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NYT Crossword August 15 2026 Answers

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Every answer from the Saturday, August 15 2026 New York Times Crossword, checked and verified against the published NYT solution. Select a clue for the full explanation.

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Across

1Began6 lettersSee answer ›7Show faces?8 lettersSee answer ›15Bring back into the fold, so to speak6 lettersSee answer ›16Worth looking back on8 lettersSee answer ›17One from "Japan's kitchen"6 lettersSee answer ›18Appeal8 lettersSee answer ›19Bit of ceramic ware3 lettersSee answer ›20Cast off7 lettersSee answer ›227/3 lettersSee answer ›23"Lovely" and "wonderful" food, per Monty Python4 lettersSee answer ›25Rose Bowl Stadium athlete5 lettersSee answer ›26Big ring4 lettersSee answer ›27Patient privacy law, in brief5 lettersSee answer ›29World Cup team nicknamed "The Three Lions": Abbr.3 lettersSee answer ›30Say "Hey," say5 lettersSee answer ›31"Speak up"12 lettersSee answer ›34Intermezzo and trou normand dishes, essentially15 lettersSee answer ›38Hoedown get-down?12 lettersSee answer ›39Long-___ squid5 lettersSee answer ›42"Wayne's World" exclamation3 lettersSee answer ›43Christina of "Buffalo ’66"5 lettersSee answer ›44Ring location4 lettersSee answer ›45Oil wells?5 lettersSee answer ›47Nickname for Eleanor4 lettersSee answer ›48Eye-catching stage prop3 lettersSee answer ›49"Got it?"7 lettersSee answer ›51Thru3 lettersSee answer ›52Underlining, e.g.8 lettersSee answer ›54Classical figure in an 1898 Gustav Klimt oil6 lettersSee answer ›56Some back-and-forth8 lettersSee answer ›57Big name in fashion6 lettersSee answer ›58Go in the wrong way?8 lettersSee answer ›59"I beg you!"6 lettersSee answer ›

Down

1Cut out the middleman, for delivery8 lettersSee answer ›2Fabulous collection8 lettersSee answer ›3"You're the best!"8 lettersSee answer ›4No-good ending?3 lettersSee answer ›5Diamond figs.4 lettersSee answer ›6Leftmost star of the Summer Triangle5 lettersSee answer ›7Classic 1926 novel often published with a bull and matador on its cover15 lettersSee answer ›8Dressing group12 lettersSee answer ›9Gamgee player in "Lord of the Rings"5 lettersSee answer ›10___-C4 lettersSee answer ›11The second one on the Statue of Liberty is longer than its first one3 lettersSee answer ›12Toothache care option6 lettersSee answer ›13Communion, e.g.6 lettersSee answer ›14Charybdis' man-eating opposite, in myth6 lettersSee answer ›21Upper regions of forests12 lettersSee answer ›24Sea cow7 lettersSee answer ›26French Baroque artist Nicolas7 lettersSee answer ›28Challenged on X, say5 lettersSee answer ›30Scout's follower?5 lettersSee answer ›32Bad spell3 lettersSee answer ›33Partner of pitch and roll3 lettersSee answer ›35"You get the point"8 lettersSee answer ›36Kicks back, in a way8 lettersSee answer ›37Crime writer Mickey who created the Mike Hammer stories8 lettersSee answer ›39Prince of Monaco beginning in 20056 lettersSee answer ›40Certain tenant6 lettersSee answer ›41French soccer superstar Kylian6 lettersSee answer ›45Some bow ties5 lettersSee answer ›46Where roots take hold5 lettersSee answer ›49Complain4 lettersSee answer ›50Citation shortener4 lettersSee answer ›53Tricks3 lettersSee answer ›55Orange or lime3 lettersSee answer ›