NYT Crossword hints and answer for August 30, 2026
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Clues140
Across61
Down79
TitleWritten in the Stars
Today’s NYT Crossword clues, hints & answers
Every clue from this puzzle with a hint and the answer behind separate buttons, so you only see what you need. Click a clue for its own page.
Across
1A
"Aladdin" villain (5)
Starts with J, ends with RJAFAR→
6A
"It's yours!" (4)
Starts with S, ends with DSOLD→
10A
Sarcastic "Sure" (4)
Starts with I, ends with TIBET→
14A
Heat setting, in brief? (3)
Starts with N, ends with ANBA→
17A
Dutch Caribbean isle (5)
Starts with A, ends with AARUBA→
18A
Explosive sound (6)
Starts with K, ends with MKABOOM→
20A
Lacking constraints (8)
Starts with F, ends with MFREEFORM→
22A
MARTIN SHEEN (12)
Starts with H, ends with EHENRIMATISSE→
24A
LIAM NEESON (8)
Starts with S, ends with OSALMINEO→
25A
Chef Hussain of "The Great British Bake Off" fame (6)
Starts with N, ends with ANADIYA→
26A
Discount Chinese e-tailer (4)
Starts with T, ends with UTEMU→
28A
Jumbo shrimp (5)
Starts with P, ends with NPRAWN→
29A
Ben & Jerry's alternative (4)
Starts with E, ends with SEDYS→
31A
Pink-slips (4)
Starts with C, ends with SCANS→
33A
NORMAN REEDUS (11)
Starts with D, ends with RDONNASUMMER→
37A
GREG KINNEAR (10)
Starts with R, ends with GREGINAKING→
40A
Conditions of equilibrium (6)
Starts with S, ends with SSTASES→
41A
Historian's division (3)
Starts with E, ends with AERA→
42A
Undying? (5)
Starts with A, ends with EALIVE→
43A
Offer illegally, as tickets (5)
Starts with S, ends with PSCALP→
45A
Publicly proclaim (4)
Starts with A, ends with WAVOW→
46A
Scatters messily (6)
Starts with S, ends with SSTREWS→
48A
MORGAN FREEMAN (13)
Starts with G, ends with NGEORGEFOREMAN→
55A
Class for some recent arrivals, for short (3)
Starts with E, ends with LESL→
56A
Kind of green (3)
Starts with P, ends with APEA→
59A
Chemist Lilly (3)
Starts with E, ends with IELI→
60A
Chilean poet who served as a Communist senator (6)
Starts with N, ends with ANERUDA→
61A
Four to two, e.g. (6)
Starts with S, ends with ESQUARE→
64A
Friar with a famous "razor" (5)
Starts with O, ends with MOCCAM→
68A
Turns on the waterworks (5)
Starts with C, ends with SCRIES→
69A
73A
2024's "Joker: ___ à Deux" (5)
Starts with F, ends with EFOLIE→
74A
Alfresco area (5)
Starts with P, ends with OPATIO→
75A
"Everything cool between us?" (6)
Starts with W, ends with DWEGOOD→
76A
Poorly nourished (6)
Starts with I, ends with DILLFED→
78A
Fill at a fill-up (3)
Starts with G, ends with SGAS→
80A
___ card (3)
Starts with S, ends with MSIM→
81A
Rite Aid rival (3)
Starts with C, ends with SCVS→
84A
CHRISTIAN SLATER (13)
Starts with E, ends with HELAINESTRITCH→
89A
City on the Illinois River (6)
Starts with P, ends with APEORIA→
92A
Grumpy grimace (4)
Starts with M, ends with EMOUE→
93A
Discontinued Swedish cars (5)
Starts with S, ends with SSAABS→
96A
Inauthentic (5)
Starts with P, ends with YPHONY→
97A
"Catch-22" topic (3)
Starts with W, ends with RWAR→
100A
Join, as two metal surfaces (6)
Starts with S, ends with RSOLDER→
102A
ISABELLA ROSSELLINI (10)
Starts with B, ends with NBRIELARSON→
