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New York Times, Thursday, May 21, 2026

Author:
Zhou Zhang and Mallory Montgomery
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
"Bingo!"
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
67/6/20255/21/20264
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
1101300
RebusCircleScrabDebutFlowFresh
111.702230.425%
Zhou Zhang
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
21/8/20265/21/20262
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
0000200
ScrabDebutFlowFresh
1.731029.429%
Mallory Montgomery

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 38 Missing: {JZ} This is puzzle # 6 for Ms. Zhang. This is puzzle # 2 for Ms. Montgomery. Grid flow: 31.6 Thursday freshness: 23%
Constructor notes:
Mallory: Zhou and I are back with more silly antics, this time in sartorial form. If we get enough requests, maybe we'll take a photo ... read more
Jim Horne notes:
Clue Visual Effect Answer timiL "Limit" written backwards BACKWARDS CAP Golfer's suppor- "Support" with the T cut off CUT-OFF TEE ... read more
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© 2026, The New York Times5/21/26 ( No. 27,953 )
Across
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Gossiped-about duo : ITEM
5
River whose southernmost source is found in Burundi : NILE
9
Animal that expresses anger by spitting : LLAMA
14
Curbside call : TAXI
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Egg's outline : OVAL
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Traditional Vietnamese garment whose name means "long shirt" : AODAI
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2000 Eminem single with lines from his "biggest fan" : STAN
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St. Benedict, for one : MONK
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Central meeting points : NODES
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timiL : BACKWARDSCAP
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50¢ or $1: Abbr. : AMT
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Fish more formally known as a batomorph : RAY
25
Capital of Portugal, to natives : LISBOA
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Crown of jewels : DIADEM
31
Penultimate Greek letter : PSI
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One of four seen on Leonardo da Vinci's "Vitruvian Man" : ARM
34
Goat's cry : MAA
35
Golfer's suppor- : CUTOFFTEE
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Move like a fox : SKULK
40
Get a lode of this! : ORE
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John from Britain : ELTON
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Evade : MINISKIRT
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"Bad" beginning : MAL
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Like news that everyone already knows : OLD
46
Legal boundaries? : ELS
47
Kind of cat with a black-and-white coat : TUXEDO
50
More melted, as a marshmallow : GOOIER
53
Tree alongside a ski run : FIR
54
Bro, e.g. : SIB
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P | u | n | c | h | e | s : STRIPEDSOCKS
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Sound of a perfect basketball shot : SWISH
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"Beware the ___ of a patient man": John Dryden : FURY
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Ordered : BADE
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Increase, as interest : PIQUE
65
German Ms. : FRAU
66
Pupil's surroundings : IRIS
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Environmentalist Adams : ANSEL
68
Site for many stars? : YELP
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Sounds of disapproval : TSKS
Down
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Short negative review : ITSBAD
2
Floor covering in a Japanese tearoom : TATAMI
3
"Bingo!" : EXACTAMUNDO
4
Stole material : MINK
5
Southern denial : NOMAAM
6
Something tickled on a piano : IVORY
7
"Buy ___. They're not making it anymore" (old saying) : LAND
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Philanthropic group with a clock face in its logo : ELKS
9
The so-called "Pineapple Isle" : LANAI
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Goes around and around : LOOPS
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Make sense, with "up" : ADD
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"Maggie ___," classic folk song covered by the Beatles : MAE
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ChatGPT, Claude, etc. : AIS
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Inflicts : WREAKS
22
Muse of history : CLIO
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Lasting damage from a tough experience, metaphorically : BATTLESCARS
27
Milkshake flavor : OREO
28
Gospel shout : AMEN
30
"Fountain of Milk Spreading Itself Uselessly on Three Shoes" painter, 1945 : DALI
31
Contented sounds : PURRS
32
"Changed my mind," in editing notation : STET
35
Curl : COIL
36
Hip-knee connectors : FEMURS
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Source of linseed oil : FLAX
38
It's all a haze : SMOG
39
Drug bust unit : KILO
43
Model Miranda : KERR
47
Make neat : TIDYUP
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Large-eyed African antelope with a duplicative name : DIKDIK
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Fixate : OBSESS
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Give out : ISSUE
52
Neighbor of Ricky and Lucy, on 1950s TV : ETHEL
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Far from house-trained : FERAL
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Dodgy : IFFY
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100% : PURE
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End piece? : OBIT
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Belinda's business on "The White Lotus" : SPA
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Prevail : WIN
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Some test figs. : IQS

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