Daily Puzzle Solution
NYT Crossword
Monday, June 1, 2026
The New York Times crossword puzzle for Monday, June 1, 2026 features 71 clues. Today's puzzle has an average answer length of 4.8 letters. The longest answer is "CAMEOUTONTOP".
Total Clues
71
Longest
CAMEOUTONTOP
Avg Length
4.8
Shortest
JAM
Featured Clue
"Emerged victorious ... or what this puzzle's constructor did, as indicated by the shaded squares"
12 Letters
CAMEOUTONTOP
ALLComplete Solution List
Fruit preserves
3JAM
Bottled water brand
6DASANI
Status ___
3QUO
... long, long ___
3AGO
High school assessment scored from 1 to 5
6APEXAM
Address starting http://
3URL
Pearl or peridot
3GEM
Despise
6DETEST
Conclusion
3END
Quick punches
4JABS
"You," archaically
4THEE
One taking office dictation
5STENO
Blunder
5ERROR
Concert pianos
6GRANDS
Like haunted houses and lifelike dolls
6CREEPY
Sardine container
3TIN
Accede to an agreement without getting everything one wants
6SETTLE
__ Haw
3YEE
Dominican slugger Sammy
4SOSA
Coolness, in Gen Alpha slang
4AURA
Roosters' mates
4HENS
Nightmare scenario
8DYSTOPIA
Emerged victorious ... or what this puzzle's constructor did, as indicated by the shaded squares
12CAMEOUTONTOP
Smokey Robinson's record label
6MOTOWN
Capital of Oman
6MUSCAT
North Carolina university
4ELON
Leo XIV, for one
4POPE
Jingle or ditty
4TUNE
Filing job, for short?
4MANI
Touch
4ABUT
___ Menken, composer of "Little Shop of Horrors"
4ALAN
Poems of praise
4ODES
More than a few, but less than a lot
4SOME
A village in Wales has one with 58 letters — the world's longest
4NAME
It might read "Miss Universe"
4SASH
Burn the surface of
4SEAR
Curses!
4DRAT
Spree
3JAG
What the number of candles on a birthday cake signifies
3AGE
High-waisted fashion trend of the 1990s
8MOMJEANS
Physiques that aren't quite perfect
7DADBODS
Copies
4APES
Actor's workplace
3SET
Cut out
3AXE
Thomas ___, early political cartoonist and critic of Boss Tweed
4NAST
Sign me up!
7IMTHERE
Reality show starring the "Fab Five"
8QUEEREYE
Big coffee holder
3URN
Dated
3OLD
Newswoman Curry
3ANN
Before, to Shakespeare
3ERE
Certain members of a police dept.
4SGTS
Musical threesome
4TRIO
Go on before the main show, say
4OPEN
Liquors that go in Manhattans
4RYES
Superfan's ticket purchase
10SEASONPASS
It measures audience feedback
10CLAPOMETER
Ballerina's skirt
4TUTU
Gait faster than a walk
4TROT
Give a tut-tut, e.g.
8ADMONISH
Place to hang a fedora
8HATSTAND
Classic archery wood
3YEW
Shiba ___ (Japanese hunting dog)
3INU
Piña ___
6COLADA
Makes up for
6ATONES
Sight-related
6OCULAR
Southernmost country in Central America
6PANAMA
Short office messages
5MEMOS
Core belief
5TENET
Thin woodwind
4OBOE
Pouncing predator
4PUMA