Daily Puzzle Solution
NYT Crossword
Friday, August 7, 2026
The New York Times crossword puzzle for Friday, August 7, 2026 features 70 clues. Today's puzzle has an average answer length of 5.6 letters. The longest answer is "CATSOUTOFTHEBAG".
Total Clues
70
Longest
CATSOUTOFTHEBAG
Avg Length
5.6
Shortest
SIS
Featured Clue
""Well, now everyone will know""
15 Letters
CATSOUTOFTHEBAG
ALLComplete Solution List
What suggests that relief is at hand?
10STRESSBALL
Some
4AFEW
News to me
10IHADNOIDEA
Shankar who co-composed the score for 1982's "Gandhi"
4RAVI
"Well, now everyone will know"
15CATSOUTOFTHEBAG
Family nickname
3SIS
Spot for a light punishment
5WRIST
Eponym of U.S. track and field's Male Athlete of the Year Award
5OWENS
Member of the World Cup's "Tartan Army" fan base
4SCOT
Acronymic weapon
5TASER
Tree whose name has multiple pronunciations
5PECAN
Laugh, laugh, laugh
8BUSTAGUT
Geneticist's finding
5TRAIT
Wasteful government spending, informally
4PORK
Big name in sandals
4TEVA
"It's ___ or nothin'!" (classic kids' commercial slogan)
4NERF
Many of the characters in "Who Framed Roger Rabbit"
5TOONS
Word with block or platform
4HEEL
Tangy hybrid
4UGLI
Gobsmacks
4AWES
Elephant mascot of the Alabama Crimson Tide
5BIGAL
Elf, say
8TOYMAKER
They may be covered
5SONGS
Opportunity on Mars, say
5ROVER
Piece of ice in the drink?
4BERG
Name of "the other reindeer" in a common Christmas mondegreen
5OLIVE
Waffle patterns
5GRIDS
Where baked Alaska is believed to have been invented, oddly enough: Abbr.
3NYC
Field you make tracks in
15MUSICPRODUCTION
Blue rasp-"brr!"-y treat?
4ICEE
Flying nuisance
10GATECHANGE
Besmirches
4TARS
What someone might get quickly around lunchtime
10ABITETOEAT
Sets on
4SICS
Cuisine with the #1 dish in a CNN "World's 50 Best Foods" poll
4THAI
Intruders in urban trash cans
4RATS
Ones who might cut the line, in brief?
3EDS
Ski slope vehicle
7SNOWCAT
Lose affection for
6SOURON
Wiped out, in slang
5BITIT
Fusses
4ADOS
No-nos at some highway intersections
9LEFTTURNS
Trap neighbor
3LAT
Relationship-defining question
11AREWEATHING
Bejeweled target of a heist in "Ocean's Twelve"
10FABERGEEGG
McMullin of Utah politics
4EVAN
Features of some early presidential portraits
4WIGS
Whole lot
4HOST
Films in which many stars might appear
11SCIFIMOVIES
Grills, say
4ASKS
Competitor of Rao's
5PREGO
One likely to be "healthy, wealthy and wise," per Benjamin Franklin
10EARLYRISER
Vocal critic
5BOOER
Iris settings
5UVEAS
Lofty
4TALL
Bit of threaded hardware
4TNUT
Attempt to seize control
9POWERGRAB
Perspective
4TAKE
One dish commonly in the 12-dish Sviata Vecheria, a traditional Ukrainian Christmas dinner
7BORSCHT
Faire ___ (get by with, in French)
4AVEC
Charm
6SEDUCE
European fixture
5BIDET
Skip over
4OMIT
Title boy in a 2021 Pixar film
4LUCA
Word that comes from Sanskrit for "bread"
4ROTI
Score somewhat akin to an A-
4NINE
Flexible practice?
4YOGA
Website associated with the domain www.news.com
4CNET
Tour org.
3PGA
Fields Medal winner Terence ___
3TAO