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NYT Crossword August 23 2025 Answers

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Every answer from the Saturday, August 23 2025 New York Times Crossword, checked and verified against the published NYT solution. Select a clue for the full explanation.

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1Relative of upward dog, to 50-Down9 lettersSee answer ›10Many Intuit employees, for short4 lettersSee answer ›14Noted line in Buddhism10 lettersSee answer ›15International grocery chain founded in Germany4 lettersSee answer ›16Galaxy program, e.g.10 lettersSee answer ›17Break4 lettersSee answer ›18Rapper whose father is the jazz musician Olu Dara3 lettersSee answer ›19Certain tray's contents3 lettersSee answer ›20Country whose name is an anagram of a common means of getting there5 lettersSee answer ›22Makes rapidly, with "out"6 lettersSee answer ›25Mutually accepts8 lettersSee answer ›28M.L.B. All-Star closer ___ Díaz5 lettersSee answer ›29Staple at a car wash3 lettersSee answer ›30One might be fragile3 lettersSee answer ›31Product pitched by a pitcher7 lettersSee answer ›35Drew Carey once called it "crossword puzzle cheese" on "Whose Line Is It Anyway?"4 lettersSee answer ›36"I've helped all I can"15 lettersSee answer ›40Steven ___, Best Actor nominee for 2020's "Minari"4 lettersSee answer ›41Field goal announcement7 lettersSee answer ›42___ Hill3 lettersSee answer ›43Bit of drag attire3 lettersSee answer ›44Hands, humorously5 lettersSee answer ›48Hit list8 lettersSee answer ›51Eye up and down6 lettersSee answer ›52Japanese healing technique5 lettersSee answer ›53Medical lead-in to -scope3 lettersSee answer ›55Type of alcoholic beverage that originated in the U.K., despite its name3 lettersSee answer ›56Overturn4 lettersSee answer ›57Plant-based meat alternative that sizzles10 lettersSee answer ›61One's primary character, in video game lingo4 lettersSee answer ›62Criminal mastermind10 lettersSee answer ›63Very vocal avian4 lettersSee answer ›64Purr-fect adoptee9 lettersSee answer ›

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1Unfounded rumor6 lettersSee answer ›2Tired expression6 lettersSee answer ›3Something that can be raised or passed3 lettersSee answer ›4Mexico's ___ Conchos3 lettersSee answer ›5Literally, "at another time"5 lettersSee answer ›6Artificially inflates4 lettersSee answer ›7City where the Men's College World Series takes place5 lettersSee answer ›8Stuff boiled in sugar shacks3 lettersSee answer ›9Place to hear game results and analysis9 lettersSee answer ›10"___ noctem" (motto meaning "go enjoy the night")5 lettersSee answer ›11"By all means, go ahead!"8 lettersSee answer ›12Jingle accompaniment8 lettersSee answer ›13Remain untouched3 lettersSee answer ›14Take a series of steps?5 lettersSee answer ›21Hosp. test3 lettersSee answer ›23Japanese company whose products click with customers5 lettersSee answer ›24Dresser part4 lettersSee answer ›26Composer of "In the Hall of the Mountain King"5 lettersSee answer ›27Destination of an annual race since 19734 lettersSee answer ›32It's formed in Pittsburgh9 lettersSee answer ›33Allowed to strike5 lettersSee answer ›34Horace's "___ Poetica"3 lettersSee answer ›35Boy on "The Munsters"5 lettersSee answer ›36Island in a classic video game4 lettersSee answer ›37"What's your decision?"8 lettersSee answer ›38Joined enthusiastically8 lettersSee answer ›39Word before how or where, but not who4 lettersSee answer ›43___ choy3 lettersSee answer ›45White House daughter of the 1960s-'70s6 lettersSee answer ›46Have no more money to bet6 lettersSee answer ›47Is really into, in slang5 lettersSee answer ›49Animated princess of film5 lettersSee answer ›501-Across teachers5 lettersSee answer ›51Cute sound?5 lettersSee answer ›54Mineral with a Mohs hardness of 14 lettersSee answer ›56"Lemme think ..."3 lettersSee answer ›58Night to remember, perhaps3 lettersSee answer ›59Busy ___3 lettersSee answer ›60Anti-apartheid party, in brief3 lettersSee answer ›