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USA Today Crossword July 9 2026 Answers

Thursday puzzle · 72 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 72 clues from the USA Today Crossword for July 9 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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Do some sums31 AcrossReveal answer → "Sum" homophone44 AcrossReveal answer → ___ couture58 AcrossReveal answer → Not against313 AcrossReveal answer → Flibbertigibbet1014 AcrossReveal answer → Stripped-down NPR music event1516 AcrossReveal answer → Role play?318 AcrossReveal answer → ___ Braden (civil rights activist)419 AcrossReveal answer → Really lay on, like a horn520 AcrossReveal answer → Butt one can bum321 AcrossReveal answer → Ocean color822 AcrossReveal answer → ___ fairy524 AcrossReveal answer → Luau dish326 AcrossReveal answer → Ingredient in beer and bread527 AcrossReveal answer → "Soon"631 AcrossReveal answer → Poetic shoutout333 AcrossReveal answer → What a facepalm might mean335 AcrossReveal answer → Crow sounds436 AcrossReveal answer → More unusual537 AcrossReveal answer → "Da ___" (nickname for a world-famous Chicagoan)439 AcrossReveal answer → Accessibility law, for short340 AcrossReveal answer → Insta post341 AcrossReveal answer → Queen Latifah, e.g.642 AcrossReveal answer → Like a friend who always has your back544 AcrossReveal answer → That lady347 AcrossReveal answer → Vintage549 AcrossReveal answer → Purr-fect spot for sleeping, playing and scratching850 AcrossReveal answer → "Te ___ mucho"353 AcrossReveal answer → Cheeky554 AcrossReveal answer → Celebrity couple456 AcrossReveal answer → Rodent in a lab357 AcrossReveal answer → YouTubers and TikTokkers, e.g.1558 AcrossReveal answer → Green Bay Packers fan1061 AcrossReveal answer → ___ tai362 AcrossReveal answer → Scatter some seeds363 AcrossReveal answer → Nile vipers464 AcrossReveal answer → Likely response to "Who wants to go to Disneyland?"365 AcrossReveal answer →

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Enthusiast101 DownReveal answer → "Stay tuned . . . we'll be right back!"102 DownReveal answer → Like an arid climate33 DownReveal answer → Play part54 DownReveal answer → "Sick burn!"65 DownReveal answer → "Don't do anything I wouldn't do!"156 DownReveal answer → " . . . you get the idea"37 DownReveal answer → Pullover shirt with buttons at the neckline68 DownReveal answer → Like knowledge that might elicit a "How on EARTH did you know that?!"69 DownReveal answer → Lyft alternative410 DownReveal answer → Ripped411 DownReveal answer → Phone number add-on (Abbr.)312 DownReveal answer → Father-___ (expectant parent)415 DownReveal answer → Strategic816 DownReveal answer → Japanese soup stock517 DownReveal answer → Roller coaster, e.g.423 DownReveal answer → Channel with "Young Sheldon" reruns325 DownReveal answer → Highway beautification program1028 DownReveal answer → Game series with warp pipes and mushroom power-ups1029 DownReveal answer → Questlove's band830 DownReveal answer → Apex332 DownReveal answer → Omit the word "not" in "Thou shalt not commit adultery" (as happened in a King James reprint dubbed the Wicked Bible), say334 DownReveal answer → ___ golf438 DownReveal answer → N95 masks, e.g.339 DownReveal answer → Swell smell543 DownReveal answer → Not quite right?545 DownReveal answer → Shoestrings546 DownReveal answer → Lure into a sting operation648 DownReveal answer → Actress Daly451 DownReveal answer → Property documents552 DownReveal answer → Fashionable Manhattan neighborhood454 DownReveal answer → Once more455 DownReveal answer → Includes on an email358 DownReveal answer → "J to ___ L-O! The Remixes" (2002 album)359 DownReveal answer → "I SO did not need to know that"360 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the USA Today crossword published on Thursday, July 9, 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.