New Yorker Crossword August 19 2026 Answers
The complete list of answers to the New Yorker Crossword published on August 19 2026.
- 68
- Total Clues
- 35
- Total Across
- 33
- Total Down
Clues Across (35 total)
(1)
“Dracula” author Stoker
The answer is: bram
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(5)
Sound from a bird or a cricket
The answer is: chirp
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(10)
Empire that built Machu Picchu
The answer is: inca
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(14)
The floor is ___ (kids’ game)
The answer is: lava
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(15)
Contract between a label and a band
The answer is: recorddeal
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(17)
Pungent feature of Limburger cheese
The answer is: odor
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(18)
“Everyone good to go?”
The answer is: areweready
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(19)
Weathervane mover
The answer is: wind
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(20)
Medieval-helmet protrusions that cover the center of the face
The answer is: noseguards
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(21)
Regulated, as someone’s grammar
The answer is: policed
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(23)
Standup comedian Shane
The answer is: gillis
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(24)
Visual Google-search results
The answer is: images
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(25)
___ ignorance (claimed not to know)
The answer is: pled
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(27)
Nay’s opposite
The answer is: yea
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(28)
“The Last of Us” star Pascal
The answer is: pedro
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(29)
Eagerness to have a drink
The answer is: thirst
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(31)
One-named Celtic musician with the 2001 hit “Only Time”
The answer is: enya
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(32)
Lions, Tigers, and Bears, e.g.
The answer is: teams
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(33)
Intentions
The answer is: aims
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(37)
Thinly distributed
The answer is: sparse
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(39)
Change one’s strategy, in political jargon
The answer is: pivot
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(40)
Got out of sight
The answer is: hid
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(43)
“Coyote vs. ___” (2026 film about a “Looney Tunes” character suing a manufacturer)
The answer is: acme
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(44)
Capital of Montana
The answer is: helena
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(45)
Actor Estevez of the Brat Pack
The answer is: emilio
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(47)
Photo on a “Wanted” poster, perhaps
The answer is: mugshot
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Devoting one’s full attention to
The answer is: absorbedin
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(51)
Spread sometimes made with chicken liver
The answer is: pate
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Seeing what people are saying?
The answer is: lipreading
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(53)
Fawned-over celebrity
The answer is: idol
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(54)
Certain rideshare worker
The answer is: uberdriver
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(55)
Smallest of Columbus’s three ships
The answer is: nina
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(56)
Brazilian soccer star with three FIFA World Cup wins
The answer is: pele
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(57)
Disreputable, as a bar
The answer is: seedy
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Many a slow-cooker dish
The answer is: stew
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Clues Down (33 total)
(1)
Tube used to launch darts with one’s breath
The answer is: blowpipe
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(2)
Telecommunications specialists in the Navy, once
The answer is: radiomen
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(3)
Archetypal door-to-door cosmetics seller
The answer is: avonlady
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(4)
Major holiday in New Orleans
The answer is: mardigras
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Tall machines at construction sites
The answer is: cranes
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(6)
“King ___’s Song” (“Jesus Christ Superstar” tune)
The answer is: herod
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Puts frosting on
The answer is: ices
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(8)
Investment firm T. ___ Price
The answer is: rowe
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(9)
Expecting a baby, slangily
The answer is: preggers
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(10)
Absolutely perfect
The answer is: ideal
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Almost
The answer is: nearly
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(12)
Golf-bag toter
The answer is: caddie
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Actress Milano who helped to popularize the #MeToo movement
The answer is: alyssa
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Ancient Celtic priests
The answer is: druids
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Person at the top of an org chart
The answer is: ceo
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(25)
Period of difficult behavior in childhood, say
The answer is: phase
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(26)
Wedge squeezed into a Corona bottle
The answer is: lime
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(29)
Glossary entry
The answer is: term
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Uncontrollable descents
The answer is: tailspins
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(32)
Build-your-own buffet stations with shells and salsas
The answer is: tacobars
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(34)
“Enough is enough!”
The answer is: ivehadit
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(35)
Boredom-inducing vocal quality
The answer is: monotone
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(36)
Legislation beneath the federal level
The answer is: statelaw
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(38)
Harmoniously matched, as wine and food
The answer is: paired
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(39)
Cribbage-board marker
The answer is: peg
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(40)
Get better
The answer is: healup
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(41)
Have a drink
The answer is: imbibe
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(42)
Put to rest, as fears
The answer is: dispel
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Eager to have a bite
The answer is: hungry
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(46)
“Casablanca” actor Peter
The answer is: lorre
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(47)
Dug out of a quarry
The answer is: mined
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(49)
Falco of “Nurse Jackie”
The answer is: edie
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(50)
Enter a pool head first
The answer is: dive
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