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NYT Crossword August 3 2025 Answers

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Every answer from the Sunday, August 3 2025 New York Times Crossword, checked and verified against the published NYT solution. Select a clue for the full explanation.

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1Final act of a play?3 lettersSee answer ›4Iconic sci-fi setting spelled out in this puzzle's shaded squares4 lettersSee answer ›8Skyrocket4 lettersSee answer ›12"Reckon so!"3 lettersSee answer ›15Working without ___4 lettersSee answer ›17Seemingly forever5 lettersSee answer ›19Some spa jobs, in brief5 lettersSee answer ›20Manner of speaking4 lettersSee answer ›21Like used BBQ pits4 lettersSee answer ›22Member of this puzzle's shaded squares who might say "I cannot change the laws of physics, Captain!"11 lettersSee answer ›24Like being late or cutting in line4 lettersSee answer ›25Something clicked to add an attachment7 lettersSee answer ›27Take up space5 lettersSee answer ›28Kind of protagonist in "Lethal Weapon" or "Die Hard"7 lettersSee answer ›30Swear4 lettersSee answer ›31Digital investment choices, informally7 lettersSee answer ›33Not much, as of wasabi4 lettersSee answer ›34Narrowly get (by)3 lettersSee answer ›35"Now that we're all here, please proceed"4 lettersSee answer ›38Lab reports?4 lettersSee answer ›41Overzealous sort3 lettersSee answer ›43Got acquainted3 lettersSee answer ›44D.M.V.-issued card authenticated by airport security6 lettersSee answer ›47Build a stockpile6 lettersSee answer ›49Didn't go fast?3 lettersSee answer ›50Employee's status meaning "I'm currently away"3 lettersSee answer ›51Take down a notch6 lettersSee answer ›52Purveyors of provocative posts6 lettersSee answer ›538.5" x 11": Abbr.3 lettersSee answer ›54Kris Kross #1 hit with the lyric "How high? Real high, 'cause I'm just so fly"4 lettersSee answer ›56El presidente ousted in a 1955 coup5 lettersSee answer ›57Danger5 lettersSee answer ›58Cry from a victor4 lettersSee answer ›59Type that tends to be right-leaning7 lettersSee answer ›61Like quality vocals5 lettersSee answer ›63Looks inside?7 lettersSee answer ›65Drug-busting unit4 lettersSee answer ›66City whose Fushimi Inari shrine features 10,000+ red torii gates5 lettersSee answer ›67Brother of Disney's Louie and Dewey Duck4 lettersSee answer ›68Something hit to get fit6 lettersSee answer ›70Hands-on professional?7 lettersSee answer ›72Baseball team whose mascot is Wally the Green Monster6 lettersSee answer ›75Seeing romantically4 lettersSee answer ›76Humble hold 'em holding4 lettersSee answer ›78"The Bear" streamer4 lettersSee answer ›80Cold War weapon inits.4 lettersSee answer ›81Beethoven's No. 8?4 lettersSee answer ›82Line of luxury hotels5 lettersSee answer ›84Takes to school, in a way5 lettersSee answer ›85Cosmic explosion4 lettersSee answer ›86It goes on the run3 lettersSee answer ›87Be a wingman, e.g.6 lettersSee answer ›88False6 lettersSee answer ›90Inits. for this puzzle's shaded squares3 lettersSee answer ›91Move like a supermodel5 lettersSee answer ›93Unit of purity5 lettersSee answer ›95Lower oneself5 lettersSee answer ›97They study how knights move7 lettersSee answer ›99Canyon's edge3 lettersSee answer ›100On the ___ (raging)7 lettersSee answer ›102Gone skinny-dipping, e.g.4 lettersSee answer ›103Significant stretch3 lettersSee answer ›104Mr. Turkey3 lettersSee answer ›105Some window installations, informally3 lettersSee answer ›106Warp-driven device4 lettersSee answer ›108Major exporter of mangoes5 lettersSee answer ›110One giving the highlights?4 lettersSee answer ›112By dawn's early light?4 lettersSee answer ›114Intending to, casually5 lettersSee answer ›115Bring upon oneself5 lettersSee answer ›116Wordlessly indicate "Please give me a hand"4 lettersSee answer ›117"___ a broken heart" (Emily Dickinson poem)4 lettersSee answer ›118Iron Man's suit, e.g.5 lettersSee answer ›119"Fire away!"5 lettersSee answer ›120False4 lettersSee answer ›121Docking station4 lettersSee answer ›122Some draft picks5 lettersSee answer ›

