NYT Crossword Clues for July 5, 2026

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Across Clues

Firm up 7 letters / Daily

STIFFEN Reveal Hide

Capital city on the Gulf of Guinea 5 letters / Daily

ACCRA Reveal Hide

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Gamer's pursuit 6 letters / Daily

ESPORT Reveal Hide

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Aid for a violin player 8 letters / Daily

CHINREST Reveal Hide

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Crocs and mocs 5 letters / Daily

SHOES Reveal Hide

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Kind of costume that includes a round hat and kerchief 6 letters / Daily

SAILOR Reveal Hide

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{Elijah, Ruth, Natalie} 14 letters / Daily

BABEINTHEWOODS Reveal Hide

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"Send a quick reminder" 6 letters / Daily

PINGME Reveal Hide

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"___ it and rip it!" (aggressive golfer's mantra) 4 letters / Daily

GRIP Reveal Hide

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Org. for those leaving the workforce 4 letters / Daily

AARP Reveal Hide

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Product displays seen at entrances to store aisles 7 letters / Daily

ENDCAPS Reveal Hide

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{Kerouac, Dubya, Ginsberg} 18 letters / Daily

BEATSAROUNDTHEBUSH Reveal Hide

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Colored 4 letters / Daily

HUED Reveal Hide

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Org. that accepts returns 3 letters / Daily

IRS Reveal Hide

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Grinders 5 letters / Daily

HEROS Reveal Hide

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{WC, AC, DC} 20 letters / Daily

POWERBEHINDTHETHRONE Reveal Hide

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Jewish mysticism, in one spelling 6 letters / Daily

KABALA Reveal Hide

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Love, in Lima 4 letters / Daily

AMOR Reveal Hide

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Card game whose name is shouted 3 letters / Daily

UNO Reveal Hide

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Knee part often torn by athletes, in brief 3 letters / Daily

ACL Reveal Hide

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At any time 4 letters / Daily

EVER Reveal Hide

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Small test subjects 7 letters / Daily

LABRATS Reveal Hide

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Enforcer of traveling restrictions, informally? 6 letters / Daily

NBAREF Reveal Hide

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"The Second Coming" poet, 1919 5 letters / Daily

YEATS Reveal Hide

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Ragú competitor 5 letters / Daily

PREGO Reveal Hide

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The Shakespearean version of this has three quatrains followed by a couplet 6 letters / Daily

SONNET Reveal Hide

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{Bonnie, Oscar, Clyde} 17 letters / Daily

HONORAMONGTHIEVES Reveal Hide

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Some salon tasks 6 letters / Daily

RINSES Reveal Hide

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"Hammerin' Hank" of baseball 5 letters / Daily

AARON Reveal Hide

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Allow someone to pass 5 letters / Daily

YIELD Reveal Hide

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30-ounce Starbucks size 6 letters / Daily

TRENTA Reveal Hide

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Old Testament patriarch 7 letters / Daily

ABRAHAM Reveal Hide

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Close by 4 letters / Daily

NEAR Reveal Hide

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Early email provider 3 letters / Daily

AOL Reveal Hide

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Rightmost hour on a grandfather clock 3 letters / Daily

III Reveal Hide

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Neighbor of an Estonian 4 letters / Daily

LETT Reveal Hide

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Evening that a couple spends together, say 6 letters / Daily

USTIME Reveal Hide

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{Larry, Sue, Emma} 20 letters / Daily

TWOBIRDSWITHONESTONE Reveal Hide

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Mexican mister 5 letters / Daily

SENOR Reveal Hide

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Veer, as a ship 3 letters / Daily

YAW Reveal Hide

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Org. concerned with plants 4 letters / Daily

OSHA Reveal Hide

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{Cinnabon, Kool-Aid, Hi-C} 18 letters / Daily

ROLLWITHTHEPUNCHES Reveal Hide

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Powerhouse in English football 7 letters / Daily

