- 17 Month when National Reading Month is celebrated: Abbr. MAR
- 19 Short hairstyles BOBS
- 21 Douglas ___ (common type of Christmas tree) FIR
- 22 Leave speechless AWE
- 23 Gossip that’s “spilled” TEA
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