NYT Crossword — Wednesday, March 11, 2026

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• 1AClause separator5More help
• 6AChannel showing committee hearings5More help
• 11ARequest3More help
• 14AWinning, for the moment5More help
• 15A"Don Giovanni" genre5More help
• 16AContainer for sardines3More help
• 17AIn 1968, Spencer Silver at 3M Corporation was attempting to develop a superstrong adhesive ...11More help
• 19AMusician Yoko3More help
• 20AOne in a hundred7More help
• 21AAlternative to fries, maybe4More help
• 22A___-color pasta3More help
• 24AIn 1928, Alexander Fleming at St. Mary's Hospital in London found mold in his cultures of staphylococcus bacteria ...10More help
• 27AVulgar6More help
• 30AAnswer to the riddle ending "How many are going to St. Ives?"3More help
• 31A"Olympia" painter5More help
• 32ARan out, as time7More help
• 36AIn 1945, Percy Spencer at the Raytheon Manufacturing Company noticed the chocolate bar in his pocket had melted close to a magnetron ...13More help
• 39ALanguage in which "computer" is made up of the characters for "electric" and "brain"7More help
• 40ATake one's foot off the gas5More help
• 42AKwik-E-Mart proprietor on "The Simpsons"3More help
• 43AAttacks6More help
• 44AIn 1943, James Wright at General Electric was attempting to develop synthetic rubber for the war effort ...10More help
• 50AInits. on a police forensic van3More help
• 51ARacetrack shape4More help
• 52ALike Mercury among all the planets vis-à-vis the sun7More help
• 55AOne to build on3More help
• 56AHappy chance, as illustrated by the four invention stories at 17-, 24-, 36- and 44-Across11More help
• 60ASinger Garfunkel3More help
• 61AUpdate, as the Constitution5More help
• 62AVaudeville show5More help
• 63ADeli bread option3More help
• 64A___-turvy5More help
• 65AParadises5More help