Daily Puzzle Solution
NYT Crossword
Friday, June 12, 2026
The New York Times crossword puzzle for Friday, June 12, 2026 features 70 clues. Today's puzzle has an average answer length of 5.4 letters. The longest answer is "GENETICLOTTERY".
Total Clues
70
Longest
GENETICLOTTERY
Avg Length
5.4
Shortest
COW
Featured Clue
"Inheritance source, for good or ill"
14 Letters
GENETICLOTTERY
ALLComplete Solution List
Get up
4DUDS
Exhibiting a green face, stereotypically
7SEASICK
Children's book title character in a green suit
5BABAR
Ambassador's aide
7ATTACHE
Inheritance source, for good or ill
14GENETICLOTTERY
"Red, the color of ___ / Black, the color of despair" ("Les Misérables" lyric)
6DESIRE
Prefix with present
4OMNI
Farm grazer
3COW
"Empire of the ___" (1977 sci-fi film with an approval rating of 5% on Rotten Tomatoes)
4ANTS
Velociraptor, e.g., informally
4DINO
___ asada
5CARNE
Followers of the guru Nanak
5SIKHS
Elate
4SEND
Some fragrant gifts
4LEIS
Half ass reply?
3HEE
Microscopic
4TINY
Weight
6IMPACT
Style with spotty coverage?
11POINTILLISM
Good market news
6UPTURN
Slip material
4SILK
Tally: Abbr.
3PTS
Ex-
4PAST
Big name in cups
4SOLO
Contents of a modern flood
5EMAIL
Lock
5TRESS
Some camera moves
4PANS
Commedia dell'___
4ARTE
Needing no script
3OTC
Deuce follower
4ADIN
That's good to hear
6IMGLAD
Home of the world's largest independently owned bookstore (spanning an entire city block)
14PORTLANDOREGON
Windflower
7ANEMONE
Play again.
5REAIR
Cone holders
7RETINAS
Cost of a hand
4ANTE
Pastry with Austrian origins, despite its name
6DANISH
Cab alternative
4UBER
Pass
5DATED
Sanskrit honorific
3SRI
Certain ladder climber
6SALMON
Collar
4ETON
Ghost story?
5ATTIC
Didn't play
3SAT
Place where customers get their licks in?
14ICECREAMPARLOR
Persistent
7CHRONIC
Home of the Ernest Hemingway House
7KEYWEST
Hidden gem
14BESTKEPTSECRET
One who might say "You wish!"
5GENIE
Site of America's first roller coaster
11CONEYISLAND
T, in Morse code
4DASH
____ it!
4ISNT
Locale for 11 Winter Olympics
4ALPS
Mix up
4STIR
Tzatziki ingredient
4DILL
Quality establishments?
4INNS
M. C.'s need.
4MIKE
Baseball trio.
4OUTS
Symbol of courage?
4LION
Satisfactory
7UPTOPAR
Epic beginning
7PARTONE
Saturn satellite
5TITAN
Runners carry it
4SLED
Puts in one's two cents
6OPINES
Smith who has won the Triple Crown of Acting
6MAGGIE
Do business
5SALON
Obstacle for Odysseus
5SIREN
___ Point, Calif.
4DANA
Central point
4MEAT
OMG, stop!
3TMI
Pray in Latin
3ORA