NYT Crossword August 7, 2026 Answers

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1A What suggests that relief is at hand? 10 11A Some 4 15A "News to me" 10 16A Shankar who co-composed the score for 1982's "Gandhi" 4 17A "Well, now everyone will know" 15 19A Family nickname 3 20A Spot for a light punishment 5 21A Eponym of U.S. track and field's Male Athlete of the Year Award 5 22A Member of the World Cup's "Tartan Army" fan base 4 23A Acronymic weapon 5 25A Tree whose name has multiple pronunciations 5 27A Laugh, laugh, laugh 8 30A Geneticist's finding 5 31A Wasteful government spending, informally 4 32A Big name in sandals 4 33A "It's ___ or nothin'!" (classic kids' commercial slogan) 4 34A Many of the characters in "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" 5 35A Word with block or platform 4 36A Tangy hybrid 4 37A Gobsmacks 4 38A Elephant mascot of the Alabama Crimson Tide 5 39A Elf, say 8 41A They may be covered 5 42A Opportunity on Mars, say 5 43A Piece of ice in the drink? 4 44A Name of "the other reindeer" in a common Christmas mondegreen 5 46A Waffle patterns 5 48A Where baked Alaska is believed to have been invented, oddly enough: Abbr. 3 51A Field you make tracks in 15 54A Blue rasp-"brr!"-y treat? 4 55A Flying nuisance 10 56A Besmirches 4 57A What someone might get quickly around lunchtime 10

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1D Sets (on) 4 2D Cuisine with the #1 dish in a CNN "World's 50 Best Foods" poll 4 3D Intruders in urban trash cans 4 4D Ones who might cut the line, in brief? 3 5D Ski slope vehicle 7 6D Lose affection for 6 7D Wiped out, in slang 5 8D Fusses 4 9D No-nos at some highway intersections 9 10D Trap neighbor 3 11D Relationship-defining question 11 12D Bejeweled target of a heist in "Ocean's Twelve" 10 13D McMullin of Utah politics 4 14D Features of some early presidential portraits 4 18D Whole lot 4 22D Films in which many stars might appear 11 24D Grills, say 4 25D Competitor of Rao's 5 26D One likely to be "healthy, wealthy and wise," per Benjamin Franklin 10 27D Vocal critic 5 28D Iris settings 5 29D Lofty 4 30D Bit of threaded hardware 4 31D Attempt to seize control 9 34D Perspective 4 38D One dish commonly in the 12-dish Sviata Vecheria, a traditional Ukrainian Christmas dinner 7 40D Faire ___ (get by with, in French) 4 41D Charm 6 43D European fixture 5 44D Skip over 4 45D Title boy in a 2021 Pixar film 4 47D Word that comes from Sanskrit for "bread" 4 48D Score somewhat akin to an A- 4 49D Flexible practice? 4 50D Website associated with the domain www.news.com 4 52D Tour org. 3 53D Fields Medal winner Terence 3