Home›NYT Crossword›July 16 2026

NYT Crossword July 16 2026 Answers

Deborah Simmons ✓Solving & explaining puzzles since 1998 · Updated July 16 2026

All Clues & Answers

81 CLUESDIFFICULTY

Every answer from the Thursday, July 16 2026 New York Times Crossword, checked and verified against the published NYT solution. Select a clue for the full explanation.

Constructed by Zhou Zhang and Mallory Montgomery · Edited by Will Shortz

Across

1Smart4 lettersSee answer ›5Sensation5 lettersSee answer ›10Acquisition on the big day5 lettersSee answer ›15"That's a good one!"4 lettersSee answer ›16Galápagos island that was home to Lonesome George, the last tortoise of his subspecies5 lettersSee answer ›17Who knows what preceded the Big Bang5 lettersSee answer ›18*Yes — three arduous ones16 lettersSee answer ›21February 14, informally4 lettersSee answer ›22Scratch that!4 lettersSee answer ›23El ___3 lettersSee answer ›24Like novices5 lettersSee answer ›26Spoil6 lettersSee answer ›28Preceder of how, way or where3 lettersSee answer ›29*Yes — sometimes more than 1,0009 lettersSee answer ›31Patooties5 lettersSee answer ›33Little dipper?3 lettersSee answer ›34"Tout à fait!"3 lettersSee answer ›35Tire4 lettersSee answer ›37*Yes — exactly one, in common usage12 lettersSee answer ›42First line on many a form4 lettersSee answer ›43Common garnish in a chirashi bowl3 lettersSee answer ›44Had at present?3 lettersSee answer ›47Article of lab wear5 lettersSee answer ›50*No — but it does have three feet9 lettersSee answer ›53Elizabethan curse3 lettersSee answer ›54Country that las islas Canarias are part of6 lettersSee answer ›57Important blood line5 lettersSee answer ›58"___ is the proper task of life": Nietzsche3 lettersSee answer ›59Business whose rewards program gives "Stackholder Perks"4 lettersSee answer ›60Raving4 lettersSee answer ›61Question during a brainstorming session ... or of the answers to the starred clues16 lettersSee answer ›67Popular Japanese brew5 lettersSee answer ›68Alcohol, slangily5 lettersSee answer ›69Literary heroine who says "I would always rather be happy than dignified"4 lettersSee answer ›70Its capital is Sanaa5 lettersSee answer ›71Heavens5 lettersSee answer ›72Debugging component?4 lettersSee answer ›

Down

1Letter after upsilon3 lettersSee answer ›2Trireme tool3 lettersSee answer ›3Cleared, as snow8 lettersSee answer ›4"Messiah" composer6 lettersSee answer ›5Neuter4 lettersSee answer ›6What a big hand indicates: Abbr.3 lettersSee answer ›7Its colony can be considered one superorganism3 lettersSee answer ›8Struggle6 lettersSee answer ›9World's most populous Creole-speaking country5 lettersSee answer ›10Pretty much assured8 lettersSee answer ›11Japanese drama3 lettersSee answer ›12Feline in a 2000s meme6 lettersSee answer ›13Dub ... or rub6 lettersSee answer ›14Fast-food restaurant that sells Frostys6 lettersSee answer ›19___-pedi4 lettersSee answer ›20Oft-injured part of the knee, for short3 lettersSee answer ›24Clock-setting std.3 lettersSee answer ›25___ Bravo (México/Tejas border)3 lettersSee answer ›26Certain tie score5 lettersSee answer ›27Mince words?4 lettersSee answer ›30Frost piece4 lettersSee answer ›32Sound of dissatisfaction3 lettersSee answer ›35Botanist's study5 lettersSee answer ›36Told stories4 lettersSee answer ›38Business ending3 lettersSee answer ›39Roll in dough8 lettersSee answer ›40Actress/union leader Drescher4 lettersSee answer ›41Symbol of spiritual insight, in Hinduism8 lettersSee answer ›45Class ___3 lettersSee answer ›46Music genre with "walking" bass lines3 lettersSee answer ›47Steamy occasion?6 lettersSee answer ›48Lugubrious6 lettersSee answer ›49Pioneers' prairie pullers6 lettersSee answer ›50Harangues6 lettersSee answer ›51Store4 lettersSee answer ›52Worked sufferingly6 lettersSee answer ›55"Pipe down!"3 lettersSee answer ›56Composure5 lettersSee answer ›60Attest4 lettersSee answer ›62___-goat3 lettersSee answer ›63"Wait ... really?"3 lettersSee answer ›64One of a kind3 lettersSee answer ›65Test for future Ph.D.s3 lettersSee answer ›66Not needing anything else3 lettersSee answer ›