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NYT Crossword August 28 2025 Answers

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Every answer from the Thursday, August 28 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

1"Table" for one's TV dinner, perhaps3 lettersSee answer ›4Messy abode6 lettersSee answer ›10Texting format, in brief3 lettersSee answer ›13Period that begins with a day of pranks: Abbr.3 lettersSee answer ›14Weakness6 lettersSee answer ›15___ Highway (Maui tourist attraction)4 lettersSee answer ›17Recently dated10 lettersSee answer ›19Many a citizen of Abu Dhabi4 lettersSee answer ›20It's used for wrapping up a film5 lettersSee answer ›21Gained a wider following4 lettersSee answer ›22Riddled (with)4 lettersSee answer ›23Top up4 lettersSee answer ›25No guts8 lettersSee answer ›27Where someone might ask for a screwdriver3 lettersSee answer ›29Early tech giant3 lettersSee answer ›31Fair Deal prez3 lettersSee answer ›32Like Frodo at the end of the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy4 lettersSee answer ›34Chaps4 lettersSee answer ›37Poem that's typically unrhymed5 lettersSee answer ›41Battle carriers15 lettersSee answer ›44Mythological beast able to regenerate its heads5 lettersSee answer ›45Commuter option4 lettersSee answer ›46Non-fruit ingredient in a green smoothie4 lettersSee answer ›47One of three in the Domino's logo3 lettersSee answer ›49Syllable akin to "Tsk!"3 lettersSee answer ›51Audiophile's collection, for short3 lettersSee answer ›52Packed lunch8 lettersSee answer ›57Wail4 lettersSee answer ›59Shade in a picturesque island scene, maybe4 lettersSee answer ›60Follower of Joel4 lettersSee answer ›62Here's the scoop!5 lettersSee answer ›65Colossally bad consequence, as with finances4 lettersSee answer ›66Feature of the clues for 17-, 25-, 41- and 52-Across10 lettersSee answer ›68Wizard4 lettersSee answer ›69Some underground networks6 lettersSee answer ›70"Kapow!"3 lettersSee answer ›71Fleur-de-___3 lettersSee answer ›72Follow, with "to"6 lettersSee answer ›73"Come ___?" (Italian for "How are you?")3 lettersSee answer ›

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1Problems with a livestream, maybe4 lettersSee answer ›2For one4 lettersSee answer ›3Mark one's words?9 lettersSee answer ›4Rice dish seasoned with saffron6 lettersSee answer ›5Stop for the night, say3 lettersSee answer ›6Social studies subj.4 lettersSee answer ›7Resident of a hidden mushroom village5 lettersSee answer ›8Go-getter5 lettersSee answer ›9Hebrew name for God6 lettersSee answer ›10Reality show whose contestants give pitches9 lettersSee answer ›11Red-clad brother of 54-Down5 lettersSee answer ›12Major mess5 lettersSee answer ›16Provide support for something crooked?4 lettersSee answer ›18"___ ever!"3 lettersSee answer ›24Take it easy4 lettersSee answer ›26First Black male tennis player to be ranked #1 globally4 lettersSee answer ›27___ party (pre-wedding activity, informally)4 lettersSee answer ›28Ghostly in appearance4 lettersSee answer ›30The Batcave, for one4 lettersSee answer ›33They might have their noses turned up9 lettersSee answer ›35Basis for how you're wired, so to speak3 lettersSee answer ›36Bit of camp entertainment4 lettersSee answer ›38"That one's mine!"9 lettersSee answer ›39Member of a marine "forest"4 lettersSee answer ›40Functions4 lettersSee answer ›42Innocent sort4 lettersSee answer ›43Mess up4 lettersSee answer ›48Kind of TV6 lettersSee answer ›50Gay ___, author of "Honor Thy Father"6 lettersSee answer ›52Stable environment?4 lettersSee answer ›53Like 4! and 245 lettersSee answer ›54Green-clad brother of 11-Down5 lettersSee answer ›55Psyched5 lettersSee answer ›56John Lennon had one that sold for more than $31,000 at a 2011 auction (fittingly, to a dentist!)5 lettersSee answer ›58Word with price or proxy3 lettersSee answer ›61Ticked off4 lettersSee answer ›63It's partly an assessment of logical reasoning, for short4 lettersSee answer ›64___ D'Arcy, co-star of HBO's "House of the Dragon"4 lettersSee answer ›67Conjunction used in logic3 lettersSee answer ›