NYT Crossword August 2, 2026 Answers

Across

1A Pen name 3 4A Garment whose name is a homophone for a board game 4 8A Keywords accompanying a YouTube video, say 4 12A Bellyaches 5 17A Listing of what's on tap 4 18A Story 4 19A It's right around the present 4 20A Phone notifications 6 22A "For our ad, how should we list the car that we found in the ditch?" 14 25A Massachusetts city named for a colonial patriot 6 26A Like phone numbers in infomercials 8 27A Team players 8 29A Boggy place 3 30A Rightmost word on the front of a penny 5 31A Their horns don't honk 4 33A Kerfuffles 4 34A Moccasin decoration 4 35A "Physics is like ___: Sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it" (quote attributed to Richard Feynman) 3 36A Ankle part 6 39A "… and how do we add that it was just struck by lightning?" 9 41A "You will be ___" 6 42A What's to be with Québec? 4 43A Focus of many a small private college 4 44A "… and that the tailpipe is dragging on the ground?" 12 49A 19th-century school item 5 51A Emulates Cicero 6 52A Food or water 4 54A Cover with a black rectangle, say 6 58A Useful pointers? 5 59A Rascal 5 62A Tech models since 1998 5 65A Country with the all-time greatest number of medals at the Winter Olympics: Abbr. 3 66A Quickbeam and Leaflock, in fantasy 4 67A "… and what about the leaky roof?" 11 69A Point of intersection 4 70A "Here ___!" 3 71A Mideast language 5 72A Surprising result 5 73A Pretend 5 74A Achilles, e.g. 6 76A Family nickname comparable to the Yiddish "bubbe" 4 78A Smooth, now 6 79A Gains prominence 5 82A "… and the broken door locks?" 12 86A "___ just in …" 4 88A Big name in plastic 4 90A Rudimentary seeds 6 91A "… and the defective speaker system?" 9 93A Rudimentary 6 94A Calling card, for short? 3 97A Safari destinations? 4 98A Drink in a red, white and blue cup 4 99A Donahue on TV Guide's list of "50 Greatest TV Stars of All Time" 4 100A Yemeni neighbor 5 102A Old gridiron org. for the Boston Patriots 3 103A End of "Our Town" or "A Doll's House" 8 105A Spectacular flops 8 108A Upholsterer's sample 6 110A "… and finally, the missing front tires?" 14 112A Capital of Zimbabwe 6 113A Pupil's surroundings 4 114A Like toms and drakes 4 115A State as fact 4 116A U-Haul alternative 5 117A Legend who occasionally used his head to achieve greatness 4 118A SoCal sch. 4 119A Pink part of a Mr. Potato Head set 3

Down

1D Caption below the first of two photos 6 2D Opposite of exodus 6 3D Dumbbell exercises 5 4D Giant or dwarf 4 5D ___-de-camp 4 6D Backs out, say 8 7D Indignation 3 8D Ninnies 5 9D What someone flat-footed lacks 4 10D Like an honorable knight 7 11D They might be on one's radar 8 12D Pet 6 13D Porters, for example 4 14D Race prior to a race? 3 15D Fifth-year student leader at Hogwarts 7 16D Barely runs? 7 17D Fruit snack brand 5 21D Excites 5 23D Again and again, in verse 8 24D Over-the-top performers 4 28D Item on a rack 5 32D Mercedes alternative 4 34D Idly doodling, maybe 5 37D How the car in this puzzle's theme would be sold 4 38D Blog feed letters 3 40D Disrelishes and then some 5 41D Hands (out) 5 42D Linguistic suffix 3 44D "Fabulous!" 6 45D It has a rind but supposedly no rhyme 6 46D Deliberately malicious 6 47D Opposite of "You'll pay for that!"? 4 48D God who aids the Trojan fleet in the first book of the "Aeneid" 7 50D Long stories have them 4 53D Runs out of gas 4 55D Divinely elect 6 56D Old yeller? 6 57D Faddish 6 59D California's Big ___ 3 60D Keeps in the loop, electronically 3 61D Similar (to) 4 63D Pioneering astronaut Jemison 3 64D "The Good Wife" figure: Abbr. 3 67D Declares off limits 4 68D Fix a litter problem? 4 69D Show signs 5 71D Palm off (on) 5 73D Mooch 8 75D Hangs on a clothesline 5 77D Isis Naija Gaston, ___ Ice Spice 3 78D Madonna's "La ___ Bonita" 4 80D Kick out 5 81D Planned detour 8 83D "Shark Tank" shark Greiner 4 84D Horror franchise that includes 1992's "Army of Darkness" 8 85D It all adds up to this 3 86D "West Side Story" conflict 7 87D Edmund who wrote "View From the Summit" 7 89D "Now, wait just one minute!" 7 91D Suppress 5 92D Like cheesecake vis-à-vis sponge cake 6 93D "That was a close one!" 4 94D What wets the appetite? 6 95D "The idea!" 6 96D Penny pincher 5 99D Intrinsically 5 101D Jazz singer Carmen 5 103D Part of a plot, at times 4 104D The third one is dangerous 4 106D Once-common fish in the Thames 4 107D Veal cordon ___ 4 109D Smidgen 3 111D Inits. at sea 3