Daily Puzzle Solution
NYT Crossword
Sunday, August 30, 2026
The New York Times crossword puzzle for Sunday, August 30, 2026 features 140 clues. Today's puzzle has an average answer length of 5.2 letters. The longest answer is "RECURRINGCHARACTERS".
Total Clues
140
Longest
RECURRINGCHARACTERS
Avg Length
5.2
Shortest
NBA
Featured Clue
"Ones making periodic appearances ... or the link between the capitalized clues and their answers"
19 Letters
RECURRINGCHARACTERS
ALLComplete Solution List
Aladdin villain
5JAFAR
"It's yours!"
4SOLD
Sarcastic "Sure!"
4IBET
Heat setting, in brief
3NBA
Dutch Caribbean isle
5ARUBA
Explosive sound
6KABOOM
Lacking constraints
8FREEFORM
<i>MARTIN SHEEN</i>
12HENRIMATISSE
<i>LIAM NEESON</i>
8SALMINEO
Chef Hussain of "The Great British Bake Off" fame
6NADIYA
Discount Chinese e-tailer
4TEMU
Jumbo shrimp
5PRAWN
Ben & Jerry's alternative
4EDYS
Pink-slips
4CANS
<i>NORMAN REEDUS</i>
11DONNASUMMER
<i>GREG KINNEAR</i>
10REGINAKING
Conditions of equilibrium
6STASES
Historian's division
3ERA
Undying
5ALIVE
Offer illegally, as tickets
5SCALP
Publicly proclaim
4AVOW
Scatters messily
6STREWS
<i>MORGAN FREEMAN</i>
13GEORGEFOREMAN
Class for some recent arrivals, for short
3ESL
Kind of green
3PEA
Chemist Lilly
3ELI
Chilean poet who served as a Communist senator
6NERUDA
Four to two, e.g.
6SQUARE
Friar with a famous "razor"
5OCCAM
Turns on the waterworks
5CRIES
Ones making periodic appearances ... or the link between the capitalized clues and their answers
19RECURRINGCHARACTERS
2024's "Joker: ___ à Deux"
5FOLIE
Alfresco area.
5PATIO
Everything cool between us?
6WEGOOD
Poorly nourished
6ILLFED
Fill at a fill-up
3GAS
___ card
3SIM
Rite Aid rival
3CVS
<i>CHRISTIAN SLATER</i>
13ELAINESTRITCH
City on the Illinois River
6PEORIA
Grumpy grimace
4MOUE
Discontinued Swedish cars
5SAABS
Inauthentic
5PHONY
"Catch-22" topic
3WAR
Join, as two metal surfaces
6SOLDER
<i>ISABELLA ROSSELLINI</i>
10BRIELARSON
<i>KEVIN KLINE</i>
11EVELKNIEVEL
Erté's style, informally
4DECO
Canadian fuel brand
4ESSO
All-vowel musical refrain
5EIEIO
Actress Falco with four Emmys
4EDIE
Sugary secretion
6NECTAR
<i>BEA ARTHUR</i>
8BABERUTH
<i>MARLON BRANDO</i>
12ORLANDOBLOOM
Submitted by the deadline
8INONTIME
B.L.T. or P.B.J., cutesily
6SAMMIE
Musician/actress Haim
5ALANA
Syllable of censure
3TSK
Instants
4SECS
High-protein bean
4SOYA
Big name in truck rentals
5RYDER
God, to Bob Marley
3JAH
You done?
3ARE
Musical comedy that was 1968's highest-grossing film
9FUNNYGIRL
Caustic
8ABRASIVE
Bootlegger's concern
4RAID
Like 666, popularly
7SATANIC
Band that's big in Japan?
3OBI
Disoriented
4LOST
Administered, as a drug
5DOSED
Potentialities
3IFS
Something found under a top
3BRA
Wriggler in a stream
3EEL
__ fugit
6TEMPUS
Star's opposite
6NONAME
Stout figure?
6BREWER
Supreme Egyptian god
6AMONRA
Inuit watercraft
6KAYAKS
Office messages
5MEMOS
Like some mattresses and offers
4FIRM
Mineral that makes cosmetics shimmer
4MICA
Remove an identifier from, as on Instagram
5UNTAG
Clear
5ERASE
Shoulder press targets, to trainers
5DELTS
Hit a ___
4SNAG
Where a flock may gather
4NAVE
Beginning on
4ASOF
Attach with a needle and thread
5SEWON
Unused
3NEW
Extreme happiness
4GLEE
Double-breasted pieces of menswear
9POLOCOATS
Trigger
4SPUR
Like Scrooge McDuck
4RICH
Right-hand page of a book
5RECTO
Made muffs
5ERRED
John ___ Day (California commemoration)
4MUIR
Citrus refreshments
4ADES
N.Y. State of Mind rapper
3NAS
1994 Costner title role
4EARP
Diva's time to shine
4ARIA
Dune genre
5SCIFI
Mary or Elizabeth.
5QUEEN
Towering creature in "The Two Towers"
3ENT
Sound in a cornfield
3CAW
Half brother of Apollo
4ARES
Christmas presence?
4MAGI
Sushi bar serving
4ROLL
Jazz great Fitzgerald
4ELLA
Along with "CODA" and "Argo," the only other four-letter Best Picture winner
4GIGI
Give gratis
4COMP
Shakespearean shout
3FIE
That's the spirit!
5DEMON
Strike defier
4SCAB
Part of an intersection
9CROSSROAD
Barolos e Brunellos
5VINOS
Turn someone down
5SAYNO
Unshared numbers
4SOLI
Hostile manner, informally
4TUDE
Actor and disability activist Christopher
5REEVE
Like some liquors
4HARD
Org. regulating air quality
3EPA
You sure about that?
8OHREALLY
Periods of 730 days
7BIENNIA
Withdraw from a union
6SECEDE
Teensy amount
6WEEBIT
Feathered fliers
6AVIANS
Shoe brand named for an antelope
6REEBOK
Hybrid tennis bottoms
6SKORTS
Second tries
5REDOS
El Pollo ___ (chicken chain)
4LOCO
Creditor's claim
4LIEN
Turkish money
5LIRAS
Fad toy of 1996
4ELMO
Snowboarder's transport
4TBAR
Often-illegal turn, slangily
3UIE
Cinephile's cable choice
3TMC
Boars and bulls
3HES
Comedian Sedaris
3AMY
I, to Augustus
3ONE
Smudge or smear, say
3MAR