NYT Crossword hints and answer for July 6, 2026
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Clues74
Across35
Down39
ConstructorAlex Eaton-Salners
Today’s NYT Crossword clues, hints & answers
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Across
1A
Long, detailed tales (5)
Starts with S, ends with SSAGAS→
6A
Binds together (4)
Starts with T, ends with STIES→
10A
Russia's Peter the Great, e.g. (4)
Starts with T, ends with RTSAR→
14A
Hertz competitor (5)
Starts with A, ends with OALAMO→
15A
Muppet with a noted feud with a pet rock (4)
Starts with E, ends with OELMO→
16A
Jane Austen title character (4)
Starts with E, ends with AEMMA→
17A
Event that might include juggling, singing and magic tricks (10)
Starts with T, ends with WTALENTSHOW→
19A
___ wave (summer phenomenon) (4)
Starts with H, ends with THEAT→
20A
Northern neighbor of Namibia (6)
Starts with A, ends with AANGOLA→
21A
Eat, as cattle might (5)
Starts with G, ends with EGRAZE→
22A
Serpent seen on a sarcophagus (3)
Starts with A, ends with PASP→
24A
Looks of total confusion (11)
Starts with B, ends with SBLANKSTARES→
27A
Calm, as a lake (6)
Starts with P, ends with DPLACID→
29A
Bard of ___, nickname for Shakespeare (4)
Starts with A, ends with NAVON→
30A
Intellectual thoroughness (5)
Starts with R, ends with RRIGOR→
31A
Olden days (4)
Starts with Y, ends with EYORE→
33A
Texter's "If you ask me …" (3)
Starts with I, ends with OIMO→
36A
Three-part fire safety technique (15)
Starts with S, ends with LSTOPDROPANDROLL→
40A
Opposite of NNW (3)
Starts with S, ends with ESSE→
41A
Give the boot (4)
Starts with O, ends with TOUST→
42A
When farmers typically wake up (5)
Starts with E, ends with YEARLY→
43A
Flatbread with a palindromic name (4)
Starts with N, ends with NNAAN→
45A
Steve ___, 2003 N.F.L. M.V.P.-winning quarterback (6)
Starts with M, ends with RMCNAIR→
46A
2009 comedy about a bachelor party and its aftermath (11)
Starts with T, ends with RTHEHANGOVER→
51A
Golf ball holder (3)
Starts with T, ends with ETEE→
52A
Colorful glows (5)
Starts with A, ends with SAURAS→
53A
Grapefruit relative (6)
Starts with P, ends with OPOMELO→
55A
Some urban pollution (4)
Starts with S, ends with GSMOG→
56A
Sections of a choir .... as hinted at by this puzzle's circled letters (10)
Starts with V, ends with SVOICEPARTS→
60A
It comes and goes each day (4)
Starts with T, ends with ETIDE→
61A
"Frozen" princess (4)
Starts with A, ends with AANNA→
62A
Hall-of-Fame hoopster Thomas (5)
Starts with I, ends with HISIAH→
63A
Where Eve reached for the forbidden fruit (4)
Starts with E, ends with NEDEN→
64A
Grammy-winning singer Lisa (4)
Starts with L, ends with BLOEB→
65A
Like the crying face emoji (5)
Starts with T, ends with YTEARY→
Down
1D
Used a chair (3)
Starts with S, ends with TSAT→
2D
In the manner of (3)
Starts with A, ends with AALA→
3D
Archipelago that helped shape Darwin's "On the Origin of Species" (9)
Starts with G, ends with SGALAPAGOS→
4D
Prayer ender (4)
Starts with A, ends with NAMEN→
5D
Nuthatch or nightingale (8)
Starts with S, ends with DSONGBIRD→
6D
Cybertruck maker (5)
Starts with T, ends with ATESLA→
7D
___ Omar, first Somali American in Congress (5)
Starts with I, ends with NILHAN→
8D
Angsty subculture (3)
Starts with E, ends with OEMO→
9D
Piglet's mother (3)
Starts with S, ends with WSOW→
10D
Capital city between Baghdad, Iraq, and Ashgabat, Turkmenistan (10)
Starts with T, ends with NTEHRANIRAN→
11D
Negative attack on a political opponent (5)
Starts with S, ends with RSMEAR→
12D
Knock the socks off (5)
Starts with A, ends with EAMAZE→
13D
Parking garage listing (5)
Starts with R, ends with SRATES→
18D
Relayed, as a story (4)
Starts with T, ends with DTOLD→
21D
1960s Pontiac muscle car (3)
Starts with G, ends with OGTO→
22D
Auto loan figs. (4)
Starts with A, ends with SAPRS→
23D
Cuts open, as an envelope (5)
Starts with S, ends with SSLITS→
25D
24-___ gold (5)
Starts with K, ends with TKARAT→
26D
"Frozen" reindeer (4)
Starts with S, ends with NSVEN→
28D
European capital that's home to the Little Mermaid statue (10)
Starts with C, ends with NCOPENHAGEN→
31D
Offspring (5)
Starts with Y, ends with GYOUNG→
32D
Word after black or special (3)
Starts with O, ends with SOPS→
34D
Temporary suspensions (9)
Starts with M, ends with AMORATORIA→
35D
Basic skateboarding jump (5)
Starts with O, ends with EOLLIE→
37D
Singer Chappell with the double-platinum album "The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess" (4)
Starts with R, ends with NROAN→
38D
Dilapidated (8)
Starts with D, ends with TDECREPIT→
39D
Instrument played by a Muse (4)
Starts with L, ends with ELYRE→
44D
Some small batteries (3)
Starts with A, ends with SAAS→
45D
Modern lead-in to coin or stock (4)
Starts with M, ends with EMEME→
46D
One of the five senses (5)
Starts with T, ends with ETASTE→
47D
Like sticky summer weather (5)
Starts with H, ends with DHUMID→
48D
Wash away (5)
Starts with E, ends with EERODE→
49D
Express one's thoughts (5)
Starts with O, ends with EOPINE→
50D
Words of interest to a language learner, informally (5)
Starts with V, ends with BVOCAB→
54D
Operate on using a beam (4)
Starts with L, ends with ELASE→
56D
Actor Kilmer (3)
Starts with V, ends with LVAL→
57D
The Yoko of "Dear Yoko" (3)
Starts with O, ends with OONO→
58D
Paver's goop (3)
Starts with T, ends with RTAR→
59D
Like a shrinking violet (3)
Starts with S, ends with YSHY→
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How many clues are in the NYT Crossword for July 6, 2026?+
74 clues: 35 Across and 39 Down. The puzzle was constructed by Alex Eaton-Salners and edited by Will Shortz.
What are some answers in today’s NYT Crossword?+
For example: Long, detailed tales (SAGAS); Binds together (TIES); Russia's Peter the Great, e.g. (TSAR).
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