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NYT Crossword
Sunday, August 9, 2026

The New York Times crossword puzzle for Sunday, August 9, 2026 features 128 clues. Today's puzzle has an average answer length of 6.0 letters. The longest answer is "COMEONINTHEWATERSFINE".

Total Clues

128

Longest

COMEONINTHEWATERSFINE

Avg Length

6.0

Shortest

FLU

Featured Clue

"Swimmer's invitation"

21 Letters

COMEONINTHEWATERSFINE

ALLComplete Solution List

Target of an annual vaccine

Swimmer's invitation

21COMEONINTHEWATERSFINE

One of two in Hawaii

21CONGRESSIONALDISTRICT

Father of the river gods, in Greek myth

Jamaican folk song about dock work

Ones who've made the team

One at the U.S. Mint?

Long-handled tool

What might pile up during a digital detox

Show great fondness, in a way

Oscar winner Hathaway

Say without saying

Up to 150 years, for a tortoise

The first "C" of Vietnam's H.C.M.C.

Communicate through a disagreement

13HAVETHINGSOUT

Counterpart of 53-Down

Display perfect timing, much like dancers

Agcy. that protects the right to unionize

Some Indian flatbreads

First woman to play regularly in a major American men's pro baseball league

Bond between Lazenby and Dalton

Setting for Ghassan Kanafani's "All That's Left to You" and Mourid Barghouti's "I Saw Ramallah"

Like a lion's coat

Reprimand that might be biting, ironically

13TONGUELASHING

Group of partridges

Like the Taj Mahal and the Hagia Sophia, architecturally

Many a spacious apartment

Stand-up comic ___ Wang

Where a band might go

Enterprise letters

Let's put a smile on your plate chain

Lover of Tristan

Combine, as resources

Nintendo villain with a W on his cap

Bothersome recurrence

Controversial business oversight

21CORPORATESURVEILLANCE

Amusement park ride in which one's legs dangle high off the ground

21INVERTEDROLLERCOASTER

"___ bodkins!" (bygone oath)

Comes clean, with {/up/}

Old Bulgarian rulers

Results of some peace talks

Government act whose name comes from the Greek for "forgetfulness"

Papal representative

Michaels of "Saturday Night Live"

Angry cat's "greeting"

Retort of denial

Offer emotional support (for)

Time that's an artist's name backward

Did the butterfly, e.g.

Co. whose logo depicts the god Mercury holding flowers

Dutch city with a namesake jar

"Because I Got High" rapper

Magazine for entrepreneurs

Branch with a stem?

Number of letters

Ocular affliction

Uintah and Ouray reservation people

Group in support of a queen

Last Beatles single before Paul McCartney's departure

Reality TV icon Leakes

Title for Macbeth

Parts of many combo meals

Selling off, as stocks

Big inits. in Dutch banking

Bestowing extravagantly (on)

Source of fragrant cones

Something that might not be well received when someone asks "How do I look?"

Counterpart of 53-Across

It's not exactly fast food

Almsgiving and pilgrimage, for two

Bit of folklore

Main ingredient in salsa verde

Purple yam in Filipino desserts

Sounds from pigeons

Simple coffee brewing method

Treeless tracts

Pleasing rhythms

Diamond component?

Gene-activating substance

Eyes, informally

Danced at a luau

Very complicated situation, so to speak

___ People's Campaign (1968 S.C.L.C. movement)

Self-congratulatory declaration

One of the Five Pillars of Islam, referring to prayer

___ take arms against a sea of troubles: Hamlet

Some fan-made literary works, informally

Prefix with normative

They're parked in parks

Before, poetically

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