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NYT Crossword — July 6, 2026

Monday’s 15 × 15 puzzle, 74 clues. The full solution is below — answers stay masked until you reveal them, one clue or all at once.

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Across

35 clues

1Long, detailed tales

6Binds together

10Russia's Peter the Great, e.g.

14Hertz competitor

15Muppet with a noted feud with a pet rock

16Jane Austen title character

17Event that might include juggling, singing and magic tricks

19___ wave (summer phenomenon)

20Northern neighbor of Namibia

21Eat, as cattle might

22Serpent seen on a sarcophagus

24Looks of total confusion

27Calm, as a lake

29Bard of ___, nickname for Shakespeare

30Intellectual thoroughness

33Texter's "If you ask me …"

36Three-part fire safety technique

40Opposite of NNW

41Give the boot

42When farmers typically wake up

43Flatbread with a palindromic name

45Steve ___, 2003 N.F.L. M.V.P.-winning quarterback

462009 comedy about a bachelor party and its aftermath

51Golf ball holder

52Colorful glows

53Grapefruit relative

55Some urban pollution

56Sections of a choir .... as hinted at by this puzzle's circled letters

60It comes and goes each day

61"Frozen" princess

62Hall-of-Fame hoopster Thomas

63Where Eve reached for the forbidden fruit

64Grammy-winning singer Lisa

65Like the crying face emoji

Down

39 clues

2In the manner of

3Archipelago that helped shape Darwin's "On the Origin of Species"

5Nuthatch or nightingale

6Cybertruck maker

7___ Omar, first Somali American in Congress

8Angsty subculture

9Piglet's mother

10Capital city between Baghdad, Iraq, and Ashgabat, Turkmenistan

11Negative attack on a political opponent

12Knock the socks off

13Parking garage listing

18Relayed, as a story

211960s Pontiac muscle car

22Auto loan figs.

23Cuts open, as an envelope

26"Frozen" reindeer

28European capital that's home to the Little Mermaid statue

32Word after black or special

34Temporary suspensions

35Basic skateboarding jump

37Singer Chappell with the double-platinum album "The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess"

39Instrument played by a Muse

44Some small batteries

45Modern lead-in to coin or stock

46One of the five senses

47Like sticky summer weather

49Express one's thoughts

50Words of interest to a language learner, informally

54Operate on using a beam

57The Yoko of "Dear Yoko"

59Like a shrinking violet

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Stats & info

Monday, Jul 6, 2026

15×15

Grid size

74

Total entries

36/189

Black / letter cells

5.1

Avg entry length

15 ltrs

Longest entry

Easiest

Monday difficulty

PuzzleThe Crossword

PublishedJul 6, 2026

DayMonday

ThemeUntitled

ConstructorAlex Eaton-Salners

EditorWill Shortz

Clue split35 across · 39 down

Longest entries

36AThree-part fire safety technique15 ltrs 24ALooks of total confusion11 ltrs 46A2009 comedy about a bachelor party and its aftermath11 ltrs 17AEvent that might include juggling, singing and magic tricks10 ltrs 56ASections of a choir .... as hinted at by this puzzle's circled letters10 ltrs

Monday grids are the gentlest of the week: straightforward definitions, familiar fill and almost no wordplay. This grid has 36 black squares and averages 5.1 letters per entry.