Daily Puzzle Solution
NYT Crossword
Friday, June 5, 2026
The New York Times crossword puzzle for Friday, June 5, 2026 features 70 clues. Today's puzzle has an average answer length of 5.6 letters. The longest answer is "MAKEITMAKESENSE".
Total Clues
70
Longest
MAKEITMAKESENSE
Avg Length
5.6
Shortest
GRR
Featured Clue
""Can anyone explain this?!""
15 Letters
MAKEITMAKESENSE
ALLComplete Solution List
Adjusts, as text
6EMENDS
Get away
3GRR
Lecture setting
4DAIS
"Can anyone explain this?!"
15MAKEITMAKESENSE
"Let me try to explain ..."
15THEWAYILOOKATIT
Gal pal
3SIS
Appeal in defense
4PLEA
Coat on a tip?
6POLISH
Round striker
4PEEN
Where 22 Across is.
4HERE
Pilots' tools
6RADARS
Grocery stores
8PANTRIES
Seaweed-based gels
5AGARS
Strikes out on one's own
9FLIESSOLO
So-called "Champagne of Spain"
4CAVA
___ Hoffmann, 1981 Nobel Prize-winning chemist
5ROALD
Fuss
4STIR
Targets of some regulations
9EMISSIONS
Something a toddler might grow out of
5PHASE
Fuji, e.g.
8REDAPPLE
Energizes
6GOOSES
Something you can see right through
4IRIS
Not so rich, so to speak
4LITE
Remit, say
6MAILIN
New wave band with the 1979 album "Duty Now for the Future"
4DEVO
Destination
3AIM
Provide proactive help, in a way
15RUNINTERFERENCE
"Keep me out of it"
15IDONTWANTTOKNOW
Opposite of "stay silent"
4SING
__ y Plata (Montana's motto)
3ORO
Southwestern dwellings
6HOGANS
Triage pros
4EMTS
Dorado fish, informally
4MAHI
Scrapes (out)
4EKES
Just out
3NEW
Attire that may snap on
7DIAPERS
Does up, in a way
6STYLES
Big 'do
4GALA
Studio behind "Notorious" and "Nocturne"
3RKO
Came out of bankruptcy, say
8REOPENED
What might give a hand in a casino?
11DEALERSSHOE
Opposed
4ANTI
Deity with a temple in Pompeii
4ISIS
Actor Gilliam of "The Wire"
4SETH
Attitude
4MIEN
Some athleisure bottoms
6SKORTS
Modern water sport
11PARASAILING
Summons
5HAILS
500 competitor
5RACER
Top form
5AGAME
Biblical shepherd-turned-king
5DAVID
Kind of figure
5PLANE
I I I
5IOTAS
___ Neal, co-star of TV's "The Hughleys"
5ELISE
Painful spots
5SORES
People not to argue with, they say
5FOOLS
Forcibly halve
8RIPINTWO
Dash
6SPRINT
Small marsupial whose name is spelled using only the letters of TROP
7POTOROO
Biblical verb
6GIVETH
Blue side, with "the"
4LEFT
Med. diagnostics
4MRIS
Maker of the Q3
4AUDI
___ a Secret
4INON
Movie villain who is a member of SPECTRE
4DRNO
Pioneering civil rights activist ___ Arnold Hedgeman
4ANNA
Forbidden subject in Islamic art
4ICON
Row houses, to Brits
4MEWS
Canal entry
3EAR
Med. diagnostic
3EKG