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NYT Crossword August 25 2026 Answers

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Every answer from the Tuesday, August 25 2026 New York Times Crossword, checked and verified against the published NYT solution. Select a clue for the full explanation.

Constructed by Bryan Kaproth-Gerecht · Edited by Will Shortz

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1Sharpened point of a quill pen3 lettersSee answer ›4One-named Senegalese American singer with the #1 hits "I Wanna Love You" and "Don't Matter"4 lettersSee answer ›8South Asian royals5 lettersSee answer ›13Actress Longoria3 lettersSee answer ›14Free-spirited style, informally4 lettersSee answer ›15*6th6 lettersSee answer ›16Summer meteor shower named for a mythological hero8 lettersSee answer ›18Paradise6 lettersSee answer ›19Musical flutter5 lettersSee answer ›20Billion years, astronomically4 lettersSee answer ›22___ skirt4 lettersSee answer ›23"Miracle on Ice" foe, for short4 lettersSee answer ›24Smart set5 lettersSee answer ›26To, informally3 lettersSee answer ›27"___ it!" (shout in a game of tag)3 lettersSee answer ›28*2nd5 lettersSee answer ›30Arouses, as an appetite5 lettersSee answer ›32Captivate6 lettersSee answer ›34*1st7 lettersSee answer ›36Settled on the ground, say4 lettersSee answer ›38Something told with two hands?4 lettersSee answer ›39Bluish-silver Christmas trees, maybe7 lettersSee answer ›42Hosp. recovery area6 lettersSee answer ›46Great divide5 lettersSee answer ›47Moon believed to have a subsurface ocean5 lettersSee answer ›49Gamer's "off-line"3 lettersSee answer ›50Kool-Aid competitor3 lettersSee answer ›51*3rd5 lettersSee answer ›53McEntire of country music4 lettersSee answer ›54Some Monopoly properties: Abbr.4 lettersSee answer ›56Drink in a sippy cup, to a toddler4 lettersSee answer ›57Commence5 lettersSee answer ›58Mexican beer brand6 lettersSee answer ›60"I'd love to go"8 lettersSee answer ›62*7th6 lettersSee answer ›63Bygone Russian leader4 lettersSee answer ›64Pad3 lettersSee answer ›65Baker's glassware brand5 lettersSee answer ›66"Thing with feathers that perches in the soul," per Emily Dickinson4 lettersSee answer ›67"Y"-sounding pair of letters, in Spanish3 lettersSee answer ›

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1*8th7 lettersSee answer ›2Allen who was the 2001 N.B.A. M.V.P.7 lettersSee answer ›3One known for the morning grind?7 lettersSee answer ›4Second-born son in the Bible4 lettersSee answer ›5___ pond3 lettersSee answer ›6"Wowza!"6 lettersSee answer ›7Tiny biting insect7 lettersSee answer ›8Creature sometimes trained for bomb detection3 lettersSee answer ›9Focus of some physicists4 lettersSee answer ›10*5th7 lettersSee answer ›11Desert quality7 lettersSee answer ›12Epitomes of slowness6 lettersSee answer ›15Symbols of fair weather4 lettersSee answer ›17Mirror-and-prism camera, for short3 lettersSee answer ›21Arrival of symptoms5 lettersSee answer ›25"Man, that's hardly fair!"6 lettersSee answer ›28Fullness, in hairstyling6 lettersSee answer ›29"The Little Mermaid" prince4 lettersSee answer ›31Shades4 lettersSee answer ›33*4th4 lettersSee answer ›35Kelly of morning TV4 lettersSee answer ›37Neon ___ (aquarium fish)5 lettersSee answer ›39Like someone emerging from freezing cold water, typically7 lettersSee answer ›40Raceway speed setter7 lettersSee answer ›41Mull over7 lettersSee answer ›43Reason to go into penalty kicks7 lettersSee answer ›44Like the paths of 45-Down, as visually depicted in this puzzle7 lettersSee answer ›45Celestial "wanderers" ... or what this puzzle's circled letters represent7 lettersSee answer ›46Flirt with, in a way6 lettersSee answer ›48"Are you sure?"6 lettersSee answer ›52Spellbinds4 lettersSee answer ›53Sunburned, perhaps3 lettersSee answer ›55Reasonable4 lettersSee answer ›57Reveal4 lettersSee answer ›59Black-and-white wedding rental3 lettersSee answer ›61Gullible sort3 lettersSee answer ›