5-letter crossword answers: clues T to U

7,689 NYT Crossword and Mini clues in our archive have a 5-letter answer. This page lists clues T to U (page 12 of 13). The clue text is shown and the answer is not. Open a clue for its length, a first-letter hint and then the answer.

Length means the number of squares. In a few puzzles one square holds several letters (a rebus), so a clue can be listed under a shorter length than its answer's spelling. Clues are sorted A to Z, and a clue that has had answers of different lengths appears under each. Looking for the answers that come up most? See the most common NYT crossword answers.

• Tallest animal in North America
• Tamiflu manufacturer
• Tandoors, e.g.
• Tank top?
• Taper
• Taper off
• [Taps casino table]
• Target with, as a pickup line
• Targeted
• Targets of some Audubon cameras
• Targets of some heists
• Targets of some kisses
• Taste
• Taste perception first identified in 1908
• Tasty item that, paradoxically, can have "ugh" in the middle
• Taters
• Tattoo artist
• Tavern menu header
• Tavern perch
• Taxing, as a test
• Taylor Swift hit with the lyric "You got that James Dean daydream look in your eye"
• Teacher's summons
• Teammate of Cupid in "A Visit From St. Nicholas"
• Tears down
• Teary-eyed expression
• Teaser, for short
• Teatro alla Scala solos
• Tech job
• Tech service with folders like "Sent," "Starred" and "Snoozed"
• Tech that records movement
• Technology that Marconi introduced to the Vatican in 1931, in order to broadcast the pope's blessings worldwide
• Teed off
• Teensy amounts
• Teeny-tiny
• Tehre are two in tihs clue
• Telegram and Simple Dialer, for two
• Telegram enders
• Telephone answering word
• Tell
• Tempo
• Temporary Instagram update
• Temporary state
• Temporary tattoo dye
• Tempting words on a Wonderland cake
• "Ten thousand spoons, when all you need is a knife," according to Alanis Morissette
• Tender spots
• Tending to cling
• Tennis great Agassi
• Tennis legend who won the French Open when she was just 16
• Tennis locale
• Tennis skirt feature
• Tennis star Osaka
• Tennis star Rafael
• "Tens across the ___!"
• Teresa of ___
• Terra ___
• Terrorizer of Amity Island, in a 1975 blockbuster film
• Terse way of saying "I'd like to speak with you"
• Test an OB may perform in the second trimester
• Test with one's nose
• Texas A&M athlete
• Text tweaks
• Texted or emailed, e.g.
• Textile city NNE of Paris
• "Th-th-th-that's all, folks!" speaker
• Thai currency units
• "Thank you, Madame"
• Thanks, en français
• Thanksgiving boatful
• Thanksgiving pie nut
• "That can't possibly be right!"
• "That is to say ..."
• [That looks delicious …]
• [That looks so delicious!]
• "That makes two of us"
• "That much is obvious"
• "That's ___" (Dean Martin classic)
• "That's a ___!" ("Seems unlikely!")
• "That's a ___!" ("You're making a huge assumption!")
• "That's a good tip for the future"
• That's a wrap!
• "That's amazing!"
• "That's boring!"
• "That's not good"
• That's the spirit!
• "That's the truth"
• That's the whole point!
• The "A" of A/V
• The "C" of A.C.L.U.
• The "C" of CNN
• The "E" of ESP
• The "E" of the New York Stock Exchange's "EL"
• The "L" of TTYL
• The "M" of D.M.V.
• The "R" in R.I.
• The "R" of REM
• The "S" of NASA
• The "T" of L.G.B.T.Q.I.A.+
• The "Tyrannosaurus" of Tyrannosaurus rex
• The "U" in UHF
• The "U" of UV rays
• The 'gram
• The 1987 film "Spaceballs," e.g.
• The 22nd Amendment limits them
• "The ___ Horror Show," 2026 Broadway revival with nine Tony nominations
• "The ___ is clear!"
• "The ___ is wither'd from the lake": Keats
• "The ___ is …"
• "The ___ of Hazzard"
• "The ___ Pokey" (children's dance song)
• "The ___ Smith Show" (Apple TV offering)
• "The Addams Family" butler
• The ancient Chinese used compressed blocks of tea leaves as this
• The Australian continent moves subtly this direction each year (about 3 inches)
• The Beach Boys' "God Only Knows," to "Wouldn't It Be Nice"
• "The Bear" matriarch played by Jamie Lee Curtis
• The Beatles' "___ Little Help From My Friends"
• The center, guards and tackles on an N.F.L. team, for short
• The Cinnamon Dolce or the Blonde Vanilla, at Starbucks
• The circled letters in this puzzle, e.g.
