NYT Crossword Clues for July 6, 2026

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Across Clues

Long, detailed tales 5 letters / Daily

SAGAS Reveal Hide

Binds together 4 letters / Daily

TIES Reveal Hide

10A

Russia's Peter the Great, e.g. 4 letters / Daily

TSAR Reveal Hide

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Hertz competitor 5 letters / Daily

ALAMO Reveal Hide

15A

Muppet with a noted feud with a pet rock 4 letters / Daily

ELMO Reveal Hide

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Jane Austen title character 4 letters / Daily

EMMA Reveal Hide

17A

Event that might include juggling, singing and magic tricks 10 letters / Daily

TALENTSHOW Reveal Hide

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___ wave (summer phenomenon) 4 letters / Daily

HEAT Reveal Hide

20A

Northern neighbor of Namibia 6 letters / Daily

ANGOLA Reveal Hide

21A

Eat, as cattle might 5 letters / Daily

GRAZE Reveal Hide

22A

Serpent seen on a sarcophagus 3 letters / Daily

ASP Reveal Hide

24A

Looks of total confusion 11 letters / Daily

BLANKSTARES Reveal Hide

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Calm, as a lake 6 letters / Daily

PLACID Reveal Hide

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Bard of ___, nickname for Shakespeare 4 letters / Daily

AVON Reveal Hide

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Intellectual thoroughness 5 letters / Daily

RIGOR Reveal Hide

31A

Olden days 4 letters / Daily

YORE Reveal Hide

33A

Texter's "If you ask me ..." 3 letters / Daily

IMO Reveal Hide

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Three-part fire safety technique 15 letters / Daily

STOPDROPANDROLL Reveal Hide

40A

Opposite of NNW 3 letters / Daily

SSE Reveal Hide

41A

Give the boot 4 letters / Daily

OUST Reveal Hide

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When farmers typically wake up 5 letters / Daily

EARLY Reveal Hide

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Flatbread with a palindromic name 4 letters / Daily

NAAN Reveal Hide

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Steve ___, 2003 N.F.L. M.V.P.-winning quarterback 6 letters / Daily

MCNAIR Reveal Hide

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2009 comedy about a bachelor party and its aftermath 11 letters / Daily

THEHANGOVER Reveal Hide

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Golf ball holder 3 letters / Daily

TEE Reveal Hide

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Colorful glows 5 letters / Daily

AURAS Reveal Hide

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Grapefruit relative 6 letters / Daily

POMELO Reveal Hide

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Some urban pollution 4 letters / Daily

SMOG Reveal Hide

56A

Sections of a choir .... as hinted at by this puzzle's circled letters 10 letters / Daily

VOICEPARTS Reveal Hide

60A

It comes and goes each day 4 letters / Daily

TIDE Reveal Hide

61A

"Frozen" princess 4 letters / Daily

ANNA Reveal Hide

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Hall-of-Fame hoopster Thomas 5 letters / Daily

ISIAH Reveal Hide

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Where Eve reached for the forbidden fruit 4 letters / Daily

EDEN Reveal Hide

64A

Grammy-winning singer Lisa 4 letters / Daily

LOEB Reveal Hide

65A

Like the crying face emoji 5 letters / Daily

TEARY Reveal Hide

Down Clues

Used a chair 3 letters / Daily

SAT Reveal Hide

In the manner of 3 letters / Daily

ALA Reveal Hide

Archipelago that helped shape Darwin's "On the Origin of Species" 9 letters / Daily

GALAPAGOS Reveal Hide

Prayer ender 4 letters / Daily

AMEN Reveal Hide

Nuthatch or nightingale 8 letters / Daily

SONGBIRD Reveal Hide

Cybertruck maker 5 letters / Daily

TESLA Reveal Hide

___ Omar, first Somali American in Congress 5 letters / Daily

ILHAN Reveal Hide

Angsty subculture 3 letters / Daily

EMO Reveal Hide

Piglet's mother 3 letters / Daily

SOW Reveal Hide

10D

Capital city between Baghdad, Iraq, and Ashgabat, Turkmenistan 10 letters / Daily

TEHRANIRAN Reveal Hide

11D

Negative attack on a political opponent 5 letters / Daily

SMEAR Reveal Hide

12D

Knock the socks off 5 letters / Daily

AMAZE Reveal Hide

13D

Parking garage listing 5 letters / Daily

RATES Reveal Hide

18D

Relayed, as a story 4 letters / Daily

TOLD Reveal Hide

21D

1960s Pontiac muscle car 3 letters / Daily

GTO Reveal Hide

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Auto loan figs. 4 letters / Daily

APRS Reveal Hide

23D

Cuts open, as an envelope 5 letters / Daily

SLITS Reveal Hide

25D

24-___ gold 5 letters / Daily

KARAT Reveal Hide

26D

"Frozen" reindeer 4 letters / Daily

SVEN Reveal Hide

28D

European capital that's home to the Little Mermaid statue 10 letters / Daily

COPENHAGEN Reveal Hide

31D

Offspring 5 letters / Daily

YOUNG Reveal Hide

32D

Word after black or special 3 letters / Daily

OPS Reveal Hide

34D

Temporary suspensions 9 letters / Daily

MORATORIA Reveal Hide

35D

Basic skateboarding jump 5 letters / Daily

OLLIE Reveal Hide

37D

Singer Chappell with the double-platinum album "The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess" 4 letters / Daily

ROAN Reveal Hide

38D

Dilapidated 8 letters / Daily

DECREPIT Reveal Hide

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Instrument played by a Muse 4 letters / Daily

LYRE Reveal Hide

44D

Some small batteries 3 letters / Daily

AAS Reveal Hide

45D

Modern lead-in to coin or stock 4 letters / Daily

MEME Reveal Hide

46D

One of the five senses 5 letters / Daily

TASTE Reveal Hide

47D

Like sticky summer weather 5 letters / Daily

HUMID Reveal Hide

48D

Wash away 5 letters / Daily

ERODE Reveal Hide

49D

Express one's thoughts 5 letters / Daily

OPINE Reveal Hide

50D

Words of interest to a language learner, informally 5 letters / Daily

VOCAB Reveal Hide

54D

Operate on using a beam 4 letters / Daily

LASE Reveal Hide

56D

Actor Kilmer 3 letters / Daily

VAL Reveal Hide

57D

The Yoko of "Dear Yoko" 3 letters / Daily

ONO Reveal Hide

58D

Paver's goop 3 letters / Daily

TAR Reveal Hide

59D

Like a shrinking violet 3 letters / Daily

SHY Reveal Hide