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NYT Crossword August 5 2026 Answers

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Every answer from the Wednesday, August 5 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

1With 6-Across, #1 hit5 lettersSee answer ›12With 14-Across, ultimately fruitless7 lettersSee answer ›15With 16-Across, beverage sold in pastel-colored cans7 lettersSee answer ›17With 18-Across, measures of search engine optimization4 lettersSee answer ›20With 22-Across, pocket ID holder4 lettersSee answer ›26With 28-Across, temple services?4 lettersSee answer ›32With 34-Across, sequestration of a greenhouse gas6 lettersSee answer ›35With 36-Across, sparsely populated African land7 lettersSee answer ›37With 39-Across, web crawlers, e.g.8 lettersSee answer ›40With 41-Across, loses all one's dough4 lettersSee answer ›43With 46-Across, Starbuck vis-à-vis Captain Ahab5 lettersSee answer ›50With 54-Across, math that underpins computer logic7 lettersSee answer ›57With 58-Across, member of the last undefeated N.C.A.A. Division I men's basketball team (1976)7 lettersSee answer ›59With 60-Across, tallies attendees6 lettersSee answer ›

Down

1Michael of "Barbie"4 lettersSee answer ›2Alexander who served under Reagan, Nixon and Ford4 lettersSee answer ›3Axlike tool depicted in hieroglyphs4 lettersSee answer ›4City on Guanabara Bay, familiarly3 lettersSee answer ›5Paramount ancestor, in brief3 lettersSee answer ›6Apt rhyme of "clock"4 lettersSee answer ›7Isn't settled up4 lettersSee answer ›8High degree3 lettersSee answer ›9Word with project or peeve3 lettersSee answer ›10Before, in a hymnbook3 lettersSee answer ›11Stephen of "V for Vendetta"3 lettersSee answer ›12One of 25 in a track 10K3 lettersSee answer ›13Actress Teri4 lettersSee answer ›14Writer Anaïs whose name is hidden in this clue3 lettersSee answer ›19Capt.'s superior3 lettersSee answer ›20Pole tossed in a Scottish game5 lettersSee answer ›21Beautify5 lettersSee answer ›22Stone figure?5 lettersSee answer ›23Petri dish gels5 lettersSee answer ›24Company that debuted Sonic the Hedgehog4 lettersSee answer ›25Legal termination?3 lettersSee answer ›26Proverbial waste maker5 lettersSee answer ›27Some Deco works5 lettersSee answer ›29"Well, I have to save my ___" (Shrek line)3 lettersSee answer ›30Total guesses5 lettersSee answer ›31"Ooh-la-la!"5 lettersSee answer ›32Our "-zoic"4 lettersSee answer ›33Florence-to-Venice dir.3 lettersSee answer ›35Part of a George Washington costume (though he rarely wore one)3 lettersSee answer ›38Cable channel with many reruns3 lettersSee answer ›42Site of the 2002 and 2034 Winter Olympics4 lettersSee answer ›43Big success4 lettersSee answer ›44Actors McKellen and McShane4 lettersSee answer ›45Messenger ___3 lettersSee answer ›46Imbroglio4 lettersSee answer ›47Rose's lover of 1920s Broadway4 lettersSee answer ›48Número de Caballeros in a 1944 film4 lettersSee answer ›49Something that may be lent or bent3 lettersSee answer ›50Pen letters?3 lettersSee answer ›51Musical Yoko3 lettersSee answer ›52Sch. in Norfolk, Va.3 lettersSee answer ›53"Hamilton" star ___-Manuel Miranda3 lettersSee answer ›55Apt name for a groundskeeper?3 lettersSee answer ›56Word that becomes its own synonym when "p" is added to the end3 lettersSee answer ›