Daily Puzzle Solution
NYT Crossword
Monday, June 29, 2026
The New York Times crossword puzzle for Monday, June 29, 2026 features 76 clues. Today's puzzle has an average answer length of 4.9 letters. The longest answer is "INTELLIGENTGENT".
Total Clues
76
Longest
INTELLIGENTGENT
Avg Length
4.9
Shortest
DAY
Featured Clue
"Clever chap"
15 Letters
INTELLIGENTGENT
ALLComplete Solution List
Not true!
5FALSE
N.Y.C. club that hosted Blondie and the Ramones
4CBGB
Scram!
4SCAT
Clientele
5USERS
BTS fandom
4ARMY
Classic TV series with asterisks separating the letters of its name
4MASH
Screen addiction, e.g.
10DEVICEVICE
Canyon call back
4ECHO
Word after B or D
3DAY
Length x width, for a rectangle
4AREA
What food is at dinner
5EATEN
Where boxers trade jabs
12SPARRINGRING
Cocktail with gin and lime juice
6GIMLET
Word before cheese or uncle
3SAY
Hedonistic sort
4ROUE
Medium-spicy chili peppers
9JALAPENOS
Clever chap
15INTELLIGENTGENT
Driving slowly in the fast lane and "replying all" to a mass email, for two
9PETPEEVES
Vishnu avatar
4RAMA
Now ___ seen everything
3IVE
Snail's tentacle or butterfly's antenna
6FEELER
Nelson Mandela, Malala Yousafzai, Linus Pauling, Martin Luther King Jr. and so on
12NOBELISTLIST
Carne ___ (Mexican dish)
5ASADA
Uncle's wife
4AUNT
Long sandwich with cold cuts, maybe
3SUB
Bouquet holder
4VASE
"Meow, meow, meow!," e.g.
10FELINELINE
Similar (to)
4AKIN
Like a child in an amusement park
4AGOG
___, meenie, miney, mo
5EENIE
Young lady
4LASS
Author Morrison who is part of the 45-Across
4TONI
Puffs of perfume
5MISTS
Elmer who hunts wabbits
4FUDD
On the ocean
4ASEA
Impose, as a tax
4LEVY
___ Lanka
3SRI
Make a break from jail
6ESCAPE
Spelunker
5CAVER
Thorny patch
5BRIAR
Big inits. in pickup trucks and vans
3GMC
Ta-ta!
3BYE
Spread, as cream cheese
5SMEAR
Saguaros, e.g.
5CACTI
Pale
5ASHEN
Underwear that's barely there
5THONG
The "E" in Q.E.D.
4ERAT
Home to the Sphinx
5EGYPT
A quarter or more of one's life, typically
5SLEEP
Majorca and Minorca
5ISLES
Indian bread
4NAAN
Rubbery part of a handlebar
4GRIP
Actress Skye
4IONE
Mixed-breed dog
4MUTT
Talks in an unserious way
5JIVES
What wines and cheeses do over time
3AGE
Wading bird
5EGRET
Novelist Stephenson
4NEAL
My treat
4ONME
One of seven in the Big Dipper
4STAR
Woman's name meaning "night"
5LEILA
__ Strauss & Co.
4LEVI
"Adventures of Huckleberry ___"
4FINN
Regard
6ESTEEM
Like the force of an armada
5NAVAL
Home to Universal Studios Japan
5OSAKA
On a need-to-know __
5BASIS
Utopias
5EDENS
Claw
5TALON
One of the Super Mario brothers
5LUIGI
Pride and gluttony, for two
4SINS
Amount of work on a college transcript
4UNIT
Drones, e.g.
4BEES
What puts the sizzle in bacon
3FAT
Freudian "I"
3EGO
Floral necklace
3LEI