SPENDABLES
Across
- Theater platform
- Joke around
- 16-oz. measures
- Grannies
- Voice of iPads
- Woodwind instrument
- House's upper storage area
- Messy stack
- Donut's center
- Midday
- What spaghetti is made with
- Peach's center
- Pig's complaints
- With a beach-surface hue
- Evaluates, with "out"
- Eight-person band
- Eve's eldest
- Highly elegant
- Draw with crayons
- Crunchy sandwich, for short
- Insect in a cocoon
- Music staff symbol
- Play hide-and-__
- Single-handedly
- Really small
- Stick (to)
- Furious feeling
- Tale from Aesop
- Shoes worn by Elvis
- Strauss of jeans
- Spoken exam
- Make simpler
- In unison
- Pretrial court payment
- Thin-boned
- Traditional Native American tent
- Two letters in "hello"
- Small child
- Letters before tees
Down
- Ginger cookie
- Typical high-schooler
- Songs for a single person
- Paperless novel
- A Boy Named Sue" singer
- Fluid transfer tube
- In __ of (replacing)
- Make a getaway
- Manner of walking
- Pantry pests
- "Bye-bye!"
- Be boastful
- Took a photo of
- The "D" in CD
- Much-admired person
- Norway's capital
- Initial poker payment
- Nonsensical
- Monthly payments for calling and texting
- Slightly chilly
- Pet shelter org.
- Walk off with
- "...lived happily __ after"
- Pine or oak
- First lessons in reading
- Fishing pole spool
- Cost to ride a bus
- Most recent
- Candidates' discussion
- Line on a list
- Untamed, as cats
- To no __ (fruitless)
- Leg joint
- Glances at
- Police officers, informally
- Draws upon
- "What time __?"
- Angelic circle
- Place for an earring
About this puzzle
The Newsday Crossword for Tuesday, July 21, 2026 is titled “SPENDABLES” and was constructed by Guilherme Gilioli. The puzzle features 78 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.