104A
KEVIN KLINE (11)
Starts with E, ends with LEVELKNIEVEL→
107A
Erté's style, informally (4)
Starts with D, ends with ODECO→
108A
Canadian fuel brand (4)
Starts with E, ends with OESSO→
109A
All-vowel musical refrain (5)
Starts with E, ends with OEIEIO→
110A
Actress Falco with four Emmys (4)
Starts with E, ends with EEDIE→
112A
Sugary secretion (6)
Starts with N, ends with RNECTAR→
114A
BEA ARTHUR (8)
Starts with B, ends with HBABERUTH→
118A
MARLON BRANDO (12)
Starts with O, ends with MORLANDOBLOOM→
122A
Submitted by the deadline (8)
Starts with I, ends with EINONTIME→
123A
B.L.T. or P.B.J., cutesily (6)
Starts with S, ends with ESAMMIE→
124A
Musician/actress Haim (5)
Starts with A, ends with AALANA→
125A
Syllable of censure (3)
Starts with T, ends with KTSK→
126A
Instants (4)
Starts with S, ends with SSECS→
127A
High-protein bean (4)
Starts with S, ends with ASOYA→
128A
Big name in truck rentals (5)
Starts with R, ends with RRYDER→
Down
1D
God, to Bob Marley (3)
Starts with J, ends with HJAH→
2D
"___ you done?" (3)
Starts with A, ends with EARE→
3D
Musical comedy that was 1968's highest-grossing film (9)
Starts with F, ends with LFUNNYGIRL→
4D
Caustic (8)
Starts with A, ends with EABRASIVE→
5D
Bootlegger's concern (4)
Starts with R, ends with DRAID→
6D
Like 666, popularly (7)
Starts with S, ends with CSATANIC→
7D
Band that's big in Japan? (3)
Starts with O, ends with IOBI→
8D
Disoriented (4)
Starts with L, ends with TLOST→
9D
Administered, as a drug (5)
Starts with D, ends with DDOSED→
10D
Potentialities (3)
Starts with I, ends with SIFS→
11D
Something found under a top (3)
Starts with B, ends with ABRA→
12D
Wriggler in a stream (3)
Starts with E, ends with LEEL→
13D
"___ fugit" (6)
Starts with T, ends with STEMPUS→
14D
Star's opposite (6)
Starts with N, ends with ENONAME→
15D
Stout figure? (6)
Starts with B, ends with RBREWER→
16D
Supreme Egyptian god (6)
Starts with A, ends with AAMONRA→
18D
Inuit watercraft (6)
Starts with K, ends with SKAYAKS→
19D
Office messages (5)
Starts with M, ends with SMEMOS→
21D
Like some mattresses and offers (4)
Starts with F, ends with MFIRM→
23D
Mineral that makes cosmetics shimmer (4)
Starts with M, ends with AMICA→
27D
Remove an identifier from, as on Instagram (5)
Starts with U, ends with GUNTAG→
30D
Shoulder press targets, to trainers (5)
Starts with D, ends with SDELTS→
32D
Hit a ___ (4)
Starts with S, ends with GSNAG→
34D
Where a flock may gather (4)
Starts with N, ends with ENAVE→
35D
Beginning on (4)
Starts with A, ends with FASOF→
36D
Attach with a needle and thread (5)
Starts with S, ends with NSEWON→
38D
Unused (3)
Starts with N, ends with WNEW→
39D
Extreme happiness (4)
Starts with G, ends with EGLEE→
44D
Double-breasted pieces of menswear (9)
Starts with P, ends with SPOLOCOATS→
47D
Trigger (4)
Starts with S, ends with RSPUR→
49D
Like Scrooge McDuck (4)
Starts with R, ends with HRICH→
50D
Right-hand page of a book (5)
Starts with R, ends with ORECTO→
51D
Made muffs (5)
Starts with E, ends with DERRED→
52D
John ___ Day (California commemoration) (4)
Starts with M, ends with RMUIR→
53D
Citrus refreshments (4)
Starts with A, ends with SADES→
