NYT Crossword Answers for April 28, 2026

NYT Crossword answers for April 28, 2026 are listed below by Across and Down clue.

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Across Answers

Sore View hint and explanation

ACHY

Nail polish brand View hint and explanation

OPI

Some cantina fare View hint and explanation

TACOS

13A

"Hip hip hooray!," e.g. View hint and explanation

CHEER

15A

Sink-or-swim competition? View hint and explanation

WATERPOLO

17A

Handles a few unresolved issues View hint and explanation

TIESUPLOOSEENDS

19A

Like tears View hint and explanation

SALINE

20A

Site to build on View hint and explanation

LOT

21A

Gossip, slangily View hint and explanation

TEA

22A

Build on View hint and explanation

ADDTO

24A

Welcome at the door, say View hint and explanation

ASKIN

27A

Linguist's concern View hint and explanation

GRAMMAR

30A

Serious in manner View hint and explanation

STERN

31A

Bagel topping View hint and explanation

LOX

32A

Not perfect, but acceptable View hint and explanation

CLOSEENOUGH

36A

Bickering View hint and explanation

ATIT

38A

Blade that's pulled View hint and explanation

OAR

39A

Casual farewell often used outside its language of origin View hint and explanation

CIAO

40A

Station set up in a kitchen View hint and explanation

MISEENPLACE

45A

Bit of intel View hint and explanation

TIP

46A

Coins of Cuba View hint and explanation

PESOS

47A

Ingredients in some tropical smoothies View hint and explanation

PAPAYAS

49A

Foreign Service assignments View hint and explanation

POSTS

50A

Madrid mister View hint and explanation

SENOR

51A

Church seat View hint and explanation

PEW

52A

Promise to pay View hint and explanation

IOU

54A

Journalist, informally View hint and explanation

SCRIBE

58A

Like children, ideally, in an old adage ... or a hint to a four-letter word hidden in 17-, 32- and 40-Across View hint and explanation

SEENANDNOTHEARD

62A

Rigorous View hint and explanation

STRINGENT

63A

Astronomer Carl View hint and explanation

SAGAN

64A

Irritable View hint and explanation

TESTY

65A

[As written] View hint and explanation

SIC

66A

Civil rights activist Parks View hint and explanation

ROSA

Down Answers

Play parts View hint and explanation

ACTS

Kind of seed or pet View hint and explanation

CHIA

Sometimes-raised part of a shoe View hint and explanation

HEEL

Emphatic confirmation View hint and explanation

YESIAM

Nocturnal hooter View hint and explanation

OWL

Painter Veronese View hint and explanation

PAOLO

Langston Hughes poem View hint and explanation

ITOO

Due + 1 View hint and explanation

TRE

Mimic View hint and explanation

APE

10D

Script supervisor's concern View hint and explanation

CONTINUITY

11D

___ days View hint and explanation

OLDEN

12D

Slugger Sammy View hint and explanation

SOSA

14D

"Raising Hell" rap trio View hint and explanation

RUNDMC

16D

Council ___ (British equivalent of a housing project) View hint and explanation

ESTATE

18D

Part of a piano or loom View hint and explanation

PEDAL

23D

Boots on the ground View hint and explanation

TROOPS

25D

Rep.'s counterpart View hint and explanation

SEN

26D

Ray of McDonald's View hint and explanation

KROC

27D

Genre for Ziggy Stardust, informally View hint and explanation

GLAM

28D

Naan alternative View hint and explanation

ROTI

29D

Coalition that opposed the Allies in W.W. II View hint and explanation

AXISPOWERS

30D

Mexican wrap View hint and explanation

SERAPE

33D

Kid-lit girl with a blueberry pail View hint and explanation

SAL

34D

Greek goddess of the earth View hint and explanation

GAIA

35D

Brewing need View hint and explanation

HOPS

37D

They help you drive farther View hint and explanation

TEES

41D

Ballpark fig. View hint and explanation

EST

42D

Snooping (around) View hint and explanation

NOSING

43D

"___ thou not minister to a mind diseased ...?": Macbeth View hint and explanation

CANST

44D

Significant periods View hint and explanation

EPOCHS

48D

Overdue debt View hint and explanation

ARREAR

49D

Golfer Calvin or QB Rodney View hint and explanation

PEETE

50D

Islam's largest branch View hint and explanation

SUNNI

51D

Alternative to a tap on the shoulder View hint and explanation

PSST

53D

Works of praise View hint and explanation

ODES

55D

"Othello" villain View hint and explanation

IAGO

56D

Some supports View hint and explanation

BRAS

57D

___ Lewis, the "Grande Dame of Southern Cooking" View hint and explanation

EDNA

59D

Minor complaint View hint and explanation

NIT

60D

Unspecified amount View hint and explanation

ANY

61D

Not Rx View hint and explanation

OTC