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NYT Midi Crossword May 9 2026 Answers

Saturday puzzle · 40 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all the NYT Midi Crossword May 9 2026 answers. The Saturday puzzle has 40 clues; every answer has been verified. Click any clue to see every answer it has ever had, across every publisher in our database.

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Across

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ClueAnswerLettersDirection#
Hunchbacked creatures in "The Lord of the Rings"ORCS4Across1 "Delicious!"YUM3Across5 ___ 66 (iconic 2,278-mile highway)ROUTE5Across8 Clickable greeting in an inboxECARD5Across10 Pull out all the stopsGOBIG5Across13 Green gunk in a fish tankALGAE5Across14 "Very grateful for your help!"MANYTHANKS10Across15 Student's statGPA3Across17 Exclamation that aptly rhymes with "shriek"EEK3Across18 "I'll get this meal"MYTREAT7Across19 Day, in SpanishDIA3Across22 TimewornOLD3Across24 Statements that lack substance ... or, when read phonetically, a description of the spoken phrases at 15- and 19-Across?EMPTYTALK9Across25 Absolute ___ (operation represented by |x|)VALUE5Across29 Prongs of a fork or a kalimbaTINES5Across30 Segment of a movieSCENE5Across33 Rechargeable two-wheeled vehicleEBIKE5Across34 Where a 33-Across might be filmedSET3Across35 Dish like gumboSTEW4Across36

Down

ClueAnswerLettersDirection#
Alternative to .com or .netORG3Down1 Hotel unitROOM4Down2 Big cigar-exporting nationCUBA4Down3 Unwilling to spend muchSTINGY6Down4 "Uh-huh"YEAH4Down5 Sch. near HollywoodUCLA4Down6 Calendar holder on a refrigeratorMAGNET6Down7 Cairo's countryEGYPT5Down9 Tool for collecting fallen leavesRAKE4Down11 A student might be assigned one in a classroomDESK4Down12 Fortuneteller's card deckTAROT5Down16 Trees that are sources of syrupMAPLES6Down19 Make super happyELATE5Down20 Lines not in the scriptADLIBS6Down21 Software coders, informallyDEVS4Down22 Powerful Apple computerIMAC4Down23 Something to whistle or humTUNE4Down26 Forcefully throw, in modern lingoYEET4Down27 Work with needles and yarnKNIT4Down28 Barely manage, with "out"EKE3Down31 Work with needle and threadSEW3Down32

About this puzzle

This page lists every clue and answer from the NYT Midi crossword published on Saturday, May 9, 2026. Answers are checked against the completed grid before publishing. 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.