NYT Crossword July 5 2026 Answers
The complete list of answers to the NYT Crossword published on July 5 2026.
- 136
- Total Clues
- 53
- Total Across
- 83
- Total Down
Clues Across (53 total)
(1)
Firm up
The answer is: stiffen
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Capital city on the Gulf of Guinea
The answer is: accra
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Gamer's pursuit
The answer is: esport
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Aid for a violin player
The answer is: chinrest
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Crocs and mocs
The answer is: shoes
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Kind of costume that includes a round hat and kerchief
The answer is: sailor
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{Elijah, Ruth, Natalie}
The answer is: babeinthewoods
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"Send a quick reminder"
The answer is: pingme
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(25)
"___ it and rip it!" (aggressive golfer's mantra)
The answer is: grip
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Org. for those leaving the workforce
The answer is: aarp
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Product displays seen at entrances to store aisles
The answer is: endcaps
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(28)
{Kerouac, Dubya, Ginsberg}
The answer is: beatsaroundthebush
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Colored
The answer is: hued
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Org. that accepts returns
The answer is: irs
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Grinders
The answer is: heros
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(41)
{WC, AC, DC}
The answer is: powerbehindthethrone
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(49)
Jewish mysticism, in one spelling
The answer is: kabala
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(50)
Love, in Lima
The answer is: amor
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(51)
Card game whose name is shouted
The answer is: uno
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(52)
Knee part often torn by athletes, in brief
The answer is: acl
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(53)
At any time
The answer is: ever
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(54)
Small test subjects
The answer is: labrats
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(57)
Enforcer of traveling restrictions, informally?
The answer is: nbaref
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(60)
"The Second Coming" poet, 1919
The answer is: yeats
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(62)
Ragú competitor
The answer is: prego
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(63)
The Shakespearean version of this has three quatrains followed by a couplet
The answer is: sonnet
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(66)
{Bonnie, Oscar, Clyde}
The answer is: honoramongthieves
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(70)
Some salon tasks
The answer is: rinses
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(71)
"Hammerin' Hank" of baseball
The answer is: aaron
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(72)
Allow someone to pass
The answer is: yield
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(75)
30-ounce Starbucks size
The answer is: trenta
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(78)
Old Testament patriarch
The answer is: abraham
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(80)
Close by
The answer is: near
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(81)
Early email provider
The answer is: aol
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(82)
Rightmost hour on a grandfather clock
The answer is: iii
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Neighbor of an Estonian
The answer is: lett
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Evening that a couple spends together, say
The answer is: ustime
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{Larry, Sue, Emma}
The answer is: twobirdswithonestone
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Mexican mister
The answer is: senor
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Veer, as a ship
The answer is: yaw
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Org. concerned with plants
The answer is: osha
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{Cinnabon, Kool-Aid, Hi-C}
The answer is: rollwiththepunches
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Powerhouse in English football
The answer is: arsenal
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Home to Waikiki Beach
The answer is: oahu
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California's ___ Linda
The answer is: loma
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Rested atop
The answer is: laidon
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(113)
{Landfill, goose feathers, junkyard}
The answer is: downinthedumps
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(119)
Pay no mind to
The answer is: ignore
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Longtime Tribeca restaurant where some say the Cosmopolitan was invented, with "the"
The answer is: odeon
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(121)
Thousands of binary digits
The answer is: kilobits
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(122)
Was overflowing
The answer is: teemed
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Van Halen of Van Halen
The answer is: eddie
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Extended voyage
The answer is: odyssey
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Clues Down (83 total)
(1)
Angel's ___ (distiller's term for the whiskey that evaporates during aging)
The answer is: share
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Shinbone
The answer is: tibia
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Completely incompetent
The answer is: inept
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Time for Sat. prep?
The answer is: fri
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Marshland
The answer is: fen
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Suffix for superlatives
The answer is: est
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Unspecified member of a series
The answer is: nth
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Nile dam
The answer is: aswan
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Triad, e.g.
