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Alex Eaton-Salners
Alex Eaton-Salners

NY Times, Sun May 24, 2026 Going Too Far

Author:
Alex Eaton-Salners
Editor:
Will Shortz
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 41
Notepad: Many of the answers in this crossword are too long and won't fit in the spaces provided. Each of these answers will either begin or end in the gray square immediately before or after it. When the puzzle is done, all the gray squares will have been used exactly once, and the letters in them (reading left to right, line by line) will spell a quote by the comedian Lily [53-Down].

The quote: "The road to success is always under construction."

— [Lily] Tomlin

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© 2026, The New York Times
Across
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Floating aimlessly : ADRIFT
6
On the small side, number-wise : LOWISH
11
DVR button: Abbr. : REC
14
Worker on a band tour : ROADIE
15
Hearing-related : AURAL
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Quarterback-turned-broadcaster Tony : ROMO
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Made cat sounds : MEWED
18
Punctual : ONTIME
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Bordeaux buddies : AMIS
20
"____ Maria" : AVE
21
Second-largest dwarf planet, after Pluto : ERIS
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Airing at midnight, say : ONLATE
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Home, colloquially : DIGS
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Jacket insert : LINER
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Japanese soup noodles : UDON
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Swimming pool buildup : ALGAE
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Loses pigmentation : PALES
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Some frozen waffles : EGGOS
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"____ Croft: Tomb Raider" : LARA
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Beyond recovery : FARGONE
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Unwritten legal rules : ORALLAW
43
Thin burr on a razor : WIREEDGE
44
Kangaroo pouches : MARSUPIA
45
Length of a baseball bat, roughly : YARD
46
Go up : ASCEND
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Crooner Mel : TORME
50
Word between "money" and "everything" : ISNT
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"For ____ a jolly good ..." : HES
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"What a pity!" : OHDEAR
57
Comedian Margaret : CHO
58
Omits by using an apostrophe, say : ELIDES
60
Good name for an electric vehicle owner? : EVIE
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Study, e.g. : ROOM
62
Valentine candy word : LUV
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First in a line of eight popes : URBANI
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Boorish sort : CHURL
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What parallel lines don't do : MEET
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Dojo teacher : SENSEI
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Ankle bones : TARSI
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____ buco : OSSO
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Having been mended, as a costume : RESEWN
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Elizabeth of "WandaVision" : OLSEN
Down
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Powerful naval groups : ARMADAS
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Be dastardly : DOEVIL
3
Nog ingredients : RAWEGGS
4
Carded at a bar, for short : IDED
5
Castro of Cuba : FIDEL
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Weather phenomenon that has a more famous "brother" : LANINA
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Do better than in retail : OUTSELL
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Habeas corpus, e.g. : WRIT
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Cartesian conclusion : IAM
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More svelte : SLENDERER
11
Jupiter and Saturn : ROMANGODS
12
Give off : EMIT
13
Trig function : COSEC
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Loose rock used in foundations : RIPRAP
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Entered one's username and password : LOGGEDIN
27
Mortgage adjustment, in brief : REFI
30
Weedlike plant such as knotgrass : ALLSEED
33
Viet ____ : CONG
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Spotted : SEEN
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Oldest driver to win the Indianapolis 500 (whose son also won it) : ALUNSERSR
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Language of Jesus : ARAMAIC
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Ilhan of Minnesota : OMAR
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SEP and Roth, for two : IRAS
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Collections of records : ARCHIVES
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Alongside : WITH
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Danish birthplace of Hans Christian Andersen : ODENSE
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Year-in-____ : REVIEW
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Scrubs hard : SCOURS
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Beat in a joust : UNHORSE
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[See puzzle instructions] : TOMLIN
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Odd-numbered page : RECTO
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Red Muppet : ELMO
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Hints : CLUES
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C-O-N-T-E-S-T contest? : BEE
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Black and ____ (cocktails) : TANS
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"2001" computer : HAL
Answer summary: 4 unique to this puzzle, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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