Daily Puzzle Solution
NYT Crossword
Friday, July 31, 2026
The New York Times crossword puzzle for Friday, July 31, 2026 features 68 clues. Today's puzzle has an average answer length of 5.5 letters. The longest answer is "UPSANDDOWNS".
Total Clues
68
Longest
UPSANDDOWNS
Avg Length
5.5
Shortest
TAX
Featured Clue
"Twists of fate, say"
11 Letters
UPSANDDOWNS
ALLComplete Solution List
Withholding something?
3TAX
It'll pass
3FAD
Silent type
4MIME
Sex work?
9KAMASUTRA
Screen name
4IMAX
Tennis feat involving four consecutive major tournament wins in two calendar years
10SERENASLAM
Grime
4DIRT
Honey, for example
7PETNAME
Energy source for distance runners
3GEL
World Economic Forum, e.g., for short
3NGO
Tripping
5ONLSD
Style secured with a scrunchie
8PONYTAIL
Tobiko or masago
3ROE
Twists of fate, say
11UPSANDDOWNS
Pharyngitis docs
4ENTS
Exuding joy
9ALLSMILES
Went hell for leather
4TORE
Cry when shaking hands
4DEAL
This is too much!
9ICANTEVEN
Blind component
4SLAT
Wiseacre
11SMARTYPANTS
What a closed fist with an extended index finger represents, in A.S.L.
3ONE
Where to be above all the drama?
8OPERABOX
Pierre : French :: ___ : Russian
5PYOTR
Maryland governor Moore
3WES
Perspective, for short
3POV
Casual Friday option
7SNEAKER
Result of a shopping spree
4HAUL
Highly flexible discipline?
10AERIALYOGA
Brazilian state whose name is a unit of measurement
4ACRE
Relative of a tumbler
9TRAVELMUG
Cuisine with tom kha kai
4THAI
Business with lockers
3SPA
All good
3SET
Palm-sized pastry
7TARTLET
Assenting chorus
5AMENS
Shangri-la
6XANADU
Make one
4FUSE
Seat of Fulton County: Abbr.
3ATL
British counterpart to "Shark Tank"
10DRAGONSDEN
Just OK, in modern lingo
3MID
Mind blown
7IMINAWE
Part of Fermat's copy of "Arithmetica" where he wrote his Last Theorem
7MARGINS
Glorifies
6EXTOLS
INTO
6KEENON
Tech mogul Altman
3SAM
Change for a bill
9AMENDMENT
Reproductive part of a fern
5SPORE
Youngest Bennet sister in "Pride and Prejudice"
5LYDIA
Patrick, to SpongeBob
3PAL
Rings
5TOLLS
Venue for events that guests are always on board to attend?
9PARTYBOAT
Some all-nighters
10SLEEPOVERS
Yellow Submarine lead vocalist
5STARR
Ready to go
5ONTAP
Censure, in a way
7IMPEACH
Formal pause in a line of poetry
7CAESURA
Certain shot, colloquially
3VAX
Heads up!
7LOOKOUT
Insect product in the salad yum khai mod daeng
6ANTEGG
___ incognita
5TERRA
And...
6SOWHAT
Brief periods
6SPELLS
Self-congratulation
5YAYME
Hindu deity depicted with four arms
4SIVA
Denial in Aberdeen
3NAE
Chain that can symbolize friendship
3LEI
Genre for Logic
3RAP