Daily Puzzle Solution
NYT Crossword
Monday, July 6, 2026
The New York Times crossword puzzle for Monday, July 6, 2026 features 74 clues. Today's puzzle has an average answer length of 5.1 letters. The longest answer is "STOPDROPANDROLL".
Total Clues
74
Longest
STOPDROPANDROLL
Avg Length
5.1
Shortest
ASP
Featured Clue
"Three-part fire safety technique"
15 Letters
STOPDROPANDROLL
ALLComplete Solution List
Long, detailed tales
5SAGAS
Binds together
4TIES
Russia's Peter the Great, e.g.
4TSAR
Hertz competitor
5ALAMO
Muppet with a noted feud with a pet rock
4ELMO
Jane Austen title character
4EMMA
Event that might include juggling, singing and magic tricks
10TALENTSHOW
___ wave (summer phenomenon)
4HEAT
Northern neighbor of Namibia
6ANGOLA
Eat, as cattle might
5GRAZE
Serpent seen on a sarcophagus
3ASP
Looks of total confusion
11BLANKSTARES
Calm, as a lake
6PLACID
Bard of ___, nickname for Shakespeare
4AVON
Intellectual thoroughness
5RIGOR
Olden days
4YORE
Texter's "If you ask me ..."
3IMO
Three-part fire safety technique
15STOPDROPANDROLL
Opposite of NNW
3SSE
Give the boot
4OUST
When farmers typically wake up
5EARLY
Flatbread with a palindromic name
4NAAN
Steve ___, 2003 N.F.L. M.V.P.-winning quarterback
6MCNAIR
2009 comedy about a bachelor party and its aftermath
11THEHANGOVER
Golf ball holder
3TEE
Colorful glows
5AURAS
Grapefruit relative
6POMELO
Some urban pollution
4SMOG
Sections of a choir .... as hinted at by this puzzle's circled letters
10VOICEPARTS
It comes and goes each day
4TIDE
Frozen princess
4ANNA
Hall-of-Fame hoopster Thomas
5ISIAH
Where Eve reached for the forbidden fruit
4EDEN
Grammy-winning singer Lisa
4LOEB
Like the crying face emoji
5TEARY
Used a chair
3SAT
In the manner of
3ALA
Archipelago that helped shape Darwin's "On the Origin of Species"
9GALAPAGOS
Prayer ender
4AMEN
Nuthatch or nightingale
8SONGBIRD
Cybertruck maker
5TESLA
___ Omar, first Somali American in Congress
5ILHAN
Angsty subculture
3EMO
Piglet's mother
3SOW
Capital city between Baghdad, Iraq, and Ashgabat, Turkmenistan
10TEHRANIRAN
Negative attack on a political opponent
5SMEAR
Knock the socks off
5AMAZE
Parking garage listing
5RATES
Relayed, as a story
4TOLD
1960's Pontiac muscle car
3GTO
Auto loan figs.
4APRS
Cuts open, as an envelope
5SLITS
24-__ gold
5KARAT
Frozen reindeer
4SVEN
European capital that's home to the Little Mermaid statue
10COPENHAGEN
Offspring
5YOUNG
Word after "black" or "special"
3OPS
Temporary suspensions
9MORATORIA
Basic skateboarding jump
5OLLIE
Singer Chappell with the double-platinum album "The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess"
4ROAN
Dilapidated
8DECREPIT
Instrument played by a Muse
4LYRE
Some small batteries
3AAS
Modern lead-in to coin or stock
4MEME
One of the five senses
5TASTE
Like sticky summer weather
5HUMID
Wash away
5ERODE
Express one's thoughts
5OPINE
Words of interest to a language learner, informally
5VOCAB
Operate on using a beam
4LASE
Actor Kilmer
3VAL
The Yoko of "Dear Yoko"
3ONO
Paver's goop
3TAR
Like a shrinking violet
3SHY