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NYT Crossword July 5 2026 Answers

Deborah Simmons ✓Solving & explaining puzzles since 1998 · Updated July 5 2026

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Every answer from the Sunday, July 5 2026 New York Times Crossword, checked and verified against the published NYT solution. Select a clue for the full explanation.

Constructed by Rich Katz · Edited by Will Shortz · “Boxed Sets”

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1Firm up7 lettersSee answer ›8Capital city on the Gulf of Guinea5 lettersSee answer ›13Gamer's pursuit6 lettersSee answer ›19Aid for a violin player8 lettersSee answer ›20Crocs and mocs5 lettersSee answer ›21Kind of costume that includes a round hat and kerchief6 lettersSee answer ›22{Elijah, Ruth, Natalie}14 lettersSee answer ›24"Send a quick reminder"6 lettersSee answer ›25"___ it and rip it!" (aggressive golfer's mantra)4 lettersSee answer ›26Org. for those leaving the workforce4 lettersSee answer ›27Product displays seen at entrances to store aisles7 lettersSee answer ›28{Kerouac, Dubya, Ginsberg}18 lettersSee answer ›35Colored4 lettersSee answer ›36Org. that accepts returns3 lettersSee answer ›37Grinders5 lettersSee answer ›41{WC, AC, DC}20 lettersSee answer ›49Jewish mysticism, in one spelling6 lettersSee answer ›50Love, in Lima4 lettersSee answer ›51Card game whose name is shouted3 lettersSee answer ›52Knee part often torn by athletes, in brief3 lettersSee answer ›53At any time4 lettersSee answer ›54Small test subjects7 lettersSee answer ›57Enforcer of traveling restrictions, informally?6 lettersSee answer ›60"The Second Coming" poet, 19195 lettersSee answer ›62Ragú competitor5 lettersSee answer ›63The Shakespearean version of this has three quatrains followed by a couplet6 lettersSee answer ›66{Bonnie, Oscar, Clyde}17 lettersSee answer ›70Some salon tasks6 lettersSee answer ›71"Hammerin' Hank" of baseball5 lettersSee answer ›72Allow someone to pass5 lettersSee answer ›7530-ounce Starbucks size6 lettersSee answer ›78Old Testament patriarch7 lettersSee answer ›80Close by4 lettersSee answer ›81Early email provider3 lettersSee answer ›82Rightmost hour on a grandfather clock3 lettersSee answer ›85Neighbor of an Estonian4 lettersSee answer ›86Evening that a couple spends together, say6 lettersSee answer ›88{Larry, Sue, Emma}20 lettersSee answer ›94Mexican mister5 lettersSee answer ›95Veer, as a ship3 lettersSee answer ›96Org. concerned with plants4 lettersSee answer ›97{Cinnabon, Kool-Aid, Hi-C}18 lettersSee answer ›107Powerhouse in English football7 lettersSee answer ›110Home to Waikiki Beach4 lettersSee answer ›111California's ___ Linda4 lettersSee answer ›112Rested atop6 lettersSee answer ›113{Landfill, goose feathers, junkyard}14 lettersSee answer ›119Pay no mind to6 lettersSee answer ›120Longtime Tribeca restaurant where some say the Cosmopolitan was invented, with "the"5 lettersSee answer ›121Thousands of binary digits8 lettersSee answer ›122Was overflowing6 lettersSee answer ›123Van Halen of Van Halen5 lettersSee answer ›124Extended voyage7 lettersSee answer ›

