NYT CROSSWORD • SUNDAY, AUGUST 2, 2026

NYT Crossword Answers Aug 2, 2026

Complete answer list for the August 2, 2026 New York Times Crossword. Across and Down, every clue, every answer — plus the full grid below.

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Across 67

  1. 1Pen name ↗BIC
  2. 4Garment whose name is a homophone for a board game ↗SARI
  3. 8Keywords accompanying a YouTube video, say ↗TAGS
  4. 12Bellyaches ↗CARPS
  5. 17Listing of what's on tap ↗MENU
  6. 18Story ↗TIER
  7. 19It's right around the present ↗WRAP
  8. 20Phone notifications ↗ALERTS
  9. 22"For our ad, how should we list the car that we found in the ditch?" ↗OFFROADVEHICLE
  10. 25Massachusetts city named for a colonial patriot ↗REVERE
  11. 26Like phone numbers in infomercials ↗TOLLFREE
  12. 27Team players ↗ATHLETES
  13. 29Boggy place ↗FEN
  14. 30Rightmost word on the front of a penny ↗TRUST
  15. 31Their horns don't honk ↗RAMS
  16. 33Kerfuffles ↗ADOS
  17. 34Moccasin decoration ↗BEAD
  18. 35"Physics is like ___: Sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it" (quote attributed to Richard Feynman) ↗SEX
  19. 36Ankle part ↗TARSUS
  20. 39"… and how do we add that it was just struck by lightning?" ↗NEWSHOCKS
  21. 41"You will be ___" ↗MISSED
  22. 42What's to be with Québec? ↗ETRE
  23. 43Focus of many a small private college ↗ARTS
  24. 44"… and that the tailpipe is dragging on the ground?" ↗LOWEMISSIONS
  25. 4919th-century school item ↗SLATE
  26. 51Emulates Cicero ↗ORATES
  27. 52Food or water ↗NEED
  28. 54Cover with a black rectangle, say ↗REDACT
  29. 58Useful pointers? ↗VANES
  30. 59Rascal ↗SCAMP
  31. 62Tech models since 1998 ↗IMACS
  32. 65Country with the all-time greatest number of medals at the Winter Olympics: Abbr. ↗NOR
  33. 66Quickbeam and Leaflock, in fantasy ↗ENTS
  34. 67"… and what about the leaky roof?" ↗BUCKETSEATS
  35. 69Point of intersection ↗NODE
  36. 70"Here ___!" ↗IGO
  37. 71Mideast language ↗FARSI
  38. 72Surprising result ↗UPSET
  39. 73Pretend ↗FEIGN
  40. 74Achilles, e.g. ↗TENDON
  41. 76Family nickname comparable to the Yiddish "bubbe" ↗NANA
  42. 78Smooth, now ↗IRONED
  43. 79Gains prominence ↗RISES
  44. 82"… and the broken door locks?" ↗KEYLESSENTRY
  45. 86"___ just in …" ↗THIS
  46. 88Big name in plastic ↗VISA
  47. 90Rudimentary seeds ↗OVULES
  48. 91"… and the defective speaker system?" ↗QUIETRIDE
  49. 93Rudimentary ↗PRIMAL
  50. 94Calling card, for short? ↗SIM
  51. 97Safari destinations? ↗URLS
  52. 98Drink in a red, white and blue cup ↗ICEE
  53. 99Donahue on TV Guide's list of "50 Greatest TV Stars of All Time" ↗PHIL
  54. 100Yemeni neighbor ↗OMANI
  55. 102Old gridiron org. for the Boston Patriots ↗AFL
  56. 103End of "Our Town" or "A Doll's House" ↗ACTTHREE
  57. 105Spectacular flops ↗DEBACLES
  58. 108Upholsterer's sample ↗SWATCH
  59. 110"… and finally, the missing front tires?" ↗REARWHEELDRIVE
  60. 112Capital of Zimbabwe ↗HARARE
  61. 113Pupil's surroundings ↗IRIS
  62. 114Like toms and drakes ↗MALE
  63. 115State as fact ↗AVER
  64. 116U-Haul alternative ↗RYDER
  65. 117Legend who occasionally used his head to achieve greatness ↗PELE
  66. 118SoCal sch. ↗SDSU
  67. 119Pink part of a Mr. Potato Head set ↗EAR

