This clue appeared in the NYT Crossword on Thursday, June 11, 2026 (60 Across). The answer is hidden below until you want it. Thursday puzzles often have a trick, such as a rebus (several letters in one square) or answers that bend the rules.
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"Abbr." or "for short" means the answer is itself an abbreviation or a shortened form.
Answer length: 4 squares
First letter
M _ _ _
First and last letters
M _ _ A
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About the answer
MRNA as a word: (countable, biochemistry) A strand of messenger RNA; (uncountable, biochemistry) Initialism of messenger RNA. [(biochemistry) RNA that encodes and carries information from DNA during transcription to sites of p....
MRNA has been an answer once in the NYT Crossword and Mini puzzles we have on file, which go back to October 23, 2025.
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