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NYT Crossword August 20 2026 Answers

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Every answer from the Thursday, August 20 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

1Sound like heaven4 lettersSee answer ›5Game of observation for travel6 lettersSee answer ›11Ad free3 lettersSee answer ›14Brief in pants4 lettersSee answer ›15Correct thoroughly6 lettersSee answer ›16Bad feel3 lettersSee answer ›17Try to place connoisseurs?11 lettersSee answer ›19Cells in compound3 lettersSee answer ›20Checks with style5 lettersSee answer ›21To cop3 lettersSee answer ›22Competition, for starters5 lettersSee answer ›24York ___5 lettersSee answer ›26Place recording6 lettersSee answer ›27Signals over game5 lettersSee answer ›29Maturity approaching5 lettersSee answer ›31Crows to relatives6 lettersSee answer ›32Free booze3 lettersSee answer ›33Confidentiality of letters?4 lettersSee answer ›37"Done well"5 lettersSee answer ›38Short for "info flight"3 lettersSee answer ›39Sponge bath5 lettersSee answer ›40Nothing doing4 lettersSee answer ›41Say "minus C"3 lettersSee answer ›42Set off6 lettersSee answer ›43Practice Japanese5 lettersSee answer ›45Equal roughly5 lettersSee answer ›46Into light6 lettersSee answer ›49Nags about noise?5 lettersSee answer ›51Land of Spot5 lettersSee answer ›52On-off signs3 lettersSee answer ›53Lines some over draw5 lettersSee answer ›57For repentance some feel3 lettersSee answer ›58Details insignificant contests11 lettersSee answer ›61Spending limits it3 lettersSee answer ›62Forum discussion, popular once6 lettersSee answer ›63Cut short4 lettersSee answer ›64Rock-___3 lettersSee answer ›65Out with ate, ate, ate6 lettersSee answer ›66Website gift custom4 lettersSee answer ›

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1URL starter4 lettersSee answer ›2Asian sea currently undergoing replenishment efforts4 lettersSee answer ›3Civil rights icon Parks4 lettersSee answer ›4Shift the gears of, in a way ... or a hint to this puzzle's Across clues12 lettersSee answer ›5ID in some data breaches3 lettersSee answer ›6Elite H.S. class covering the Constitution5 lettersSee answer ›7Visionary … or what you'll need to return to when solving this puzzle's Down clues15 lettersSee answer ›8Loads4 lettersSee answer ›9Babe in the Hundred Acre Wood3 lettersSee answer ›10One advocated for by the National Prison Project6 lettersSee answer ›11Whittled (down)5 lettersSee answer ›12Biblical mount5 lettersSee answer ›13It's worth remembering!5 lettersSee answer ›18"No idea"6 lettersSee answer ›23Distinctive expression ... or a hint to this puzzle's Across clues12 lettersSee answer ›25Feature of San Francisco's Lombard Street3 lettersSee answer ›26Mole, e.g.3 lettersSee answer ›27Firm4 lettersSee answer ›28Like many cricket fields4 lettersSee answer ›30Plan to contribute to, for short3 lettersSee answer ›31One of 1,909 for Willie Mays, for short3 lettersSee answer ›34"___ the Explorer"4 lettersSee answer ›35Some distance away4 lettersSee answer ›36Declare3 lettersSee answer ›38"Oh no! A mouse!"3 lettersSee answer ›39What the second number indicates in men's jeans sizes6 lettersSee answer ›41Univ. with an annual Mystery Hunt3 lettersSee answer ›42Eager response to "Wanna join?"3 lettersSee answer ›44Goes nuts for6 lettersSee answer ›46Around5 lettersSee answer ›47Garden-variety5 lettersSee answer ›48Wasn't paying attention5 lettersSee answer ›50Lauder of cosmetics5 lettersSee answer ›52Designer Cassini4 lettersSee answer ›54"I don't really care / If ya think I'm strange / I ___ gonna change": Joan Jett4 lettersSee answer ›55N.F.L. commentator Collinsworth4 lettersSee answer ›56Arthur Ashe Courage Award, e.g.4 lettersSee answer ›59Letter after chi3 lettersSee answer ›60The "S" of E.S.T.: Abbr.3 lettersSee answer ›