NYT Daily Crossword - Wednesday, May 6, 2026

A delightful (and yet, much less complicated than I initially thought) Wednesday theme in James Mattina's debut puzzle! Other theme-adjacent entries include 63A, 64A, 65A, 6D, 9D, and 31D, with varying degrees of closeness. THINGS I MISSED: 3D - the Pulitzer-winning publication was actually Bolcom's second set of twelve of these 58D - this is the French (and still official) name for this capital city of the former colony; "Viangchan" is closer to the original