Daily Puzzle Solution
NYT Crossword
Sunday, June 7, 2026
The New York Times crossword puzzle for Sunday, June 7, 2026 features 128 clues. Today's puzzle has an average answer length of 5.7 letters. The longest answer is "GATECHANGE/LICENSURE".
Total Clues
128
Longest
GATECHANGE/LICENSURE
Avg Length
5.7
Shortest
AHA
Featured Clue
"<b>& 23 & 24</b> Airport announcement / Requirement to practice, perhaps"
20 Letters
GATECHANGE/LICENSURE
ALLComplete Solution List
Stiff
5RIGID
___ Waller-Bridge, star and creator of TV's "Fleabag"
6PHOEBE
Ball pit?
6SOCKET
Loves to pieces
6ADORES
Excoriates
7RAILSAT
Drink following a shot
6CHASER
<b>& 23 & 24</b> Airport announcement / Requirement to practice, perhaps
20GATECHANGE/LICENSURE
Breakthrough cry
3AHA
North African fortress, in one spelling
6KASBAH
America's largest labor union, familiarly
6THENEA
<b>& 32 & 35</b> "Now, here's the thing ..." / Some board game surfaces
20SOLISTEN/CHESSTABLES
Long instrumental piece
6SONATA
Former alliance of France, Italy, Japan, the U.S., the U.K. and West Germany
4GSIX
Snuggle
8NESTLEUP
Slugger's tally
6ATBATS
Letters aptly missing from _ _ _ightl_
4SPRY
Website for finding professional services
4ANGI
<b>& 50 & 54</b> Serious props / Had an evening meal
20MADRESPECT/ATEDINNER
Free of bumps
6SMOOTH
Not exactly
3ISH
Philippe's head
4TETE
Bit of "Great British Baking Show" fare
5SCONE
Some animation files
4GIFS
Eighth Avenue express line in N.Y.C.
6ATRAIN
Did some housekeeping
7CLEANED
Amount that "ain't bad," so to speak ... or what to make with six sets of answers in this puzzle?
13TWOOUTOFTHREE
Creative evaluation of a sort
7ARTTEST
Some eels
6MORAYS
Manufacturer's gross product?
4SMOG
Worries
5CARES
Bevy : quails :: mob : ___
4EMUS
Relieve (of)
3RID
Feature of an intersection that forces a turn
6TSHAPE
<b>& 88 & 91</b> Syntax-reversing rhetorical device / Small, peelable citrus fruits
20CHIASMUS/CLEMENTINES
Taylor Swift's ___ Tour
4ERAS
Out of the ordinary
4RARE
Resident of the so-called "Nation of Poets"
6SOMALI
Early Google algorithm for determining the importance of websites
8PAGERANK
Performs a simple operation
4ADDS
Why you little!
6SONOFA
<b>& 106 & 108</b> "No need to hurry" / Like some security measures
20THERESTIME/ANTITHEFT
Enter hurriedly
6RUSHIN
Chest beaters
6HEARTS
Business address abbr.
3STE
<b>& 118 & 121</b> Didn't quite fit in, say / Not as frequently
20WASABITODD/LESSOFTEN
Upper-crusters
6ELITES
What wristwatch straps are designed to accommodate
7ANYSIZE
Homes characterized by half-timbered walls
6TUDORS
Fine, if not great
6DECENT
Flexibility
6LEEWAY
Not in vogue
5PASSE
Pieces of Indian music
5RAGAS
Tubers from the Gem State
6IDAHOS
Laid eyes on but good
10GOTALOADOF
Country whose flag is known as "An Trídhathach" ("The Tricolor"): Abbr.
3IRE
Deal with it
4DECK
Type of Thai red curry
6PANANG
Lofty pitches
6HIGHCS
Corrida cry
3OLE
Class for immigrants, in brief
3ESL
Tries to rile, as on social media
5BAITS
Leave one's mark, say
4ETCH
Scratch-and-sniff samples
6SCENTS
How interesting...
6OHNEAT
Classic film said to be the most quotable movie of all time
10CASABLANCA
The Wildcats of the Big 12 Conf.
3KSU
Sonnet adverb ... or suffix?
3EER
Green Day drummer ___ Cool
3TRE
Soda brand named for a volcano
6SHASTA
Broccoli __
4RABE
Facts and figures
5STATS
Suffix with Brooklyn
3ESE
Phrases preceding lyrics
6INTROS
Basic school subj.
4HIST
Like about 88% of the U.A.E.'s residents
5EXPAT
Musician who said "Reality leaves a lot to the imagination"
6LENNON
The eldest Levy of "Schitt's Creek"
6EUGENE
Like many cathedrals
6SPIRED
Help in a pinch?
4ABET
Ural demurral
4NYET
Vice President Agnew
5SPIRO
This is the way: Abbr.
3RTE
Seasoning that imparts umami flavor, for short
3MSG
___ dreaming?
3AMI
Red-haired hunter in Genesis
4ESAU
Record of money owed
4CHIT
Condemn
5DECRY
Response of comprehension
4ISEE
Hems and ___
4HAWS
Object of spiritual significance
5TOTEM
Award opportunity, in brief
3NOM
Out of fear that
4LEST
Thomas Hardy's titular Miss Durbeyfield
4TESS
Swinger's warning
4FORE
Shorten
4TRIM
Underworld boss?
5HADES
Confirm, as a friend request
6ACCEPT
Enthusiastic
6RAHRAH
First responder's first response
6TRIAGE
Initially offered lesser charge
10TEASERRATE
Union victory site of 1862
6SHILOH
The Declaration of Independence and the like
10MANIFESTOS
Expose, in verse
3OPE
Some microwaves, in brief
3GES
Gloom
4MURK
2028 Summer Olympics host
3USA
Beat it
5SCRAM
Third-most-common suffix in country names, after -ia and -land
4STAN
Journalist's opening line
4LEDE
Polite refusal
5NOSIR
Thoroughfare through N.Y.C.'s Chinatown
6MOTTST
Sandwich with sauerkraut
6REUBEN
Pass before a basket, e.g.
6ASSIST
Of an unspecified position in a sequence
3NTH
National flower of Mexico
6DAHLIA
One of The Seven Dwarfs
6SNEEZY
Dessert, to Brits
6AFTERS
Combined
5INONE
Subdue by stunning
4TASE
Needing kneading, perhaps
5TENSE
Leaning type: Abbr.
4ITAL
Counterpart to nuts
4SOUP
Brought together
3WED
Kölsch or saison
3ALE
[Not my misspelling!]
3SIC
The banned ingredient Red No. 3, e.g.
3DYE
Big retail inits. in footwear
3DSW
Org. banning 119-Down
3FDA