Daily Themed Crossword Answers
Complete answers for today's puzzle
Welcome to DailyThemedCrossword.info — your go-to source for complete Daily Themed Crossword answers. Every day we publish all clue solutions for the main puzzle and the mini crossword, updated as soon as each puzzle is released. Whether you are stuck on a single clue or want to check your entire grid, every answer is here on one clean page — no sign-up, no countdowns.
The Daily Themed Crossword by PlaySimple Games is one of the most popular daily crossword apps on iOS and Android. Each puzzle features a new theme connecting many of the answers — you might be solving a puzzle about Classic Films, Olympic Sports, or World Capitals, and the theme provides useful context for tricky clues. The main puzzle typically contains 60–70 clues, while the daily mini crossword is a shorter warm-up with around 10–15 clues. Both are fully covered here.
This site holds a complete archive of every Daily Themed Crossword puzzle going back to October 2017 — over 3,100 puzzles in total. You can browse by date, search any clue or answer across the full history, or jump to a specific puzzle using the archive. The search tool on this page covers all 142,688 clue-answer pairs: if a clue has appeared in any Daily Themed Crossword since 2017, you will find it here.
Answers are published as early as possible on the day of release. If today's puzzle has not yet appeared, the most recent available answers are shown automatically.
All 69 Clue Answers — August 7, 2026
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| # | Clue | Answer |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Driving way below the speed limit say | SLOW |
| 2 | Missing from military duty say: Abbr. | AWOL |
| 3 | Winning call for a boxer: Abbr. | TKO |
| 4 | ___ five (celebratory hand-slap) | HIGH |
| 5 | Speed contest like Tour de France or the Derby e.g. | RACE |
| 6 | Ben-___ (1959 epic film) | HUR |
| 7 | Prefix with copter for a type of aircraft | HELI |
| 8 | ___ and George the Weasley twins from Harry Potter | FRED |
| 9 | Semi-circle shape | ARC |
| 10 | Sinks below the horizon like the sun | SETS |
| 11 | Think you know your colors? Think again! This fuchsia color has no visible wavelength. Your brain creates it by blending red and blue light! | MAGENTA |
| 12 | Pollution-control organization (anagram of pea): Abbr. | EPA |
| 13 | Las Vegas' state for short | NEV |
| 14 | Wee bit | TAD |
| 15 | Bodega convenience: Abbr. | ATM |
| 16 | Mini mischief-makers | IMPS |
| 17 | Just ___ suspected!: 2 wds. | ASI |
| 18 | ___ Lung Kung Fu Panda antagonist | TAI |
| 19 | This darkest color only actually appears when almost no visible light reaches your eyes | BLACK |
| 20 | Zap with a stun gun | TASE |
| 21 | What a box on a calendar represents | DAY |
| 22 | ___: Miami (TV series): Abbr. | CSI |
| 23 | Urgent police alert: Abbr. | APB |
| 24 | ___ Miz (popular musical informally) | LES |
| 25 | This heat-carrying electromagnetic radiation band exists beyond the wavelength of red light and can only be felt as warmth not seen | INFRARED |
| 26 | Eye shutters | LIDS |
| 27 | Bygone TV-show-taping device: Abbr. | VCR |
| 28 | Practice with a cat-cow pose | YOGA |
| 29 | ___ lot (gorged oneself): 2 wds. | ATEA |
| 30 | Toy battery size letters | AAA |
| 31 | Smallest prime number | TWO |
| 32 | This flamingo tint has no single wavelength because it is created by your brain to interpret red mixed with violet | PINK |
| 33 | Cole who was King | NAT |
| 34 | Roll-___ (certain deodorants) | ONS |
| 35 | TV's Science Guy | NYE |
| 36 | Hush please! | SHH |
| 37 | False statements | LIES |
| 38 | Stare in a not-so-subtle way | OGLE |
| 39 | This snowy bright color only appears when many visible wavelengths reach your eyes at the same time | WHITE |
| 40 | Dog bark sound in comics | ARF |
| 41 | Toasty as weather | WARM |
| 42 | Whale's playground | OCEAN |
| 43 | Gargoyle's spot (rhymes with hedge) | LEDGE |
| 44 | Greater ___ sign (the > symbol in math) | THAN |
| 45 | Actor Russell or singer Cobain | KURT |
| 46 | Willy of Free Willy | ORCA |
| 47 | Petty quarrel | SPAT |
| 48 | See no ___ ... (words from one of three wise monkeys) | EVIL |
| 49 | One Day ___ Time (2017 TV series): 2 wds. | ATA |
| 50 | Bit of needlework? | TAT |
| 51 | Cool ___ cucumber: 2 wds. | ASA |
| 52 | Negative prefix with honest or like | DIS |
| 53 | Prefix with night to mean 12 a.m. | MID |
| 54 | Big ___ of McDonald's | MAC |
| 55 | HP or Dell products: Abbr. | PCS |
