Daily Puzzle Solution
NYT Crossword
Sunday, July 5, 2026
The New York Times crossword puzzle for Sunday, July 5, 2026 features 136 clues. Today's puzzle has an average answer length of 5.3 letters. The longest answer is "POWERBEHINDTHETHRONE".
Total Clues
136
Longest
POWERBEHINDTHETHRONE
Avg Length
5.3
Shortest
IRS
Featured Clue
"{WC, AC, DC}"
20 Letters
POWERBEHINDTHETHRONE
ALLComplete Solution List
Firm up
7STIFFEN
Capital city on the Gulf of Guinea
5ACCRA
Gamer's pursuit
6ESPORT
Aid for a violin player
8CHINREST
Crocs and mocs
5SHOES
Kind of costume that includes a round hat and kerchief
6SAILOR
{Elijah, Ruth, Natalie}
14BABEINTHEWOODS
"Send a quick reminder"
6PINGME
"___ it and rip it!" (aggressive golfer's mantra)
4GRIP
Org. for those leaving the workforce
4AARP
Product displays seen at entrances to store aisles
7ENDCAPS
{Kerouac, Dubya, Ginsberg}
18BEATSAROUNDTHEBUSH
Colored
4HUED
Org. that accepts returns
3IRS
Grinders
5HEROS
{WC, AC, DC}
20POWERBEHINDTHETHRONE
Jewish mysticism, in one spelling
6KABALA
Love, in Lima
4AMOR
Card game whose name is shouted
3UNO
Knee part often torn by athletes, in brief
3ACL
At any time
4EVER
Small test subjects
7LABRATS
Enforcer of traveling restrictions, informally?
6NBAREF
"The Second Coming" poet, 1919
5YEATS
Ragú competitor
5PREGO
The Shakespearean version of this has three quatrains followed by a couplet
6SONNET
{Bonnie, Oscar, Clyde}
17HONORAMONGTHIEVES
Some salon tasks
6RINSES
Hammerin' Hank of baseball
5AARON
Allow someone to pass
5YIELD
30-ounce Starbucks size
6TRENTA
Old Testament patriarch
7ABRAHAM
Close by
4NEAR
Early email provider
3AOL
Rightmost hour on a grandfather clock
3III
Neighbor of an Estonian
4LETT
Evening that a couple spends together, say
6USTIME
{Larry, Sue, Emma}
20TWOBIRDSWITHONESTONE
Mexican mister
5SENOR
Veer, as a ship
3YAW
Org. concerned with plants
4OSHA
{Cinnabon, Kool-Aid, Hi-C}
18ROLLWITHTHEPUNCHES
Powerhouse in English football
7ARSENAL
Home to Waikiki Beach
4OAHU
California's ___ Linda
4LOMA
Rested atop
6LAIDON
{Landfill, goose feathers, junkyard}
14DOWNINTHEDUMPS
Pay no mind to
6IGNORE
Longtime Tribeca restaurant where some say the Cosmopolitan was invented, with "the"
5ODEON
Thousands of binary digits
8KILOBITS
Was overflowing
6TEEMED
Van Halen of Van Halen
5EDDIE
Extended voyage
7ODYSSEY
Angel's ___ (distiller's term for the whiskey that evaporates during aging)
5SHARE
Shinbone
5TIBIA
Completely incompetent
5INEPT
Time for Sat. prep?
3FRI
Marshland
3FEN
Suffix for superlatives
3EST
Unspecified member of a series
3NTH
Nile dam
5ASWAN
Triad, e.g.
5CHORD
Assume
5COOPT
Lead-in to River or Rover
3RED
Dummkopf
3ASS
Broadcaster of many an N.C.A.A. game
5ESPNU
Called for quiet
7SAIDSHH
Penny ___ (miser)
7PINCHER
Lingerie brand with a Slavic-sounding name
4OLGA
Fun time
4ROMP
Bon ____
4TRES
Bygone N.Y.C. music venue with rhyming initials
4CBGB
Wisconsin's ___ Claire
3EAU
Buddy of "The Beverly Hillbillies"
5EBSEN
Apt name for a conchologist?
4SHEL
Ear-related
5AURAL
Yank's Civil War foe
3REB
What has flatter feet?
3ODE
Achieve success, so to speak
3HIT
Chinese instrument with two strings
4ERHU
Sound of an approaching subway train
4ROAR
Start of a reminiscence
4ONCE
Word with confidence or checkout
4SELF
Do some roadwork on
4PAVE
Folk religion akin to voodoo
5OBEAH
Battered by battle
7WARTORN
Women's areas in old Muslim palaces
6HAREMS
Last stage of an insect's development
5IMAGO
No way, no how!
9NOTONABET
Neurosurgeons, e.g.: Abbr.
3DRS
Metric unit of weight.
5TONNE
Map legend
3KEY
Figs. related to car loans
4APRS
Scottish hill
4BRAE
Big bunch
4BEVY
Eroded
7ATEINTO
Pouty mood
4SNIT
Lead-in to sphere, in the atmosphere
6STRATO
"Hey! I know the answer!"
4OHOH
Atlantic crosser of 1492
4NINA
Sign outside a broadcast booth
5ONAIR
Wayne's buddy in "Wayne's World"
5GARTH
Admit
5SEEIN
Really weak, as an excuse
4LAME
Beats by ___ (audio brand)
3DRE
They might be up in arms, informally
4TATS
T. ___ Price (investment firm)
4ROWE
"I bought this before ___ went crazy" (rueful bumper sticker on a Tesla)
4ELON
He was né Clay
3ALI
___ pork (dish in a Chinese restaurant)
5MUSHU
Tale of rustic life
5IDYLL
Vidi, in Caesar's boast
4ISAW
Satirist Freberg
4STAN
You won't actually die of it
7BOREDOM
Rocks smelted to make steel
7IRONORE
Conflict sparked by an archduke's assassination: Abbr.
3WWI
San Francisco's ___ Valley
3NOE
Madrid's land, in the Olympics
3ESP
Like Olympic pools
5LANED
Like some cars parked next to "No Parking" signs
5TOWED
Vietnam's capital
5HANOI
Old-fashioned "your"
5THINE
Soldier for Attila
3HUN
Black suit
5CLUBS
Good pal
5HOMIE
Out of gas
5EMPTY
Lip
4SASS
Settled down, in a way
4ALIT
All the ___
4RAGE
Kind of wave
4SINE
Last name for an unnamed person
3DOE
Curious
3ODD
Ring result, in brief
3TKO
Secreted away
3HID
Ron who played Tarzan
3ELY
Two, in Tijuana
3DOS