NYT Crossword July 16 2026 Answers

The complete list of answers to the NYT Crossword published on July 16 2026.

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Clues Across (37 total)

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Smart
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Sensation
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Acquisition on the big day
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"That's a good one!"
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Galápagos island that was home to Lonesome George, the last tortoise of his subspecies
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Who knows what preceded the Big Bang
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*Yes — three arduous ones
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February 14, informally
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Scratch that!
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El ___
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Like novices
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Spoil
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Preceder of how, way or where
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*Yes — sometimes more than 1,000
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Patooties
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Little dipper?
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"Tout à fait!"
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Tire
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*Yes — exactly one, in common usage
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First line on many a form
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Common garnish in a chirashi bowl
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Had at present?
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Article of lab wear
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*No — but it does have three feet
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Elizabethan curse
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Country that las islas Canarias are part of
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Important blood line
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"___ is the proper task of life": Nietzsche
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Business whose rewards program gives "Stackholder Perks"
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Raving
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Question during a brainstorming session ... or of the answers to the starred clues
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Popular Japanese brew
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Alcohol, slangily
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Literary heroine who says "I would always rather be happy than dignified"
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Its capital is Sanaa
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Heavens
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Debugging component?
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Clues Down (44 total)

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Letter after upsilon
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Trireme tool
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Cleared, as snow
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"Messiah" composer
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Neuter
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What a big hand indicates: Abbr.
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Its colony can be considered one superorganism
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Struggle
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World's most populous Creole-speaking country
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Pretty much assured
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Japanese drama
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Feline in a 2000s meme
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Dub ... or rub
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Fast-food restaurant that sells Frostys
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___-pedi
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Oft-injured part of the knee, for short
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Clock-setting std.
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___ Bravo (México/Tejas border)
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Certain tie score
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Mince words?
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Frost piece
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Sound of dissatisfaction
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Botanist's study
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Told stories
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Business ending
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Roll in dough
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Actress/union leader Drescher
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Symbol of spiritual insight, in Hinduism
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Class ___
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Music genre with "walking" bass lines
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Steamy occasion?
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Lugubrious
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Pioneers' prairie pullers
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Harangues
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Store
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Worked sufferingly
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"Pipe down!"
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Composure
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Attest
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___-goat
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"Wait ... really?"
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One of a kind
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Test for future Ph.D.s
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Not needing anything else
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