NYT CROSSWORD • MONDAY, JULY 6, 2026

NYT Crossword Answers Jul 6, 2026

Complete answer list for the July 6, 2026 New York Times Crossword. Across and Down, every clue, every answer — plus the full grid below.

By Alex Eaton-SalnersEdited by Will ShortzGrid 15×1574 clues

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Across 35

  1. 1Long, detailed tales ↗SAGAS
  2. 6Binds together ↗TIES
  3. 10Russia's Peter the Great, e.g. ↗TSAR
  4. 14Hertz competitor ↗ALAMO
  5. 15Muppet with a noted feud with a pet rock ↗ELMO
  6. 16Jane Austen title character ↗EMMA
  7. 17Event that might include juggling, singing and magic tricks ↗TALENTSHOW
  8. 19___ wave (summer phenomenon) ↗HEAT
  9. 20Northern neighbor of Namibia ↗ANGOLA
  10. 21Eat, as cattle might ↗GRAZE
  11. 22Serpent seen on a sarcophagus ↗ASP
  12. 24Looks of total confusion ↗BLANKSTARES
  13. 27Calm, as a lake ↗PLACID
  14. 29Bard of ___, nickname for Shakespeare ↗AVON
  15. 30Intellectual thoroughness ↗RIGOR
  16. 31Olden days ↗YORE
  17. 33Texter's "If you ask me …" ↗IMO
  18. 36Three-part fire safety technique ↗STOPDROPANDROLL
  19. 40Opposite of NNW ↗SSE
  20. 41Give the boot ↗OUST
  21. 42When farmers typically wake up ↗EARLY
  22. 43Flatbread with a palindromic name ↗NAAN
  23. 45Steve ___, 2003 N.F.L. M.V.P.-winning quarterback ↗MCNAIR
  24. 462009 comedy about a bachelor party and its aftermath ↗THEHANGOVER
  25. 51Golf ball holder ↗TEE
  26. 52Colorful glows ↗AURAS
  27. 53Grapefruit relative ↗POMELO
  28. 55Some urban pollution ↗SMOG
  29. 56Sections of a choir .... as hinted at by this puzzle's circled letters ↗VOICEPARTS
  30. 60It comes and goes each day ↗TIDE
  31. 61"Frozen" princess ↗ANNA
  32. 62Hall-of-Fame hoopster Thomas ↗ISIAH
  33. 63Where Eve reached for the forbidden fruit ↗EDEN
  34. 64Grammy-winning singer Lisa ↗LOEB
  35. 65Like the crying face emoji ↗TEARY

Down 39

  1. 1Used a chair ↗SAT
  2. 2In the manner of ↗ALA
  3. 3Archipelago that helped shape Darwin's "On the Origin of Species" ↗GALAPAGOS
  4. 4Prayer ender ↗AMEN
  5. 5Nuthatch or nightingale ↗SONGBIRD
  6. 6Cybertruck maker ↗TESLA
  7. 7___ Omar, first Somali American in Congress ↗ILHAN
  8. 8Angsty subculture ↗EMO
  9. 9Piglet's mother ↗SOW
  10. 10Capital city between Baghdad, Iraq, and Ashgabat, Turkmenistan ↗TEHRANIRAN
  11. 11Negative attack on a political opponent ↗SMEAR
  12. 12Knock the socks off ↗AMAZE
  13. 13Parking garage listing ↗RATES
  14. 18Relayed, as a story ↗TOLD
  15. 211960s Pontiac muscle car ↗GTO
  16. 22Auto loan figs. ↗APRS
  17. 23Cuts open, as an envelope ↗SLITS
  18. 2524-___ gold ↗KARAT
  19. 26"Frozen" reindeer ↗SVEN
  20. 28European capital that's home to the Little Mermaid statue ↗COPENHAGEN
  21. 31Offspring ↗YOUNG
  22. 32Word after black or special ↗OPS
  23. 34Temporary suspensions ↗MORATORIA
  24. 35Basic skateboarding jump ↗OLLIE
  25. 37Singer Chappell with the double-platinum album "The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess" ↗ROAN
  26. 38Dilapidated ↗DECREPIT
  27. 39Instrument played by a Muse ↗LYRE
  28. 44Some small batteries ↗AAS
  29. 45Modern lead-in to coin or stock ↗MEME
  30. 46One of the five senses ↗TASTE
  31. 47Like sticky summer weather ↗HUMID
  32. 48Wash away ↗ERODE
  33. 49Express one's thoughts ↗OPINE
  34. 50Words of interest to a language learner, informally ↗VOCAB
  35. 54Operate on using a beam ↗LASE
  36. 56Actor Kilmer ↗VAL
  37. 57The Yoko of "Dear Yoko" ↗ONO
  38. 58Paver's goop ↗TAR
  39. 59Like a shrinking violet ↗SHY