• "The Complete Works of …" books, say
• "The Conners" and "The Jeffersons"
• "The Crown" role
• The Devil's domain
• "The door's open!"
• "The Duck Variations" playwright
• The eyes of an emoticon, typically
• "The Face That Launched a Thousand Ships"
• "The Family Circus" cartoonist Bil ___
• The first of these was Terrible
• The first one was sent in 1971
• "The Fountainhead" protagonist
• "The game's ___": Henry V
• The Gem State
• The Great Meme ___, movement to purge social media of "brain rot"
• "The Greek" in a 1964 film
• The half with the hit song, typically
• "The Jetsons" boy
• "The Jetsons" son
• The King of Rock and Roll
• The Lamb
• The last one was minted in 2025
• "The Little Engine That ___"
• "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" spinoff
• The masses, to Caesar
• "The Mysterious Lady" actress, 1928
• The N.H.L. has 32
• *The ones over there
• "The Phantom of the ___"
• "The Phantom of the Opera" instrument
• The planets in our solar system, e.g.
• The Potato State
• "The Price Is Right" unveiling
• "The Raven" writer, in footnotes
• "The Relentless Pursuit of Perfection" automaker
• The Rev. Leonard Clement, in an Agatha Christie novel
• The Scales, zodiacally
• "___ the scoop ..."
• "The Second Coming" poet, 1919
• The sisters on "Sister, Sister" or the brothers on "Property Brothers"
• "The sky's the ___!"
• The sky, in a saying
• The so-called "fifth taste"
• The so-called "Pineapple Isle"
• The sound that concludes "The Sound and the Fury"
• The terrible twos, for one
• The thing in "The Thing," for one
• "The Thinker" sculptor
• The third primary chakra is located just above it
• "The White Lotus" actress ___ Lou Wood
• The Wolverine to Chicago's Union Station, e.g.
• Theater awards since 1956
• Theme park that Walt Disney envisioned as a utopian city
• "There ___ enough hours in the day"
• There are 100 of these in every Scrabble game
• There are approximately 30 trillion of these in the human body
• "There is more to life than increasing its ___": Gandhi
• "There it is!"
• "There's a traitor in our ___!"
• "Therefore …"
• These are fighting words
• They can help one get a leg up, informally
• They created "Up," "Onward" and "Inside Out"
• They have branches
• They have pH's below 7
• They have sticking points in competition
• They have teeth but don't bite
• They make runs at the Winter Olympics
• They make streaks on cheeks
• They may be counted when taking attendance
• They may be covered
• They may be fixed or variable
• They may be raised in defiance
• They may be threaded
• They might be foiled
• They might be loaded or stolen
• They might be shaped like minnows or flies
• They might be thatched
• They might go faster with zinc
• They need fans to stay cool
• They quickly spread online
• They turn red litmus paper blue
• They work around the clock
• They'll make it up to you
• They're contained within books
• They're cover-ups!
• They're cut to defuse an explosive
• They're found in a circle
• They're hard to pull off
• They're held in bondage
• They're often covered with dirt
• They're on the docket
• They're over two feet
• They're part of what makes you you
• They're stoked
• They're the subject of more than 200 million catalogs a year
• They're typical
• They're typically around two feet
• They've been played!
• Thick heads of hair
• Thick, underground part of a plant stem
• Thickens, as cream
• Thicket
• Thin air
• Thin air, so to speak
• Thing to rule, proverbially
• Things debated by expectant parents
• "Things Fall ___" (Chinua Achebe novel)
• Things indicated by squiggly lines in cartoons
• Things peddled
• Things shifted on a bicycle or in a car
• Things some checkers check
• Things taken on a walk?
• Things that families and forests both have
• Things that lions and zebras have in common
• Things that might make your hair curl?
• Things that ships, computers and wine retailers all have
• Things to bare
• Things to be mowed
• Things you might see when you're not wearing glasses
• Think pieces, for short
• Third-smallest country in the world (eight square miles)
• This clue number x 2
• This clue's number
• This clue's number, cubed
• "___ This Mess"
• This should clear things up!
• "This Side Up" container
• This text mark: ^
• This won't last
• This, at the beach
• Thomas Edison is credited with popularizing this phone greeting (Alexander Graham Bell preferred "Ahoy!")
