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NYT Crossword — August 2, 2026

Sunday’s 21 × 21 puzzle, 140 clues. The full solution is below — answers stay masked until you reveal them, one clue or all at once.

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Across

67 clues

4Garment whose name is a homophone for a board game

8Keywords accompanying a YouTube video, say

17Listing of what's on tap

19It's right around the present

20Phone notifications

22"For our ad, how should we list the car that we found in the ditch?"

25Massachusetts city named for a colonial patriot

26Like phone numbers in infomercials

30Rightmost word on the front of a penny

31Their horns don't honk

34Moccasin decoration

35"Physics is like ___: Sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it" (quote attributed to Richard Feynman)

39"… and how do we add that it was just struck by lightning?"

41"You will be ___"

42What's to be with Québec?

43Focus of many a small private college

44"… and that the tailpipe is dragging on the ground?"

4919th-century school item

51Emulates Cicero

52Food or water

54Cover with a black rectangle, say

58Useful pointers?

62Tech models since 1998

65Country with the all-time greatest number of medals at the Winter Olympics: Abbr.

66Quickbeam and Leaflock, in fantasy

67"… and what about the leaky roof?"

69Point of intersection

71Mideast language

72Surprising result

74Achilles, e.g.

76Family nickname comparable to the Yiddish "bubbe"

79Gains prominence

82"… and the broken door locks?"

86"___ just in …"

88Big name in plastic

90Rudimentary seeds

91"… and the defective speaker system?"

94Calling card, for short?

97Safari destinations?

98Drink in a red, white and blue cup

99Donahue on TV Guide's list of "50 Greatest TV Stars of All Time"

100Yemeni neighbor

102Old gridiron org. for the Boston Patriots

103End of "Our Town" or "A Doll's House"

105Spectacular flops

108Upholsterer's sample

110"… and finally, the missing front tires?"

112Capital of Zimbabwe

113Pupil's surroundings

114Like toms and drakes

115State as fact

116U-Haul alternative

117Legend who occasionally used his head to achieve greatness

119Pink part of a Mr. Potato Head set

Down

73 clues

1Caption below the first of two photos

2Opposite of exodus

3Dumbbell exercises

4Giant or dwarf

6Backs out, say

9What someone flat-footed lacks

10Like an honorable knight

11They might be on one's radar

13Porters, for example

14Race prior to a race?

15Fifth-year student leader at Hogwarts

17Fruit snack brand

23Again and again, in verse

24Over-the-top performers

28Item on a rack

32Mercedes alternative

34Idly doodling, maybe

37How the car in this puzzle's theme would be sold

38Blog feed letters

40Disrelishes and then some

42Linguistic suffix

45It has a rind but supposedly no rhyme

46Deliberately malicious

47Opposite of "You'll pay for that!"?

48God who aids the Trojan fleet in the first book of the "Aeneid"

50Long stories have them

53Runs out of gas

55Divinely elect

59California's Big ___

60Keeps in the loop, electronically

63Pioneering astronaut Jemison

64"The Good Wife" figure: Abbr.

67Declares off limits

68Fix a litter problem?

71Palm off (on)

75Hangs on a clothesline

77Isis Naija Gaston, ___ Ice Spice

78Madonna's "La ___ Bonita"

81Planned detour

83"Shark Tank" shark Greiner

84Horror franchise that includes 1992's "Army of Darkness"

85It all adds up to this

86"West Side Story" conflict

87Edmund who wrote "View From the Summit"

89"Now, wait just one minute!"

92Like cheesecake vis-à-vis sponge cake

93"That was a close one!"

94What wets the appetite?

96Penny pincher

99Intrinsically

101Jazz singer Carmen

103Part of a plot, at times

104The third one is dangerous

106Once-common fish in the Thames

107Veal cordon ___

111Inits. at sea

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Stats & info

Sunday, Aug 2, 2026

21×21

Grid size

140

Total entries

76/365

Black / letter cells

5.2

Avg entry length

14 ltrs

Longest entry

Themed

Sunday difficulty

PuzzleThe Crossword

PublishedAug 2, 2026

DaySunday

ThemeGoing for a Spin

ConstructorRalph Sharaga and Doug Peterson

EditorWill Shortz

Clue split67 across · 73 down

Longest entries

22A"For our ad, how should we list the car that we found in the ditch?"14 ltrs 110A"… and finally, the missing front tires?"14 ltrs 44A"… and that the tailpipe is dragging on the ground?"12 ltrs 82A"… and the broken door locks?"12 ltrs 67A"… and what about the leaky roof?"11 ltrs

Sunday is the big one, a 21 by 21 grid built around a named theme rather than raw difficulty. This grid has 76 black squares and averages 5.2 letters per entry.