ARSENAL Reveal Hide

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Home to Waikiki Beach 4 letters / Daily

OAHU Reveal Hide

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California's ___ Linda 4 letters / Daily

LOMA Reveal Hide

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Rested atop 6 letters / Daily

LAIDON Reveal Hide

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{Landfill, goose feathers, junkyard} 14 letters / Daily

DOWNINTHEDUMPS Reveal Hide

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Pay no mind to 6 letters / Daily

IGNORE Reveal Hide

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Longtime Tribeca restaurant where some say the Cosmopolitan was invented, with "the" 5 letters / Daily

ODEON Reveal Hide

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Thousands of binary digits 8 letters / Daily

KILOBITS Reveal Hide

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Was overflowing 6 letters / Daily

TEEMED Reveal Hide

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Van Halen of Van Halen 5 letters / Daily

EDDIE Reveal Hide

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Extended voyage 7 letters / Daily

ODYSSEY Reveal Hide

Down Clues

Angel's ___ (distiller's term for the whiskey that evaporates during aging) 5 letters / Daily

SHARE Reveal Hide

Shinbone 5 letters / Daily

TIBIA Reveal Hide

Completely incompetent 5 letters / Daily

INEPT Reveal Hide

Time for Sat. prep? 3 letters / Daily

FRI Reveal Hide

Marshland 3 letters / Daily

FEN Reveal Hide

Suffix for superlatives 3 letters / Daily

EST Reveal Hide

Unspecified member of a series 3 letters / Daily

NTH Reveal Hide

Nile dam 5 letters / Daily

ASWAN Reveal Hide

Triad, e.g. 5 letters / Daily

CHORD Reveal Hide

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Assume 5 letters / Daily

COOPT Reveal Hide

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Lead-in to River or Rover 3 letters / Daily

RED Reveal Hide

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Dummkopf 3 letters / Daily

ASS Reveal Hide

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Broadcaster of many an N.C.A.A. game 5 letters / Daily

ESPNU Reveal Hide

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Called for quiet 7 letters / Daily

SAIDSHH Reveal Hide

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Penny ___ (miser) 7 letters / Daily

PINCHER Reveal Hide

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Lingerie brand with a Slavic-sounding name 4 letters / Daily

OLGA Reveal Hide

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Fun time 4 letters / Daily

ROMP Reveal Hide

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"___ bon!" 4 letters / Daily

TRES Reveal Hide

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Bygone N.Y.C. music venue with rhyming initials 4 letters / Daily

CBGB Reveal Hide

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Wisconsin's ___ Claire 3 letters / Daily

EAU Reveal Hide

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Buddy of "The Beverly Hillbillies" 5 letters / Daily

EBSEN Reveal Hide

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Apt name for a conchologist? 4 letters / Daily

SHEL Reveal Hide

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Ear-related 5 letters / Daily

AURAL Reveal Hide

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Yank's Civil War foe 3 letters / Daily

REB Reveal Hide

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What has flatter feet? 3 letters / Daily

ODE Reveal Hide

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Achieve success, so to speak 3 letters / Daily

HIT Reveal Hide

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Chinese instrument with two strings 4 letters / Daily

ERHU Reveal Hide

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Sound of an approaching subway train 4 letters / Daily

ROAR Reveal Hide

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Start of a reminiscence 4 letters / Daily

ONCE Reveal Hide

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Word with confidence or checkout 4 letters / Daily

SELF Reveal Hide

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Do some roadwork on 4 letters / Daily

PAVE Reveal Hide

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Folk religion akin to voodoo 5 letters / Daily

OBEAH Reveal Hide

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Battered by battle 7 letters / Daily

WARTORN Reveal Hide

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Women's areas in old Muslim palaces 6 letters / Daily

HAREMS Reveal Hide

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Last stage of an insect's development 5 letters / Daily

IMAGO Reveal Hide

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"No way, no how!" 9 letters / Daily

