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NYT Crossword August 31 2026 Answers

Deborah Simmons ✓Solving & explaining puzzles since 1998 · Updated August 31 2026

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Every answer from the Monday, August 31 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

1Part of a dance4 lettersSee answer ›5Sch. with the Daily Bruin newspaper4 lettersSee answer ›9Slightly intoxicated5 lettersSee answer ›14Fancy4 lettersSee answer ›15Worms and such on hooks4 lettersSee answer ›16Be of the same mind5 lettersSee answer ›17Redding with two posthumous Grammys4 lettersSee answer ›18"Sesame Street" character who was once sung to sleep by Andrea Bocelli4 lettersSee answer ›19Ransacks5 lettersSee answer ›20One who regularly drops things13 lettersSee answer ›23The : English :: ___ : French3 lettersSee answer ›24Letter after sigma3 lettersSee answer ›25One dining on Friskies3 lettersSee answer ›28Role for Selena Gomez on "Only Murders in the Building"5 lettersSee answer ›31Umbrella-shaped sea creature9 lettersSee answer ›34Director DuVernay3 lettersSee answer ›35Pathetic3 lettersSee answer ›36Examine at length6 lettersSee answer ›37Took shots first, then paid for them later7 lettersSee answer ›40Clothing sizes for shorter women7 lettersSee answer ›41Ski in zigzags6 lettersSee answer ›42"Far out!"3 lettersSee answer ›43Tetra- minus one3 lettersSee answer ›44Newlyweds' getaway9 lettersSee answer ›46Owl sounds5 lettersSee answer ›48Actress de Armas3 lettersSee answer ›49401(k) relative3 lettersSee answer ›50"Need an ark? I Noah guy," e.g.3 lettersSee answer ›51"Tell everyone!" … or what to do with the starts of 20-, 31- and 44-Across?13 lettersSee answer ›58Inuit for "house"5 lettersSee answer ›60Italian hello4 lettersSee answer ›61Et ___ (and others: Lat.)4 lettersSee answer ›62Tennis locale5 lettersSee answer ›63Pre-Easter observance4 lettersSee answer ›64R-rated, maybe4 lettersSee answer ›65A cube has 12 of them5 lettersSee answer ›66Petrol brand4 lettersSee answer ›67Easter egg decorating supplies4 lettersSee answer ›

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1Mess maker4 lettersSee answer ›2Attire for the Sugar Plum Fairy4 lettersSee answer ›3Off-ramp4 lettersSee answer ›4Pulverizing tool6 lettersSee answer ›5Alternatives to Lyfts5 lettersSee answer ›6Baby whale4 lettersSee answer ›7In finite supply7 lettersSee answer ›8Lacking a musical key6 lettersSee answer ›9A ___ as old as time4 lettersSee answer ›10Composer Stravinsky4 lettersSee answer ›11Ham on an antipasto platter10 lettersSee answer ›12Solidify3 lettersSee answer ›13"You called?"3 lettersSee answer ›21Sinuous swimmer3 lettersSee answer ›22Swallowed hard6 lettersSee answer ›26Aver6 lettersSee answer ›27Graduate student’s project6 lettersSee answer ›28___ P. Johnson (gay rights activist)6 lettersSee answer ›29Island of Arthurian legend6 lettersSee answer ›30Fruit-resembling mollusk10 lettersSee answer ›31The "one" of a one-two3 lettersSee answer ›32So far3 lettersSee answer ›33Part of the week that workers look forward to: Abbr.3 lettersSee answer ›35Lunch item that might be made with cold cuts, in slang6 lettersSee answer ›38Ginger ___3 lettersSee answer ›39Cup-and-ball or yo-yo3 lettersSee answer ›40Deep-dish vessel3 lettersSee answer ›42Support staff for a rock band7 lettersSee answer ›45Soothsayer6 lettersSee answer ›46Tint3 lettersSee answer ›47"To victory!"6 lettersSee answer ›50Part of an Instagram post5 lettersSee answer ›52Skin opening4 lettersSee answer ›53Goes bad4 lettersSee answer ›54Gets bronzed at the beach4 lettersSee answer ›55Brand with "anti-aging" products4 lettersSee answer ›56Bibimbap base4 lettersSee answer ›57Pages on a desk calendar4 lettersSee answer ›58"Rocks" at a bar3 lettersSee answer ›59Lead-in to forbid or forsaken3 lettersSee answer ›