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1Some farm sounds4 lettersSee answer ›2Camped nearby and surveilling, in police jargon10 lettersSee answer ›3"Our window is closing for escape w-elocity!," as [circled letters] might say21 lettersSee answer ›4Hardly spicy4 lettersSee answer ›5Next in line4 lettersSee answer ›6Goddess of daybreak3 lettersSee answer ›7Fill in5 lettersSee answer ›8Direct opposite of verso (found hidden in this clue!)5 lettersSee answer ›9It's a promise3 lettersSee answer ›10Enemy of the Jedi4 lettersSee answer ›11By Juan's early light?4 lettersSee answer ›12"Any time! I'm a doctor, not a do-nothing!," as [circled letters] might say21 lettersSee answer ›13Way back?10 lettersSee answer ›14Slight gripe, so to speak4 lettersSee answer ›16Slip of the pen4 lettersSee answer ›18Tantalizing4 lettersSee answer ›19A low "Yo!"4 lettersSee answer ›20Trampled (on)4 lettersSee answer ›23Sound of a wardrobe malfunction3 lettersSee answer ›26Euphemistic expression of commitment5 lettersSee answer ›29Speaks roughly5 lettersSee answer ›31Cherry or lime5 lettersSee answer ›32Bask in5 lettersSee answer ›34Reaction to a social media post, maybe5 lettersSee answer ›36"Logic dictates that you control your emotions," as [circled letters] might say13 lettersSee answer ›37Sneakily exploits5 lettersSee answer ›39Thing of the past5 lettersSee answer ›40"Stepping on the gas, Captain!," as [circled letters] might say13 lettersSee answer ›42Seaside flock5 lettersSee answer ›45"To protect my crew, the gamble was necessary," as [circled letters] might say10 lettersSee answer ›46IHOP rival6 lettersSee answer ›47Florida beach town, informally6 lettersSee answer ›48"We received a distress signal. Any injuries?," as [circled letters] might say10 lettersSee answer ›55Tough spot6 lettersSee answer ›58Stranded during a winter storm, say6 lettersSee answer ›60Texter's sweet sentiment3 lettersSee answer ›62Big hits, in brief3 lettersSee answer ›64Make a case against?3 lettersSee answer ›68Old-fashioned contraction4 lettersSee answer ›69Backwoods bumpkin4 lettersSee answer ›70Bite-size4 lettersSee answer ›71Former Wisconsin senator Feingold4 lettersSee answer ›73"Clearly!," in textspeak4 lettersSee answer ›74Major e-tailing season4 lettersSee answer ›77World capital with 400 kilometers of bike lanes9 lettersSee answer ›79He might be carrying a big picture9 lettersSee answer ›83This puzzle's theme8 lettersSee answer ›84"I want to come back to the ship," as everyone circled in this puzzle seems to have said to 22-Across8 lettersSee answer ›87NPR journalist Shapiro3 lettersSee answer ›89Punch3 lettersSee answer ›92Belly, in kidspeak6 lettersSee answer ›94Carnival-themed Vegas hotel3 lettersSee answer ›96In spades6 lettersSee answer ›97Symbols of grace5 lettersSee answer ›98Object5 lettersSee answer ›100Garbage5 lettersSee answer ›101"___ is more important than life" (Klingon proverb)5 lettersSee answer ›102"Transformers" actor ___ LaBeouf4 lettersSee answer ›1072004 landing site for Spirit4 lettersSee answer ›109Land west of Eng.3 lettersSee answer ›111"You get the gist": Abbr.3 lettersSee answer ›113Alt-rocker DiFranco3 lettersSee answer ›114Chinwag3 lettersSee answer ›