The NYT Midi Crossword September 16, 2026 puzzle by Adrianne Baik is solved below. The answers were grouped based on their orientation on the grid.
Across
- 1 Big name in upscale coolers and coffee tumblers YETI
- 5 Yogurt container TUB
- 8 Go with the flow ADAPT
- 10 Big fuss ADO
- 11 What means a lot? MUCHO
- 12 Harry Potter’s best friend RON
- 13 The “TL” in TL;DR TOOLONG
- 15 M.M.A. referee’s decision TKO
- 16 Casual, crescent-shaped purse HOBOBAG
- 20 Letters before an alias AKA
- 21 Chambers of the heart ATRIA
- 24 Address with slashes, for short URL
- 25 Burger King or Dairy Queen CHAIN
- 26 Young fellow LAD
- 27 Enter, as data on a computer KEYIN
Down
- 1 Sometimes-purple root vegetable YAM
- 2 www.usc.___ EDU
- 3 Social grace TACT
- 4 Discontinued Apple app for pictures IPHOTO
- 5 Purple-flecked root vegetable TARO
- 6 Chewy Japanese noodle UDON
- 7 Smoke shop buy BONG
- 9 Rescinded TOOKBACK
- 14 Despise LOATHE
- 16 ___ video (online posting after a shopping spree) HAUL
- 17 Vegetable in Creole cooking OKRA
- 18 Like George Costanza or Walter White BALD
- 19 Like the skies in Seattle, much of the year GRAY
- 22 Three on some clocks III
- 23 ___ Arbor, Mich. ANN
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