BATTERY-POWERED
Across
- Historical periods
- Speedy
- Harness for oxen
- Manicurist's __ board
- "Pretty good"
- Criticize strongly
- Feel unwell
- Compete in a bee
- Home-movie maker
- Panama waterway
- Oil change, informally
- Roof edge
- Strong scents
- End of a prayer
- Rocks from a mine
- School semester
- Role for an actor
- Allowed to borrow
- After-bath garment
- Vicinity
- Look __ (resemble each other)
- Creative notion
- Letters before dees
- Washbowl
- Spots of land in the sea
- Texting device with a ringtone
- Word in TGIF
- Stick (to)
- Low-voiced singers
- Hand-drying cloth
- Doing nothing
- Window glass
- School tests
- Cloudy sky color
- Placed in a heap
- Red ticklish Muppet
- Remove, as a beard
- Snakelike fishes
- Quick look
Down
- Guitarist Clapton
- Very nervous
- Slalom race competitor
- Supermarket walkway
- Theater usher's illumination
- Make simpler
- Sharp, as vision
- Black and white cookies
- Expensive pleasure boats
- Shut tightly
- Cain's brother
- Took a bus or train
- Pepper grinders
- Most pleasant
- Broad necktie
- Garden digging tool
- Spanish mister
- Honey-colored
- Mysterious glow
- Hoofbeat sound
- Authentic
- University of Notre __
- Make smooth
- Payment to a landlord
- __ by (obey, as a rule)
- Desserts with a crust
- Extremely impressed
- Ceiling's fire-safety device
- Voicemail sound
- Bar connecting auto wheels
- Identical
- Count (up)
- Change for a $5 bill
- Volcanic flow
- Observed closely
- Dull in color
- Docking site
- Banana's skin
- Sing a song alone
About this puzzle
The Newsday Crossword for Monday, April 13, 2026 is titled “BATTERY-POWERED” and was constructed by Guilherme Gilioli. The puzzle features 78 clues arranged in a 21×21 grid — the standard format for Sunday-size puzzles.
Click any clue above to view its dedicated answer page, which includes letter-by-letter analysis, the puzzle context, and a history of every other Newsday puzzle the same clue or answer has appeared in. To see the complete grid filled in with every answer, use the “Reveal grid” button at the top of the grid.
The Newsday Crossword is published daily by Newsday on Long Island and edited by Stan Newman. Difficulty builds across the week from a gentle Monday introduction up to Saturday’s legendary themeless Stumper. The official puzzle is available on the Newsday Games site. For other days, browse the complete Newsday Crossword archive indexed by date.