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NYT Crossword
Sunday, March 8, 2026

The New York Times crossword puzzle for Sunday, March 8, 2026 features 145 clues. Today's puzzle has an average answer length of 5.2 letters. The longest answer is "INTERNATIONALWOMENSDAY".

Total Clues

145

Longest

INTERNATIONALWOMENSDAY

Avg Length

5.2

Shortest

LAM

Featured Clue

"March 8 observance connecting billions of people around the world ... including the 22 people whose names cross this answer"

22 Letters

INTERNATIONALWOMENSDAY

ALLComplete Solution List

Facing the pitcher

Some budget-friendly grocery stores

Minimalist swimwear

Mineral found in seaweed

Certain supervisor on a film set

Setting for "Gorillas in the Mist"

Spot for a grill

Rumor has it ...

Etta James record in the Grammy Hall of Fame

Fungal structure

Californie, par exemple

So-called "rooster sauce"

Fails ignominiously, in slang

Drag show accessories

__ Song: Taylor Swift hit

30 minutes to 3, in British English

Beethoven's ___ (the "Fate" Symphony)

Caitlin Clark's alma mater

__ tai: cocktail

What makes a dresser dressier?

"Je vous en ___" (French words of politeness)

Relay-race segment

"Vous êtes ___" (notation on a French map)

Not Dem. or Rep.

March 8 observance connecting billions of people around the world ... including the 22 people whose names cross this answer

22INTERNATIONALWOMENSDAY

Member of the fam

Like some humor

Style for Detroit's Fisher Building

Make out in Manchester

Backwoods refusal

Soft shoe, informally

Ephron who wrote "When Harry Met Sally"

Sch. in College Station, Tex.

It's dangerous to ride a bicycle with this

Reactor safety agcy.

Get one's feet wet

Become rich and successful, so to speak

Like raw footage vis-à-vis enhanced footage

Pronoun for most of the people in this puzzle

Ancient Greek instrument

Muppet who was once a regular guest on "The Rosie O'Donnell Show"

City of a Thousand Minarets

Used-up crayons

Big name in sparkling water

Kathmandu resident

Some paintings of water lilies at 116-Down

Role for Geena Davis in "A League of Their Own"

Verbally notify

Highly embellished

Poke fish, often

Feeling of distress

Cry from a dog walker

___ May, former British P.M.

Drama series co-starring Pamela Anderson

___ score (neonatal measure)

Predinner beverage

Show gratitude for service

Part of PIN: Abbr.

Photocopier function

Simple rebuttal

Makes a choice on Tinder, e.g.

Structure in a shipping container

First (and last) queen of Hawaii

Good thing for a suspect to have

Actress who portrayed Hermione Granger

Tubman of the Underground Railroad

Indigenous people of the Great Lakes

Sci-fi franchise that takes place in "the Grid"

2014 Peace Prize laureate Yousafzai

Green eggs' partner

Author who won a Pulitzer for "Beloved"

One-named singer of "Smooth Operator"

Sally with two Oscars

Mexican painter known for her self-portraits

Turner who was twice inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

Inventor and actress Lamarr

Tara of "Sharknado"

___ Spice, Grammy-nominated rapper

"R.I.P." singer Rita ___

Silent film star Talmadge

___ Stefani, lead vocalist for No Doubt

Celebrity chef Garten

Rae who co-created "Insecure"

Singer and civil rights activist Simone

Memoirist Anaïs who wrote "Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage"

Oscar winner Lupita

Groundbreaking Supreme Court justice appointed in 1981

Anna Howard ___, leader in the suffrage movement

Aussie greeting

Like some textiles.

Burnable storage unit, in brief

They can't be returned

As good as it gets

Skydiving requirement

Styx song that starts "Domo arigato"

Equips again, as a ship

Roggenbock, e.g.

Babe the Blue Ox, e.g.

Like zebras, but not tigers

Baseball announcer's update

In the manner of

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