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NYT Crossword August 9 2026 Answers

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Every answer from the Sunday, August 9 2026 New York Times Crossword, checked and verified against the published NYT solution. Select a clue for the full explanation.

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1One bit5 lettersSee answer ›6Bad jobs6 lettersSee answer ›12Target of an annual vaccine3 lettersSee answer ›15x or y4 lettersSee answer ›19Swimmer's invitation21 lettersSee answer ›23One of two in Hawaii21 lettersSee answer ›24Father of the river gods, in Greek myth7 lettersSee answer ›25Overwhelm5 lettersSee answer ›26Jamaican folk song about dock work4 lettersSee answer ›27Ones who've made the team6 lettersSee answer ›28One at the U.S. mint?4 lettersSee answer ›29Long-handled tool3 lettersSee answer ›31What might pile up during a digital detox5 lettersSee answer ›35Show great fondness, in a way4 lettersSee answer ›36In the lead5 lettersSee answer ›38Cow5 lettersSee answer ›40Oscar winner Hathaway4 lettersSee answer ›41Foxlike3 lettersSee answer ›42Winter pellets5 lettersSee answer ›43___ forgiveness4 lettersSee answer ›44Say without saying6 lettersSee answer ›46Godsends5 lettersSee answer ›47Up to 150 years, for a tortoise8 lettersSee answer ›49The first "C" of Vietnam's H.C.M.C.3 lettersSee answer ›50Beaver's home5 lettersSee answer ›51Communicate through a disagreement13 lettersSee answer ›53Counterpart of 53-Down5 lettersSee answer ›54Display perfect timing, much like dancers9 lettersSee answer ›55Agcy. that protects the right to unionize4 lettersSee answer ›56Some Indian flatbreads5 lettersSee answer ›57First woman to play regularly in a major American men's pro baseball league9 lettersSee answer ›58Bond between Lazenby and Dalton5 lettersSee answer ›59"Let's do it"4 lettersSee answer ›60Setting for Ghassan Kanafani's "All That's Left to You" and Mourid Barghouti's "I Saw Ramallah"9 lettersSee answer ›61Like a lion's coat5 lettersSee answer ›62Reprimand that might be biting, ironically13 lettersSee answer ›64Group of partridges5 lettersSee answer ›65"www" string3 lettersSee answer ›66Honey boo-boo?8 lettersSee answer ›67Like the Taj Mahal and the Hagia Sophia, architecturally5 lettersSee answer ›68Up for the day6 lettersSee answer ›70Named names4 lettersSee answer ›71[Oh God ...]5 lettersSee answer ›72Nurse3 lettersSee answer ›75Many a spacious apartment4 lettersSee answer ›76Stand-up comic ___ Wang5 lettersSee answer ›78Where a band might go5 lettersSee answer ›79"Gimme!"4 lettersSee answer ›80Go undefeated5 lettersSee answer ›82Enterprise letters3 lettersSee answer ›83"Let's put a smile on your plate" chain4 lettersSee answer ›84Lover of Tristan6 lettersSee answer ›86Combine, as resources4 lettersSee answer ›88Nintendo villain with a "W" on his cap5 lettersSee answer ›90Bothersome recurrence7 lettersSee answer ›91Controversial business oversight21 lettersSee answer ›96Amusement park ride in which one's legs dangle high off the ground21 lettersSee answer ›97Lip4 lettersSee answer ›98"___ bodkins!" (bygone oath)3 lettersSee answer ›99Comes clean, with "up"6 lettersSee answer ›100Old Bulgarian rulers5 lettersSee answer ›

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1Results of some peace talks7 lettersSee answer ›2"Wow!"7 lettersSee answer ›3Government act whose name comes from the Greek for "forgetfulness"7 lettersSee answer ›4Papal representative6 lettersSee answer ›5Michaels of "Saturday Night Live"5 lettersSee answer ›6Angry cat's "greeting"4 lettersSee answer ›7Nav. rank3 lettersSee answer ›8Retort of denial7 lettersSee answer ›9Offer emotional support (for)6 lettersSee answer ›10Time that's an artist's name backward5 lettersSee answer ›11Did the butterfly, e.g.4 lettersSee answer ›12Co. whose logo depicts the god Mercury holding flowers3 lettersSee answer ›13Dutch city with a namesake jar6 lettersSee answer ›14___ Major4 lettersSee answer ›15"Because I Got High" rapper7 lettersSee answer ›1612 letters?3 lettersSee answer ›17Magazine for entrepreneurs3 lettersSee answer ›18Good to go3 lettersSee answer ›20Branch with a stem?9 lettersSee answer ›21Number of letters?12 lettersSee answer ›22Ocular affliction4 lettersSee answer ›28Uintah and Ouray reservation people4 lettersSee answer ›30Surpassed8 lettersSee answer ›32Group in support of a queen9 lettersSee answer ›33Rushing around8 lettersSee answer ›34Last Beatles single before Paul McCartney's departure7 lettersSee answer ›37Reality TV icon ___ Leakes4 lettersSee answer ›38Edging, e.g.9 lettersSee answer ›39Title for Macbeth5 lettersSee answer ›42Parts of many combo meals5 lettersSee answer ›43Selling off, as stocks9 lettersSee answer ›45Big inits. in Dutch banking3 lettersSee answer ›46Foretelling of6 lettersSee answer ›47Bestowing extravagantly (on)9 lettersSee answer ›48Source of fragrant cones4 lettersSee answer ›50Destiny9 lettersSee answer ›51Something that might not be well received when someone asks "How do I look?"12 lettersSee answer ›52Was flaky?6 lettersSee answer ›53Counterpart of 53-Across8 lettersSee answer ›54It's not exactly fast food8 lettersSee answer ›56Almsgiving and pilgrimage, for two7 lettersSee answer ›57Bit of folklore4 lettersSee answer ›58Wonk5 lettersSee answer ›60Hammer parts5 lettersSee answer ›61Main ingredient in salsa verde9 lettersSee answer ›63Purple yam in Filipino desserts3 lettersSee answer ›64Sounds from pigeons4 lettersSee answer ›67Simple coffee brewing method4 lettersSee answer ›69Treeless tracts7 lettersSee answer ›71Pleasing rhythms7 lettersSee answer ›72Diamond component?7 lettersSee answer ›73Gene-activating substance7 lettersSee answer ›74Eyes, informally7 lettersSee answer ›77Danced at a luau6 lettersSee answer ›78Eddies6 lettersSee answer ›79Very complicated situation, so to speak6 lettersSee answer ›81___ People's Campaign (1968 S.C.L.C. movement)4 lettersSee answer ›83Self-congratulatory declaration5 lettersSee answer ›85One of the Five Pillars of Islam, referring to prayer5 lettersSee answer ›87"___ take arms against a sea of troubles": Hamlet4 lettersSee answer ›89Since4 lettersSee answer ›90Some fan-made literary works, informally4 lettersSee answer ›91Prefix with normative3 lettersSee answer ›92___ shoestring3 lettersSee answer ›93They're parked in parks3 lettersSee answer ›94Some OT enders3 lettersSee answer ›95Before, poetically3 lettersSee answer ›