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NYT Crossword
Sunday, August 23, 2026

The New York Times crossword puzzle for Sunday, August 23, 2026 features 145 clues. Today's puzzle has an average answer length of 5.5 letters. The longest answer is "ONEAPENNYTWOAPENNYHOTCROSSBUNS".

Total Clues

145

Longest

ONEAPENNYTWOAPENNYHOTCROSSBUNS

Avg Length

5.5

Shortest

RAD

Featured Clue

"Nursery rhyme street vendor's cry"

30 Letters

ONEAPENNYTWOAPENNYHOTCROSSBUNS

ALLComplete Solution List

What a crush might make you do

Predator with dermal denticles

Silent film actor Jannings

More intense, as an emotion

Early stage of a drug trial

Adage promoting thrift

25APENNYSAVEDISAPENNYEARNED

Return filers, for short

Barely keeps going, with "along"

Fish with leaf-shaped larvae

Image on one side of this puzzle's subject

14ABRAHAMLINCOLN

Start of a historic triple boast

Seminole's rival, in college athletics

Liturgical singer

Subtitle alternative

Yogurt drink in Delhi

Monklike, in a way

Angle variable in geometry

Where this puzzle's subject was last made for circulation (in November 2025)

Periodical, informally

Genre for Siouxsie and the Banshees

Duck known for its insulating feathers

One of 12, astrologically

"It's Your Business" sloganeer, for short

Drug enforcer, informally

"When We Were Young" singer, 2015

Its capital is Roma

Nursery rhyme street vendor's cry

30ONEAPENNYTWOAPENNYHOTCROSSBUNS

A failed transaction

Good but not great grade

Tennis great Arthur

Fall asleep, with "off"

Word with constrictor or feather

Goddess of the dawn

Car-pooling convenience

Taco bar adjective

Showing less bias

Musical staff symbol

Aggressive move allowed in some forms of kickboxing

Sounds like a blast!

Some Ivy Leaguers

Meeting that goes above and beyond?

Image on one side of this puzzle's subject

14THEUNIONSHIELD

Badge-pinning site

Tree where the Buddha found enlightenment

Spanish for "wealthy"

Get in the game

Offer advice ... or a hint to 24- and 72-Across

17PUTINYOURTWOCENTS

D'Arcy of "House of the Dragon"

Pucker producer, perhaps

Modernists, informally

Department store department

Vikings, for example

Long members of the onion family

Discount merchandise indicator

Organism that moves using pseudopodia

Change the course of

___ del Carmen (Mexican resort)

Two farthings, informally

Deny responsibility for

Like certain easy-to-install hardware components

Much of Diego Rivera's work

You can count on me

It can become amber

Doo-wop's __ Na Na

Protected space for women in the Ottoman Empire

Enemies, A Love Story actress

GoodFellas Oscar winner

Demonstrate frugality, in a way

Hosts, in brief

Tolkien monster

Exams for ambtious H.S. students

Date night bookings

Indigenous people of the Colorado Plateau

Setting for many a New Yorker cartoon

Having impeded growth

Bird with an S-shaped neck

Place for pliers

Muslim head scarf

Target with, as a pickup line

Scribe in a courtroom, in brief

Prepares for an interview, say

Notorious Chicago bootlegger

What a dog uses to "shake"

Island location of Iolani Palace

Say something fresh

Tom who wrote "Even Cowgirls Get the Blues"

Information in a prescription

Out of this world

Hoarders network

Shoe originally known as a "Weejun"

Street in Liverpool that has been immortalized in song

Like many farm stand purchases

"Dodgeball" star Vince

Specific charge on an invoice

Cooling units, in brief

Pork-based taco option

Snowmobile brand

Suffix in British English

Makeup of a nervous system, largely

Layer of a farm

Locale for camel racing

Christians' ___ Creed

Overflowed (with)

Reunion attendees

Cause for a QB's celebration

Fries in England

I'll take another card

Like cotton candy

Lead-in to pilot or pay

Emphatic refusal in Germany

Stir-fry staple

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