"What were ___ thinking?!?"

The answer to “"What were ___ thinking?!?"” in the New York Times Midi crossword is YOU — a 3-letter word. It most recently appeared in the New York Times Midi crossword on March 8, 2026, a Sunday puzzle, at 22-Across. Below you'll find why that fill fits, every other answer we've recorded for this clue, and links into the puzzle it came from.

“"What were ___ thinking?!?"” answer

YOU (3 letters)

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Why the answer is YOU

YOU is the 3-letter solution that fits ""What were ___ thinking?!?"" in the NYT Midi crossword on March 8, 2026 (22-Across). Use the letter tiles above if you'd rather reveal it one letter at a time.

What does YOU mean?

Reading the plain dictionary sense of YOU is often the fastest way to see why it answers this clue.

When else has “"What were ___ thinking?!?"” appeared?

New York Times Midi reuses clues across dates, sometimes with a different answer depending on the grid. Here's where this exact clue has shown up, and what the answer was each time — handy when you're checking whether today's fill is the only one.

March 8, 2026 (most recent) → YOU. We haven't indexed another appearance of this exact clue yet.

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