NYT Crossword August 5 2026 Answers

The complete list of answers to the NYT Crossword published on August 5 2026.

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Clues Across (28 total)

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With 6-Across, #1 hit
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With 14-Across, ultimately fruitless
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With 16-Across, beverage sold in pastel-colored cans
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With 18-Across, measures of search engine optimization
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With 22-Across, pocket ID holder
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With 28-Across, temple services?
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With 34-Across, sequestration of a greenhouse gas
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With 36-Across, sparsely populated African land
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With 39-Across, web crawlers, e.g.
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With 41-Across, loses all one's dough
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With 46-Across, Starbuck vis-à-vis Captain Ahab
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With 54-Across, math that underpins computer logic
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With 58-Across, member of the last undefeated N.C.A.A. Division I men's basketball team (1976)
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With 60-Across, tallies attendees
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Clues Down (44 total)

(1)
Michael of "Barbie"
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Alexander who served under Reagan, Nixon and Ford
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Axlike tool depicted in hieroglyphs
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City on Guanabara Bay, familiarly
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Paramount ancestor, in brief
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Apt rhyme of "clock"
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Isn't settled up
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High degree
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Word with project or peeve
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Before, in a hymnbook
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Stephen of "V for Vendetta"
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One of 25 in a track 10K
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Actress Teri
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Writer Anaïs whose name is hidden in this clue
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Capt.'s superior
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Pole tossed in a Scottish game
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Beautify
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Stone figure?
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Petri dish gels
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Company that debuted Sonic the Hedgehog
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Legal termination?
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Proverbial waste maker
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Some Deco works
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"Well, I have to save my ___" (Shrek line)
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Total guesses
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"Ooh-la-la!"
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Our "-zoic"
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Florence-to-Venice dir.
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Part of a George Washington costume (though he rarely wore one)
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Cable channel with many reruns
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Site of the 2002 and 2034 Winter Olympics
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Big success
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Actors McKellen and McShane
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Messenger ___
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Imbroglio
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Rose's lover of 1920s Broadway
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Número de Caballeros in a 1944 film
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Something that may be lent or bent
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Pen letters?
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Musical Yoko
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Sch. in Norfolk, Va.
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"Hamilton" star ___-Manuel Miranda
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Apt name for a groundskeeper?
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Word that becomes its own synonym when "p" is added to the end
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