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NYT Crossword August 21 2025 Answers

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Every answer from the Thursday, August 21 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

150 things on the Argo4 lettersSee answer ›5Units equal to nine inches5 lettersSee answer ›10Needing more salt, perhaps5 lettersSee answer ›15Swiss-born artist whose name sounds like an art medium4 lettersSee answer ›16What pronouns and their antecedents should do5 lettersSee answer ›17*Person who persists in a hopeless cause5 lettersSee answer ›18Destroyer of Hindu cosmogony4 lettersSee answer ›19*Wildlife parks5 lettersSee answer ›20Layer of bricks5 lettersSee answer ›21Show obeisance5 lettersSee answer ›23Smart TV features4 lettersSee answer ›25Eye covering3 lettersSee answer ›26*Enjoy the moment, say5 lettersSee answer ›27Name on a check5 lettersSee answer ›29Porter of Broadway4 lettersSee answer ›30Sucker's lament8 lettersSee answer ›32Repeat7 lettersSee answer ›34Cheryl of "Charlie's Angels"4 lettersSee answer ›35Bit of Q.E.D.4 lettersSee answer ›37Features of some stadia5 lettersSee answer ›38Start of a popular saying about gravity ... or a hint to completing the answers to the starred clues10 lettersSee answer ›41Big name in Russian ballet5 lettersSee answer ›43Capital on the Mediterranean4 lettersSee answer ›44Blew away4 lettersSee answer ›48Legislative bodies7 lettersSee answer ›50Old wide-screen format8 lettersSee answer ›52Crime show extra, informally4 lettersSee answer ›53Lead-in to "they"5 lettersSee answer ›55*Storm-tracking aid5 lettersSee answer ›56Brew designed to survive trips to the subcontinent, in brief3 lettersSee answer ›57Early PC game whose nonsense working title stuck4 lettersSee answer ›58Partner of older5 lettersSee answer ›59Guardian spirits5 lettersSee answer ›61*Musical appreciation?5 lettersSee answer ›64Deity with the raven familiars Huginn and Muninn4 lettersSee answer ›66*Forming a union5 lettersSee answer ›67___ Day (April celebration)5 lettersSee answer ›68A or B, e.g.4 lettersSee answer ›69Yani ___, youngest pro golfer to win five major championships (age 22)5 lettersSee answer ›70Score keeper?5 lettersSee answer ›71Peeved state4 lettersSee answer ›

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1Gives a "go"3 lettersSee answer ›2Fictional character with a famous opening line7 lettersSee answer ›3Took back7 lettersSee answer ›4Sushi treatment that's also a spa treatment11 lettersSee answer ›5Palm starch4 lettersSee answer ›6___ Tour3 lettersSee answer ›7What's off to the side in a selfie3 lettersSee answer ›8Demanding attention5 lettersSee answer ›9Waits on6 lettersSee answer ›10Watson and Deep Blue, for two4 lettersSee answer ›11Grp. aptly hidden in "special ops"3 lettersSee answer ›12"We're head over heels!"7 lettersSee answer ›13Prima ballerinas7 lettersSee answer ›14Melt down6 lettersSee answer ›22___ can, item first made and patented in Britain in 18103 lettersSee answer ›24Turns the page, say7 lettersSee answer ›26Up to3 lettersSee answer ›27Take leave of each other4 lettersSee answer ›28Just saying?5 lettersSee answer ›29Taste tests, e.g.11 lettersSee answer ›31Boot7 lettersSee answer ›33Pronoun repeated in "___ do ___"3 lettersSee answer ›36Graze5 lettersSee answer ›39High on the Scoville scale3 lettersSee answer ›40Lake that's home to Kelleys Island4 lettersSee answer ›41Best candidates for permanent relationships7 lettersSee answer ›42Callable, say7 lettersSee answer ›45Gestured to keep moving7 lettersSee answer ›46Some retired faculty7 lettersSee answer ›47___ es Salaam3 lettersSee answer ›48Tap6 lettersSee answer ›49Certain mattresses6 lettersSee answer ›51Name that means "my God" in Hebrew3 lettersSee answer ›54Bit of hybrid field hockey attire5 lettersSee answer ›57Criticize wittily4 lettersSee answer ›58District4 lettersSee answer ›60Holm or McKellen of "The Hobbit"3 lettersSee answer ›62Wizards' org.3 lettersSee answer ›63Over there3 lettersSee answer ›65Mesh3 lettersSee answer ›