Daily Themed Crossword May 8, 2024 Answers
Every clue and answer from the May 8, 2024 grid, in puzzle order.
May 8, 2024 — All 65 Clues
Listed in the order they appear in the grid. Tap COPY to take an answer with you.
| # | Clue | Answer | Letters | Copy |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | ER workers for short | Show answer | 3 | |
| #2 | Alphabet-starting letters | Show answer | 3 | |
| #3 | Tampa ___ Buccaneers (NFL team) | Show answer | 3 | |
| #4 | Odd one ___ | Show answer | 3 | |
| #5 | Key & Peele for one | Show answer | 3 | |
| #6 | ___ Miss aka University of Mississippi | Show answer | 3 | |
| #7 | Boston ___ Party (historical event) | Show answer | 3 | |
| #8 | Black and white sea predator | Show answer | 4 | |
| #9 | Businessman Musk | Show answer | 4 | |
| #10 | ___ Maryann Rostenkowski-Wolowitz really long name for Howard's love interest with a PhD in microbiology from The Big Bang Theory | BERNADETTE | 10 | |
| #11 | In the past | Show answer | 3 | |
| #12 | What ___ around comes around | Show answer | 4 | |
| #13 | Honor ___ Thieves (Jeffrey Archer novel) | Show answer | 5 | |
| #14 | ___ Julio Ricardo Montoya de la Rosa Ramirez really long name for the bellhop from The Suite Life of Zack and Cody | Show answer | 7 | |
| #15 | Get ___ of (discard) | Show answer | 3 | |
| #16 | School for future ER workers for short | Show answer | 3 | |
| #17 | Carry with effort | Show answer | 3 | |
| #18 | Suspect's story | Show answer | 5 | |
| #19 | Barking pet | Show answer | 3 | |
| #20 | Manuel Alberto Javier Alejandro ___ Ramirez Delgado really long name for Gloria's son from Modern Family | Show answer | 5 | |
| #21 | U in CPU | Show answer | 4 | |
| #22 | Hard work always ___ off | Show answer | 4 | |
| #23 | Prune before drying | Show answer | 4 | |
| #24 | Teacher's ___ (teacher's favorite) | Show answer | 3 | |
| #25 | Play it ___ (avoid risks) | Show answer | 4 | |
| #26 | The Great actress ___ Fanning | Show answer | 4 | |
| #27 | ___ Paulo Brazil | Show answer | 3 | |
| #28 | Came in first | Show answer | 3 | |
| #29 | Girl informally | Show answer | 3 | |
| #30 | Biceps site | Show answer | 3 | |
| #31 | Chicken piece that looks like a maraca | Show answer | 3 | |
| #32 | Polka ___ | Show answer | 3 | |
| #33 | Bitterly regret | Show answer | 3 | |
| #34 | Attack with a knife | Show answer | 4 | |
| #35 | Embellish or decorate say | Show answer | 5 | |
| #36 | Charles Montgomery Monty Plantagenet Schicklgruber ___ really long name for the owner of Springfield Nuclear Power Plant from The Simpsons | BURNS | 5 | |
| #37 | ___-Cola | Show answer | 4 | |
| #38 | Olympic sprinter Usain ___ | Show answer | 4 | |
| #39 | ___ vera (insect bite soother) | Show answer | 4 | |
| #40 | Currency used in Tokyo | Show answer | 3 | |
| #41 | First man to walk the Earth? | Show answer | 4 | |
| #42 | James Bond's alma mater | Show answer | 4 | |
| #43 | Take the load off say | Show answer | 4 | |
| #44 | Sense of self esteem | Show answer | 3 | |
| #45 | Precious find | Show answer | 3 | |
| #46 | Sugary ending for gluc or fruct | Show answer | 3 | |
| #47 | Takeoff guesstimate: Abbr. | Show answer | 3 | |
| #48 | Sense and Sensibility director ___ Lee | Show answer | 3 | |
| #49 | Big broad smile | Show answer | 4 | |
| #50 | Ink stain | Show answer | 4 | |
| #51 | Eighth month of the year for short | Show answer | 3 | |
| #52 | ___ Saud founder of Saudi Arabia | Show answer | 3 | |
| #53 | Letters in an arts and crafts store? | Show answer | 3 | |
| #54 | ___ Winehouse singer of Back to Black | Show answer | 3 | |
| #55 | Galloway girl | Show answer | 4 | |
