New York Times Crossword Puzzle Answers Today 07/20/2026. The July 20 2026 Puzzle Answers are listed below in such order that they are easy to find.
The puzzles get harder and harder to solve and more complex as the week passes You can search by clue name, number or direction for example for 2 Across clue just type '2A' or '2D' for 2nd down clue.
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- Across
- 1a Scarecrow stuffingSTRAW
- 6a Ralph who ran for president four timesNADER
- 11a Some HP productsPCS
- 14a EbbABATE
- 15a Top-tier groupELITE
- 16a Tuna variety often used in sashimiAHI
- 17a On/off deviceLIGHTSWITCH
- 19a Empty space between thingsGAP
- 20a Something at either end of a hammock, oftenTREE
- 21a Brain tests, for shortEEGS
- 22a “10 ___ or less” (sign at checkout)ITEMS
- 24a Golf club for teeing offDRIVER
- 26a Small orchardGROVE
- 27a One with Q or Z is worth 10 pointsSCRABBLETILE
- 31a Audio genre designed to trigger tingling, for shortASMR
- 33a RegretRUE
- 34a PursueSEEK
- 35a Young Yorkie, e.g.PUP
- 36a Better halvesSPOUSES
- 40a Blue state?WOE
- 41a GPS guessesETAS
- 43a April 15 deadline org.IRS
- 44a The last “A” in N.C.A.A.: Abbr.ASSN
- 46a Cause of some rescreenings in an airportPOCKETCHANGE
- 50a Like many English bogsPEATY
- 51a Begin to grow choppersTEETHE
- 54a Measure around the middleGIRTH
- 55a Norse god of thunderTHOR
- 57a Agricultural localeFARM
- 59a Chicken ___ kingALA
- 60a “My sympathies” ? or what could be said of 17-, 27- and 46-AcrossIFEELFORYOU
- 63a Rapper Tone ___LOC
- 64a Reef materialCORAL
- 65a Winning Monopoly player’s collectionDEEDS
- 66a Had dinner, sayATE
- 67a TransmitsSENDS
- 68a Hockey feintsDEKES
- Down
- 1d Add some seasoning toSALT
- 2d Car in “Thelma & Louise,” informallyTBIRD
- 3d Wild partyRAGER
- 4d Faith no more?ATHEISM
- 5d More than dampWET
- 6d Big name in baseball capsNEWERA
- 7d Sacha Baron Cohen personaALIG
- 8d Counterpart of dahs, in Morse codeDITS
- 9d And more like that: Abbr.ETC
- 10d Put back on the payrollREHIRE
- 11d What search engine optimization hopes to increasePAGEVIEWS
- 12d Creature that blends into its surroundingsCHAMELEON
- 13d Drinks daintilySIPS
- 18d PrognosticatorSEER
- 23d Young ?unsTOTS
- 25d Bygone staples of home theaters, informallyVCRS
- 26d Utter delightGLEE
- 28d Item for a painter or hairstylistBRUSH
- 29d Vehicle to and from schoolBUS
- 30d Barely get, with “out”EKE
- 31d Someone who’s not thinking may be on thisAUTOPILOT
- 32d U.S./Soviet competition of the 1950s-?60sSPACERACE
- 35d Get-up-and-goPEP
- 37d “It’s a shame, really!”PITY
- 38d Monster of TolkiendomORC
- 39d Very wiseSAGE
- 42d 32-card card gameSKAT
- 45d LiberateSETFREE
- 47d Important consideration for A.I. programmersETHICS
- 48d Bikini and othersATOLLS
- 49d Spongy ball materialNERF
- 52d “Frida” star SalmaHAYEK
- 53d Slowly chip away atERODE
- 54d Fancy partyGALA
- 55d Gull relativeTERN
- 56d Lettuce unitHEAD
- 58d “No ___, no fuss!”MUSS
- 61d OpponentFOE
- 62d UnfamiliarODD