New York Times Crossword Puzzle Answers Today 07/05/2026. The July 05 2026 Puzzle Answers are listed below in such order that they are easy to find.
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- Across
- 1a Firm upSTIFFEN
- 8a Capital city on the Gulf of GuineaACCRA
- 13a Gamer’s pursuitESPORT
- 19a Aid for a violin playerCHINREST
- 20a Crocs and mocsSHOES
- 21a Kind of costume that includes a round hat and kerchiefSAILOR
- 22a {Elijah, Ruth, Natalie}BABEINTHEWOODS
- 24a “Send a quick reminder”PINGME
- 25a “___ it and rip it!” (aggressive golfer’s mantra)GRIP
- 26a Org. for those leaving the workforceAARP
- 27a Product displays seen at entrances to store aislesENDCAPS
- 28a {Kerouac, Dubya, Ginsberg}BEATSAROUNDTHEBUSH
- 35a ColoredHUED
- 36a Org. that accepts returnsIRS
- 37a GrindersHEROS
- 41a {WC, AC, DC}POWERBEHINDTHETHRONE
- 49a Jewish mysticism, in one spellingKABALA
- 50a Love, in LimaAMOR
- 51a Card game whose name is shoutedUNO
- 52a Knee part often torn by athletes, in briefACL
- 53a At any timeEVER
- 54a Small test subjectsLABRATS
- 57a Enforcer of traveling restrictions, informally?NBAREF
- 60a “The Second Coming” poet, 1919YEATS
- 62a Ragú competitorPREGO
- 63a The Shakespearean version of this has three quatrains followed by a coupletSONNET
- 66a {Bonnie, Oscar, Clyde}HONORAMONGTHIEVES
- 70a Some salon tasksRINSES
- 71a “Hammerin’ Hank” of baseballAARON
- 72a Allow someone to passYIELD
- 75a 30-ounce Starbucks sizeTRENTA
- 78a Old Testament patriarchABRAHAM
- 80a Close byNEAR
- 81a Early email providerAOL
- 82a Rightmost hour on a grandfather clockIII
- 85a Neighbor of an EstonianLETT
- 86a Evening that a couple spends together, sayUSTIME
- 88a {Larry, Sue, Emma}TWOBIRDSWITHONESTONE
- 94a Mexican misterSENOR
- 95a Veer, as a shipYAW
- 96a Org. concerned with plantsOSHA
- 97a {Cinnabon, Kool-Aid, Hi-C}ROLLWITHTHEPUNCHES
- 107a Powerhouse in English footballARSENAL
- 110a Home to Waikiki BeachOAHU
- 111a California’s ___ LindaLOMA
- 112a Rested atopLAIDON
- 113a {Landfill, goose feathers, junkyard}DOWNINTHEDUMPS
- 119a Pay no mind toIGNORE
- 120a Longtime Tribeca restaurant where some say the Cosmopolitan was invented, with “the”ODEON
- 121a Thousands of binary digitsKILOBITS
- 122a Was overflowingTEEMED
- 123a Van Halen of Van HalenEDDIE
- 124a Extended voyageODYSSEY
- Down
- 1d Angel’s ___ (distiller’s term for the whiskey that evaporates during aging)SHARE
- 2d ShinboneTIBIA
- 3d Completely incompetentINEPT
- 4d Time for Sat. prep?FRI
- 5d MarshlandFEN
- 6d Suffix for superlativesEST
- 7d Unspecified member of a seriesNTH
- 8d Nile damASWAN
- 9d Triad, e.g.CHORD
- 10d AssumeCOOPT
- 11d Lead-in to River or RoverRED
- 12d DummkopfASS
- 13d Broadcaster of many an N.C.A.A. gameESPNU
- 14d Called for quietSAIDSHH
- 15d Penny ___ (miser)PINCHER
- 16d Lingerie brand with a Slavic-sounding nameOLGA
- 17d Fun timeROMP
- 18d “___ bon!”TRES
- 19d Bygone N.Y.C. music venue with rhyming initialsCBGB
- 23d Wisconsin’s ___ ClaireEAU
- 27d Buddy of “The Beverly Hillbillies”EBSEN
- 29d Apt name for a conchologist?SHEL
- 30d Ear-relatedAURAL
- 31d Yank’s Civil War foeREB
- 32d What has flatter feet?ODE
- 33d Achieve success, so to speakHIT
- 34d Chinese instrument with two stringsERHU
- 38d Sound of an approaching subway trainROAR
- 39d Start of a reminiscenceONCE
- 40d Word with confidence or checkoutSELF
- 41d Do some roadwork onPAVE
- 42d Folk religion akin to voodooOBEAH
- 43d Battered by battleWARTORN
- 44d Women’s areas in old Muslim palacesHAREMS
- 45d Last stage of an insect’s developmentIMAGO
- 46d “No way, no how!”NOTONABET
- 47d Neurosurgeons, e.g.: Abbr.DRS
- 48d Metric unit of weightTONNE
- 49d Map legendKEY
- 55d Figs. related to car loansAPRS
- 56d Scottish hillBRAE
- 58d Big bunchBEVY
- 59d ErodedATEINTO
- 61d Pouty moodSNIT
- 63d Lead-in to sphere, in the atmosphereSTRATO
- 64d “Hey! I know the answer!”OHOH
- 65d Atlantic crosser of 1492NINA
- 67d Sign outside a broadcast boothONAIR
- 68d Wayne’s buddy in “Wayne’s World”GARTH
- 69d AdmitSEEIN
- 73d Really weak, as an excuseLAME
- 74d Beats by ___ (audio brand)DRE
- 75d They might be up in arms, informallyTATS
- 76d T. ___ Price (investment firm)ROWE
- 77d “I bought this before ___ went crazy” (rueful bumper sticker on a Tesla)ELON
- 78d He was né ClayALI
- 79d ___ pork (dish in a Chinese restaurant)MUSHU
- 83d Tale of rustic lifeIDYLL
- 84d “Vidi,” in Caesar’s boastISAW
- 87d Satirist FrebergSTAN
- 89d You won’t actually die of itBOREDOM
- 90d Rocks smelted to make steelIRONORE
- 91d Conflict sparked by an archduke’s assassination: Abbr.WWI
- 92d San Francisco’s ___ ValleyNOE
- 93d Madrid’s land, in the OlympicsESP
- 98d Like Olympic poolsLANED
- 99d Like some cars parked next to “No Parking” signsTOWED
- 100d Vietnam’s capitalHANOI
- 101d Old-fashioned “your”THINE
- 102d Soldier for AttilaHUN
- 103d Black suitCLUBS
- 104d Good palHOMIE
- 105d Out of gasEMPTY
- 106d LipSASS
- 107d Settled down, in a wayALIT
- 108d All the ___RAGE
- 109d Kind of waveSINE
- 113d Last name for an unnamed personDOE
- 114d CuriousODD
- 115d Ring result, in briefTKO
- 116d Secreted awayHID
- 117d Ron who played TarzanELY
- 118d Two in TijuanaDOS