Daily Puzzle Solution
NYT Crossword
Saturday, August 29, 2026
The New York Times crossword puzzle for Saturday, August 29, 2026 features 69 clues. Today's puzzle has an average answer length of 5.9 letters. The longest answer is "BULLINACHINASHOP".
Total Clues
69
Longest
BULLINACHINASHOP
Avg Length
5.9
Shortest
ANA
Featured Clue
"Breaking character?"
16 Letters
BULLINACHINASHOP
ALLComplete Solution List
Main characters for an early reader
4ABCS
They get rings for hoops
9NBACHAMPS
Skin-care brand known for its pore strips
5BIORE
Large restaurant vessel shaped like another vessel
9SUSHIBOAT
Conference handout
5IDTAG
Dubious sighting in the night sky
9ALIENSHIP
Started to boil
6GOTMAD
Work, as a joke
4LAND
Romance author Huang
3ANA
They might be rehabbed with knee flexion
4ACLS
His #33 was retired by the Knicks in 2003
5EWING
Winner of the 2025 Outstanding Drama Series Emmy, with "The"
4PITT
Personne canonisée: Abbr.
3STE
___ Capital (investment firm co-founded by Mitt Romney)
4BAIN
Hits the mark, in a way
4PARS
Many people climb it
12SOCIALLADDER
Naturally concluded
12RANITSCOURSE
Ones giving a toast at an outdoor party?
12PATIOHEATERS
Court session, perhaps
12TENNISLESSON
Like much of Libya
4ARID
Depicting the world bleakly and cynically
4NOIR
Put your back into it
3TRY
"Sweet dreams are made of cheese / Who am I to dis a ___?" (parody lyrics)
4BRIE
Is immersed
5SOAKS
Fair trade, say
4SWAP
"It is not easy for a ___ to balance himself on a ladder": "Animal Farm"
3PIG
A word in closing
4THUS
Relative of house music
6TECHNO
Inverse of an exponential function
9LOGARITHM
Vikings' offense?
5RAIDS
What a supposed bug is often revealed to be
9USERERROR
Grant
5ALLOT
Deftly evades
9SIDESTEPS
Come off as
4SEEM
Nonhuman provider of medical advice
8AIDOCTOR
Neck topper
9BOTTLECAP
Shoves (in)
5CRAMS
Sonic system
4SEGA
Org. featured in 1998's "Enemy of the State"
3NSA
Breaking character?
16BULLINACHINASHOP
Like parts of Istanbul
5ASIAN
Romanization of the common Chinese surname 程
5CHENG
Legs
4HIND
Stability aids, informally
3ABS
Soft, silky material
6MOHAIR
Depicts stylishly
6PAINTS
Green day star, for short
5STPAT
Humongous, slangily
6BIGASS
Stocked and sold, as goods
7DEALTIN
August ___, "Fences" playwright
6WILSON
Makes sense of
6PARSES
Deliberately exasperated
6BAITED
More sassy
6PERTER
Indecisive way to end
6INATIE
Gets by
6DOESOK
Binary, in a way
7DUALIST
Former
9ERSTWHILE
"Wow ... what are the chances?!"
8SORANDOM
Publisher of the front-page headline "This sport is stupid anyway" after a U.S. loss at the World Cup, in brief
6NYPOST
Half-spoken, half-sung passages of an opera
6ARIOSI
Not fair
6RIGGED
Nearly 90
5BPLUS
It goes on top
5SHIRT
Shockingly unconventional
5OUTRE
Stepped-on instrument
5SCALE
Chic
4TRES
Time divisions
4ERAS
"___ You That Somebody?" (1998 Aaliyah hit)
3ARE
Half of a couple
3MRS