NYT Crossword July 6, 2026 Answers

Across

1A Long, detailed tales 5 6A Binds together 4 10A Russia's Peter the Great, e.g. 4 14A Hertz competitor 5 15A Muppet with a noted feud with a pet rock 4 16A Jane Austen title character 4 17A Event that might include juggling, singing and magic tricks 10 19A ___ wave (summer phenomenon) 4 20A Northern neighbor of Namibia 6 21A Eat, as cattle might 5 22A Serpent seen on a sarcophagus 3 24A Looks of total confusion 11 27A Calm, as a lake 6 29A Bard of ___, nickname for Shakespeare 4 30A Intellectual thoroughness 5 31A Olden days 4 33A Texter's "If you ask me …" 3 36A Three-part fire safety technique 15 40A Opposite of NNW 3 41A Give the boot 4 42A When farmers typically wake up 5 43A Flatbread with a palindromic name 4 45A Steve ___, 2003 N.F.L. M.V.P.-winning quarterback 6 46A 2009 comedy about a bachelor party and its aftermath 11 51A Golf ball holder 3 52A Colorful glows 5 53A Grapefruit relative 6 55A Some urban pollution 4 56A Sections of a choir .... as hinted at by this puzzle's circled letters 10 60A It comes and goes each day 4 61A "Frozen" princess 4 62A Hall-of-Fame hoopster Thomas 5 63A Where Eve reached for the forbidden fruit 4 64A Grammy-winning singer Lisa 4 65A Like the crying face emoji 5

Down

1D Used a chair 3 2D In the manner of 3 3D Archipelago that helped shape Darwin's "On the Origin of Species" 9 4D Prayer ender 4 5D Nuthatch or nightingale 8 6D Cybertruck maker 5 7D ___ Omar, first Somali American in Congress 5 8D Angsty subculture 3 9D Piglet's mother 3 10D Capital city between Baghdad, Iraq, and Ashgabat, Turkmenistan 10 11D Negative attack on a political opponent 5 12D Knock the socks off 5 13D Parking garage listing 5 18D Relayed, as a story 4 21D 1960s Pontiac muscle car 3 22D Auto loan figs. 4 23D Cuts open, as an envelope 5 25D 24-___ gold 5 26D "Frozen" reindeer 4 28D European capital that's home to the Little Mermaid statue 10 31D Offspring 5 32D Word after black or special 3 34D Temporary suspensions 9 35D Basic skateboarding jump 5 37D Singer Chappell with the double-platinum album "The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess" 4 38D Dilapidated 8 39D Instrument played by a Muse 4 44D Some small batteries 3 45D Modern lead-in to coin or stock 4 46D One of the five senses 5 47D Like sticky summer weather 5 48D Wash away 5 49D Express one's thoughts 5 50D Words of interest to a language learner, informally 5 54D Operate on using a beam 4 56D Actor Kilmer 3 57D The Yoko of "Dear Yoko" 3 58D Paver's goop 3 59D Like a shrinking violet 3