NYT Crossword August 5, 2026 Answers

Across

1A With 6-Across, #1 hit 5 6A – 6 12A With 14-Across, ultimately fruitless 7 14A – 7 15A With 16-Across, beverage sold in pastel-colored cans 7 16A – 7 17A With 18-Across, measures of search engine optimization 4 18A – 5 20A With 22-Across, pocket ID holder 4 22A – 4 26A With 28-Across, temple services? 4 28A – 8 32A With 34-Across, sequestration of a greenhouse gas 6 34A – 7 35A With 36-Across, sparsely populated African land 7 36A – 6 37A With 39-Across, web crawlers, e.g. 8 39A – 4 40A With 41-Across, loses all one's dough 4 41A – 4 43A With 46-Across, Starbuck vis-à-vis Captain Ahab 5 46A – 4 50A With 54-Across, math that underpins computer logic 7 54A – 7 57A With 58-Across, member of the last undefeated N.C.A.A. Division I men's basketball team (1976) 7 58A – 7 59A With 60-Across, tallies attendees 6 60A – 5

Down

1D Michael of "Barbie" 4 2D Alexander who served under Reagan, Nixon and Ford 4 3D Axlike tool depicted in hieroglyphs 4 4D City on Guanabara Bay, familiarly 3 5D Paramount ancestor, in brief 3 6D Apt rhyme of "clock" 4 7D Isn't settled up 4 8D High degree 3 9D Word with project or peeve 3 10D Before, in a hymnbook 3 11D Stephen of "V for Vendetta" 3 12D One of 25 in a track 10K 3 13D Actress Teri 4 14D Writer Anaïs whose name is hidden in this clue 3 19D Capt.'s superior 3 20D Pole tossed in a Scottish game 5 21D Beautify 5 22D Stone figure? 5 23D Petri dish gels 5 24D Company that debuted Sonic the Hedgehog 4 25D Legal termination? 3 26D Proverbial waste maker 5 27D Some Deco works 5 29D "Well, I have to save my ___" (Shrek line) 3 30D Total guesses 5 31D "Ooh-la-la!" 5 32D Our "-zoic" 4 33D Florence-to-Venice dir. 3 35D Part of a George Washington costume (though he rarely wore one) 3 38D Cable channel with many reruns 3 42D Site of the 2002 and 2034 Winter Olympics 4 43D Big success 4 44D Actors McKellen and McShane 4 45D Messenger ___ 3 46D Imbroglio 4 47D Rose's lover of 1920s Broadway 4 48D Número de Caballeros in a 1944 film 4 49D Something that may be lent or bent 3 50D Pen letters? 3 51D Musical Yoko 3 52D Sch. in Norfolk, Va. 3 53D "Hamilton" star ___-Manuel Miranda 3 55D Apt name for a groundskeeper? 3 56D Word that becomes its own synonym when "p" is added to the end 3