NYT Crossword August 2 2026 Answers

The complete list of answers to the NYT Crossword published on August 2 2026.

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Clues Across (67 total)

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Pen name
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Garment whose name is a homophone for a board game
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Keywords accompanying a YouTube video, say
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Bellyaches
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Listing of what's on tap
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Story
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It's right around the present
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Phone notifications
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"For our ad, how should we list the car that we found in the ditch?"
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Massachusetts city named for a colonial patriot
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Like phone numbers in infomercials
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Team players
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Boggy place
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Rightmost word on the front of a penny
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Their horns don't honk
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Kerfuffles
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Moccasin decoration
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"Physics is like ___: Sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it" (quote attributed to Richard Feynman)
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Ankle part
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"… and how do we add that it was just struck by lightning?"
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"You will be ___"
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What's to be with Québec?
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Focus of many a small private college
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"… and that the tailpipe is dragging on the ground?"
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19th-century school item
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Emulates Cicero
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Food or water
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Cover with a black rectangle, say
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Useful pointers?
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Rascal
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Tech models since 1998
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Country with the all-time greatest number of medals at the Winter Olympics: Abbr.
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Quickbeam and Leaflock, in fantasy
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"… and what about the leaky roof?"
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Point of intersection
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"Here ___!"
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Mideast language
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Surprising result
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Pretend
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Achilles, e.g.
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Family nickname comparable to the Yiddish "bubbe"
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Smooth, now
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Gains prominence
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"… and the broken door locks?"
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"___ just in …"
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Big name in plastic
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Rudimentary seeds
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"… and the defective speaker system?"
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Rudimentary
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Calling card, for short?
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Safari destinations?
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Drink in a red, white and blue cup
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Donahue on TV Guide's list of "50 Greatest TV Stars of All Time"
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Yemeni neighbor
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Old gridiron org. for the Boston Patriots
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End of "Our Town" or "A Doll's House"
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Spectacular flops
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Upholsterer's sample
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"… and finally, the missing front tires?"
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Capital of Zimbabwe
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Pupil's surroundings
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Like toms and drakes
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State as fact
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U-Haul alternative
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Legend who occasionally used his head to achieve greatness
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SoCal sch.
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Pink part of a Mr. Potato Head set
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Clues Down (73 total)

(1)
Caption below the first of two photos
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Opposite of exodus
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Dumbbell exercises
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Giant or dwarf
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___-de-camp
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Backs out, say
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Indignation
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Ninnies
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What someone flat-footed lacks
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Like an honorable knight
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They might be on one's radar
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Pet
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Porters, for example
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Race prior to a race?
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Fifth-year student leader at Hogwarts
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Barely runs?
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Fruit snack brand
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Excites
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Again and again, in verse
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Over-the-top performers
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Item on a rack
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Mercedes alternative
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Idly doodling, maybe
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How the car in this puzzle's theme would be sold
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Blog feed letters
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Disrelishes and then some
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Hands (out)
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Linguistic suffix
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"Fabulous!"
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It has a rind but supposedly no rhyme
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Deliberately malicious
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Opposite of "You'll pay for that!"?
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God who aids the Trojan fleet in the first book of the "Aeneid"
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Long stories have them
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Runs out of gas
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Divinely elect
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Old yeller?
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Faddish
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California's Big ___
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Keeps in the loop, electronically
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Similar (to)
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Pioneering astronaut Jemison
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"The Good Wife" figure: Abbr.
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Declares off limits
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Fix a litter problem?
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Show signs
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Palm off (on)
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Mooch
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Hangs on a clothesline
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Isis Naija Gaston, ___ Ice Spice
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Madonna's "La ___ Bonita"
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Kick out
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Planned detour
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"Shark Tank" shark Greiner
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Horror franchise that includes 1992's "Army of Darkness"
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It all adds up to this
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"West Side Story" conflict
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Edmund who wrote "View From the Summit"
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"Now, wait just one minute!"
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Suppress
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Like cheesecake vis-à-vis sponge cake
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"That was a close one!"
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What wets the appetite?
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"The idea!"
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Penny pincher
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Intrinsically
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Jazz singer Carmen
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Part of a plot, at times
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The third one is dangerous
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Once-common fish in the Thames
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Veal cordon ___
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Smidgen
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Inits. at sea
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