Daily Puzzle Solution
NYT Crossword
Sunday, June 14, 2026
The New York Times crossword puzzle for Sunday, June 14, 2026 features 134 clues. Today's puzzle has an average answer length of 5.5 letters. The longest answer is "SOPHPOOHPOOHSPOSHSHOP".
Total Clues
134
Longest
SOPHPOOHPOOHSPOSHSHOP
Avg Length
5.5
Shortest
DDT
Featured Clue
"<i>10th grader critiques swanky boutique?</i>"
21 Letters
SOPHPOOHPOOHSPOSHSHOP
ALLComplete Solution List
Many a listing on the Billboard Hot 100
6POPHIT
High noon face-offs
5DUELS
Sonata maker
7HYUNDAI
Backup squads
6BTEAMS
Asian rice porridge
6CONGEE
Measure of high resistance
7MEGAOHM
<i>10th grader critiques swanky boutique?</i>
21SOPHPOOHPOOHSPOSHSHOP
When doubled, a cry of approval
4HEAR
Souvenirs fired from hand-held cannons
4TEES
Pep rally yells
4RAHS
Inquires
4ASKS
"Hoo mama, that's hot!"
5YOWIE
Singer Lovato
4DEMI
Wrestling move named after a pesticide
3DDT
<i>Why Keanu is such a generous tipper?</i>
20REEVESREVERESSERVERS
Revenue-raising legislation
6TAXACT
The "Y" of Y.S.L.
4YVES
Bad thing to bring to bed, it's said
5PHONE
Rapper Kool Moe ___
3DEE
Bone doc
5ORTHO
Heartburn
5AGITA
Make out
7DISCERN
Needle holder?
3FIR
<i>1960s singer swindles Nashville awards?</i>
17MAMACASSSCAMSCMAS
Online euphemism for "killed" used to avoid demonetization
8UNALIVED
See ya
4TATA
Part between the shoulders
4LANE
Well-known song with a trilingual version in English, French and Inuktitut
7OCANADA
Come back in force
7RESURGE
Order to go
4SHOO
Actress ___ Lee Nolin of "Baywatch"
4GENA
No joke!
8TRUEFACT
<i>Scottish cryptid spotted by the French?</i>
17NESSIESEENINSEINE
Bad sound from a fan
3BOO
Bothered to no end
7EATENAT
Java tea
5PEKOE
Bygone retail giant
5KMART
Senatorial greeting
3AVE
Bathroom brand
5ORALB
1998 tech debut
4IMAC
Volcanic gems found on every continent
6AGATES
<i>Harsh taskmaster taken to task?</i>
20DERRIERERIDERDERIDED
Totally played out
3OLD
Alien leader?
4XENO
"... to hold, as ___, the mirror up to nature": Hamlet
5TWERE
Spot for a cooling pie
4SILL
^
4YUAN
Opening of le soliloque d'Hamlet
4ETRE
Innocent sort
4LAMB
What a modest play has in common with the answer to each italicized clue?
21SMALLCASTOFCHARACTERS
Appropriately misspelled genre for Korn and Limp Bizkit
7NUMETAL
Woo-hoo!
6HURRAY
Kid-friendly rocker?
6HORSIE
Oh, please!
7SPAREME
Pub quaff
5STOUT
Moving right along
6ANYHOW
Network supported by "Viewers Like You"
3PBS
Altho'
4OTOH
Cacio e ___ (Roman pasta dish)
4PEPE
Nervous agreement
8HAHAYEAH
Make-up artist?
11IMPROVCOMIC
General with a chicken dish named after him
3TSO
Goofball
4DOPE
Some, in Saltillo
4UNOS
"S.N.L." alum Nwodim
3EGO
Tom ___, "Poisoning Pigeons in the Park" satirist
6LEHRER
Tahini, essentially
11SESAMEPASTE
Certain open enrollment options, for short
4HMOS
"Roundabout" rock band, 1971
3YES
Gross!
3UGH
Onetime stargazer's education channel
6NASATV
Cries of self-described "idiots"
4DOHS
NOW I get it!
4AHOK
Fireball-throwing demons from Doom
4IMPS
In good spirits
6CHEERY
Name in many skyscrapers
4OTIS
Jam band with a Ben & Jerry's flavor
5PHISH
___ paint (sign tragically noticed after sitting on a park bench)
3WET
End of a redundant legal doublet
6DESIST
*Jorts material
5DENIM
Kind of code
5DRESS
___ to go
5RARIN
Face in the crowd, say
5EXTRA
Emergency removal, in brief
4EVAC
Light in the night sky also known as Alpha Lyrae
4VEGA
Whiskey mixer
4soda
Altitude sickness side effect
5EDEMA
Returned to air, as an old pilot, perhaps
5RERAN
Have an inkling
5SENSE
Cousin of tempeh and seitan
4TOFU
Powerful Romanov
4TSAR
Viola score symbol
5CCLEF
Actress Gardner
3AVA
Chess pieces
3MEN
"Absence makes the heart grow fonder" or "Out of sight, out of mind"
5ADAGE
Social class
5CASTE
Unpacked, say
5LOOSE
"Let's just stay calm"
11DEEPBREATHS
2023 Nobel-winning physicist L'Huillier
4ANNE
Spoon bender Geller debunked on "The Tonight Show"
3URI
Shout in a slasher film
3RUN
Female-friendly fandom event
11GEEKGIRLCON
Sam who putted croquet style until the U.S.G.A. banned it
5SNEAD
Catapult
5HEAVE
Kitchen brand
5OSTER
Martial art mastered by Steven Seagal
6AIKIDO
Taper?
5ABATE
Empty inside
5CORED
Tater
4TOTS
How sun-dried tomatoes are packed
5INOIL
__ Dog
5EARED
__ Dog
4STAR
Town, cape or river of western Alaska
4NOME
Scorch
4SEAR
Lunged for
8MADEATRY
"The Relentless Pursuit of Perfection" automaker
5LEXUS
It can carry a tune
6CDTRAY
Modern {/art/}?
3ARE
Word after high or holy
6ROLLER
Fast-food chain whose name has two hyphens
6INNOUT
Washstand item
4EWER
Old Medicare IDs
4SSNS
Sleepy murmur
4IMUP
Spiritual teacher in Tibet
4LAMA
Rory's school on "Gilmore Girls"
4YALE
Shade in the desert
4ECRU
Remains to be seen?
4THAT
Clubber's tank top material
4MESH
Verve
4BRIO
4G letters
3LTE
QB Ward or Newton
3CAM
To's opposite
3FRO
Band with the 1980s multi-octave "Take On Me"
3AHA
Move the needle?
3SEW