Daily Puzzle Solution
NYT Crossword
Tuesday, August 4, 2026
The New York Times crossword puzzle for Tuesday, August 4, 2026 features 76 clues. Today's puzzle has an average answer length of 4.8 letters. The longest answer is "DELHIPLATTERS".
Total Clues
76
Longest
DELHIPLATTERS
Avg Length
4.8
Shortest
SKA
Featured Clue
"Wedding feast delivery from India's capital?"
13 Letters
DELHIPLATTERS
ALLComplete Solution List
"Handy" kitchen item
4MITT
Smears with goo
6SLIMES
Music genre with offbeat rhythms
3SKA
So-called "servebot" in tennis, essentially
4ACER
Action on the front lines
6COMBAT
Hunk of cash
3WAD
Words uttered while sorting potential gowns for an Indian wedding?
11SARINOTSARI
Word aptly hidden in "moldy"
3OLD
Some marksmen
7SNIPERS
Stringed instruments of old
5LYRES
Inc. alternative
3LLC
Kind of whale
6BALEEN
Wedding feast delivery from India's capital?
13DELHIPLATTERS
Unwelcome responsibility
4ONUS
Rawboned
5GAUNT
"Deadline" for a rush order
3NOW
Bit of tailoring
3HEM
Writer Rand
3AYN
Great Leap Forward leader
3MAO
Longoria with three Screen Actors Guild awards
3EVA
Celestial sphere
3ORB
Hold power, as a ruler
5REIGN
You said it!
4AMEN
Tying the knot during a colorful Hindu festival?
13HOLIMATRIMONY
One who makes a lasting impression while just scratching the surface
6ETCHER
Part of NATO (abbr.)
3ORG
When repeated, "You get the gist"
5YADDA
Enter furtively
7CREEPIN
Mysterious sight at night
3UFO
"Esteemed reception guests, we regret to report that we've run out of flatbread," e.g.?
11NAANAPOLOGY
Scratch the surface of, say
3MAR
Like the physicist Niels Bohr and the astronomer Tycho Brahe
6DANISH
Stock market unveilings, for short
4IPOS
You done?
3ARE
Luxury transports
6YACHTS
Common workout target
4CORE
The "m" in many a physics equation
4MASS
Self-assured words
4ICAN
Actress Polo
4TERI
Toughest hits to get when hitting for the cycle in baseball
7TRIPLES
Sear
6SCORCH
__ of luck!
4LOTS
Quick communications, in brief
3IMS
Postgraduate deg. with management courses
3MBA
Musician's asset
3EAR
Stylish shoe feature
8STILETTO
Someone you will never stop despising
10SWORNENEMY
Green smoothie staple
4KALE
Tosses in
4ADDS
Little Dickens girl
4NELL
Up to this point
3YET
___-free (plastics label)
3BPA
Tina Fey and Amy Poehler vis-à-vis "Saturday Night Live"
6ALUMNI
Singer Del Rey
4LANA
Longtime Hogwarts headmaster
10DUMBLEDORE
Set aflame
6IGNITE
Wander
4ROVE
Graceful bird
4SWAN
Pick me! Pick me!
4OHOH
Infamous Roman ruler
4NERO
Attractive plus-one
8ARMCANDY
You said it!
4YEAH
Canine warning
3GRR
Like a cherub
7ANGELIC
"___ be a real honor"
3ITD
Transforms
6MORPHS
Cookie with an "enrobed" variety in the U.K.
4OREO
Arizona city or county
4YUMA
At a distance
4AFAR
Film information on IMDb or Rotten Tomatoes
4CAST
Cops, in slang
4POPO
Iconic lab assistant of film
4IGOR
Where Anheuser-Busch is BUD
4NYSE
Battery for a mouse
3AAA
Anti-apartheid org.
3ANC
U.S. medical research agcy.
3NIH