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NYT Crossword August 2 2026 Answers

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Every answer from the Sunday, August 2 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

1Pen name3 lettersSee answer ›4Garment whose name is a homophone for a board game4 lettersSee answer ›8Keywords accompanying a YouTube video, say4 lettersSee answer ›12Bellyaches5 lettersSee answer ›17Listing of what's on tap4 lettersSee answer ›18Story4 lettersSee answer ›19It's right around the present4 lettersSee answer ›20Phone notifications6 lettersSee answer ›22"For our ad, how should we list the car that we found in the ditch?"14 lettersSee answer ›25Massachusetts city named for a colonial patriot6 lettersSee answer ›26Like phone numbers in infomercials8 lettersSee answer ›27Team players8 lettersSee answer ›29Boggy place3 lettersSee answer ›30Rightmost word on the front of a penny5 lettersSee answer ›31Their horns don't honk4 lettersSee answer ›33Kerfuffles4 lettersSee answer ›34Moccasin decoration4 lettersSee answer ›35"Physics is like ___: Sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it" (quote attributed to Richard Feynman)3 lettersSee answer ›36Ankle part6 lettersSee answer ›39"… and how do we add that it was just struck by lightning?"9 lettersSee answer ›41"You will be ___"6 lettersSee answer ›42What's to be with Québec?4 lettersSee answer ›43Focus of many a small private college4 lettersSee answer ›44"… and that the tailpipe is dragging on the ground?"12 lettersSee answer ›4919th-century school item5 lettersSee answer ›51Emulates Cicero6 lettersSee answer ›52Food or water4 lettersSee answer ›54Cover with a black rectangle, say6 lettersSee answer ›58Useful pointers?5 lettersSee answer ›59Rascal5 lettersSee answer ›62Tech models since 19985 lettersSee answer ›65Country with the all-time greatest number of medals at the Winter Olympics: Abbr.3 lettersSee answer ›66Quickbeam and Leaflock, in fantasy4 lettersSee answer ›67"… and what about the leaky roof?"11 lettersSee answer ›69Point of intersection4 lettersSee answer ›70"Here ___!"3 lettersSee answer ›71Mideast language5 lettersSee answer ›72Surprising result5 lettersSee answer ›73Pretend5 lettersSee answer ›74Achilles, e.g.6 lettersSee answer ›76Family nickname comparable to the Yiddish "bubbe"4 lettersSee answer ›78Smooth, now6 lettersSee answer ›79Gains prominence5 lettersSee answer ›82"… and the broken door locks?"12 lettersSee answer ›86"___ just in …"4 lettersSee answer ›88Big name in plastic4 lettersSee answer ›90Rudimentary seeds6 lettersSee answer ›91"… and the defective speaker system?"9 lettersSee answer ›93Rudimentary6 lettersSee answer ›94Calling card, for short?3 lettersSee answer ›97Safari destinations?4 lettersSee answer ›98Drink in a red, white and blue cup4 lettersSee answer ›99Donahue on TV Guide's list of "50 Greatest TV Stars of All Time"4 lettersSee answer ›100Yemeni neighbor5 lettersSee answer ›102Old gridiron org. for the Boston Patriots3 lettersSee answer ›103End of "Our Town" or "A Doll's House"8 lettersSee answer ›105Spectacular flops8 lettersSee answer ›108Upholsterer's sample6 lettersSee answer ›110"… and finally, the missing front tires?"14 lettersSee answer ›112Capital of Zimbabwe6 lettersSee answer ›113Pupil's surroundings4 lettersSee answer ›114Like toms and drakes4 lettersSee answer ›115State as fact4 lettersSee answer ›116U-Haul alternative5 lettersSee answer ›117Legend who occasionally used his head to achieve greatness4 lettersSee answer ›118SoCal sch.4 lettersSee answer ›119Pink part of a Mr. Potato Head set3 lettersSee answer ›

Down

1Caption below the first of two photos6 lettersSee answer ›2Opposite of exodus6 lettersSee answer ›3Dumbbell exercises5 lettersSee answer ›4Giant or dwarf4 lettersSee answer ›5___-de-camp4 lettersSee answer ›6Backs out, say8 lettersSee answer ›7Indignation3 lettersSee answer ›8Ninnies5 lettersSee answer ›9What someone flat-footed lacks4 lettersSee answer ›10Like an honorable knight7 lettersSee answer ›11They might be on one's radar8 lettersSee answer ›12Pet6 lettersSee answer ›13Porters, for example4 lettersSee answer ›14Race prior to a race?3 lettersSee answer ›15Fifth-year student leader at Hogwarts7 lettersSee answer ›16Barely runs?7 lettersSee answer ›17Fruit snack brand5 lettersSee answer ›21Excites5 lettersSee answer ›23Again and again, in verse8 lettersSee answer ›24Over-the-top performers4 lettersSee answer ›28Item on a rack5 lettersSee answer ›32Mercedes alternative4 lettersSee answer ›34Idly doodling, maybe5 lettersSee answer ›37How the car in this puzzle's theme would be sold4 lettersSee answer ›38Blog feed letters3 lettersSee answer ›40Disrelishes and then some5 lettersSee answer ›41Hands (out)5 lettersSee answer ›42Linguistic suffix3 lettersSee answer ›44"Fabulous!"6 lettersSee answer ›45It has a rind but supposedly no rhyme6 lettersSee answer ›46Deliberately malicious6 lettersSee answer ›47Opposite of "You'll pay for that!"?4 lettersSee answer ›48God who aids the Trojan fleet in the first book of the "Aeneid"7 lettersSee answer ›50Long stories have them4 lettersSee answer ›53Runs out of gas4 lettersSee answer ›55Divinely elect6 lettersSee answer ›56Old yeller?6 lettersSee answer ›57Faddish6 lettersSee answer ›59California's Big ___3 lettersSee answer ›60Keeps in the loop, electronically3 lettersSee answer ›61Similar (to)4 lettersSee answer ›63Pioneering astronaut Jemison3 lettersSee answer ›64"The Good Wife" figure: Abbr.3 lettersSee answer ›67Declares off limits4 lettersSee answer ›68Fix a litter problem?4 lettersSee answer ›69Show signs5 lettersSee answer ›71Palm off (on)5 lettersSee answer ›73Mooch8 lettersSee answer ›75Hangs on a clothesline5 lettersSee answer ›77Isis Naija Gaston, ___ Ice Spice3 lettersSee answer ›78Madonna's "La ___ Bonita"4 lettersSee answer ›80Kick out5 lettersSee answer ›81Planned detour8 lettersSee answer ›83"Shark Tank" shark Greiner4 lettersSee answer ›84Horror franchise that includes 1992's "Army of Darkness"8 lettersSee answer ›85It all adds up to this3 lettersSee answer ›86"West Side Story" conflict7 lettersSee answer ›87Edmund who wrote "View From the Summit"7 lettersSee answer ›89"Now, wait just one minute!"7 lettersSee answer ›91Suppress5 lettersSee answer ›92Like cheesecake vis-à-vis sponge cake6 lettersSee answer ›93"That was a close one!"4 lettersSee answer ›94What wets the appetite?6 lettersSee answer ›95"The idea!"6 lettersSee answer ›96Penny pincher5 lettersSee answer ›99Intrinsically5 lettersSee answer ›101Jazz singer Carmen5 lettersSee answer ›103Part of a plot, at times4 lettersSee answer ›104The third one is dangerous4 lettersSee answer ›106Once-common fish in the Thames4 lettersSee answer ›107Veal cordon ___4 lettersSee answer ›109Smidgen3 lettersSee answer ›111Inits. at sea3 lettersSee answer ›