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SATURDAY STUMPER

Saturday, August 1, 2026 Constructed by Anna Stiga 72 clues
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Across

  1. Light structures 9 ℓ
  2. Believer's covering 5 ℓ
  3. Verbal matter of fact 9 ℓ
  4. Legend of transportation 5 ℓ
  5. Thwart 9 ℓ
  6. Open with effort 5 ℓ
  7. Big hit on the comics page 3 ℓ
  8. Quick lunch 3 ℓ
  9. Frightful outburst 3 ℓ
  10. Literary time 3 ℓ
  11. Courtroom outburst 4 ℓ
  12. Scamp 5 ℓ
  13. One on a limb 4 ℓ
  14. Union acquisition 5 ℓ
  15. Godzilla battler 4 ℓ
  16. Dieter's refusal 4 ℓ
  17. Ranges 6 ℓ
  18. Unlikely to cry 5 ℓ
  19. Discussion endorsement 15 ℓ
  20. Log jam user 5 ℓ
  21. First State school mascot, appropriately 6 ℓ
  22. Most-married (four times!) British queen 4 ℓ
  23. Quite the __ 4 ℓ
  24. Won't let it go 5 ℓ
  25. Highly attractive these days 4 ℓ
  26. Product of uranium decay 5 ℓ
  27. Gobi Desert's day 4 ℓ
  28. Mob scene 3 ℓ
  29. "Yuck!" 3 ℓ
  30. Seuss hopper's surface 3 ℓ
  31. Proving ground 3 ℓ
  32. Toon swimmer saying "If I become human..." 5 ℓ
  33. "Fuel vs. pleasure" maxim 9 ℓ
  34. Literary wife, the first American flapper 5 ℓ
  35. Didn't write off too quickly 9 ℓ
  36. High-spirited 5 ℓ
  37. Where inside info comes from 9 ℓ
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Down

  1. Long-term aspirations 8 ℓ
  2. Certain offshore harvester 6 ℓ
  3. High-fashion "Emporio" line 6 ℓ
  4. Crossword neighbor, often 6 ℓ
  5. D'__ peu (shortly) 3 ℓ
  6. Pillar of Islam 4 ℓ
  7. Enter 8 ℓ
  8. Cooled or refreshed 6 ℓ
  9. Moved with blades 5 ℓ
  10. Map name near Shell Key 4 ℓ
  11. What Q was added to, circa 1970 3 ℓ
  12. Earth's largest active erupter 8 ℓ
  13. About 27,000 gallons on the farm 8 ℓ
  14. Crib sheet user 3 ℓ
  15. Brit's blasted 6 ℓ
  16. Three NFL nicknames 7 ℓ
  17. Having bills 7 ℓ
  18. Without polish 7 ℓ
  19. Wild __ 4 ℓ
  20. Liquidation occasions 4 ℓ
  21. Biting work 6 ℓ
  22. Progress 8 ℓ
  23. Think the world of 8 ℓ
  24. Fashion rebel 8 ℓ
  25. Proving grounds 8 ℓ
  26. Flash 6 ℓ
  27. "Well-loved" lady 6 ℓ
  28. Deals too often with squeakers 6 ℓ
  29. Longish locks 6 ℓ
  30. Irish first name 5 ℓ
  31. Lambaste 4 ℓ
  32. Nursery array 4 ℓ
  33. Fired up 3 ℓ
  34. Very briefly, in a phrase 3 ℓ
  35. What St. Catherines is on right now 3 ℓ

About this puzzle

The Newsday Crossword for Saturday, August 1, 2026 is titled “SATURDAY STUMPER” and was constructed by Anna Stiga. The puzzle features 72 clues arranged in a 21×21 grid — the standard format for Sunday-size puzzles.

Click any clue above to view its dedicated answer page, which includes letter-by-letter analysis, the puzzle context, and a history of every other Newsday puzzle the same clue or answer has appeared in. To see the complete grid filled in with every answer, use the “Reveal grid” button at the top of the grid.

The Newsday Crossword is published daily by Newsday on Long Island and edited by Stan Newman. Difficulty builds across the week from a gentle Monday introduction up to Saturday’s legendary themeless Stumper. The official puzzle is available on the Newsday Games site. For other days, browse the complete Newsday Crossword archive indexed by date.

Newsday SATURDAY STUMPER Crossword August 1 2026 Answers