Daily Puzzle Solution
NYT Crossword
Wednesday, July 22, 2026
The New York Times crossword puzzle for Wednesday, July 22, 2026 features 76 clues. Today's puzzle has an average answer length of 5.0 letters. The longest answer is "SPINTHEBOTTLE".
Total Clues
76
Longest
SPINTHEBOTTLE
Avg Length
5.0
Shortest
PRE
Featured Clue
"Risqué game that teenagers might give a whirl?"
13 Letters
SPINTHEBOTTLE
ALLComplete Solution List
Object of an extensive search
5GRAIL
Regional life forms
5BIOTA
Lead-in to destination and determination
3PRE
Cry after an accident
5OOPSY
Take over
5USURP
Deli supply
3LOX
With 60-Across, invitation to play 38-Down
11STEPRIGHTUP
Seller's bottom lines, for short?
3UPC
Mister
3SIR
Victorian or Edwardian
3ERA
Hmm, I'm thinking
7LETSSEE
Privy to
4INON
Qualified, say
4ABLE
Some STEM degrees
4PHDS
ACE, e.g.
5PILOT
Wild
4OATS
"You are correct about that"
4ITIS
Hawk's hook
5TALON
It doesn't include the Apocrypha
5CANON
Tall-eared cats from Devon or Cornwall
5REXES
It's a celebration
5PARTY
Toxin in castor beans
5RICIN
Surname that derives from the Sanskrit word for "lion"
5SINGH
Actor Eric of "Troy"
4BANA
Get in bad with?
4ABET
Raises the temperature of
5HEATS
Many a tech alum: Abbr.
4ENGR
Wood sculptor's tool
4RASP
Pop top
9BOTTLECAP
Organic chemistry experiment?
7HOTDATE
___ Maria, dark coffee liqueur
3TIA
Exec overseeing A.I. integration
3CIO
Annual video game competition, for short
3EVO
See 17-Across
11TRYYOURLUCK
___Misérables
3LES
Keep busy
5TIEUP
Israeli politician Dayan
5MOSHE
Some people doing residencies: Abbr.
3DRS
They're typical
5NORMS
Handful in a beer garden?
5STEIN
Spread dirt
6GOSSIP
Corkscrew-shaped pasta
6ROTINI
Orange-colored liqueur served in a namesake spritz
6APEROL
Means of making some connections, for short
3ISP
Relative of a harp
4LYRE
Pet peeves?
8BUGABOOS
Estimation suffix
3ISH
Power source
6OUTLET
"You are correct about that"
4TRUE
Calendar notation: Abbr.
4APPT
Prize dangling from a 38-Down booth
8PLUSHTOY
Voluntold, say
7ROPEDIN
More than necessary
6EXCESS
Something you might put stock in, for short
3IRA
Risqué game that teenagers might give a whirl?
13SPINTHEBOTTLE
Memory jogger
8NOTECARD
PC hookup
3LAN
Cab
4TAXI
Digitize, maybe
4SCAN
Dunham who wrote the memoir "Famesick"
4LENA
I'm so frustrated!
4ARGH
Carnival game depicted in this puzzle
8RINGTOSS
Brief bathroom breaks, slangily
8PITSTOPS
Trampled
7RANOVER
Habitat with a wet floor
3SEA
Eyeballed
6BEHELD
Ice cream eponym
6BREYER
Play the blame game with
6ACCUSE
Chinese martial art
6TAICHI
Not sung, say
6SPOKEN
More, musically
3PIU
Abbr. atop a memo
4ATTN
Charlie's Angels or the Chipmunks
4TRIO
Body parts linked in a square dance, maybe
4ARMS
Tasty
3YUM
Auction offering
3LOT