Daily Puzzle Solution
NYT Crossword
Friday, June 26, 2026
The New York Times crossword puzzle for Friday, June 26, 2026 features 70 clues. Today's puzzle has an average answer length of 5.4 letters. The longest answer is "EXTRALARGEPIZZA".
Total Clues
70
Longest
EXTRALARGEPIZZA
Avg Length
5.4
Shortest
BRB
Featured Clue
"Biggest restaurant size that nevertheless is often topped?"
15 Letters
EXTRALARGEPIZZA
ALLComplete Solution List
Hectic time for JFK
4XMAS
Bar of note?
4FRET
Texter's "Hang on a sec"
3BRB
Tightfisted sort
5MISER
Took an Uber, say
4RODE
Top banana
4CZAR
Biggest restaurant size that nevertheless is often topped?
15EXTRALARGEPIZZA
Logic gate that is only on when neither input is
3NOR
Like many films in teaser trailers
11NOTYETRATED
Spanish "both"
6LOSDOS
Top banana, for short
3CEO
Ocean-mapping instruments
6SONARS
Upper limit that cannot be exceeded
7HARDCAP
Torment
5AGONY
Symbol in the Kentucky Derby logo
4ROSE
Jazz singer, Anita
4ODAY
Holders of nets
4RIMS
Schlepped
5TOTED
SCOTUS head count
4NINE
Got it!
4ISEE
Those for
4AYES
Sing like Sinatra
5CROON
Mickey Mouse
7TRIVIAL
Jewelry fasteners
6CLASPS
Will
3ILL
Slangy response to a knock at the door
6WHODAT
Onetime rap group whose initials spell out a synonym for "Jump Around," appropriately
11HOUSEOFPAIN
Unresponsive, maybe, for short
3MIA
Current affairs
15ELECTRODYNAMICS
Polite request
4MAYI
Public transport option
4TRAM
Popular toys, in a plural form officially discouraged by their maker
5LEGOS
___ admin (I.T. role)
3SYS
"Look, here's the deal ..."
4OKSO
Refuses to
4WONT
Group of mutants
4XMEN
Expert on cosmos?
10MIXOLOGIST
Expert on the cosmos
10ASTRONOMER
To be, in Tijuana
3SER
Goals for those in a rush, informally
5FRATS
Golf great McIlroy
4RORY
Unlikely scenarios, in techspeak
9EDGECASES
Vacillated
8TEETERED
Wrong
4BZZT
Level
4RAZE
Two-pronged fastener
4BRAD
Was used up
6RANDRY
Stan's workplace on "American Dad!," for short
3CIA
Places to go in the U.K.
4LOOS
Spur
4PROD
Third-generation Japanese-American
6SANSEI
Draped garment
4SARI
Resting place
5HOTEL
Pulitzer-winning poet Aiken
6CONRAD
Later, dude!
10ADIOSAMIGO
Prison design that allows one guard to keep watch on all the inmates
10PANOPTICON
Chess tactic in which the king and queen are attacked simultaneously by a single piece
9ROYALFORK
Itches
4YENS
Personalize for
8TAILORTO
Like offspring in a strictly asexual lineage
6CLONAL
___ Nam
4VIET
Likely contact point of an uppercut
4CHIN
Self-driving car company started by Google
5WAYMO
Closes in
4HEMS
Big name in skin care
4OLAY
Some missed-exit maneuvers, informally
4UEYS
Poli-___ (certain college major, for short)
3SCI
Smartphone predecessors, for short
4PDAS
Second: Abbr.
4ASST
Copy cats?
3MEW