The full solution for the NY Times August 05 2026 Crossword puzzle is displayed below. This puzzle was authored by Daniel Bodily and edited by Will Shortz.
NYT Across Clues
- 1A With 6-Across, #1 hit CHART
- 6A ? TOPPER
- 12A With 14-Across, ultimately fruitless LEADING
- 14A ? NOWHERE
- 15A With 16-Across, beverage sold in pastel-colored cans ARIZONA
- 16A ? ICEDTEA
- 17A With 18-Across, measures of search engine optimization PAGE
- 18A ? RANKS
- 20A With 22-Across, pocket ID holder CARD
- 22A ? CASE
- 26A With 28-Across, temple services? HEAD
- 28A ? MASSAGES
- 32A With 34-Across, sequestration of a greenhouse gas CARBON
- 34A ? STORAGE
- 35A With 36-Across, sparsely populated African land WESTERN
- 36A ? SAHARA
- 37A With 39-Across, web crawlers, e.g. INTERNET
- 39A ? BOTS
- 40A With 41-Across, loses all one’s dough GOES
- 41A ? BUST
- 43A With 46-Across, Starbuck vis-à-vis Captain Ahab FIRST
- 46A ? MATE
- 50A With 54-Across, math that underpins computer logic BOOLEAN
- 54A ? ALGEBRA
- 57A With 58-Across, member of the last undefeated N.C.A.A. Division I men’s basketball team (1976) INDIANA
- 58A ? HOOSIER
- 59A With 60-Across, tallies attendees COUNTS
- 60A ? NOSES
NYT Vertical Clues
- 1D Michael of “Barbie” CERA
- 2D Alexander who served under Reagan, Nixon and Ford HAIG
- 3D Axlike tool depicted in hieroglyphs ADZE
- 4D City on Guanabara Bay, familiarly RIO
- 5D Paramount ancestor, in brief TNN
- 6D Apt rhyme of “clock” TOCK
- 7D Isn’t settled up OWES
- 8D High degree PHD
- 9D Word with project or peeve PET
- 10D Before, in a hymnbook ERE
- 11D Stephen of “V for Vendetta” REA
- 12D One of 25 in a track 10K LAP
- 13D Actress Teri GARR
- 14D Writer Anaïs whose name is hidden in this clue NIN
- 19D Capt.’s superior ADM
- 20D Pole tossed in a Scottish game CABER
- 21D Beautify ADORN
- 22D Stone figure? CARAT
- 23D Petri dish gels AGARS
- 24D Company that debuted Sonic the Hedgehog SEGA
- 25D Legal termination? ESE
- 26D Proverbial waste maker HASTE
- 27D Some Deco works ERTES
- 29D “Well, I have to save my ___” (Shrek line) ASS
- 30D Total guesses STABS
- 31D “Ooh-la-la!” SOHOT
- 32D Our “-zoic” CENO
- 33D Florence-to-Venice dir. NNE
- 35D Part of a George Washington costume (though he rarely wore one) WIG
- 38D Cable channel with many reruns TBS
- 42D Site of the 2002 and 2034 Winter Olympics UTAH
- 43D Big success FEAT
- 44D Actors McKellen and McShane IANS
- 45D Messenger ___ RNA
- 46D Imbroglio MESS
- 47D Rose’s lover of 1920s Broadway ABIE
- 48D Número de Caballeros in a 1944 film TRES
- 49D Something that may be lent or bent EAR
- 50D Pen letters? BIC
- 51D Musical Yoko ONO
- 52D Sch. in Norfolk, Va. ODU
- 53D “Hamilton” star ___-Manuel Miranda LIN
- 55D Apt name for a groundskeeper? LON
- 56D Word that becomes its own synonym when “p” is added to the end GOO
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