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NYT Crossword August 7 2026 Answers

Deborah Simmons ✓Solving & explaining puzzles since 1998 · Updated August 7 2026

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Every answer from the Friday, August 7 2026 New York Times Crossword, checked and verified against the published NYT solution. Select a clue for the full explanation.

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1What suggests that relief is at hand?10 lettersSee answer ›11Some4 lettersSee answer ›15"News to me"10 lettersSee answer ›16Shankar who co-composed the score for 1982's "Gandhi"4 lettersSee answer ›17"Well, now everyone will know"15 lettersSee answer ›19Family nickname3 lettersSee answer ›20Spot for a light punishment5 lettersSee answer ›21Eponym of U.S. track and field's Male Athlete of the Year Award5 lettersSee answer ›22Member of the World Cup's "Tartan Army" fan base4 lettersSee answer ›23Acronymic weapon5 lettersSee answer ›25Tree whose name has multiple pronunciations5 lettersSee answer ›27Laugh, laugh, laugh8 lettersSee answer ›30Geneticist's finding5 lettersSee answer ›31Wasteful government spending, informally4 lettersSee answer ›32Big name in sandals4 lettersSee answer ›33"It's ___ or nothin'!" (classic kids' commercial slogan)4 lettersSee answer ›34Many of the characters in "Who Framed Roger Rabbit"5 lettersSee answer ›35Word with block or platform4 lettersSee answer ›36Tangy hybrid4 lettersSee answer ›37Gobsmacks4 lettersSee answer ›38Elephant mascot of the Alabama Crimson Tide5 lettersSee answer ›39Elf, say8 lettersSee answer ›41They may be covered5 lettersSee answer ›42Opportunity on Mars, say5 lettersSee answer ›43Piece of ice in the drink?4 lettersSee answer ›44Name of "the other reindeer" in a common Christmas mondegreen5 lettersSee answer ›46Waffle patterns5 lettersSee answer ›48Where baked Alaska is believed to have been invented, oddly enough: Abbr.3 lettersSee answer ›51Field you make tracks in15 lettersSee answer ›54Blue rasp-"brr!"-y treat?4 lettersSee answer ›55Flying nuisance10 lettersSee answer ›56Besmirches4 lettersSee answer ›57What someone might get quickly around lunchtime10 lettersSee answer ›

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1Sets (on)4 lettersSee answer ›2Cuisine with the #1 dish in a CNN "World's 50 Best Foods" poll4 lettersSee answer ›3Intruders in urban trash cans4 lettersSee answer ›4Ones who might cut the line, in brief?3 lettersSee answer ›5Ski slope vehicle7 lettersSee answer ›6Lose affection for6 lettersSee answer ›7Wiped out, in slang5 lettersSee answer ›8Fusses4 lettersSee answer ›9No-nos at some highway intersections9 lettersSee answer ›10Trap neighbor3 lettersSee answer ›11Relationship-defining question11 lettersSee answer ›12Bejeweled target of a heist in "Ocean's Twelve"10 lettersSee answer ›13McMullin of Utah politics4 lettersSee answer ›14Features of some early presidential portraits4 lettersSee answer ›18Whole lot4 lettersSee answer ›22Films in which many stars might appear11 lettersSee answer ›24Grills, say4 lettersSee answer ›25Competitor of Rao's5 lettersSee answer ›26One likely to be "healthy, wealthy and wise," per Benjamin Franklin10 lettersSee answer ›27Vocal critic5 lettersSee answer ›28Iris settings5 lettersSee answer ›29Lofty4 lettersSee answer ›30Bit of threaded hardware4 lettersSee answer ›31Attempt to seize control9 lettersSee answer ›34Perspective4 lettersSee answer ›38One dish commonly in the 12-dish Sviata Vecheria, a traditional Ukrainian Christmas dinner7 lettersSee answer ›40Faire ___ (get by with, in French)4 lettersSee answer ›41Charm6 lettersSee answer ›43European fixture5 lettersSee answer ›44Skip over4 lettersSee answer ›45Title boy in a 2021 Pixar film4 lettersSee answer ›47Word that comes from Sanskrit for "bread"4 lettersSee answer ›48Score somewhat akin to an A-4 lettersSee answer ›49Flexible practice?4 lettersSee answer ›50Website associated with the domain www.news.com4 lettersSee answer ›52Tour org.3 lettersSee answer ›53Fields Medal winner Terence3 lettersSee answer ›