The NYT Midi Crossword August 30, 2026 puzzle by Ian Livengood is solved below. The answers were grouped based on their orientation on the grid.
Across
- 1 Back talk LIP
- 4 Talks and talks and talks GABS
- 8 Promise of repayment IOU
- 9 Like throwback fashion RETRO
- 10 Helpful guide for sightseers STREETMAP
- 12 Ankle-related TARSAL
- 13 “Hot Shots!” or “Shaun of the Dead” SPOOF
- 16 Post-marathon pain, perhaps ACHE
- 19 Petrified ___ WOOD
- 21 Machu Picchu and Chichén Itzá RUINS
- 23 Hospital test in a tube, for short MRI
- 24 Birthplace of Muhammad MECCA
- 25 What Mark Twain called the “saddest evidence of intellectual poverty” PUN
- 26 Distort, as polling data SKEW
- 27 Network of medical providers, for short HMO
Down
- 1 Something checked twice by Santa LIST
- 2 Teeny tiny bit IOTA
- 3 Sound from a content feline PURR
- 4 2003 hit for Lil Jon and the East Side Boyz GETLOW
- 5 10s and 20s dispenser ATM
- 6 Supportive top BRA
- 7 Soak (up) SOP
- 9 “You ___ what you sow” REAP
- 11 Intrinsic nature ESSENCE
- 14 Extra pep OOMPH
- 15 Online discussion site FORUM
- 16 Funny bone’s place ARM
- 17 Actors’ prompts CUES
- 18 Cletus Spuckler on “The Simpsons,” e.g. HICK
- 20 ___ nuggets (food shaped like prehistoric creatures) DINO
- 22 Tool with sharp teeth SAW
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