| #56 | A ___ a dozen (very common) | Show answer | 4 | |
| #57 | ___ Inga Hansen Benson Yansen Tallen Hallen Svaden Swansson really long name for the Swedish secretary from The Producers | Show answer | 4 | |
| #58 | ___ and void | Show answer | 4 | |
| #59 | Bottom-heavy fruit often poached | Show answer | 4 | |
| #60 | Miniscule physics particle | Show answer | 4 | |
| #61 | Pin to hang a coat | Show answer | 3 | |
| #62 | Pro bono advertisement: Abbr. | Show answer | 3 | |
| #63 | Cobbler's tool | Show answer | 3 | |
| #64 | Not a friend | Show answer | 3 | |
| #65 | London's country for short | Show answer | 3 |
How the May 8, 2024 Grid Breaks Down
This is the Daily Themed Crossword main puzzle for May 8, 2024, a Wednesday. It contains 65 clues, which is a little below the usual size for a daily grid. The longest answer is BERNADETTE at 10 letters; the shortest is 3.
Watch the clue wording on this one: 2 clues are flagged "Abbr.", meaning the answer is shortened rather than spelled out. Those markers are reliable in this game and are the quickest way to fix a letter count before you commit to an entry.
Neighbouring dates are linked above, and the 2024 archive holds every daily puzzle from that year. There is also a mini crossword for May 8, 2024 with 10 clues. Away from the calendar, the game's 202 themed packs hold another 58,679 clues.
May 8, 2024 — Questions
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3 Tips for the May 8, 2024 Crossword
The theme is a clue in itself
Daily Themed Crossword builds each board around one idea, and the themed entries are usually the longest answers on the grid. This board carries 65 clues with answers from 3 to 10 letters — work out what the long ones have in common and the rest of the grid opens up around them.
Short fills are where the crossings come from
Three- and four-letter answers are the cheapest squares on the board and they feed letters into every long entry they touch. When a themed answer will not come, fill the short ones around it first rather than staring at the clue.
There is a mini board for this date too
Daily Themed Crossword runs two boards a day. The mini crossword for May 8, 2024 is on its own page, and the two share a theme more often than not — solving one gives you a head start on the other.
Verified Answers, Not Guesses
How we verify this board
The 65 clue-and-answer pairs here were captured from the May 8, 2024 crossword on the day it ran, with the clue wording stored exactly as the game showed it and every answer length-checked against its slot. Dated boards are never rewritten after publication.
Reviewed by Nadia Okonkwo, Crossword and Clue Editor at Puzzle Solved. The full checking routine is in the methodology, and the standards every page is held to are in the editorial policy.
Last checked — Sep 9, 2026Daily Themed Crossword by the numbers
How to Solve a Daily Themed Crossword
How the daily and mini grids are built, and the order that solves them.
Read the theme before the clues
Daily Themed Crossword builds every puzzle around one idea, and the long entries almost always belong to it. Knowing the theme turns those from cold clues into a guessing game with a very short list.
Fill the short crossings first
Three and four letter answers use the most predictable vocabulary in the whole grid. Each one you place hands letters to the long clues for free, which is a better use of the first minute than staring at the hardest entry.
Abbreviations are signposted
A clue ending in "Abbr." or containing its own abbreviation is telling you the answer is short and clipped. The same goes for "Hyph." and "2 wds." — the clue format is half the answer.