Daily Puzzle Solution
NYT Crossword
Thursday, August 6, 2026
The New York Times crossword puzzle for Thursday, August 6, 2026 features 74 clues. Today's puzzle has an average answer length of 5.3 letters. The longest answer is "JAMAICANRUM".
Total Clues
74
Longest
JAMAICANRUM
Avg Length
5.3
Shortest
MAR
Featured Clue
"Spirit of the Caribbean"
11 Letters
JAMAICANRUM
ALLComplete Solution List
Singer Braxton
4TONI
Like some winter windshields
4ICED
___ Bauer (brand of outdoor gear)
5EDDIE
Soon
4ANON
Me too!
4SAME
Stable job
5GROOM
Spirit of the Caribbean
11JAMAICANRUM
Haggard
5GAUNT
Creamy dish made with arborio rice
7RISOTTO
Angela on "The Office," e.g.
4PRIG
Bring it on!
5TRYME
Four-time N.B.A. M.V.P.
11LEBRONJAMES
Nick, e.g.
3MAR
Collected
4COOL
Evil computer of classic film
3HAL
Kind of seeds found in a basket in King Tutankhamen's tomb
6SESAME
Alternate nickname for the "Hollywood of the South"
8HOTLANTA
Group with a coat of arms
4CLAN
Unspecified ones
5THOSE
Wednesday a.k.a. ___ day
4HUMP
Like some fat
8RENDERED
Purposely wrongs
6SPITES
What's more
3AND
Joan known for his "dream paintings"
4MIRO
Make out, perhaps?
3TAG
Pillow fight setting
11PAJAMAPARTY
Juicer's juice?
5ROIDS
Determination
4WILL
Shade provider along Central Park's Literary Walk
7ELMTREE
A-tier
5PRIMO
Chock-full ... like three squares (and foods) in this puzzle
9JAMPACKED
Touch-and-go
5DICEY
Force felt on earth, for short
4ONEG
Goddess whose name is an anagram of her mother's
4HERA
Feelings of getting older
5ACHES
Volcano seen on HBO's "The White Lotus"
4ETNA
Port in 50-Down
4ADEN
Fruity pastry
7JAMTART
Live
5ONAIR
Like the jungle at daybreak
5NOISY
At the helm
9INCOMMAND
That right?
4ISNT
Number for December
5CAROL
Bird with noted calf muscles
3EMU
Short blue person?
3DEM
Chả giò, on a Vietnamese menu
7EGGROLL
Enervate
5DRAIN
Temptation for Homer Simpson
11JAMDOUGHNUT
Na+ or Cl-
3ION
Real lifesaver, for short
3EMT
Starting group
5ATEAM
Not accept an outrage, say
7PROTEST
Amazon smart speaker
7ECHODOT
Jeers
4BOOS
Tempting words on a Wonderland cake
5EATME
Is really good, in modern slang
5SLAPS
Legal mulligan
7RETRIAL
What an old car might be sold for
5SCRAP
___ Ferrante, author of the "Neapolitan Novels"
5ELENA
Brown-bag item
11JAMSANDWICH
OK, that makes sense
9AHIGOTCHA
Münster man
4HERR
Puts to work
7EMPLOYS
Northern Italian city known for its cheese
5PARMA
"The White Lotus" actress ___ Lou Wood
5AIMEE
Arabia Felix, now
5YEMEN
Perturbed
5IRKED
Fortune 500 company started by a blacksmith, informally
5DEERE
Civic's class?
5SEDAN
Sports org. with a tour
4LPGA
Open show of intimacy, for short
3PDA
Nickname that drops "hard"
3RIC
Mud
3JOE
Tiny farmer?
3ANT