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NYT Crossword August 23 2026 Answers

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Every answer from the Sunday, August 23 2026 New York Times Crossword, checked and verified against the published NYT solution. Select a clue for the full explanation.

Constructed by Jill Singer · Edited by Will Shortz · “Small Change”

Across

1"Awesome!"3 lettersSee answer ›4Many profs4 lettersSee answer ›8What a crush might make you do5 lettersSee answer ›13Predator with dermal denticles5 lettersSee answer ›18Silent film actor Jannings4 lettersSee answer ›20Reclined4 lettersSee answer ›21More intense, as an emotion5 lettersSee answer ›22Early stage of a drug trial6 lettersSee answer ›23Peace symbol4 lettersSee answer ›24Adage promoting thrift25 lettersSee answer ›27Itty-bitty6 lettersSee answer ›29Return filers, for short4 lettersSee answer ›30Barely keeps going, with "along"5 lettersSee answer ›31Fish with leaf-shaped larvae4 lettersSee answer ›32Image on one side of this puzzle's subject14 lettersSee answer ›35Start of a historic triple boast5 lettersSee answer ›37Seminole's rival, in college athletics5 lettersSee answer ›38Liturgical singer6 lettersSee answer ›39Quick cut4 lettersSee answer ›40Subtitle alternative3 lettersSee answer ›43Yogurt drink in Delhi5 lettersSee answer ›45Monklike, in a way7 lettersSee answer ›48Angle variable in geometry5 lettersSee answer ›50Where this puzzle's subject was last made for circulation (in November 2025)6 lettersSee answer ›53Periodical, informally3 lettersSee answer ›55Genre for Siouxsie and the Banshees4 lettersSee answer ›56Duck known for its insulating feathers5 lettersSee answer ›57Make smelly7 lettersSee answer ›59One of 12, astrologically3 lettersSee answer ›61"Balderdash!"3 lettersSee answer ›62"It's Your Business" sloganeer, for short3 lettersSee answer ›63"Omigosh!"3 lettersSee answer ›64Drug enforcer, informally4 lettersSee answer ›66"When We Were Young" singer, 20155 lettersSee answer ›68Its capital is Roma6 lettersSee answer ›72Nursery rhyme street vendor's cry30 lettersSee answer ›77A failed transaction6 lettersSee answer ›78Good, but not great, grade5 lettersSee answer ›79Tennis great Arthur4 lettersSee answer ›80___ King Cole3 lettersSee answer ›81Fall asleep, with "off"3 lettersSee answer ›82Word with constrictor or feather3 lettersSee answer ›83Goddess of the dawn3 lettersSee answer ›85Car-pooling convenience7 lettersSee answer ›88Taco bar adjective5 lettersSee answer ›91___ Féin4 lettersSee answer ›92___ room3 lettersSee answer ›94Showing less bias6 lettersSee answer ›95Musical staff symbol5 lettersSee answer ›96Aggressive move allowed in some forms of kickboxing7 lettersSee answer ›99"Sounds like a blast!"5 lettersSee answer ›101Mini-gulp3 lettersSee answer ›102Some Ivy Leaguers4 lettersSee answer ›104Meeting that goes above and beyond?6 lettersSee answer ›106Intimate5 lettersSee answer ›110Bitter5 lettersSee answer ›112Image on one side of this puzzle's subject14 lettersSee answer ›115Badge-pinning site4 lettersSee answer ›117Tree where the Buddha found enlightenment5 lettersSee answer ›119Spanish for "wealthy"4 lettersSee answer ›120Get in the game?6 lettersSee answer ›121Offer advice ... or a hint to 24- and 72-Across17 lettersSee answer ›125D'Arcy of "House of the Dragon"4 lettersSee answer ›126Paradise6 lettersSee answer ›127Pucker producer, perhaps5 lettersSee answer ›128Modernists, informally4 lettersSee answer ›129Department store department4 lettersSee answer ›130Vikings, for example5 lettersSee answer ›131Long members of the onion family5 lettersSee answer ›132Nervous4 lettersSee answer ›133Slam3 lettersSee answer ›