• Thomas Jefferson's belief
• Thompson who plays Valkyrie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe
• ___ Thompson, longest-tenured cast member in "S.N.L." history
• "Thor: Ragnarok" actress Thompson
• Thorny patch
• Those opposed
• Threaded fastener
• Three-note chord
• Three-time Olympic figure skating champion
• Thrill
• Throw from a mound
• Throw in at the end
• Throw off
• Throws a hissy-fit
• Throws forcefully
• Thumbs Up or Thinking Face
• Thumbs-down votes in the Duma
• Tick off
• Ticked off
• Ticket selector
• Tickle
• Tidbit of information
• Tied up, as hay
• Tightfisted sort
• TikTok stars, to many
• Time difference between the East and West Coast, in hours
• Time sheet calculation
• Time's 2023 Person of the Year
• Tinker Bell, for one
• Tiny amount
• Tiny bits
• Tiny creature that feeds the world's largest creature
• Tiny feature of a spork
• Tiny invertebrate that, when grouped in the thousands, makes up a coral
• Tiny particle
• Tiny summer pests
• Tiny tree branches
• Tiptoed, say
• Tired from overexposure
• ___ Tirith, capital of Gondor in the "Lord of the Rings" books
• Titanic
• Title film character who says "That'll do, Donkey. That'll do"
• Title for Macbeth
• Title for some fictional lords
• Title in "Beowulf"
• Title role for both Patti LuPone and Madonna
• Title role for Sylvester Stallone
• Title that shares its first two letters with "Mamdani"
• Titleholder
• Titular animated dog of children's TV
• Titular Dr. Seuss character
• Titular fictional heroine from the Alps
• To a degree, informally
• To be, in Barcelona
• To come
• To date
• ___ to fame
• ___ to go
• ___ to go (stoked)
• "To me, 'sexy' is a ___ with confidence": Allegra Versace
• To no ___ (unsuccessfully)
• To no ___ (without success)
• "To recap …"
• "To repeat ..."
• "To repeat myself ..."
• To the point that
• To whom you might say "I wish …"
• Togetherness
• Tokyo-based brewery
• Tolerate
• ___ tolls (GPS setting)
• Tomato product
• "Tomb Raider" heroine
• Tone of many internet comments
• Tone used to create an antique vibe
• Tony winner ___ Lenya
• Tony winner Menzel
• Tony's cousins
• "Toodles!"
• Took back
• Toothbrush handle?
• Top form
• Top of a latte
• Top story of a house
• Top-level storage space
• Top-tier
• Top-tier group
• Top-tier, as celebrities
• Topping on a pizza margherita
• Torah scholar
• Torment
• Tortilla chip dip
• Tosses out
• Tot's injuries
• Tot's three-wheeler
• Total
• Total angel
• Total brawl
• Total count in an online shopping cart
• Total dork
• Total guesses
• Total moron
• Total stranger, in slang
• Total, as expenses
• Totally bizarre
• Totally sus, say
• Tots' pops
• Touch or smell
• Touch-and-go
• Tournament victor
• Toward the back
• Toxin in castor beans
• Toy company behind Frisbees and Hula Hoops
• Toy cube inventor Erno
• "Toy Story 5" studio
• Toyota hybrid
• Toyota rival
• Toys that go on the decline in winter?
• Toys that may be carried or pulled
• Tracker in a speed trap
• Traction enhancer
• Tracts
• "Trade discount" quintet
• Traditional rice cake snack on Japanese New Year
• Traditional roofing material for a Cape Cod-style house
• Traffic jam cacophony
• Traffic marker
• Trails
• Train station
• Transform (into)
• Transform gradually
• Transfusion cocktail = ___, ginger ale, grape juice and lime
• Transit option since 2000
• Transition
• Transition points
• Transmits
• Transpire thereupon
• Transplant, as a plant
• Trap
• Trap in the water
• Travel a winding route
• Travel by pick-up?
• Traveled path
• Treat for Winnie-the-Pooh
• Treat mercifully
• Treat that occasionally catches fire
• Treaty of ___, official close to the War of 1812
• Tree "houses"
• Tree branch or power line, for a bird
• Tree cluster
• Tree from which turpentine may be derived
• Tree that can clone itself
• Tree that yields a chocolate substitute
• Tree that's a symbol of Canada
• Tree where the Buddha found enlightenment
• Tree whose name has multiple pronunciations
• Tree whose wood is used to make Fender guitars
• Tree with "quaking" leaves
• Tree with edible nuts
• Tree with smooth gray bark
• ___ Trend (magazine that chooses a Car of the Year annually)
• Triad, e.g.
• Triage provider
• Trickles
• Tricks
• Tricksy schemes
• Tricky pool shot
• Tricky thing to do on a busy highway
• Tricky things to navigate with a stroller
• Tried for a second term, say
• Tried to hit a baseball
• Tried to identify, in a way, as a wrapped gift
• Tries to get a rise out of
• Tries to outrun
• Tries to rile, as on social media
• Triflingly little
• Trig ratio
• Trim
• Trims, say
• Trip to the end zone, when combined with this answer's direction?
