We are sharing here all answers for NY Times The Midi Crossword on May 5, 2026. Scroll down and find them below.
ACROSS
1A. Ultra-manly → MACHO
6A. Airplane ___ (in-flight phone setting) → MODE
10A. Old-timey dental anesthetic → ETHER
11A. Cooling lotion ingredient → ALOE
12A. “[Tap, tap] ‘Is this thing on?’” → SOUNDCHECK
14A. “Let me think” → HMM
15A. Historic period → ERA
16A. Soup ingredient that is often removed before eating → BAY LEAF
20A. Make invalid, as a marriage → ANNUL
23A. Language suffix → ESE
24A. Hustlers in a billiards hall → POOL SHARKS
27A. Workplace freebie → PERK
28A. Sign after Pisces → ARIES
29A. Absolutely crush it, in slang → SLAY
30A. Cook slowly, as tomatoes → STEW
DOWN
1D. See-through dress fabric → MESH
2D. Something about a million times smaller than a grain of sand → ATOM
3D. Buddy → CHUM
4D. Coop resident → HEN
5D. Trials and tribulations → ORDEALS
6D. Taj ___ → MAHAL
7D. Shout from a flamenco dancer → OLE
8D. One of the Seven Dwarfs → DOC
9D. Scared reaction to a spider → EEK
13D. “Summon” a new parent, maybe → CRY
16D. Like oversized luggage → BULKY
17D. Spooky → EERIE
18D. Slightly crooked, as a picture frame → ASKEW
19D. Spill the beans, with “up” → FESS
20D. Venmo and Splitwise → APPS
21D. Holiday tune → NOEL
22D. Ephron who wrote “When Harry Met Sally …” → NORA
25D. “Every dog ___ its day” → HAS
26D. What DALL-E, OpenAI’s text-to-image tool, can create → ART