54D
"N.Y. State of Mind" rapper (3)
Starts with N, ends with SNAS→
57D
1994 Costner title role (4)
Starts with E, ends with PEARP→
58D
Diva's time to shine (4)
Starts with A, ends with AARIA→
61D
"Dune" genre (5)
Starts with S, ends with ISCIFI→
62D
Mary or Elizabeth (5)
Starts with Q, ends with NQUEEN→
63D
Towering creature in "The Two Towers" (3)
Starts with E, ends with TENT→
65D
Sound in a cornfield (3)
Starts with C, ends with WCAW→
66D
Half brother of Apollo (4)
Starts with A, ends with SARES→
67D
Christmas presence? (4)
Starts with M, ends with IMAGI→
69D
Sushi bar serving (4)
Starts with R, ends with LROLL→
70D
Jazz great Fitzgerald (4)
Starts with E, ends with AELLA→
71D
Along with "CODA" and "Argo," the only other four-letter Best Picture winner (4)
Starts with G, ends with IGIGI→
72D
Give gratis (4)
Starts with C, ends with PCOMP→
73D
Shakespearean shout (3)
Starts with F, ends with EFIE→
77D
That's the spirit! (5)
Starts with D, ends with NDEMON→
79D
Strike defier (4)
Starts with S, ends with BSCAB→
81D
Part of an intersection (9)
Starts with C, ends with DCROSSROAD→
82D
Barolos e Brunellos (5)
Starts with V, ends with SVINOS→
83D
Turn someone down (5)
Starts with S, ends with OSAYNO→
85D
Unshared numbers (4)
Starts with S, ends with ISOLI→
86D
Hostile manner, informally (4)
Starts with T, ends with ETUDE→
87D
Actor and disability activist Christopher (5)
Starts with R, ends with EREEVE→
88D
Like some liquors (4)
Starts with H, ends with DHARD→
90D
Org. regulating air quality (3)
Starts with E, ends with AEPA→
91D
"You sure about that?" (8)
Starts with O, ends with YOHREALLY→
94D
Periods of 730 days (7)
Starts with B, ends with ABIENNIA→
95D
Withdraw from a union (6)
Starts with S, ends with ESECEDE→
97D
Teensy amount (6)
Starts with W, ends with TWEEBIT→
98D
Feathered fliers (6)
Starts with A, ends with SAVIANS→
99D
Shoe brand named for an antelope (6)
Starts with R, ends with KREEBOK→
100D
Hybrid tennis bottoms (6)
Starts with S, ends with SSKORTS→
101D
Second tries (5)
Starts with R, ends with SREDOS→
103D
El Pollo ___ (chicken chain) (4)
Starts with L, ends with OLOCO→
105D
Creditor's claim (4)
Starts with L, ends with NLIEN→
106D
Turkish money (5)
Starts with L, ends with SLIRAS→
111D
Fad toy of 1996 (4)
Starts with E, ends with OELMO→
113D
Snowboarder's transport (4)
Starts with T, ends with RTBAR→
115D
Often-illegal turn, slangily (3)
Starts with U, ends with EUIE→
116D
Cinephile's cable choice (3)
Starts with T, ends with CTMC→
117D
Boars and bulls (3)
Starts with H, ends with SHES→
119D
Comedian Sedaris (3)
Starts with A, ends with YAMY→
120D
I, to Augustus (3)
Starts with O, ends with EONE→
121D
Smudge or smear, say (3)
Starts with M, ends with RMAR→
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How many clues are in the NYT Crossword for August 30, 2026?+
140 clues: 61 Across and 79 Down. The puzzle was constructed by Daniel Grinberg and edited by Will Shortz.
What are some answers in today’s NYT Crossword?+
For example: "Aladdin" villain (JAFAR); "It's yours!" (SOLD); Sarcastic "Sure" (IBET).
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