Daily Puzzle Solution
NYT Crossword
Monday, August 24, 2026
The New York Times crossword puzzle for Monday, August 24, 2026 features 78 clues. Today's puzzle has an average answer length of 4.7 letters. The longest answer is "HELLORHIGHWATER".
Total Clues
78
Longest
HELLORHIGHWATER
Avg Length
4.7
Shortest
DEI
Featured Clue
"Any foreseeable difficulty ... with a hint to 17-, 25-, 50- and 60-Across"
15 Letters
HELLORHIGHWATER
ALLComplete Solution List
Apex
4ACME
Curry ingredient
5CUMIN
Hay unit
4BALE
Robert Frost creation
4POEM
Grilled, at a taqueria
5ASADA
Mined metals
4ORES
Criminals' sphere
10UNDERWORLD
Have a hankering (for)
4WANT
Floral Van Gogh subject
4IRIS
Latin gods
3DEI
Enemy
3FOE
End of the Greek alphabet
5OMEGA
Tsunami
9TIDALWAVE
Common motive in a murder case
7REVENGE
Follower of latch or catch
4ONTO
Nashville honor, briefly
3CMA
Oft-torn knee part, in brief
3ACL
Confederate soldier, informally
3REB
Any foreseeable difficulty ... with a hint to 17-, 25-, 50- and 60-Across
15HELLORHIGHWATER
Clerical vestment
3ALB
Writer Edgar Allan __
3POE
She, in Portuguese
3ELA
Zing ___ (brand of Bloody Mary mix)
4ZANG
Zoomed past
7RACEDBY
Stop in the afterlife
9PURGATORY
Fill in for
5ACTAS
Fury
3IRE
Source of fleece
3EWE
Jazz great Fitzgerald
4ELLA
White part of an orange
4PITH
Natural wonder in Venezuela
10ANGELFALLS
Sound in a cavernous empty room
4ECHO
Arctic creatures with flippers
5SEALS
International retailer with a three-syllable name
4IKEA
Dance whose name is also a hairstyle
4SHAG
Golfer Els
5ERNIE
Letters on an invitation
4RSVP
Storekeeper on "The Simpsons"
3APU
Trick
3CON
Like the period known as the Middle Ages
8MEDIEVAL
Leave the cocoon
6EMERGE
Sparrows : cheeps :: crows : ___
4CAWS
Grp. that entertains troops
3USO
Tuesday, in Lyon
5MARDI
Sat at a red light
5IDLED
Gymnast Comaneci
5NADIA
Cousin of a curtsy
3BOW
Yasir of the P.L.O.
6ARAFAT
Chinese computer giant
6LENOVO
Lauder of cosmetics
5ESTEE
{/Knives Out/} director Johnson
4RIAN
Philharmonic grp.
4ORCH
Many a viral post
4MEME
Word after Georgia, Virginia or low
4TECH
Big name in movie theaters
4LOEW
Caitlin Clark's league
4WNBA
Apparel
4GARB
Place for gloss
3LIP
Actress Perlman of "Cheers"
4RHEA
Auld __ Syne
4LANG
Three Sisters sister
4OLGA
Like many horror flicks
4GORY
Presentations with an 18-minute limit
8TEDTALKS
Actor Idris
4ELBA
Tampa Bay players
4RAYS
Financial center of Switzerland
6ZURICH
Franklin who sang "Chain of Fools"
6ARETHA
Baby bovine
4CALF
Filled pastry
6ECLAIR
Plumbing conduits
5PIPES
Needle mischievously
5TEASE
Renter's counterpart
5OWNER
Daughter of King Lear
5REGAN
Coder's counterpart to "if"
4ELSE
Non-sharer
3HOG
One of football's Mannings
3ELI
The Magicians novelist Grossman
3LEV
Maple syrup base
3SAP