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NYT Crossword August 16 2026 Answers

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Every answer from the Sunday, August 16 2026 New York Times Crossword, checked and verified against the published NYT solution. Select a clue for the full explanation.

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1Work parodied by Umberto Eco's "Granita"6 lettersSee answer ›7Subject of Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter"3 lettersSee answer ›10One's opponents4 lettersSee answer ›14Uncool4 lettersSee answer ›18Untold6 lettersSee answer ›19Down Under runners4 lettersSee answer ›21Caramel-filled candy4 lettersSee answer ›22Word following bear or honey4 lettersSee answer ›23_ATSO_ and _EKYL_21 lettersSee answer ›27Astonished, informally5 lettersSee answer ›28With 45-Across, many a correspondent3 lettersSee answer ›29Do business7 lettersSee answer ›30Uncle, in Uruguay3 lettersSee answer ›31Water nymph of Greek myth5 lettersSee answer ›33Poet's Muse5 lettersSee answer ›34Memorial ___ Kettering (New York City medical facility)5 lettersSee answer ›36_RAVES19 lettersSee answer ›41It may be petrified6 lettersSee answer ›42Acknowledge5 lettersSee answer ›43El ___, Tex.4 lettersSee answer ›44Sass3 lettersSee answer ›45See 28-Across3 lettersSee answer ›47Eggy quaff3 lettersSee answer ›48Trudge4 lettersSee answer ›50Approaching4 lettersSee answer ›54Some funerary selections4 lettersSee answer ›56SAG_16 lettersSee answer ›60Stands for speakers5 lettersSee answer ›62Preserver of freshness4 lettersSee answer ›63Sent6 lettersSee answer ›64Place for a sailor's anchor, informally5 lettersSee answer ›67Hunk4 lettersSee answer ›70Disapproving syllables4 lettersSee answer ›72It may be mental5 lettersSee answer ›73Out, in a way6 lettersSee answer ›75"That's cool, man"4 lettersSee answer ›77Words that may open doors5 lettersSee answer ›79_NIGHT16 lettersSee answer ›83Learning method4 lettersSee answer ›87Guard, as a goal4 lettersSee answer ›88Get rid of4 lettersSee answer ›89"Yadda, yadda"3 lettersSee answer ›90Squeaker … or squealer3 lettersSee answer ›92Home improvement initials3 lettersSee answer ›93Italian wine city4 lettersSee answer ›95Fiber also known as viscose5 lettersSee answer ›97Toddler's jumping spot on a rainy day6 lettersSee answer ›99FRAN_19 lettersSee answer ›104More reasonable5 lettersSee answer ›105Interprets5 lettersSee answer ›106Suspended musical instruments5 lettersSee answer ›107Vein contents3 lettersSee answer ›108Calm7 lettersSee answer ›111Title that becomes loftier when an E is added3 lettersSee answer ›112Escort to a penthouse, say5 lettersSee answer ›116_IALO_21 lettersSee answer ›120Even4 lettersSee answer ›121Carry on4 lettersSee answer ›122Tender cut4 lettersSee answer ›123Pie portions, shapewise6 lettersSee answer ›124Crones4 lettersSee answer ›125Gas brand that sounds like two letters of the alphabet4 lettersSee answer ›126Invention originally developed as a yellow dye3 lettersSee answer ›127Refuse to budge6 lettersSee answer ›

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1Striplings4 lettersSee answer ›2Texter's "Then again …"4 lettersSee answer ›3Bananas4 lettersSee answer ›4Chants7 lettersSee answer ›5Briefly swam8 lettersSee answer ›6Home to more than 1,500 languages: Abbr.3 lettersSee answer ›7Affixed, as a patch7 lettersSee answer ›8"Let's do this!"4 lettersSee answer ›9Macadamia, for one3 lettersSee answer ›10Closely following6 lettersSee answer ›11Racing vehicle6 lettersSee answer ›12Napoleon exile site4 lettersSee answer ›13No longer relevant4 lettersSee answer ›14Inc., abroad3 lettersSee answer ›15Childish comeback6 lettersSee answer ›16Maid of Sherwood Forest6 lettersSee answer ›17Many a printer5 lettersSee answer ›20Consequences of supply chain problems9 lettersSee answer ›24Cross4 lettersSee answer ›25Dizzying gallery works5 lettersSee answer ›26Pauses while playing5 lettersSee answer ›32Treasure or desert follower6 lettersSee answer ›33Ewoks' home moon5 lettersSee answer ›35Job that may involve jumping through hoops9 lettersSee answer ›36Form of detective fiction4 lettersSee answer ›37Channel for gaming enthusiasts?4 lettersSee answer ›38Actress Skye4 lettersSee answer ›39Words after check, follow or catch4 lettersSee answer ›40Bum5 lettersSee answer ›41Reason to take a shot3 lettersSee answer ›46Some odoriferous gifts4 lettersSee answer ›48Smartphone predecessors, for short4 lettersSee answer ›49Female rapper with a longtime feud with Foxy Brown6 lettersSee answer ›51"Diminutive" Greek letter4 lettersSee answer ›52Nickname that omits "-ory"4 lettersSee answer ›53London park4 lettersSee answer ›55Chemistry test?9 lettersSee answer ›57Travel bag6 lettersSee answer ›58Bag3 lettersSee answer ›59Not very favorable, as some 84-Down4 lettersSee answer ›61Car with a stylized lightning bolt logo4 lettersSee answer ›64Thai money4 lettersSee answer ›65"Gotcha"4 lettersSee answer ›66Group with a tartan4 lettersSee answer ›68It may drive one to distraction, in brief4 lettersSee answer ›69Thumbnail, maybe3 lettersSee answer ›71A-lister4 lettersSee answer ›74Sauce traditionally made in a mortar5 lettersSee answer ›76Steal9 lettersSee answer ›78Attach with a click6 lettersSee answer ›80Carpenter's spacer4 lettersSee answer ›81Ophthalmology concerns5 lettersSee answer ›82Green sci.4 lettersSee answer ›842 to 5, say4 lettersSee answer ›85Infraction at an arcade4 lettersSee answer ›86___ of Horus (Egyptian symbol of healing)3 lettersSee answer ›91Element used in bulb filaments8 lettersSee answer ›94"Shoo!"5 lettersSee answer ›95Display some emotion, perhaps5 lettersSee answer ›96Member of the N.F.L.'s "Big Blue," in brief7 lettersSee answer ›98Prepares to puree, perhaps, as papayas7 lettersSee answer ›99Fantasy realm ruled by King Caspian6 lettersSee answer ›100Feature of Anthony Robles, a 2011 N.C.A.A. national champion wrestler6 lettersSee answer ›101Shows pride in one's appearance, in a way6 lettersSee answer ›102Result in6 lettersSee answer ›103Producer of a call to arms4 lettersSee answer ›104Go ___ (fail)5 lettersSee answer ›109Poop4 lettersSee answer ›110School grps.4 lettersSee answer ›111Hide4 lettersSee answer ›113Vet4 lettersSee answer ›114Western Indians4 lettersSee answer ›115Subtle summons4 lettersSee answer ›117Fingers3 lettersSee answer ›118Park place?3 lettersSee answer ›119Road recklessness of a sort, for short3 lettersSee answer ›