Daily Puzzle Solution
NYT Crossword
Wednesday, June 3, 2026
The New York Times crossword puzzle for Wednesday, June 3, 2026 features 76 clues. Today's puzzle has an average answer length of 4.9 letters. The longest answer is "IMTOOOLDFORTHIS".
Total Clues
76
Longest
IMTOOOLDFORTHIS
Avg Length
4.9
Shortest
ITD
Featured Clue
"Lament while dealing with "kids these days""
15 Letters
IMTOOOLDFORTHIS
ALLComplete Solution List
Fancy seeing you here!
4OHHI
Wishy-washy words
4ORSO
Utah ski resort
4ALTA
Lowly sorts
5PEONS
Online "Yay!"
4WOOT
Pixar franchise in which buses and taxis exist, despite serving seemingly no purpose
4CARS
Lament while dealing with "kids these days"
15IMTOOOLDFORTHIS
Fish in a negitoro roll
4TUNA
Where "music and passion were always the fashion," in a Barry Manilow hit
7THECOPA
1990s feminist movement rooted in punk rock
9RIOTGRRRL
___ Rae Jepsen ("Call Me Maybe" singer)
5CARLY
___ be my pleasure
3ITD
Playroom pile
4TOYS
Capisce?
3SEE
___ Thai (noodle dish)
8PADSEEEW
Contents of la Seine
3EAU
Subtle acknowledgments
7SLYNODS
Disease for which China's Tu Youyou discovered a lifesaving treatment, earning her a Nobel Prize
7MALARIA
Knives Out co-star de Armas
3ANA
Research institute where radio astronomy began
8BELLLABS
Compound in a joint
3THC
Polite term of address
4MAAM
Workout unit, for short
3REP
"Hang loose" sign
5SHAKA
Where to find queens and kings
9CHESSSETS
As in chemistry?
7ARSENIC
Literary character who hopes to get whale soon?
4AHAB
Physical copy, colloquially
15DEADTREEEDITION
Othello villain
4IAGO
Rustic verse
4IDYL
Linda of the band 4 Non Blondes
5PERRY
___ mess (traditional English dessert)
4ETON
Pursue
4SEEK
Event captured in the photograph "Into the Jaws of Death"
4DDAY
Big name in nail polish
3OPI
Skirt's edge
3HEM
"Southern cough syrup"
8HOTTODDY
Two-way, as a door
5INOUT
Bird with "barn" and "barred" varieties
3OWL
Angler's stick
3ROD
On little cat feet, say
6SOFTLY
Then again ..., to a texter
4OTOH
"Don't look suspicious!"
9ACTCASUAL
Punjabi metropolis
6LAHORE
With 44-Down, many an EGOT contender ... or what's spelled out by this puzzle's shaded squares?
6TRIPLE
Give a makeup test?
5ASSAY
Dynasty after the T'ang
4SONG
Raft turner
3OAR
Suggestion, informally
3REC
Tears
4RIPS
Tilted type (abbr.)
4ITAL
Blvds. and rds.
4RTES
Use an 18-Down
3ROW
Animal whose crabeater variety does not, in fact, eat crabs
4SEAL
Enjoyed, as finger food
9SNACKEDON
Forever and a day
3EON
Cheese in the Czech dish smažený sýr
4EDAM
Without exception
3ALL
Product of the internet that might be "dank" or "deep-fried"
4MEME
Odd duck, aptly
8RAREBIRD
Yeah, right!
4IBET
Nile biters
4ASPS
Pshaw!
3BAH
See 11-Down
6THREAT
Tries
6HASAGO
Submit
6ACCEDE
Actress Sink of "Stranger Things"
5SADIE
Insect that has reportedly passed the "mirror test" of self-recognition
3ANT
Down in the dumps
3SAD
Pequod, e.g.
4SHIP
Overfilled
5SATED
Colored part of the 59-Down
4IRIS
See 56-Down
3EYE
Wanderer in a forest
3ELK
Singer Rita
3ORA
M.L.B. team for "Mr. October" and "Mr. November"
3NYY