Down

1Discount merchandise indicator6 lettersSee answer ›2Organism that moves using pseudopodia6 lettersSee answer ›3Change the course of6 lettersSee answer ›4___ del Carmen (Mexican resort)5 lettersSee answer ›5Two farthings, informally7 lettersSee answer ›6Deny responsibility for8 lettersSee answer ›7Like certain easy-to-install hardware components6 lettersSee answer ›8Much of Diego Rivera's work7 lettersSee answer ›9Young Scot3 lettersSee answer ›10"You can count on me"5 lettersSee answer ›11It can become amber5 lettersSee answer ›12Streetcar4 lettersSee answer ›13Doo-wop's ___ Na Na3 lettersSee answer ›14Protected space for women in the Ottoman Empire5 lettersSee answer ›15If necessary8 lettersSee answer ›16Scottish dance4 lettersSee answer ›17Offspring4 lettersSee answer ›19"Enemies, a Love Story" actress8 lettersSee answer ›22"GoodFellas" Oscar winner5 lettersSee answer ›25Perspective7 lettersSee answer ›26Demonstrate frugality, in a way10 lettersSee answer ›28Got tinier6 lettersSee answer ›33Hosts, in brief3 lettersSee answer ›34Tolkien monster3 lettersSee answer ›36Exams for ambitious H.S. students7 lettersSee answer ›39Date night bookings7 lettersSee answer ›41Indigenous people of the Colorado Plateau3 lettersSee answer ›42Setting for many a New Yorker cartoon3 lettersSee answer ›44Having impeded growth7 lettersSee answer ›46Bird with an S-shaped neck5 lettersSee answer ›47Place for pliers8 lettersSee answer ›49Muslim head scarf5 lettersSee answer ›50Target with, as a pickup line5 lettersSee answer ›51Scribe in a courtroom, in brief5 lettersSee answer ›52Prepares for an interview, say5 lettersSee answer ›54Notorious Chicago bootlegger8 lettersSee answer ›58What a dog uses to shake3 lettersSee answer ›60Island location of Iolani Palace4 lettersSee answer ›62Say something fresh7 lettersSee answer ›65Tom who wrote "Even Cowgirls Get the Blues"7 lettersSee answer ›67Information in a prescription4 lettersSee answer ›69Out of this world?5 lettersSee answer ›70Silly5 lettersSee answer ›71Fall bloomer5 lettersSee answer ›73"Hoarders" network5 lettersSee answer ›74Shoe originally known as a "Weejun"11 lettersSee answer ›75Street in Liverpool that has been immortalized in song9 lettersSee answer ›76"Wow!"3 lettersSee answer ›84Like many farm stand purchases7 lettersSee answer ›86"Dodgeball" star Vince6 lettersSee answer ›87Specific charge on an invoice8 lettersSee answer ›88Cooling units, in brief3 lettersSee answer ›89Poli-___3 lettersSee answer ›90Pork-based taco option8 lettersSee answer ›91Snowmobile brand6 lettersSee answer ›93Made cozy8 lettersSee answer ›97Suffix in British English3 lettersSee answer ›98Makeup of a nervous system, largely7 lettersSee answer ›100Layer of a farm3 lettersSee answer ›103Locale for camel racing5 lettersSee answer ›105Christians' ___ Creed6 lettersSee answer ›107Overflowed (with)6 lettersSee answer ›108Reunion attendees6 lettersSee answer ›109Cause for a QB's celebration6 lettersSee answer ›111Fries in England5 lettersSee answer ›112Deuce topper5 lettersSee answer ›113"I'll take another card"5 lettersSee answer ›114Cheeky5 lettersSee answer ›115Like cotton candy4 lettersSee answer ›116Lead-in to pilot or pay4 lettersSee answer ›118Grayish, say4 lettersSee answer ›122Emphatic refusal in Germany3 lettersSee answer ›123Stir-fry staple3 lettersSee answer ›124Dress (up)3 lettersSee answer ›