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New York Times Crossword August 5 2026 Answers

Wednesday puzzle · 72 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 72 clues from the New York Times Crossword for August 5 2026. Stuck on one? Click the clue to reveal its verified answer, plus every other answer that clue has had across every publisher in our database.

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With 6-Across, #1 hit51 AcrossReveal answer → –66 AcrossReveal answer → With 14-Across, ultimately fruitless712 AcrossReveal answer → –714 AcrossReveal answer → With 16-Across, beverage sold in pastel-colored cans715 AcrossReveal answer → –716 AcrossReveal answer → With 18-Across, measures of search engine optimization417 AcrossReveal answer → –518 AcrossReveal answer → With 22-Across, pocket ID holder420 AcrossReveal answer → –422 AcrossReveal answer → With 28-Across, temple services?426 AcrossReveal answer → –828 AcrossReveal answer → With 34-Across, sequestration of a greenhouse gas632 AcrossReveal answer → –734 AcrossReveal answer → With 36-Across, sparsely populated African land735 AcrossReveal answer → –636 AcrossReveal answer → With 39-Across, web crawlers, e.g.837 AcrossReveal answer → –439 AcrossReveal answer → With 41-Across, loses all one's dough440 AcrossReveal answer → –441 AcrossReveal answer → With 46-Across, Starbuck vis-à-vis Captain Ahab543 AcrossReveal answer → –446 AcrossReveal answer → With 54-Across, math that underpins computer logic750 AcrossReveal answer → –754 AcrossReveal answer → With 58-Across, member of the last undefeated N.C.A.A. Division I men's basketball team (1976)757 AcrossReveal answer → –758 AcrossReveal answer → With 60-Across, tallies attendees659 AcrossReveal answer → –560 AcrossReveal answer →

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Michael of "Barbie"41 DownReveal answer → Alexander who served under Reagan, Nixon and Ford42 DownReveal answer → Axlike tool depicted in hieroglyphs43 DownReveal answer → City on Guanabara Bay, familiarly34 DownReveal answer → Paramount ancestor, in brief35 DownReveal answer → Apt rhyme of "clock"46 DownReveal answer → Isn't settled up47 DownReveal answer → High degree38 DownReveal answer → Word with project or peeve39 DownReveal answer → Before, in a hymnbook310 DownReveal answer → Stephen of "V for Vendetta"311 DownReveal answer → One of 25 in a track 10K312 DownReveal answer → Actress Teri413 DownReveal answer → Writer Anaïs whose name is hidden in this clue314 DownReveal answer → Capt.'s superior319 DownReveal answer → Pole tossed in a Scottish game520 DownReveal answer → Beautify521 DownReveal answer → Stone figure?522 DownReveal answer → Petri dish gels523 DownReveal answer → Company that debuted Sonic the Hedgehog424 DownReveal answer → Legal termination?325 DownReveal answer → Proverbial waste maker526 DownReveal answer → Some Deco works527 DownReveal answer → "Well, I have to save my ___" (Shrek line)329 DownReveal answer → Total guesses530 DownReveal answer → "Ooh-la-la!"531 DownReveal answer → Our "-zoic"432 DownReveal answer → Florence-to-Venice dir.333 DownReveal answer → Part of a George Washington costume (though he rarely wore one)335 DownReveal answer → Cable channel with many reruns338 DownReveal answer → Site of the 2002 and 2034 Winter Olympics442 DownReveal answer → Big success443 DownReveal answer → Actors McKellen and McShane444 DownReveal answer → Messenger ___345 DownReveal answer → Imbroglio446 DownReveal answer → Rose's lover of 1920s Broadway447 DownReveal answer → Número de Caballeros in a 1944 film448 DownReveal answer → Something that may be lent or bent349 DownReveal answer → Pen letters?350 DownReveal answer → Musical Yoko351 DownReveal answer → Sch. in Norfolk, Va.352 DownReveal answer → "Hamilton" star ___-Manuel Miranda353 DownReveal answer → Apt name for a groundskeeper?355 DownReveal answer → Word that becomes its own synonym when "p" is added to the end356 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the New York Times crossword published on Wednesday, August 5, 2026. Answers are checked against the completed grid before publishing and live on each clue's own page, so you only see the solutions you ask for. If a clue looks familiar, open it — the same wording often runs in other puzzles with a different answer, and the clue page shows every version we have on record.