NYT CROSSWORD • WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 5, 2026

NYT Crossword Answers Aug 5, 2026

Complete answer list for the August 5, 2026 New York Times Crossword. Across and Down, every clue, every answer — plus the full grid below.

By Daniel BodilyEdited by Will ShortzGrid 15×1472 clues

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The Grid

1C
2H
3A
4R
5T
6T
7O
8P
9P
10E
11R
12L
E
A
D
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13G
14N
O
W
H
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15A
R
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Z
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N
A
16I
C
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D
T
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A
17P
A
G
E
18R
19A
N
K
S
20C
21A
R
D
22C
23A
24S
25E
26H
27E
A
D
28M
29A
30S
31S
A
G
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S
32C
A
R
B
O
33N
34S
T
O
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A
G
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35W
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S
T
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R
N
36S
A
H
A
R
A
37I
N
T
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R
N
E
38T
39B
O
T
S
40G
O
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41B
42U
S
T
43F
44I
45R
S
T
46M
47A
48T
49E
50B
51O
52O
53L
E
A
N
54A
55L
56G
E
B
R
A
57I
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D
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58H
O
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59C
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60N
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Across 28

  1. 1With 6-Across, #1 hit ↗CHART
  2. 6– ↗TOPPER
  3. 12With 14-Across, ultimately fruitless ↗LEADING
  4. 14– ↗NOWHERE
  5. 15With 16-Across, beverage sold in pastel-colored cans ↗ARIZONA
  6. 16– ↗ICEDTEA
  7. 17With 18-Across, measures of search engine optimization ↗PAGE
  8. 18– ↗RANKS
  9. 20With 22-Across, pocket ID holder ↗CARD
  10. 22– ↗CASE
  11. 26With 28-Across, temple services? ↗HEAD
  12. 28– ↗MASSAGES
  13. 32With 34-Across, sequestration of a greenhouse gas ↗CARBON
  14. 34– ↗STORAGE
  15. 35With 36-Across, sparsely populated African land ↗WESTERN
  16. 36– ↗SAHARA
  17. 37With 39-Across, web crawlers, e.g. ↗INTERNET
  18. 39– ↗BOTS
  19. 40With 41-Across, loses all one's dough ↗GOES
  20. 41– ↗BUST
  21. 43With 46-Across, Starbuck vis-à-vis Captain Ahab ↗FIRST
  22. 46– ↗MATE
  23. 50With 54-Across, math that underpins computer logic ↗BOOLEAN
  24. 54– ↗ALGEBRA
  25. 57With 58-Across, member of the last undefeated N.C.A.A. Division I men's basketball team (1976) ↗INDIANA
  26. 58– ↗HOOSIER
  27. 59With 60-Across, tallies attendees ↗COUNTS
  28. 60– ↗NOSES

Down 44

  1. 1Michael of "Barbie" ↗CERA
  2. 2Alexander who served under Reagan, Nixon and Ford ↗HAIG
  3. 3Axlike tool depicted in hieroglyphs ↗ADZE
  4. 4City on Guanabara Bay, familiarly ↗RIO
  5. 5Paramount ancestor, in brief ↗TNN
  6. 6Apt rhyme of "clock" ↗TOCK
  7. 7Isn't settled up ↗OWES
  8. 8High degree ↗PHD
  9. 9Word with project or peeve ↗PET
  10. 10Before, in a hymnbook ↗ERE
  11. 11Stephen of "V for Vendetta" ↗REA
  12. 12One of 25 in a track 10K ↗LAP
  13. 13Actress Teri ↗GARR
  14. 14Writer Anaïs whose name is hidden in this clue ↗NIN
  15. 19Capt.'s superior ↗ADM
  16. 20Pole tossed in a Scottish game ↗CABER
  17. 21Beautify ↗ADORN
  18. 22Stone figure? ↗CARAT
  19. 23Petri dish gels ↗AGARS
  20. 24Company that debuted Sonic the Hedgehog ↗SEGA
  21. 25Legal termination? ↗ESE
  22. 26Proverbial waste maker ↗HASTE
  23. 27Some Deco works ↗ERTES
  24. 29"Well, I have to save my ___" (Shrek line) ↗ASS
  25. 30Total guesses ↗STABS
  26. 31"Ooh-la-la!" ↗SOHOT
  27. 32Our "-zoic" ↗CENO
  28. 33Florence-to-Venice dir. ↗NNE
  29. 35Part of a George Washington costume (though he rarely wore one) ↗WIG
  30. 38Cable channel with many reruns ↗TBS
  31. 42Site of the 2002 and 2034 Winter Olympics ↗UTAH
  32. 43Big success ↗FEAT
  33. 44Actors McKellen and McShane ↗IANS
  34. 45Messenger ___ ↗RNA
  35. 46Imbroglio ↗MESS
  36. 47Rose's lover of 1920s Broadway ↗ABIE
  37. 48Número de Caballeros in a 1944 film ↗TRES
  38. 49Something that may be lent or bent ↗EAR
  39. 50Pen letters? ↗BIC
  40. 51Musical Yoko ↗ONO
  41. 52Sch. in Norfolk, Va. ↗ODU
  42. 53"Hamilton" star ___-Manuel Miranda ↗LIN
  43. 55Apt name for a groundskeeper? ↗LON
  44. 56Word that becomes its own synonym when "p" is added to the end ↗GOO