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NYT Crossword August 20 2025 Answers

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Every answer from the Wednesday, August 20 2025 New York Times Crossword, checked and verified against the published NYT solution. Select a clue for the full explanation.

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Across

1Tycoon5 lettersSee answer ›6"Famously friendly" pooch, per the American Kennel Club3 lettersSee answer ›9Mystery author Josephine3 lettersSee answer ›12Moody hip-hop subgenre6 lettersSee answer ›14Electronic setting on a floor model8 lettersSee answer ›16Switch to a newsperson on the scene, say6 lettersSee answer ›17Common sushi go-with8 lettersSee answer ›18Hair goop3 lettersSee answer ›19Marijuana component, for short3 lettersSee answer ›21Like many a coffee order4 lettersSee answer ›22Only U.S. prez born in Kentucky3 lettersSee answer ›23Letters for a sellout3 lettersSee answer ›24Whistle blower3 lettersSee answer ›25"I had something come up," maybe3 lettersSee answer ›28Square root7 lettersSee answer ›302003 Will Ferrell film3 lettersSee answer ›31Org. that prohibits Magic 8 Balls and baseball bats3 lettersSee answer ›32Custom in Japanese food service6 lettersSee answer ›34Went letter by letter, to Brits5 lettersSee answer ›36Brief verse from Japan / With seventeen syllables / Illustrated here5 lettersSee answer ›39Item seen rolling through this puzzle3 lettersSee answer ›40Fixes, as a piano5 lettersSee answer ›41Freddy Krueger's locale: Abbr.5 lettersSee answer ›42Evolutionary "missing link"6 lettersSee answer ›44U.F.C. fighting style3 lettersSee answer ›45Mole, e.g.3 lettersSee answer ›47Slobbery smooch7 lettersSee answer ›51First receptionist on "The Office"3 lettersSee answer ›52Delivers, as a baby3 lettersSee answer ›53Before, poetically3 lettersSee answer ›54T. rex fossil named after its discoverer3 lettersSee answer ›55Distinctive feature of the durian fruit4 lettersSee answer ›57The Big Apple's ___ Drive3 lettersSee answer ›58Singer DiFranco3 lettersSee answer ›59Frenemy of Betty in comics8 lettersSee answer ›62Classic Asimov collection6 lettersSee answer ›65Boosted8 lettersSee answer ›66Five Nations tribe6 lettersSee answer ›67___ Marino3 lettersSee answer ›68Patty melt bread3 lettersSee answer ›69Start of many emoticons5 lettersSee answer ›

Down

1Change seeker6 lettersSee answer ›2Shape-shifting organism6 lettersSee answer ›3Like some oats6 lettersSee answer ›4"... ___ quit!"3 lettersSee answer ›5Sat ___ (GPS, to Brits)3 lettersSee answer ›6Perishable bit of apparel3 lettersSee answer ›7Dutch bier6 lettersSee answer ›8Expel with jeers11 lettersSee answer ›9More than one would like8 lettersSee answer ›10Collegiate domain?3 lettersSee answer ›11"Uh-huh"3 lettersSee answer ›13Scabbers, to Ron Weasley in the Harry Potter books6 lettersSee answer ›14Hip-hop's Run-___3 lettersSee answer ›15Flavoring in some fast food, for short3 lettersSee answer ›20January and November have the most federal ones8 lettersSee answer ›23"No lie!"11 lettersSee answer ›24Adjusted the rankings of, as a tournament8 lettersSee answer ›26Michigan's ___ Royale National Park4 lettersSee answer ›27Cave dwellers4 lettersSee answer ›29Tats (up)4 lettersSee answer ›33What every "O" in this grid represents3 lettersSee answer ›35The Ramones' genre4 lettersSee answer ›36Material in some eco-friendly clothing4 lettersSee answer ›37Liberal arts college in Michigan4 lettersSee answer ›38Remark accompanied by a facepalm8 lettersSee answer ›43Actor Lamorne of Fox's "New Girl"6 lettersSee answer ›46Sameness6 lettersSee answer ›48Writer Allende6 lettersSee answer ›49Gas brand that sponsors NASCAR6 lettersSee answer ›50Wheat-based meat alternative6 lettersSee answer ›56Benedictine's title3 lettersSee answer ›57It's all the rage3 lettersSee answer ›59Air Force Two passengers, in brief3 lettersSee answer ›60"Fearless" or "1989," for Taylor Swift3 lettersSee answer ›61Middling grade3 lettersSee answer ›63Lead-in to center or room3 lettersSee answer ›64Musician Yoko3 lettersSee answer ›