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NYT Crossword
Sunday, August 2, 2026

The New York Times crossword puzzle for Sunday, August 2, 2026 features 140 clues. Today's puzzle has an average answer length of 5.2 letters. The longest answer is "OFFROADVEHICLE".

Total Clues

140

Longest

OFFROADVEHICLE

Avg Length

5.2

Shortest

BIC

Featured Clue

"<i>"For our ad, how should we list the car that we found in the ditch?"</i>"

14 Letters

OFFROADVEHICLE

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Garment whose name is a homophone for a board game

Keywords accompanying a YouTube video, say

Listing of what's on tap

It's right around the present

Phone notifications

<i>"For our ad, how should we list the car that we found in the ditch?"</i>

14OFFROADVEHICLE

Massachusetts city named for a colonial patriot

Like phone numbers in infomercials

Rightmost word on the front of a penny

Their horns don't honk

Moccasin decoration

"Physics is like ___: Sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it" (quote attributed to Richard Feynman)

<i>"... and how do we add that it was just struck by lightning?"</i>

"You will be ___"

What's to be with Québec?

Focus of many a small private college

<i>"... and that the tailpipe is dragging on the ground?"</i>

19th-century school item

Emulates Cicero

Cover with a black rectangle, say

Useful pointers?

Tech models since 1998

Country with the all-time greatest number of medals at the Winter Olympics: Abbr.

Quickbeam and Leaflock, in fantasy

<i>"... and what about the leaky roof?"</i>

Point of intersection

Mideast language

Surprising result

Family nickname comparable to the Yiddish "bubbe"

Gains prominence

<i>"... and the broken door locks?"</i>

Big name in plastic

Rudimentary seeds

<i>"... and the defective speaker system?"</i>

Calling card, for short?

Safari destinations

Drink in a red, white and blue cup

Donahue on TV Guide's list of "50 Greatest TV Stars of All Time"

Yemeni neighbor

Old gridiron org. for the Boston Patriots

End of "Our Town" or "A Doll's House"

Spectacular flops

Upholsterer's sample

<i>"... and finally, the missing front tires?"</i>

14REARWHEELDRIVE

Capital of Zimbabwe

Pupil's surroundings

Like toms and drakes

U-Haul alternative

Legend who occasionally used his head to achieve greatness

Pink part of a Mr. Potato Head set

Caption below the first of two photos

Opposite of exodus

Dumbbell exercises

What someone flat-footed lacks

Like an honorable knight

They might be on one's radar

Porters, for example

Race prior to a race?

Fifth-year student leader at Hogwarts

Fruit snack brand

Again and again, in verse

Over-the-top performers

Mercedes alternative

Idly doodling, maybe

How the car in this puzzle's theme would be sold

Blog feed letters

Disrelishes and then some

Linguistic suffix

It has a rind but supposedly no rhyme

Deliberately malicious

Opposite of "You'll pay for that!"?

God who aids the Trojan fleet in the first book of the "Aeneid"

Long stories have them

Runs out of gas

California's Big __

Keeps in the loop, electronically

Pioneering astronaut Jemison

"The Good Wife" figure: Abbr.

Declares off-limits

Fix a litter problem?

Hangs on a clothesline

Isis Naija Gaston ___ Ice Spice

Madonna's "La ____ Bonita"

Shark Tank shark Greiner

Horror franchise that includes 1992's "Army of Darkness"

It all adds up to this

"West Side Story" conflict

Edmund who wrote "View From the Summit"

"Now, wait just one minute!"

Like cheesecake vis-à-vis sponge cake

That was a close one!

What wets the appetite?

Jazz singer Carmen

Part of a plot, at times

The third one is dangerous

Once-common fish in the Thames

Veal cordon ___

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