Daily Puzzle Solution
NYT Crossword
Wednesday, August 5, 2026
The New York Times crossword puzzle for Wednesday, August 5, 2026 features 58 clues. Today's puzzle has an average answer length of 5.6 letters. The longest answer is "LEADINGNOWHERE".
Total Clues
58
Longest
LEADINGNOWHERE
Avg Length
5.6
Shortest
RIO
Featured Clue
"<b>& 14</b> Ultimately fruitless"
14 Letters
LEADINGNOWHERE
ALLComplete Solution List
<b>& 6</b> #1 hit
11CHARTTOPPER
<b>& 14</b> Ultimately fruitless
14LEADINGNOWHERE
<b>& 16</b> Beverage sold in pastel-colored cans
14ARIZONAICEDTEA
<b>& 18</b> Measures of search engine optimization
9PAGERANKS
<b>& 22</b> Pocket ID holder
8CARDCASE
<b>& 28</b> Temple services?
12HEADMASSAGES
<b>& 34</b> Sequestration of a greenhouse gas
13CARBONSTORAGE
<b>& 36</b> Sparsely populated African land
13WESTERNSAHARA
<b>& 39</b> Web Crawlers, e.g.
12INTERNETBOTS
<b>& 41</b> Loses all one's dough
8GOESBUST
<b>& 46</b> Starbuck vis-à-vis Captain Ahab
9FIRSTMATE
<b>& 54</b> Math that underpins computer logic
14BOOLEANALGEBRA
<b>& 58</b> Member of the last undefeated N.C.A.A. Division I men's basketball team (1976)
14INDIANAHOOSIER
<b>& 60</b> Tallies attendees
11COUNTSNOSES
Michael of "Barbie"
4CERA
Alexander who served under Reagan, Nixon and Ford
4HAIG
Axlike tool depicted in hieroglyphs
4ADZE
City on Guanabara Bay, familiarly
3RIO
Paramount ancestor, in brief
3TNN
Apt rhyme of "clock"
4TOCK
Isn't settled up
4OWES
High degree
3PHD
Word with project or peeve
3PET
Before, in a hymnbook
3ERE
Stephen of "V for Vendetta"
3REA
One of 25 in a track 10K
3LAP
Actress Teri
4GARR
Writer Anaïs whose name is hidden in this clue
3NIN
Capt.'s superior
3ADM
Pole tossed in a Scottish game
5CABER
Beautify
5ADORN
Stone figure?
5CARAT
Petri dish gels
5AGARS
Company that debuted Sonic the Hedgehog
4SEGA
Legal termination
3ESE
Proverbial waste-maker
5HASTE
Some Deco works
5ERTES
"Well, I have to save my ___" (Shrek line)
3ASS
Total guesses
5STABS
Ooh la la!
5SOHOT
Our "-zoic"
4CENO
Florence-to-Venice dir.
3NNE
Part of a George Washington costume (though he rarely wore one)
3WIG
Cable channel with many reruns
3TBS
Site of the 2002 and 2034 Winter Olympics
4UTAH
Big success
4FEAT
Actors McKellen and McShane
4IANS
Messenger
3RNA
Imbroglio
4MESS
Rose's lover of 1920s Broadway
4ABIE
Número de Caballeros in a 1944 film
4TRES
Something that may be lent or bent
3EAR
Pen letters?
3BIC
Musical Yoko
3ONO
Sch. in Norfolk, VA
3ODU
Hamilton star ___-Manuel Miranda
3LIN
Apt name for a groundskeeper
3LON
Word that becomes its own synonym when "p" is added to the end
3GOO