If you mean the Sunday, March 8, 2026 New York Times Crossword, the 71-Across revealer is INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY (entered without spaces as INTERNATIONALWOMENSDAY). The title does not specify a year, so confirm the date in the NYT archive if you meant a different March 8.
Selected answers from the March 8, 2026 puzzle
These representative entries are reported by third-party answer pages; they are not the complete grid.
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| Clue | Answer |
|---|---|
| 1-Across: “Clip on, say” | ATTACH |
| 7-Across: “Facing the pitcher” | AT BAT |
| 12-Across: “Some budget-friendly grocery stores” | ALDIS |
| 17-Across: “It’s on a roll!” | HOAGIE |
| 22-Across: “Certain supervisor on a film set” | KEY GRIP |
| 37-Across: “Etta James record in the Grammy Hall of Fame” | AT LAST |
| 41-Across: “Big Blue” | IBM |
| 42-Across: “So-called ‘rooster sauce’” | SRIRACHA |
| 55-Across: “Caitlin Clark’s alma mater” | IOWA |
| 71-Across: “March 8 observance connecting billions of people around the world … including the 22 people whose names cross this answer” | INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY |
Try Hard Guides lists the puzzle’s clues for individual lookups, while YouGoWords and NYTSolver display solved grids. These are third-party answer references rather than the official NYT archive. Try Hard Guides; YouGoWords; NYTSolver.
How to find the official puzzle or check another year
Use the NYT Games archive to navigate by month and year, and choose Daily rather than Mini if you want the full crossword. Games and All Access subscribers have archive access; non-subscribers have limited access, according to the NYT Crossword Help Center. The archive lets you select the date directly, which is the safest way to resolve the year when searching for a yearless date.
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Third-party answer sources credit Kelly Richardson as constructor and Will Shortz as editor. Those pages describe a 22-by-21 grid with 145 clues. These details are reported by answer sites rather than independently confirmed here against an official NYT puzzle page. Try Hard Guides; YouGoWords.
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