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1Angel's ___ (distiller's term for the whiskey that evaporates during aging)5 lettersSee answer ›2Shinbone5 lettersSee answer ›3Completely incompetent5 lettersSee answer ›4Time for Sat. prep?3 lettersSee answer ›5Marshland3 lettersSee answer ›6Suffix for superlatives3 lettersSee answer ›7Unspecified member of a series3 lettersSee answer ›8Nile dam5 lettersSee answer ›9Triad, e.g.5 lettersSee answer ›10Assume5 lettersSee answer ›11Lead-in to River or Rover3 lettersSee answer ›12Dummkopf3 lettersSee answer ›13Broadcaster of many an N.C.A.A. game5 lettersSee answer ›14Called for quiet7 lettersSee answer ›15Penny ___ (miser)7 lettersSee answer ›16Lingerie brand with a Slavic-sounding name4 lettersSee answer ›17Fun time4 lettersSee answer ›18"___ bon!"4 lettersSee answer ›19Bygone N.Y.C. music venue with rhyming initials4 lettersSee answer ›23Wisconsin's ___ Claire3 lettersSee answer ›27Buddy of "The Beverly Hillbillies"5 lettersSee answer ›29Apt name for a conchologist?4 lettersSee answer ›30Ear-related5 lettersSee answer ›31Yank's Civil War foe3 lettersSee answer ›32What has flatter feet?3 lettersSee answer ›33Achieve success, so to speak3 lettersSee answer ›34Chinese instrument with two strings4 lettersSee answer ›38Sound of an approaching subway train4 lettersSee answer ›39Start of a reminiscence4 lettersSee answer ›40Word with confidence or checkout4 lettersSee answer ›41Do some roadwork on4 lettersSee answer ›42Folk religion akin to voodoo5 lettersSee answer ›43Battered by battle7 lettersSee answer ›44Women's areas in old Muslim palaces6 lettersSee answer ›45Last stage of an insect's development5 lettersSee answer ›46"No way, no how!"9 lettersSee answer ›47Neurosurgeons, e.g.: Abbr.3 lettersSee answer ›48Metric unit of weight5 lettersSee answer ›49Map legend3 lettersSee answer ›55Figs. related to car loans4 lettersSee answer ›56Scottish hill4 lettersSee answer ›58Big bunch4 lettersSee answer ›59Eroded7 lettersSee answer ›61Pouty mood4 lettersSee answer ›63Lead-in to sphere, in the atmosphere6 lettersSee answer ›64"Hey! I know the answer!"4 lettersSee answer ›65Atlantic crosser of 14924 lettersSee answer ›67Sign outside a broadcast booth5 lettersSee answer ›68Wayne's buddy in "Wayne's World"5 lettersSee answer ›69Admit5 lettersSee answer ›73Really weak, as an excuse4 lettersSee answer ›74Beats by ___ (audio brand)3 lettersSee answer ›75They might be up in arms, informally4 lettersSee answer ›76T. ___ Price (investment firm)4 lettersSee answer ›77"I bought this before ___ went crazy" (rueful bumper sticker on a Tesla)4 lettersSee answer ›78He was né Clay3 lettersSee answer ›79___ pork (dish in a Chinese restaurant)5 lettersSee answer ›83Tale of rustic life5 lettersSee answer ›84"Vidi," in Caesar's boast4 lettersSee answer ›87Satirist Freberg4 lettersSee answer ›89You won't actually die of it7 lettersSee answer ›90Rocks smelted to make steel7 lettersSee answer ›91Conflict sparked by an archduke's assassination: Abbr.3 lettersSee answer ›92San Francisco's ___ Valley3 lettersSee answer ›93Madrid's land, in the Olympics3 lettersSee answer ›98Like Olympic pools5 lettersSee answer ›99Like some cars parked next to "No Parking" signs5 lettersSee answer ›100Vietnam's capital5 lettersSee answer ›101Old-fashioned "your"5 lettersSee answer ›102Soldier for Attila3 lettersSee answer ›103Black suit5 lettersSee answer ›104Good pal5 lettersSee answer ›105Out of gas5 lettersSee answer ›106Lip4 lettersSee answer ›107Settled down, in a way4 lettersSee answer ›108All the ___4 lettersSee answer ›109Kind of wave4 lettersSee answer ›113Last name for an unnamed person3 lettersSee answer ›114Curious3 lettersSee answer ›115Ring result, in brief3 lettersSee answer ›116Secreted away3 lettersSee answer ›117Ron who played Tarzan3 lettersSee answer ›118Two in Tijuana3 lettersSee answer ›