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New York Times Crossword April 8 2026 Answers

Wednesday puzzle · 79 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 79 clues from the New York Times Crossword for April 8 2026. Stuck on one? Click the clue to reveal its verified answer, plus every other answer that clue has had across every publisher in our database.

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"I'm afraid not," quaintly61 AcrossReveal answer → Food brand for Fido47 AcrossReveal answer → Like major-city airports, typically: Abbr.411 AcrossReveal answer → Cash in615 AcrossReveal answer → Avocado dip, informally416 AcrossReveal answer → Take a risk417 AcrossReveal answer → Audience's reverent response to a symphony finale?1118 AcrossReveal answer → Keenly interested420 AcrossReveal answer → Shakespearean "soon"421 AcrossReveal answer → That certain je ne sais quoi in Beethoven's "Moonlight"?1122 AcrossReveal answer → Commotion324 AcrossReveal answer → Measure of college readiness, for short425 AcrossReveal answer → Knuckled rub to the scalp626 AcrossReveal answer → Publishing house workers: Abbr.327 AcrossReveal answer → Goal328 AcrossReveal answer → Wood-shaping hand tool429 AcrossReveal answer → Tagging symbols331 AcrossReveal answer → ___-Magnon332 AcrossReveal answer → Vegas opener?333 AcrossReveal answer → Perry of pop434 AcrossReveal answer → Opportunity for a choral understudy?1236 AcrossReveal answer → Belgrade native439 AcrossReveal answer → "Beats me," in a text340 AcrossReveal answer → Caviar, essentially341 AcrossReveal answer → Miss Piggy, for one342 AcrossReveal answer → Assns.443 AcrossReveal answer → Extended comedic riff345 AcrossReveal answer → Hindi for "rule"346 AcrossReveal answer → Chant heard at the start of "Hot Hot Hot"649 AcrossReveal answer → Girl in Glasgow451 AcrossReveal answer → Alias initialism352 AcrossReveal answer → When to play a note with sudden strong emphasis?1153 AcrossReveal answer → "Groovy, man"456 AcrossReveal answer → Popular flavor of bubble tea457 AcrossReveal answer → "What's Opera, Doc?," e.g.?1158 AcrossReveal answer → Volunteer's offer460 AcrossReveal answer → Hits hard461 AcrossReveal answer → Respond, as a pupil might662 AcrossReveal answer → Ending with kitchen463 AcrossReveal answer → Painter Paul464 AcrossReveal answer → Key of Brahms's Symphony No. 4665 AcrossReveal answer →

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Covered passageway61 DownReveal answer → Meteor in a November shower62 DownReveal answer → Enhancing accessories63 DownReveal answer → Actor Astin of the "Lord of the Rings" films44 DownReveal answer → Original Super Mario Bros. console35 DownReveal answer → Oversight86 DownReveal answer → Author's representative57 DownReveal answer → Moon over Managua48 DownReveal answer → Treaty49 DownReveal answer → What Saturn's moon Enceladus and Jupiter's moon Europa are both believed to have610 DownReveal answer → The Gem State511 DownReveal answer → Find one's way812 DownReveal answer → Dublin college founded in 1592713 DownReveal answer → Apartment planter sites, perhaps614 DownReveal answer → Good gardening soil419 DownReveal answer → Traditional samurai hairstyles823 DownReveal answer → Graph of y = ax^2 + bx + c, for example825 DownReveal answer → Frame for a game of pool429 DownReveal answer → Forehead marking at the start of Lent330 DownReveal answer → Convention bldg., in a mailing address332 DownReveal answer → Dudes, in British English433 DownReveal answer → Big name in hardware stores335 DownReveal answer → Underground scurrier836 DownReveal answer → Half of a darting motion337 DownReveal answer → Jean-Bertrand ___, 1990s Haitian leader838 DownReveal answer → One-man band, for example739 DownReveal answer → Sentimental sort642 DownReveal answer → Comment644 DownReveal answer → Make ___ (earn vast sums)445 DownReveal answer → Unit of angular measurement646 DownReveal answer → Like647 DownReveal answer → Rolling Stones frontman648 DownReveal answer → Absorber of UV light550 DownReveal answer → Charter551 DownReveal answer → Word with cavity or contraceptive454 DownReveal answer → One acting rather quiet?455 DownReveal answer → Savory South Asian rice cake456 DownReveal answer → Lower, as lights359 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the New York Times crossword published on Wednesday, April 8, 2026. Answers are checked against the completed grid before publishing and live on each clue's own page, so you only see the solutions you ask for. If a clue looks familiar, open it — the same wording often runs in other puzzles with a different answer, and the clue page shows every version we have on record.