YOU WIN: For various accomplishments
Across
- Generational divide
- Accepted eagerly
- Vile smiles
- Swimsuit part
- In years past
- Pull along
- Prefix for scope
- For the NHL championship
- For earning 21 merit badges
- Hairstyles
- Become well again
- Lowly laborer
- Italian wine center
- Toweled off
- Emulate successfully
- Young fellows
- $$$ dispenser
- Robber
- George of Star Trek
- Office boss
- Poetic turndown
- For Best Director
- Zero
- Skeptical look
- Unexpected obstacle
- For international TV excellence
- "Stubborn" person
- Nightfall
- Potpie morsel
- Hairstyle
- Thin battery
- Piano recital piece
- For college football's top player
- Hyundai compact
- Spicy sausage
- Largest living bird
- Coupe interior cleaner
- Home repair guys
- "Truth be told..."
- "Ditto"
- Puzzles (out)
- Goes beyond
- Western pony
- Choose to join
- For National Reporting
- Novelist Gruen
- Crumpet cousin
- Carnaval city
- WSW opposite
- Accident investigation org.
- Lab animals
- For three Thoroughbred wins
- Onetime Chinese chairman
- It's south of Gibraltar
- Corp. leaders
- For military valor
- Legal right of way
- Texter's picture
- Queen mother, e.g.
- Chinese martial art
- 22-Across cousin
- Fumbler's remark
- Moves sneakily
- Eradicate
Down
- Colorado skiing center
- However, for short
- Play a part
- Muffin pan
- Previous
- Lofty storage area
- Latte base
- Londoner's lav
- With a great view
- Hair cutter
- Goes wrong
- Overly thin
- Those femmes
- Moo goo __ pan
- $$$ quantities
- Incan conqueror
- Delete, so to speak
- Tot's break
- Force out
- Road curve
- Inn patron
- Make beloved
- Skier's quarters
- Ottoman title
- Hawaii's Mauna __
- Port of Japan
- Pronounce
- Faint of heart
- Not of the clergy
- Contacting privately online
- Dashboard device
- Taken as a whole
- Fork tine
- Where dolphins live
- Linger
- Savings protection org.
- Spellbound
- Caught in a trap
- Instruct
- Colorful story
- Subatomic particle
- "Right you are"
- Novel category
- Munich merci
- Wonderland cake message
- Good: Sp.
- Enlighten
- Dates with drs.
- Till soil again
- Bout conclusions
- Haus wife
- Genesis twin
- Chant syllables
- Banquet VIPs
- Flock female
- Smoked salmon
- Crescent shape
- Solution, for short
- President Monroe's __ Good Feelings
- Olympian's weapon
- Five-sharp key: Abbr.
- Trash barge
- A whole bunch
- Last Greek letter
- Tapers off
- University of __ Dame
- Hodgepodge
- Heavy burden
- Bumps into
- Birthing coach
- Capital on a fjord
- Major German river
- Wide-spout pitchers
- Rumba band's rattle
- Playwright Robert __ Sherwood
- Open, as toothpaste
- Comic actor __ Baron Cohen
- Dedicated poems
- Pelvic exercise
- Be nosy
About this puzzle
The Newsday Crossword for Sunday, April 5, 2026 is titled “YOU WIN: For various accomplishments” and was constructed by Billie Truitt. The puzzle features 144 clues arranged in a 21×21 grid — the standard format for Sunday-size puzzles.
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