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NYT Crossword August 28 2026 Answers

Deborah Simmons ✓Solving & explaining puzzles since 1998 · Updated August 28 2026

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Every answer from the Friday, August 28 2026 New York Times Crossword, checked and verified against the published NYT solution. Select a clue for the full explanation.

Constructed by Jack Hatchett · Edited by Will Shortz

Across

1"Oh, what the hell"7 lettersSee answer ›8Mythical figure in "Doctor Faustus"5 lettersSee answer ›13Worrier's words8 lettersSee answer ›15Like a parkour practitioner5 lettersSee answer ›16Politician's response, maybe9 lettersSee answer ›18Step in the shower5 lettersSee answer ›19Christian ___3 lettersSee answer ›20Beamed over10 lettersSee answer ›22"Would ya look at that …"12 lettersSee answer ›25Milieu for bathyspheres, with "the"5 lettersSee answer ›26"Ignorance is bliss," e.g.6 lettersSee answer ›29Compañeras6 lettersSee answer ›31Rabbit's title4 lettersSee answer ›32Lead-in to field or fifties3 lettersSee answer ›34Big house5 lettersSee answer ›35___ polo (sport played in Pakistan)3 lettersSee answer ›36Asteroids system5 lettersSee answer ›38Flame proof?3 lettersSee answer ›39___ collar4 lettersSee answer ›41Yellow-and-black ideogram6 lettersSee answer ›42World's second-most-populous island6 lettersSee answer ›44Hosting, informally5 lettersSee answer ›45They might raise your kids12 lettersSee answer ›49"Easy-peasy!"10 lettersSee answer ›52Customizable avatar for Nintendo games3 lettersSee answer ›53Natural exfoliant5 lettersSee answer ›54Houdini specialty9 lettersSee answer ›57Flower in a Whitman poem written as an elegy for Lincoln5 lettersSee answer ›58Kim Cattrall's role on "Sex and the City"8 lettersSee answer ›59Move stealthily5 lettersSee answer ›60Setting for an uphill climb7 lettersSee answer ›

Down

1Certain elastic band5 lettersSee answer ›2Washing the dishes, e.g.5 lettersSee answer ›3Brazilian soccer star known for his dribbling flair10 lettersSee answer ›4Org. that might do some spring cleaning?3 lettersSee answer ›5Actress Ming-Na of "Mulan"3 lettersSee answer ›6Shoe fitting concerns7 lettersSee answer ›7Golf bag attachments6 lettersSee answer ›8Frequent collaborator with Bill Murray11 lettersSee answer ›9Members of a Gen Z subculture with online origins6 lettersSee answer ›10Screen capture?4 lettersSee answer ›11Choice word4 lettersSee answer ›12Sine qua non4 lettersSee answer ›14Something read at a table4 lettersSee answer ›17Overhaul6 lettersSee answer ›21Creator of the Hawaiian Islands, in myth4 lettersSee answer ›23Building block4 lettersSee answer ›24"Our luck has turned!"11 lettersSee answer ›27Blend10 lettersSee answer ›28Word with live or chicken4 lettersSee answer ›29Residency org.3 lettersSee answer ›30Brewing stuff4 lettersSee answer ›31Outlaw3 lettersSee answer ›33Unprofessional letters?3 lettersSee answer ›35"The thing is …"6 lettersSee answer ›37Sticking point4 lettersSee answer ›40Lightning conductor?4 lettersSee answer ›41Rock subgenre portmanteau7 lettersSee answer ›43Jazz aficionado, e.g.6 lettersSee answer ›44Spirit seen on el Día de los Muertos6 lettersSee answer ›46The 12th crew member in "Ocean's Twelve"4 lettersSee answer ›47Women's Basketball Hall-of-Famer Penicheiro5 lettersSee answer ›48Electric instrument played on Stevie Wonder's "Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours"5 lettersSee answer ›49Afflictions4 lettersSee answer ›50Work like a dog4 lettersSee answer ›51Star turns at a concert4 lettersSee answer ›55Print maker3 lettersSee answer ›56Subj. with two A.P. exams3 lettersSee answer ›