Down 73

  1. 1Caption below the first of two photos ↗BEFORE
  2. 2Opposite of exodus ↗INFLUX
  3. 3Dumbbell exercises ↗CURLS
  4. 4Giant or dwarf ↗STAR
  5. 5___-de-camp ↗AIDE
  6. 6Backs out, say ↗REVERSES
  7. 7Indignation ↗IRE
  8. 8Ninnies ↗TWITS
  9. 9What someone flat-footed lacks ↗ARCH
  10. 10Like an honorable knight ↗GALLANT
  11. 11They might be on one's radar ↗SPEEDERS
  12. 12Pet ↗CARESS
  13. 13Porters, for example ↗ALES
  14. 14Race prior to a race? ↗REV
  15. 15Fifth-year student leader at Hogwarts ↗PREFECT
  16. 16Barely runs? ↗STREAKS
  17. 17Fruit snack brand ↗MOTTS
  18. 21Excites ↗SENDS
  19. 23Again and again, in verse ↗OFTTIMES
  20. 24Over-the-top performers ↗HAMS
  21. 28Item on a rack ↗TOWEL
  22. 32Mercedes alternative ↗AUDI
  23. 34Idly doodling, maybe ↗BORED
  24. 37How the car in this puzzle's theme would be sold ↗ASIS
  25. 38Blog feed letters ↗RSS
  26. 40Disrelishes and then some ↗HATES
  27. 41Hands (out) ↗METES
  28. 42Linguistic suffix ↗ESE
  29. 44"Fabulous!" ↗LOVEIT
  30. 45It has a rind but supposedly no rhyme ↗ORANGE
  31. 46Deliberately malicious ↗WANTON
  32. 47Opposite of "You'll pay for that!"? ↗ONME
  33. 48God who aids the Trojan fleet in the first book of the "Aeneid" ↗NEPTUNE
  34. 50Long stories have them ↗ARCS
  35. 53Runs out of gas ↗DIES
  36. 55Divinely elect ↗ANOINT
  37. 56Old yeller? ↗CODGER
  38. 57Faddish ↗TRENDY
  39. 59California's Big ___ ↗SUR
  40. 60Keeps in the loop, electronically ↗CCS
  41. 61Similar (to) ↗AKIN
  42. 63Pioneering astronaut Jemison ↗MAE
  43. 64"The Good Wife" figure: Abbr. ↗ATT
  44. 67Declares off limits ↗BANS
  45. 68Fix a litter problem? ↗SPAY
  46. 69Show signs ↗NEONS
  47. 71Palm off (on) ↗FOIST
  48. 73Mooch ↗FREELOAD
  49. 75Hangs on a clothesline ↗DRIES
  50. 77Isis Naija Gaston, ___ Ice Spice ↗AKA
  51. 78Madonna's "La ___ Bonita" ↗ISLA
  52. 80Kick out ↗EVICT
  53. 81Planned detour ↗SIDETRIP
  54. 83"Shark Tank" shark Greiner ↗LORI
  55. 84Horror franchise that includes 1992's "Army of Darkness" ↗EVILDEAD
  56. 85It all adds up to this ↗SUM
  57. 86"West Side Story" conflict ↗TURFWAR
  58. 87Edmund who wrote "View From the Summit" ↗HILLARY
  59. 89"Now, wait just one minute!" ↗SEEHERE
  60. 91Suppress ↗QUASH
  61. 92Like cheesecake vis-à-vis sponge cake ↗RICHER
  62. 93"That was a close one!" ↗PHEW
  63. 94What wets the appetite? ↗SALIVA
  64. 95"The idea!" ↗INEVER
  65. 96Penny pincher ↗MISER
  66. 99Intrinsically ↗PERSE
  67. 101Jazz singer Carmen ↗MCRAE
  68. 103Part of a plot, at times ↗ACRE
  69. 104The third one is dangerous ↗RAIL
  70. 106Once-common fish in the Thames ↗EELS
  71. 107Veal cordon ___ ↗BLEU
  72. 109Smidgen ↗TAD
  73. 111Inits. at sea ↗HMS