Today's New York Times Easy Mode Puzzle Crossword Clues & Answers

Clues & Answers For The New York Times Easy Mode

(September 23, 2026)

ACROSS

• 1. Comment on a sweltering day - Crossword Clue
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• 7. Transitioned conversationally (into) - Crossword Clue
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• 13. One might be scanned to see a menu, in brief - Crossword Clue
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• 14. "… in a manner of speaking" - Crossword Clue
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• 15. Feel intense anger, idiomatically - Crossword Clue
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• 16. Insects named for the month in which they're the most active - Crossword Clue
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• 17. Comes to a close - Crossword Clue
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• 18. River-blocking structures - Crossword Clue
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• 19. Folk singer Guthrie - Crossword Clue
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• 20. ___ Young, N.B.A. star whose first name is found in "extra effort" - Crossword Clue
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• 21. Apple computers - Crossword Clue
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• 22. How checks must be signed - Crossword Clue
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• 23. "Love is in the ___!" - Crossword Clue
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• 24. Covering that is papery on birch trees - Crossword Clue
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• 25. Grp. for Arnold Palmer and Rory McIlroy - Crossword Clue
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• 26. Organization with the motto "Peace, dignity and equality on a healthy planet" - Crossword Clue
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• 30. Heroic football defense when one's opponents are on the verge of a touchdown - Crossword Clue
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• 32. Outcome of a boxing match when the judges disagree - Crossword Clue
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• 34. Apt name for a socialite - Crossword Clue
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• 35. Olympic figure skater Nathan - Crossword Clue
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• 36. Sky safety org. - Crossword Clue
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• 37. Black-and-white ocean predators - Crossword Clue
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• 40. Enemies - Crossword Clue
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• 41. Fast food restaurants with buckets of poultry - Crossword Clue
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• 42. Featherlike plant that reproduces with spores - Crossword Clue
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• 43. Northern ___ (freshwater fish) - Crossword Clue
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• 44. Unlimited thing included in many cellphone plans - Crossword Clue
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• 45. Individually, at a restaurant - Crossword Clue
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• 47. Challenge after "You think I'm chicken?!" - Crossword Clue
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• 49. Shade-providing structures that might be octagonal - Crossword Clue
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• 50. "Gimme a moment!" - Crossword Clue
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• 51. Gave a once-over - Crossword Clue
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• 52. Playground retort - Crossword Clue
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DOWN

• 1. Numbers included in a Mensa application - Crossword Clue
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• 2. One of the concentric circles indicating the yearly growth of an oak, e.g. - Crossword Clue
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• 3. Potential situations - Crossword Clue
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• 4. Large crowd - Crossword Clue
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• 5. Poems of praise - Crossword Clue
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• 6. TV's "___ Lasso" - Crossword Clue
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• 7. Roughly half of babies, to their parents - Crossword Clue
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• 8. Summer, in French - Crossword Clue
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• 9. Flip out - Crossword Clue
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• 10. Take inappropriately, as a throne - Crossword Clue
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• 11. National bird for the U.S. and Mexico - Crossword Clue
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• 12. Big name in vacuums and hair dryers - Crossword Clue
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• 14. Simple math problems - Crossword Clue
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• 16. Two-ingredient cocktail with Tennessee whiskey - Crossword Clue
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• 18. "Shucks!" - Crossword Clue
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• 20. Letter after sigma - Crossword Clue
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• 21. Story where you might need to fill in the blanks with adjectives and nouns - Crossword Clue
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• 22. Excited cry after hearing back from college admissions - Crossword Clue
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• 24. Real beauties - Crossword Clue
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• 25. Zodiac sign after Aquarius - Crossword Clue
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• 27. Did some snazzy toe-clicking moves - Crossword Clue
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• 28. Giggle syllables - Crossword Clue
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• 29. What you might perform to see if milk is fresh - Crossword Clue
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• 31. Appear briefly on film, as Stan Lee or Alfred Hitchcock - Crossword Clue
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• 33. Lil ___ X - Crossword Clue
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• 37. No longer a minor - Crossword Clue
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• 38. Race with batons - Crossword Clue
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• 39. Viral trend, say - Crossword Clue
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• 40. "If the shoe ___ …!" - Crossword Clue
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• 41. Drumming Carpenter in the Carpenters - Crossword Clue
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• 43. Yorick's skull in "Hamlet" or the handkerchief in "Othello" - Crossword Clue
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• 44. Carvey of "S.N.L." - Crossword Clue
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• 46. Aladdin's monkey companion - Crossword Clue
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• 47. "What's up, ___?" - Crossword Clue
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• 48. Prefix with friendly or tourist - Crossword Clue
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