NYT Crossword August 25 2026 Answers
The complete list of answers to the NYT Crossword published on August 25 2026.
- 76
- Total Clues
- 40
- Total Across
- 36
- Total Down
Clues Across (40 total)
(1)
Sharpened point of a quill pen
The answer is: nib
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(4)
One-named Senegalese American singer with the #1 hits "I Wanna Love You" and "Don't Matter"
The answer is: akon
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South Asian royals
The answer is: rajas
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Actress Longoria
The answer is: eva
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Free-spirited style, informally
The answer is: boho
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(15)
*6th
The answer is: saturn
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Summer meteor shower named for a mythological hero
The answer is: perseids
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Paradise
The answer is: utopia
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(19)
Musical flutter
The answer is: trill
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(20)
Billion years, astronomically
The answer is: aeon
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(22)
___ skirt
The answer is: midi
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(23)
"Miracle on Ice" foe, for short
The answer is: ussr
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(24)
Smart set
The answer is: mensa
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(26)
To, informally
The answer is: til
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(27)
"___ it!" (shout in a game of tag)
The answer is: not
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(28)
*2nd
The answer is: venus
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(30)
Arouses, as an appetite
The answer is: whets
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(32)
Captivate
The answer is: enamor
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(34)
*1st
The answer is: mercury
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(36)
Settled on the ground, say
The answer is: alit
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(38)
Something told with two hands?
The answer is: time
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(39)
Bluish-silver Christmas trees, maybe
The answer is: spruces
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(42)
Hosp. recovery area
The answer is: postop
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(46)
Great divide
The answer is: chasm
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(47)
Moon believed to have a subsurface ocean
The answer is: titan
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(49)
Gamer's "off-line"
The answer is: irl
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(50)
Kool-Aid competitor
The answer is: hic
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(51)
*3rd
The answer is: earth
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(53)
McEntire of country music
The answer is: reba
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(54)
Some Monopoly properties: Abbr.
The answer is: aves
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(56)
Drink in a sippy cup, to a toddler
The answer is: wawa
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(57)
Commence
The answer is: begin
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(58)
Mexican beer brand
The answer is: tecate
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"I'd love to go"
The answer is: itsadate
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(62)
*7th
The answer is: uranus
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(63)
Bygone Russian leader
The answer is: tsar
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(64)
Pad
The answer is: mat
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(65)
Baker's glassware brand
The answer is: pyrex
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(66)
"Thing with feathers that perches in the soul," per Emily Dickinson
The answer is: hope
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"Y"-sounding pair of letters, in Spanish
The answer is: els
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Clues Down (36 total)
(1)
*8th
The answer is: neptune
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(2)
Allen who was the 2001 N.B.A. M.V.P.
The answer is: iverson
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(3)
One known for the morning grind?
The answer is: barista
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(4)
Second-born son in the Bible
The answer is: abel
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(5)
___ pond
The answer is: koi
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(6)
"Wowza!"
The answer is: ohdamn
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(7)
Tiny biting insect
The answer is: noseeum
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(8)
Creature sometimes trained for bomb detection
The answer is: rat
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Focus of some physicists
The answer is: atom
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*5th
The answer is: jupiter
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(11)
Desert quality
The answer is: aridity
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Epitomes of slowness
The answer is: snails
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Symbols of fair weather
The answer is: suns
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Mirror-and-prism camera, for short
The answer is: slr
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Arrival of symptoms
The answer is: onset
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(25)
"Man, that's hardly fair!"
The answer is: awcmon
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(28)
Fullness, in hairstyling
The answer is: volume
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(29)
"The Little Mermaid" prince
The answer is: eric
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(31)
Shades
The answer is: hues
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(33)
*4th
The answer is: mars
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(35)
Kelly of morning TV
The answer is: ripa
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(37)
Neon ___ (aquarium fish)
The answer is: tetra
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(39)
Like someone emerging from freezing cold water, typically
The answer is: shivery
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(40)
Raceway speed setter
The answer is: pacecar
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(41)
Mull over
The answer is: sitwith
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(43)
Reason to go into penalty kicks
The answer is: tiegame
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(44)
Like the paths of 45-Down, as visually depicted in this puzzle
The answer is: orbital
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(45)
Celestial "wanderers" ... or what this puzzle's circled letters represent
The answer is: planets
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(46)
Flirt with, in a way
The answer is: chatup
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(48)
"Are you sure?"
The answer is: thatso
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(52)
Spellbinds
The answer is: awes
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Sunburned, perhaps
The answer is: red
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(55)
Reasonable
The answer is: sane
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(57)
Reveal
The answer is: bare
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(59)
Black-and-white wedding rental
The answer is: tux
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Gullible sort
The answer is: sap
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