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NYT Crossword — August 7, 2026

Friday’s 15 × 15 puzzle, 70 clues. The full solution is below — answers stay masked until you reveal them, one clue or all at once.

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33 clues

1What suggests that relief is at hand?

16Shankar who co-composed the score for 1982's "Gandhi"

17"Well, now everyone will know"

19Family nickname

20Spot for a light punishment

21Eponym of U.S. track and field's Male Athlete of the Year Award

22Member of the World Cup's "Tartan Army" fan base

23Acronymic weapon

25Tree whose name has multiple pronunciations

27Laugh, laugh, laugh

30Geneticist's finding

31Wasteful government spending, informally

32Big name in sandals

33"It's ___ or nothin'!" (classic kids' commercial slogan)

34Many of the characters in "Who Framed Roger Rabbit"

35Word with block or platform

38Elephant mascot of the Alabama Crimson Tide

41They may be covered

42Opportunity on Mars, say

43Piece of ice in the drink?

44Name of "the other reindeer" in a common Christmas mondegreen

46Waffle patterns

48Where baked Alaska is believed to have been invented, oddly enough: Abbr.

51Field you make tracks in

54Blue rasp-"brr!"-y treat?

55Flying nuisance

57What someone might get quickly around lunchtime

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2Cuisine with the #1 dish in a CNN "World's 50 Best Foods" poll

3Intruders in urban trash cans

4Ones who might cut the line, in brief?

5Ski slope vehicle

6Lose affection for

7Wiped out, in slang

9No-nos at some highway intersections

10Trap neighbor

11Relationship-defining question

12Bejeweled target of a heist in "Ocean's Twelve"

13McMullin of Utah politics

14Features of some early presidential portraits

22Films in which many stars might appear

25Competitor of Rao's

26One likely to be "healthy, wealthy and wise," per Benjamin Franklin

28Iris settings

30Bit of threaded hardware

31Attempt to seize control

38One dish commonly in the 12-dish Sviata Vecheria, a traditional Ukrainian Christmas dinner

40Faire ___ (get by with, in French)

43European fixture

45Title boy in a 2021 Pixar film

47Word that comes from Sanskrit for "bread"

48Score somewhat akin to an A-

49Flexible practice?

50Website associated with the domain www.news.com

53Fields Medal winner Terence

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Stats & info

Friday, Aug 7, 2026

15×15

Grid size

70

Total entries

30/195

Black / letter cells

5.6

Avg entry length

15 ltrs

Longest entry

Hard

Friday difficulty

PuzzleThe Crossword

PublishedAug 7, 2026

DayFriday

ThemeThemeless

ConstructorJesse Cohn

EditorWill Shortz

Clue split33 across · 37 down

Longest entries

17A"Well, now everyone will know"15 ltrs 51AField you make tracks in15 ltrs 11DRelationship-defining question11 ltrs 22DFilms in which many stars might appear11 ltrs 1AWhat suggests that relief is at hand?10 ltrs

Friday puzzles run themeless, so the fill leans on long open entries and wordplay clues rather than a central gimmick. This grid has 30 black squares and averages 5.6 letters per entry.