ON THE FARM: Keeping busy in various ways
Across
- Profit's counterpart
- Campaign button verb
- Be competitive with
- Insta posting
- 2-D measurement
- All excited
- Fancy flapjack
- Chris who's been Captain America
- Colt's comment
- Creating tourney charts
- Bunny's bounce
- Not long before now
- Marker brand
- Fine fabric
- Drop in the mail
- Halloween greeting
- May honoree
- Infiltrating agents
- Court precedent
- Luau entertainment
- Church niche
- Liquor barrel wood
- What boats are called
- Starting point
- Genealogy diagram
- __ Lanka
- Dublin's land
- Byproduct of cutting onions
- Put up a fuss
- Confucian concept
- Iditarod vehicle
- Note above fa
- Frosty beverage brand
- Nurturing a personal connection
- Taunting shout
- Irish New Age singer
- Tremendously
- Extremely long period
- Cutting back on expenses
- Undermine
- Coming soon
- Plumlike fruit
- Extra-wide shoe
- Toddler's minor scrape
- Sudden rush
- Alias introducer
- Grassy expanse
- "No thanks"
- Consider till morning
- Creating interpersonal tension
- Just barely
- Obviously embarrassed
- Dromedary feature
- Come to a close
- Zing
- SWAT team supply
- Strong denial
- Getting advantages from actions
- Foamy espresso
- Kind and thoughtful
- "Rubber Duckie" singer
- Word on Irish euros
- Quaint hotels
- Finds a sum
- Deep thinkers
- Knightly title
- Exhausted
Down
- Mascara locale
- Firehouse vehicle
- Capital of Taiwan
- Exceeded a budget
- __ cava (large blood vessel)
- Moral of a story
- Perfectly chosen
- Geese formation
- Tick off
- Alternative to Coke or Pepsi
- Deep-fried state fair snack
- Flow slowly
- Feeling down
- Canal country
- Good name for a pet Mexican lizard
- Corn discards
- Fully understands
- Backyard structures
- Gracefully athletic
- Esteemed people
- Doesn't share
- Motocross vehicle
- Shoelace annoyances
- Most unkind
- Enjoy bubble gum
- "Scram!"
- Roof sealer
- Thin opening
- Spiritual glow
- Alert to danger
- Porkers' pen
- Auto roof style
- Actor Morales
- Adam's third son
- Blunted blade
- Gray shade
- French king
- Director Kazan
- Kyoto cash
- Mystery writer's award
- Go back on a promise
- Urban centers
- Laundry appliance
- Nosed around
- Physician, informally
- Seasonal bug
- Bugs on a hill
- Tip of an ear
- Informal refusal
- Thing, in Italy
- Forbidden fruit locale
- Observed
- "Mambo King" Puente
- Trade for another
- Loch __ Monster
- Fuzzy fruit
- Confirmed as true
- Installed, as carpet
- Gives the green light
- Taste or touch
- Magazine sale
- Guys in rep management
- Farm business prefix
- Horseshoes shot
- Convex navels
- Some lawn mowers
- Squandered
- Canadian War Museum site
- Travels the seven seas
- Baseball card stats
- "Hey you!" whisper
- Europe's tallest volcano
- Freshener scent
- Permits
- Nickname like Dina
- Minor misstatement
- Bake sale offering
- Director Lee
- Chunk of history
About this puzzle
The Newsday Crossword for Sunday, July 5, 2026 is titled “ON THE FARM: Keeping busy in various ways” and was constructed by Guilherme Gilioli. The puzzle features 146 clues arranged in a 21×21 grid — the standard format for Sunday-size puzzles.
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