Daily Puzzle Solution
NYT Crossword
Monday, June 8, 2026
The New York Times crossword puzzle for Monday, June 8, 2026 features 76 clues. Today's puzzle has an average answer length of 4.8 letters. The longest answer is "PARALLELPARKING".
Total Clues
76
Longest
PARALLELPARKING
Avg Length
4.8
Shortest
SEA
Featured Clue
"Challenge for student drivers [2]"
15 Letters
PARALLELPARKING
ALLComplete Solution List
Deer sir
4STAG
Free trial version
4DEMO
Caspian or Mediterranean
3SEA
Designer ___ Boss
4HUGO
Typographical embellishment
5SERIF
Go across
4SPAN
Su-u-ure
4IBET
Something green in a greenhouse
5PLANT
Half ___ (when the minute hand points down)
4PAST
Popular board game adapted from India [1]
9PARCHEESI
They quickly spread online
5MEMES
"Soldier, stop!"
4HALT
Page (through)
4LEAF
Challenge for student drivers [2]
15PARALLELPARKING
Metals in mines
4ORES
Actor Stonestreet of "Modern Family"
4ERIC
Apt zodiac sign for Bert Lahr, who played the Cowardly Lion
3LEO
Vitality
3PEP
Scoundrel's deeds
7KNAVERY
A pair.
3TWO
Card game whose name is something players cry
3UNO
Assistant
4AIDE
Anthropologist Margaret
4MEAD
Never stop having fun [3]
15PARTYPARTYPARTY
The night before Christmas
4TWAS
Word repeated in "___ ye, ___ ye!"
4HEAR
Cube maker Erno
5RUBIK
Of the highest importance ... or, when parsed differently, what each bracketed number in the clues indicates?
9PARAMOUNT
World's largest country with a four-letter name
4IRAN
Underpinning
5BASIS
Home of Columbus
4OHIO
A single time
4ONCE
Up in the air
5ALOFT
Zero
4NONE
What a shame
3TSK
Test the weight of
4HEFT
Backyard storage space
4SHED
Steamer or cruiser
4SHIP
Oom-pah instrument
4TUBA
Follower of New or teen
4AGER
Hidden snags
7GOTCHAS
Key to the right of "+" and "=" on a Mac keyboard
6DELETE
What Taylor Swift calls the stages of her career
4ERAS
5x5-square crossword
4MINI
Frequently, in poetry
3OFT
Email winnower
10SPAMFILTER
Effortlessness
4EASE
Tiny hill builders
4ANTS
Characterize
5SPELL
Orate
5SPEAK
Nickname akin to Harry
3HAL
Compassion
5MERCY
Den
4LAIR
Short-term kind of store
5POPUP
Sports locale
5ARENA
Give a debriefing (to)
10REPORTBACK
Prime use for a crowbar
5LEVER
Opposite of post-
3PRE
Starting to learn
5NEWAT
Oh boy!
5GOODY
Watercraft for an Inuit
5KAYAK
Small bites
4NIPS
Accessibility law inits.
3ADA
Leaves stranded
7MAROONS
Strong string
5TWINE
What misers take to an extreme
6THRIFT
Bread-maker's supply
5YEAST
___ Beesly, character who has the last line in the finale of "The Office"
3PAM
Civil uprising
4RIOT
Caterer's containers
4URNS
Whitish
4PALE
Starting, timewise
4ASOF
This looks like trouble
4UHOH
Number in a nonet
4NINE
Follower of pointy or pigeon
4TOED
Expression of contempt
3BAH