| 56 | Hit the slopes say | SKI |
| 57 | Greeting before going different ways | BYE |
| 58 | You hear from here | EAR |
| 59 | Alan ___ actor from The Aviator | ALDA |
| 60 | Words before the order of: 2 wds. | PAYTO |
| 61 | This cocoa hue is actually a dark orange color but can only be seen by your brain when brighter colors are next to it | BROWN |
| 62 | ___ in the face (shock) | SLAP |
| 63 | Ghostbusters director Reitman | IVAN |
| 64 | America's university sports organizer: Abbr. | NCAA |
| 65 | Where to find brothers on campus for short | FRAT |
| 66 | They may clash in a conference room | EGOS |
| 67 | Put ___ writing (document something): 2 wds. | ITIN |
| 68 | Refuse to accept as an accusation | DENY |
| 69 | For old times' ___! | SAKE |
| # | Clue | Answer |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Santa's helper | ELF |
| 2 | TV's ___ Nye the Science Guy | BILL |
| 3 | Fluid flowing through the veins | BLOOD |
| 4 | Eastern exercise discipline with meditation | YOGA |
| 5 | Fishing pole | ROD |
| 6 | Recede as a tide | EBB |
| 7 | Bell-shaped flower with a pad | LILY |
| 8 | It may be marbled or carpeted | FLOOR |
| 9 | Puma's puma or Nike's swoosh for one | LOGO |
| 10 | Father informally | DAD |
Search 142,688 Clue Answers
Search every Daily Themed Crossword clue-answer pair from 3,104 puzzles (October 2017 – present).
How to Play Daily Themed Crossword
The Daily Themed Crossword is a classic American-style crossword with a twist: every puzzle has a daily theme that connects many of the fill answers. Understanding the theme is often the fastest way to unlock the grid.
When you open the app, you see the grid for today with ACROSS and DOWN clue lists. Tap a square to select it and the clue bar shows the current clue. Type your answer using the on-screen keyboard. Correct letters turn a confirmed colour; incorrect ones flag as wrong immediately if hints are enabled.
The theme usually reveals itself in the three or four longest answers — they are directly connected to the day's topic. For instance, a Back to School theme might have PENCILCASE, HOMEWORK, and CLASSROOM hidden in the grid. Once you spot the theme, you can often infer the remaining long answers from the letter pattern alone, without needing all the crossing letters.
Shorter fill clues are typically wordplay, abbreviations, or pop-culture references. A clue ending in (Abbr.) always takes an abbreviated answer, and a clue phrased in the past tense requires a past-tense answer. The mini crossword is perfect for a quick daily warm-up and usually takes under two minutes once you are familiar with the format.
Tips for Hard Daily Themed Crossword Clues
After solving every puzzle since October 2017, Naomi Forster has developed a set of strategies that work even on the trickiest themed grids:
The theme is your best shortcut. PlaySimple often puts a cultural hook in the puzzle title. If you know today's theme is Space Exploration, every long answer is likely an astronaut, planet, mission, or spacecraft. Deduce the long answers from theme logic first, then solve the crossing short clues.
Crossword-ese vocabulary is worth memorising. Frequent short answers include ALOE, ARIA, ETNA, ERIE, ORE, ERA, ALE, OLE, ELIA. Seeing a three-letter clue referencing a lake is almost certainly ERIE. Opera solo = ARIA. These shorthand answers appear in almost every puzzle.
Watch for directional clues. ___ Avenue is usually PARK or FIFTH. Street ___ might be SMART, CRED, or CAR depending on letter count. Learning these patterns cuts solving time significantly.
Check crossing letters before guessing. Never commit to a speculative answer without checking at least two crossings. A wrong long answer can cascade into five or six wrong short answers and make the grid unsolvable. Use the search tool below to look up any clue from the 142,688-pair archive instantly.
How We Verify Every Daily Themed Crossword Answer
Naomi Forster solves every Daily Themed Crossword puzzle on the day of release — both the main puzzle and the mini — before the answers are published on this site. Verification is done directly in the PlaySimple Games app on iOS, confirming each answer letter by letter against the official grid.
The archive data going back to October 2017 has been cross-referenced against puzzle scans to confirm historical accuracy. Any answer that has been updated or corrected in the game since its original release is flagged and corrected in the database. If you find a discrepancy, the Contact page lets you report it directly to Naomi.