• Tripping
• Tripping, in a way
• Tripping, perhaps
• Trips around the sun
• Triumphant cry
• Triumphs smoothly
• Trivial objection
• Tropical ring
• "___ truly ..."
• Truly amazed
• Truly stupid
• Trunk for a sculptor to sculpt
• Trunks
• Trusted one, typically
• Try-hard
• "Tsk! Tsk!"
• Tube placed during angioplasty
• Tube-shaped pasta
• Tubers from which a gluten-free type of flour is derived
• Tuesday, in French
• Tuesday, in Lyon
• Tummy
• Tunisia, Haiti, Ecuador, Uruguay, Norway
• Tunnel-making machine
• Turkey Day instruction
• Turkic language
• Turkish money
• Turn away, as one's gaze
• Turn down an offer
• Turn over
• Turn someone down
• Turned into an internet gag
• Turns on the waterworks
• Turtle's hiding place
• ___-turvy
• Tusked animals
• TV's Don Draper and his co-workers
• Twice-told tale?
• Twin sister of Sherri on "The Simpsons"
• Twinkle-toed
• Twist it! Pull it!
• Twistable piece of hardware
• Two of them make up a diameter
• Two to one, for one
• Two-cent pieces?
• Two-door auto
• Two-time Best Actor nominee Nick
• Two-time capital of the Mughal Empire
• Two-wheeler with a motor
• Two-word denial
• Type face?
• Type in
• Type type
• Typeface that sounds like the name of a Disney princess
• Typewriter settings
• Typical "Survivor" locales
• Typical marketing expense
• Typical number of objects that humans can hold in working memory, hence phone numbers
• Typographical embellishment
• U-Haul alternative
• U-Haul competitor
• "U-S-A! U-S-A! …," e.g.
• U.F.O. pilot
• U.S. soccer legend ___ Lloyd
• Uber-enthusiasts
• "Uff-da!"
• Ultimate end, to Aristotle
• Ultra-masculine
• Unacceptable
• Unaccompanied
• Unadventurous
• Unambiguous question type
• Unapproachable
• Unconcealed
• Uncool bunch
• Uncouth
• Under, poetically
• Undercover operatives
• Underground rock
• Underneath
• Underpinning
• Underwater detection device
• Underway
• Underwear that's barely there
• Underworld boss?
• Undisguised
• Undying?
• Unearthed?
• Uneasy feeling
• Unexpected jerk
• Unexpected problems
• Unfit for the job
• Unflinching in the face of danger
• Unfolds, with "out"
• Unforced ___ (athlete's concern)
• Unhelpful way to respond to "Hello?"
• Union Army general who was victorious over Lee at the Battle of Gettysburg
• Unique mannerism
• Unit circle ratios
• Unit equal to one weber per square meter
• Unit of arcade currency
• Unit of energy symbolized by a "J"
• Unit of information
• Unit of magnetic flux density
• Unit of weight whose abbreviation ends in "z"
• United
• UnitedHealthcare competitor
• Units of a vaccine
• Univ. of Maryland athletes
• University of California campus site
• Unleavened South Asian flatbread
• Unlikeable sorts
• Unlikely Best in Show winners
• Unlikely outcome after a 7-10 split
• Unlikely pants to wear to a wedding
• Unlit?
• Unloaded?
• Unmanned NASA craft
• Unpacked, say
• Unpleasant smells
• Unreliable sort, in slang
• Unsettle
• Unspecified ones
• Unspoken, but understood
• Untidy
• Until now
• Until, in Uruguay
• Unusual trinket
• Unwanted divisions
• Unwasted?
• Unwelcome sound at 7 a.m., perhaps
• Unwelcome sound during a dream
• Unwitting mark
• Up for ___
• Up in the air
• Up to
• Update the equipment in
• Update, as the Constitution
• Update, perhaps
• Upper echelon
• Upper regions of the sky, poetically
• Uproar
• Upside-down frown
• Urged (on)
• Use a divining rod
• Use a loom
• Use for a yew
• Use, as one's influence
• Used a drill on
• Used DoorDash, say
• Used to have
• Used, as a chair
• Useful ... or a useful draw in Scrabble when you have a "Q"
• Useful pointers?
• Uses caution while in public during flu season, say
• Using few words effectively
• Utah's ___ Canyon Waterfall
• Utah's ___ State University
• Utensil in a soup bowl
• Utopian places

Other lengths: 3 · 4 · 5 · 6 · 7 · 8 · 9 · 10 · 11 · 12 · 13 · 14 · 15

All lengths · Look up any clue · How to read tricky clues · Today's NYT Crossword answers