NOTONABET Reveal Hide

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Neurosurgeons, e.g.: Abbr. 3 letters / Daily

DRS Reveal Hide

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Metric unit of weight 5 letters / Daily

TONNE Reveal Hide

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Map legend 3 letters / Daily

KEY Reveal Hide

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Figs. related to car loans 4 letters / Daily

APRS Reveal Hide

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Scottish hill 4 letters / Daily

BRAE Reveal Hide

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Big bunch 4 letters / Daily

BEVY Reveal Hide

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Eroded 7 letters / Daily

ATEINTO Reveal Hide

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Pouty mood 4 letters / Daily

SNIT Reveal Hide

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Lead-in to sphere, in the atmosphere 6 letters / Daily

STRATO Reveal Hide

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"Hey! I know the answer!" 4 letters / Daily

OHOH Reveal Hide

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Atlantic crosser of 1492 4 letters / Daily

NINA Reveal Hide

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Sign outside a broadcast booth 5 letters / Daily

ONAIR Reveal Hide

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Wayne's buddy in "Wayne's World" 5 letters / Daily

GARTH Reveal Hide

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Admit 5 letters / Daily

SEEIN Reveal Hide

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Really weak, as an excuse 4 letters / Daily

LAME Reveal Hide

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Beats by ___ (audio brand) 3 letters / Daily

DRE Reveal Hide

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They might be up in arms, informally 4 letters / Daily

TATS Reveal Hide

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T. ___ Price (investment firm) 4 letters / Daily

ROWE Reveal Hide

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"I bought this before ___ went crazy" (rueful bumper sticker on a Tesla) 4 letters / Daily

ELON Reveal Hide

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He was né Clay 3 letters / Daily

ALI Reveal Hide

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___ pork (dish in a Chinese restaurant) 5 letters / Daily

MUSHU Reveal Hide

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Tale of rustic life 5 letters / Daily

IDYLL Reveal Hide

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"Vidi," in Caesar's boast 4 letters / Daily

ISAW Reveal Hide

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Satirist Freberg 4 letters / Daily

STAN Reveal Hide

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You won't actually die of it 7 letters / Daily

BOREDOM Reveal Hide

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Rocks smelted to make steel 7 letters / Daily

IRONORE Reveal Hide

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Conflict sparked by an archduke's assassination: Abbr. 3 letters / Daily

WWI Reveal Hide

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San Francisco's ___ Valley 3 letters / Daily

NOE Reveal Hide

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Madrid's land, in the Olympics 3 letters / Daily

ESP Reveal Hide

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Like Olympic pools 5 letters / Daily

LANED Reveal Hide

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Like some cars parked next to "No Parking" signs 5 letters / Daily

TOWED Reveal Hide

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Vietnam's capital 5 letters / Daily

HANOI Reveal Hide

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Old-fashioned "your" 5 letters / Daily

THINE Reveal Hide

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Soldier for Attila 3 letters / Daily

HUN Reveal Hide

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Black suit 5 letters / Daily

CLUBS Reveal Hide

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Good pal 5 letters / Daily

HOMIE Reveal Hide

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Out of gas 5 letters / Daily

EMPTY Reveal Hide

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Lip 4 letters / Daily

SASS Reveal Hide

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Settled down, in a way 4 letters / Daily

ALIT Reveal Hide

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All the ___ 4 letters / Daily

RAGE Reveal Hide

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Kind of wave 4 letters / Daily

SINE Reveal Hide

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Last name for an unnamed person 3 letters / Daily

DOE Reveal Hide

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Curious 3 letters / Daily

ODD Reveal Hide

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Ring result, in brief 3 letters / Daily

TKO Reveal Hide

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Secreted away 3 letters / Daily

HID Reveal Hide

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Ron who played Tarzan 3 letters / Daily

ELY Reveal Hide

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Two in Tijuana 3 letters / Daily

DOS Reveal Hide