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NYT Crossword August 29 2025 Answers

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Every answer from the Friday, August 29 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

1Coaster, usually4 lettersSee answer ›5Start of some temple names4 lettersSee answer ›9Bug spray ingredient4 lettersSee answer ›13Kind of rover5 lettersSee answer ›14Figure with two tails9 lettersSee answer ›16Habitation5 lettersSee answer ›17Queen's guard?9 lettersSee answer ›18Language whose name consists of four consecutive U.S. state postal abbreviations8 lettersSee answer ›20Genre for 5-Down5 lettersSee answer ›21Certain graph shape3 lettersSee answer ›22Word with Man or can3 lettersSee answer ›23Per ___4 lettersSee answer ›24Places where it's OK to push someone at school9 lettersSee answer ›27Evidence of a fire3 lettersSee answer ›30Christmas story villain5 lettersSee answer ›31Plot device in many a rom-com8 lettersSee answer ›33Samurai with no master5 lettersSee answer ›34Big bust3 lettersSee answer ›35Little pieces5 lettersSee answer ›36Welcome sight for a business8 lettersSee answer ›38What fan fiction is not5 lettersSee answer ›39"Odds" follower3 lettersSee answer ›40Loaded with excitement9 lettersSee answer ›42Blow off steam, say4 lettersSee answer ›43Start to do?3 lettersSee answer ›44Some Slack convos3 lettersSee answer ›47Happiness and excitement, for two5 lettersSee answer ›49Four-star review, say8 lettersSee answer ›51Spitting contest?9 lettersSee answer ›53Manage to lose5 lettersSee answer ›54Some workplace perks9 lettersSee answer ›55"Seriously!," in slang5 lettersSee answer ›56Fighters on the beach in 2023's "Barbie"4 lettersSee answer ›57Old car concern4 lettersSee answer ›58Preschoolers, e.g.4 lettersSee answer ›

Down

1Home to the torus-shaped Museum of the Future5 lettersSee answer ›2By some measure10 lettersSee answer ›3Safety org. for young people4 lettersSee answer ›4Painting on the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, with "The"14 lettersSee answer ›5"The Thrill Is Gone" musician, 19706 lettersSee answer ›6Kant's "no"4 lettersSee answer ›7Even more than most3 lettersSee answer ›8"OK, now you've got me intrigued ..."7 lettersSee answer ›9Macaroni wheat5 lettersSee answer ›10Kathryn of "Law & Order: Criminal Intent"4 lettersSee answer ›11Anticipatory times4 lettersSee answer ›12Anger, with "off"3 lettersSee answer ›13Lantern, e.g.4 lettersSee answer ›15Eclipse, for one14 lettersSee answer ›19Peel4 lettersSee answer ›23Proof of a plot4 lettersSee answer ›25Order in the court4 lettersSee answer ›261980s cartoon foe of Gargamel5 lettersSee answer ›27Library regular, perhaps10 lettersSee answer ›28Eminem song that samples Dido4 lettersSee answer ›29"___ a real nowhere man ..."3 lettersSee answer ›30Billing unit4 lettersSee answer ›32Dog's post-op wear4 lettersSee answer ›33Label that sold the first 33 1/3 r.p.m. records3 lettersSee answer ›34Make an impression on4 lettersSee answer ›37Member of a 1960s TV family7 lettersSee answer ›38Geppetto's pet goldfish in Disney's "Pinocchio"4 lettersSee answer ›41Least active6 lettersSee answer ›42They might hang out in a hotel room5 lettersSee answer ›45Big name in mufflers5 lettersSee answer ›46Bit of a how-to4 lettersSee answer ›47Stable mate4 lettersSee answer ›48Move the first pawn, say4 lettersSee answer ›49Troubles4 lettersSee answer ›50High-quality flavoring for salad dressings, in brief4 lettersSee answer ›51Inits. of the statesman who said "Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly"3 lettersSee answer ›52Time constant symbol in physics3 lettersSee answer ›