Daily Puzzle Solution
NYT Crossword
Friday, September 4, 2026
The New York Times crossword puzzle for Friday, September 4, 2026 features 66 clues. Today's puzzle has an average answer length of 6.1 letters. The longest answer is "JENGATOWER".
Total Clues
66
Longest
JENGATOWER
Avg Length
6.1
Shortest
SSA
Featured Clue
"Result of a tense build-up?"
10 Letters
JENGATOWER
ALLComplete Solution List
Result of a tense build-up?
10JENGATOWER
Hit a point of no return?
4ACED
Kick off
10INAUGURATE
Outta my way!
4MOVE
ABC's realm
10NATIONALTV
Body part affected by heterochromia
4IRIS
Fed
4GMAN
___ Mai, Grammy-winning R&B singer
4ELLA
Buff
5SWOLE
Drops
5LOSES
Mars rover named in honor of a 19th-century activist
9SOJOURNER
Ludwig ___, post-W.W. II leader who led West Germany's economic recovery
6ERHARD
Cooking term whose name is composed of two synonyms for "criticize"
8PANROAST
Agcy. tracking popular baby names
3SSA
Agcy. concerned with declarations
3IRS
Parts of some high-speed rail systems
7MAGNETS
Be exceptionally good, in modern slang
4SLAP
Vaper's purchase
4ECIG
What Esau got in exchange for selling his birthright to Jacob
7POTTAGE
Disclaimer in a quote
3SIC
Hang
3VEG
Detaches from the frame, perhaps
8UNHINGES
Grammatical case in 48-Across
6DATIVE
Longtime Pixar character who saiys "I might be old, but I still got a spring in my step!"
9SLINKYDOG
See 44-Across
5LATIN
Super, slangily
5HECKA
Curve on a score
4SLUR
Follower of hand or home
4MADE
Bit of filming
4TAKE
Asteroids and Space Invaders
10ATARIGAMES
In the past
4OVER
System by which all speech is protected?
10SECURELINE
Cravings
4YENS
Club runners
10PRESIDENTS
Change sounds
7JINGLES
Captivates
7ENAMORS
Actress Lyonne
7NATASHA
Neighbor of Sierra Leone.
6GUINEA
In the past
3AGO
Use a fork for, in a way
4TUNE
Some thesis defenses
5ORALS
Trounce
6WALLOP
Singer dubbed the "Matriarch of the Blues"
9ETTAJAMES
Gun before the green, say
3REV
Is it not?!
8AMIWRONG
Stellar visual effects
7CORONAE
Adjective that becomes its own synonym after its first letter is dropped
7EVILEST
Strands
7DESERTS
Precise and calculated
8SURGICAL
First country to elect a female prime minister (1960)
8SRILANKA
Tripping
6ONACID
Sluggish
6DRAGGY
One putting the pedal to the metal
9SPEEDSTER
No-goodniks
8STINKERS
Toddler's walking aid
7PUSHTOY
Like someone using autoreply, perhaps
7ONLEAVE
Start to congeal
7THICKEN
Part of some gummies
7VITAMIN
Clear
7EVIDENT
Births
7GENESES
Comfort
6SOLACE
Mesoamerican staple with a "hot" variety
6TAMALE
Mentors
5GURUS
Rude Boy singer, to fans
4RIRI
Ancient symbol of royalty
3ASP
Test not offered in high school, for short
3GED