Daily Puzzle Solution
NYT Crossword
Friday, May 8, 2026
The New York Times crossword puzzle for Friday, May 8, 2026 features 70 clues. Today's puzzle has an average answer length of 5.5 letters. The longest answer is "SEXMANUALS".
Total Clues
70
Longest
SEXMANUALS
Avg Length
5.5
Shortest
PST
Featured Clue
"Books that go into intimate detail?"
10 Letters
SEXMANUALS
ALLComplete Solution List
Criticizes, in modern lingo
7HATESON
Unruffled
6ATEASE
Not to worry
8THERENOW
Chichi
6SWANKY
One away from one's duties?
8TAXEXILE
French exit
6SORTIE
Hollywood is on it: Abbr.
3PST
Secures, in a way
5MOORS
Flubs
5SLIPS
Create a crispy crust for, say
7PANSEAR
Coolers, for short
3ACS
Jeez!
5AWMAN
Touchy topic
8SORESPOT
One of two in Raphael's "Sistine Madonna"
6CHERUB
Cartoonist who popularized the Democratic donkey
4NAST
"Bad hair day" hair
3MOP
Address no longer than 18 minutes
7TEDTALK
Prepares for company, maybe
7NEATENS
Networking assets
3INS
Second City district, with "the"
4LOOP
Plumbing and welding, e.g.
6TRADES
Really nasty fall?
8ICESTORM
Date unlikely to be on a calendar
5TRYST
Mammoth's home, for short
3NHL
Where to go for a run
7SKIAREA
Peabody-winning journalist Steve
5KROFT
Many a Chilango
5SENOR
Formula 1 fig.
3KPH
"I'm this-a way!"
6YOOHOO
Great depression
8SINKHOLE
Would you look at the time!
6IMLATE
Scrumdiddlyumptious
8TODIEFOR
Like some interests and stocks
6VESTED
Feeds the kitty, say
7CATSITS
It's usually followed by an "s"
4HTTP
Indicators of awareness
4AHAS
Ding thing?
4TEXT
Bygone "before"
3ERE
Books that go into intimate detail?
10SEXMANUALS
It might bring you to tears
5ONION
Good riddance
6NOLOSS
Jerk
3ASS
All slam dunks
4TWOS
Accessory turned down on a cap
6EARLAP
Humor without a traditional punch line
10ANTICOMEDY
Create ripple effects, in a way
10SKIPSTONES
Scallops can have hundreds of tiny blue ones
4EYES
It's a date
6WEREON
It's a wrap
5SARAN
Hairstylist's concern
4PART
Go back to the beginning
5RESET
Whence the line "Beware the ides of March" in "Julius Caesar"
4ACTI
Comment from one who's going along
10WHENINROME
Where to see fresh coats of white?
10MEDSCHOOLS
First gear
10STARTERKIT
Rorschach patterns
5BLOTS
"I'm this-a way!"
4PSST
Goofballs
5KOOKS
___ Theatre, Atlanta art house named for a fictional estate
4TARA
White-collar figure
6PRIEST
Pointy-topped red-and-green headwear
6ELFHAT
Tuber that's the source of tapioca
6MANIOC
___ Rousey, first American woman to win an Olympic medal in judo
5RONDA
National capital that's home to Mykhailivska Square
4KYIV
Schlep
4TOTE
___ Annan, former U.N. secretary general
4KOFI
Something that's hatched
4PLOT
Half of some matching sets
4HERS
Work that traces the evolution of lang. over 1,000 years
3OED
"And ___ long gone when ___ next to me" (Taylor Swift lyric)
3HES