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NYT Crossword — July 5, 2026

Sunday’s 21 × 21 puzzle, 136 clues. The full solution is below — answers stay masked until you reveal them, one clue or all at once.

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Across

53 clues

8Capital city on the Gulf of Guinea

13Gamer's pursuit

19Aid for a violin player

20Crocs and mocs

21Kind of costume that includes a round hat and kerchief

22{Elijah, Ruth, Natalie}

24"Send a quick reminder"

25"___ it and rip it!" (aggressive golfer's mantra)

26Org. for those leaving the workforce

27Product displays seen at entrances to store aisles

28{Kerouac, Dubya, Ginsberg}

36Org. that accepts returns

49Jewish mysticism, in one spelling

50Love, in Lima

51Card game whose name is shouted

52Knee part often torn by athletes, in brief

54Small test subjects

57Enforcer of traveling restrictions, informally?

60"The Second Coming" poet, 1919

62Ragú competitor

63The Shakespearean version of this has three quatrains followed by a couplet

66{Bonnie, Oscar, Clyde}

70Some salon tasks

71"Hammerin' Hank" of baseball

72Allow someone to pass

7530-ounce Starbucks size

78Old Testament patriarch

81Early email provider

82Rightmost hour on a grandfather clock

85Neighbor of an Estonian

86Evening that a couple spends together, say

88{Larry, Sue, Emma}

94Mexican mister

95Veer, as a ship

96Org. concerned with plants

97{Cinnabon, Kool-Aid, Hi-C}

107Powerhouse in English football

110Home to Waikiki Beach

111California's ___ Linda

113{Landfill, goose feathers, junkyard}

119Pay no mind to

120Longtime Tribeca restaurant where some say the Cosmopolitan was invented, with "the"

121Thousands of binary digits

122Was overflowing

123Van Halen of Van Halen

124Extended voyage

Down

83 clues

1Angel's ___ (distiller's term for the whiskey that evaporates during aging)

3Completely incompetent

4Time for Sat. prep?

6Suffix for superlatives

7Unspecified member of a series

11Lead-in to River or Rover

13Broadcaster of many an N.C.A.A. game

14Called for quiet

15Penny ___ (miser)

16Lingerie brand with a Slavic-sounding name

19Bygone N.Y.C. music venue with rhyming initials

23Wisconsin's ___ Claire

27Buddy of "The Beverly Hillbillies"

29Apt name for a conchologist?

31Yank's Civil War foe

32What has flatter feet?

33Achieve success, so to speak

34Chinese instrument with two strings

38Sound of an approaching subway train

39Start of a reminiscence

40Word with confidence or checkout

41Do some roadwork on

42Folk religion akin to voodoo

43Battered by battle

44Women's areas in old Muslim palaces

45Last stage of an insect's development

46"No way, no how!"

47Neurosurgeons, e.g.: Abbr.

48Metric unit of weight

55Figs. related to car loans

56Scottish hill

63Lead-in to sphere, in the atmosphere

64"Hey! I know the answer!"

65Atlantic crosser of 1492

67Sign outside a broadcast booth

68Wayne's buddy in "Wayne's World"

73Really weak, as an excuse

74Beats by ___ (audio brand)

75They might be up in arms, informally

76T. ___ Price (investment firm)

77"I bought this before ___ went crazy" (rueful bumper sticker on a Tesla)

78He was né Clay

79___ pork (dish in a Chinese restaurant)

83Tale of rustic life

84"Vidi," in Caesar's boast

87Satirist Freberg

89You won't actually die of it

90Rocks smelted to make steel

91Conflict sparked by an archduke's assassination: Abbr.

92San Francisco's ___ Valley

93Madrid's land, in the Olympics

98Like Olympic pools

99Like some cars parked next to "No Parking" signs

100Vietnam's capital

101Old-fashioned "your"

102Soldier for Attila

106Lip

107Settled down, in a way

109Kind of wave

113Last name for an unnamed person

115Ring result, in brief

116Secreted away

117Ron who played Tarzan

118Two in Tijuana

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Stats & info

Sunday, Jul 5, 2026

21×21

Grid size

136

Total entries

82/359

Black / letter cells

5.3

Avg entry length

20 ltrs

Longest entry

Themed

Sunday difficulty

PuzzleThe Crossword

PublishedJul 5, 2026

DaySunday

ThemeBoxed Sets

ConstructorRich Katz

EditorWill Shortz

Clue split53 across · 83 down

Longest entries

41A{WC, AC, DC}20 ltrs 88A{Larry, Sue, Emma}20 ltrs 28A{Kerouac, Dubya, Ginsberg}18 ltrs 97A{Cinnabon, Kool-Aid, Hi-C}18 ltrs 66A{Bonnie, Oscar, Clyde}17 ltrs

Sunday is the big one, a 21 by 21 grid built around a named theme rather than raw difficulty. This grid has 82 black squares and averages 5.3 letters per entry.