Mystified Crossword Clue

• Completely lost … or where the now-idiomatic answer to each italicized clue has a literal meaning

  New York Times · Wednesday, September 9, 2026 · 5 letters

• Befuddled

  New York Times · Saturday, September 5, 2026 · 5 letters

• Discombobulated

  New York Times · Thursday, August 27, 2026 · 5 letters

• Confused

  New York Times · Wednesday, June 24, 2026 · 5 letters

• Cruising the Caribbean, say

  New York Times · Tuesday, June 9, 2026 · 5 letters

• Bamboozled

  New York Times · Friday, November 7, 2025 · 5 letters

• Lost

  New York Times · Thursday, November 6, 2025 · 5 letters

• Bewildered

  New York Times · Sunday, October 5, 2025 · 5 letters

• On the ocean

  New York Times · Monday, January 13, 2025 · 5 letters

• Totally perplexed

  New York Times · Thursday, July 25, 2024 · 5 letters

More clues from this crossword

• 1-Across Red October detector
• 1-Down Bombproof, say
• 2-Down Big name in the 20-Across business
• 3-Down Undercover buster
• 4-Down Turf
• 5-Down Iranian money
• 6-Down Supplement
• 7-Down "Presumed Innocent" author
• 8-Down Brainy
• 9-Down Prefix with dermis
• 10-Down Rand who wrote "Civilization is the process of setting man free from men"
• 11-Across Support grp. for the troops