NYT Daily Crossword - Wednesday, September 23, 2026

This Wednesday theme from Dana Edwards is not too hard, not too easy - perfect mid-week difficulty, you might say. THINGS I MISSED: 17A - there are indeed four 41A - I realized afterwards what's going on here - you have to re-interpret the first word of the revealer to be a synonym for "carnival" and then it all makes sense! 44A - it's now called Manderley Castle, and she's lived there almost 30 years! 62A - this comes from the title of a collection of marches published by Henry Playford in 1695 56D - it was "American Gothic", after all