The answer is: chord
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Assume
The answer is: coopt
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Lead-in to River or Rover
The answer is: red
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Dummkopf
The answer is: ass
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Broadcaster of many an N.C.A.A. game
The answer is: espnu
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Called for quiet
The answer is: saidshh
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Penny ___ (miser)
The answer is: pincher
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Lingerie brand with a Slavic-sounding name
The answer is: olga
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Fun time
The answer is: romp
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"___ bon!"
The answer is: tres
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Bygone N.Y.C. music venue with rhyming initials
The answer is: cbgb
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Wisconsin's ___ Claire
The answer is: eau
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Buddy of "The Beverly Hillbillies"
The answer is: ebsen
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Apt name for a conchologist?
The answer is: shel
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Ear-related
The answer is: aural
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Yank's Civil War foe
The answer is: reb
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What has flatter feet?
The answer is: ode
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Achieve success, so to speak
The answer is: hit
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Chinese instrument with two strings
The answer is: erhu
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Sound of an approaching subway train
The answer is: roar
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Start of a reminiscence
The answer is: once
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Word with confidence or checkout
The answer is: self
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Do some roadwork on
The answer is: pave
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Folk religion akin to voodoo
The answer is: obeah
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Battered by battle
The answer is: wartorn
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Women's areas in old Muslim palaces
The answer is: harems
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Last stage of an insect's development
The answer is: imago
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"No way, no how!"
The answer is: notonabet
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Neurosurgeons, e.g.: Abbr.
The answer is: drs
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Metric unit of weight
The answer is: tonne
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Map legend
The answer is: key
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Figs. related to car loans
The answer is: aprs
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Scottish hill
The answer is: brae
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Big bunch
The answer is: bevy
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Eroded
The answer is: ateinto
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Pouty mood
The answer is: snit
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Lead-in to sphere, in the atmosphere
The answer is: strato
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"Hey! I know the answer!"
The answer is: ohoh
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Atlantic crosser of 1492
The answer is: nina
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Sign outside a broadcast booth
The answer is: onair
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Wayne's buddy in "Wayne's World"
The answer is: garth
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Admit
The answer is: seein
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Really weak, as an excuse
The answer is: lame
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Beats by ___ (audio brand)
The answer is: dre
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They might be up in arms, informally
The answer is: tats
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T. ___ Price (investment firm)
The answer is: rowe
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"I bought this before ___ went crazy" (rueful bumper sticker on a Tesla)
The answer is: elon
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He was né Clay
The answer is: ali
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___ pork (dish in a Chinese restaurant)
The answer is: mushu
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Tale of rustic life
The answer is: idyll
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"Vidi," in Caesar's boast
The answer is: isaw
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Satirist Freberg
The answer is: stan
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You won't actually die of it
The answer is: boredom
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Rocks smelted to make steel
The answer is: ironore
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Conflict sparked by an archduke's assassination: Abbr.
The answer is: wwi
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San Francisco's ___ Valley
The answer is: noe
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Madrid's land, in the Olympics
The answer is: esp
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Like Olympic pools
The answer is: laned
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Like some cars parked next to "No Parking" signs
The answer is: towed
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Vietnam's capital
The answer is: hanoi
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Old-fashioned "your"
The answer is: thine
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Soldier for Attila
The answer is: hun
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Black suit
The answer is: clubs
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Good pal
The answer is: homie
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Out of gas
The answer is: empty
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Lip
The answer is: sass
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Settled down, in a way
The answer is: alit
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All the ___
The answer is: rage
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(109)
Kind of wave
The answer is: sine
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Last name for an unnamed person
The answer is: doe
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Curious
The answer is: odd
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Ring result, in brief
The answer is: tko
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(116)
Secreted away
The answer is: hid
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(117)
Ron who played Tarzan
The answer is: ely
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(118)
Two in Tijuana
The answer is: dos
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