Daily Puzzle Solution
NYT Crossword
Saturday, August 1, 2026
The New York Times crossword puzzle for Saturday, August 1, 2026 features 70 clues. Today's puzzle has an average answer length of 5.6 letters. The longest answer is "DIADELOSMUERTOS".
Total Clues
70
Longest
DIADELOSMUERTOS
Avg Length
5.6
Shortest
DYE
Featured Clue
"Festival at the center of the classic novel "Under the Volcano""
15 Letters
DIADELOSMUERTOS
ALLComplete Solution List
Dis/cuss?
9TRASHTALK
Some radio messages, in brief
4APBS
Notions
10VAGUEIDEAS
So-called "Island of a Thousand Temples"
4BALI
Festival at the center of the classic novel "Under the Volcano"
15DIADELOSMUERTOS
Marching band?
4ANTS
21-time Emmy nominee for "All My Children"
10SUSANLUCCI
Add color to, perhaps
3DYE
Teensy amounts
5MITES
Unit on the autobahn, say: Abbr.
3KPH
Hwy. overseer, for short
3DOT
Wackadoodle
3NUT
Wear the same clothes, in slang
4TWIN
Wirelessly driven toy, for short
5RCCAR
Field whose prospects are looking up?
9ASTRONOMY
Like the 2003 Peace Nobelist Shirin Ebadi
7IRANIAN
Some prominent Mexico City murals
7RIVERAS
Rabelais character who, as a baby, was fed by 17,913 cows, "for it was impossible to find a nurse sufficient for him in all the country"
9GARGANTUA
Shoot!
5ASKME
Basilica setting for Bernini's Throne of Saint Peter
4APSE
Even so ...
3YET
C-section sections
3ORS
Menopause treatment option, in brief
3HRT
Full of hot gossip
5DISHY
Base unit
3COT
Incredible, in modern parlance
10AMAZEBALLS
Erin's onetime love interest on "The Office"
4GABE
Attire for a ceremony at Westminster Abbey
15CORONATIONROBES
Bearing
4MIEN
Fulfilled a business obligation
10METPAYROLL
What??
4ELSE
Upset tummy, medically speaking
9DYSPEPSIA
Frank Costanza or Morty Seinfeld, e.g.
5TVDAD
Precipitous
5RAINY
Source of some classic rock bands
5AGATE
Brewski
4SUDS
Part of a giggle
3HEE
Cheese named after a Prussian town near the Baltic coast
6TILSIT
Result of bad service, maybe
5ADOUT
Dials down
7LESSENS
Ancient text whose Sanskrit title means "Principles of Love"
9KAMASUTRA
Opposite of verbosity
10ABRUPTNESS
A little of this and that
9PATCHWORK
Group of like-minded individuals
4BLOC
Enthusiastic approval abroad
4SISI
Amar'e Stoudemire, for his first eight seasons in the N.B.A.
3SUN
Bugling game
3ELK
Durin's burial place in "The Lord of the Rings"
5MORIA
Red light district?
10DANGERZONE
Angular opening
3TRI
Divinely appointed successor of Muhammad, in Shia Islam
4IMAM
The Big Board of Wall St.
4NYSE
Capital on the mouth of the Daugava River
4RIGA
Losing roll
4CRAP
Alternatives to some rentals
9CARSHARES
Showed up earlier than
9ANTEDATED
Egg maker
5OVARY
Your choice
3ANY
Sewerage, for example
7UTILITY
Sassy response to a put-down
6OHSNAP
Pearl Jam's debut album, which went 13x platinum
3TEN
Dinners in sties
5SLOPS
Los ___ (Mexican tourist destination)
5CABOS
Manuscript marks
5OBELI
Unit equal to one weber per square meter
5TESLA
Fictional maker of Rocket-Powered Roller Skates and Dehydrated Boulders
4ACME
Participate in drudgery
4MOIL
Kapow!
3BAM
Snack in a sack in a backpack
4GORP
Deli selection
3RYE