Daily Puzzle Solution
NYT Crossword
Saturday, August 15, 2026
The New York Times crossword puzzle for Saturday, August 15, 2026 features 66 clues. Today's puzzle has an average answer length of 6.1 letters. The longest answer is "PALATECLEANSERS".
Total Clues
66
Longest
PALATECLEANSERS
Avg Length
6.1
Shortest
POT
Featured Clue
"Intermezzo and trou normand dishes, essentially"
15 Letters
PALATECLEANSERS
ALLComplete Solution List
Began
6DAWNED
Show faces?
8TVACTORS
Bring back into the fold, so to speak
6REHIRE
Worth looking back on
8HISTORIC
One from "Japan's kitchen"
6OSAKAN
Appeal
8ENTREATY
Bit of ceramic ware
3POT
Cast off
7SETSAIL
7
3JUL
"Lovely" and "wonderful" food, per Monty Python
4SPAM
Rose Bowl Stadium athlete
5BRUIN
Big ring
4PEAL
Patient privacy law, in brief
5HIPAA
World Cup team nicknamed "The Three Lions": Abbr.
3ENG
Say "hey," say
5HOLLA
Speak up?
12ICANTHEARYOU
Intermezzo and trou normand dishes, essentially
15PALATECLEANSERS
Hoedown get-down?
12TEXASTWOSTEP
Long-___ squid
5ARMED
Wayne's World exclamation
3NOT
Christina of "Buffalo '66"
5RICCI
Ring location
4LOBE
Oil wells.
5PORES
Nickname for Eleanor
4NELL
Eye-catching stage prop
3BOA
Got it!
7CAPISCE
Thru
3TIL
Underlining, e.g.
8EMPHASIS
Classical figure in an 1898 Gustav Klimt oil
6ATHENA
Some back-and-forth
8REPARTEE
Big name in fashion
6LAUREN
Go in the wrong way?
8TRESPASS
"I beg you!"
6PLEASE
Cut out the middleman, for delivery
8DROPSHIP
Fabulous collection
8AESOPICA
You're the best!
8WHATAPAL
No-good ending
3NIK
Diamond figs.
4ERAS
Leftmost star of the Summer Triangle
5DENEB
Classic 1926 novel often published with a bull and matador on its cover
15THESUNALSORISES
Dressing group
12VINAIGRETTES
Gamgee player in "Lord of the Rings"
5ASTIN
C
4CTRL
The second one on the Statue of Liberty is longer than its first one
3TOE
Toothache care option
6ORAJEL
Communion, e.g.
6RITUAL
Charybdis' man-eating opposite, in myth
6SCYLLA
Upper regions of forests
12TREECANOPIES
Sea cow
7MANATEE
French Baroque artist Nicolas
7POUSSIN
Challenged on X, say
5ATTED
Scout's follower?
5HONOR
Bad spell
3HEX
Partner of pitch and roll
3YAW
You get the point
8ETCETERA
Kicks back, in a way
8RECLINES
Crime writer Mickey who created the Mike Hammer stories
8SPILLANE
Prince of Monaco beginning in 2005
6ALBERT
Certain tenant
6ROOMER
French soccer superstar Kylian
6MBAPPE
Some bow ties
5PASTA
Where roots take hold
5SCALP
Complain
4CARP
Citation shortener
4ETAL
Tricks
3HAS
Orange or lime
3HUE