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NYT Crossword August 7 2025 Answers

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Every answer from the Thursday, August 7 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

1Speeding check4 lettersSee answer ›5Vocally5 lettersSee answer ›10Source for some bubbly4 lettersSee answer ›14Where the Magi journeyed from4 lettersSee answer ›15"Over my dead body!"5 lettersSee answer ›16One may be in default4 lettersSee answer ›17Mixtures in copier cartridges10 lettersSee answer ›19Target of an exfoliator4 lettersSee answer ›20Birthplace of Madeleine Albright and Vaclav Havel6 lettersSee answer ›21Drink made with an artisanal flourish, maybe5 lettersSee answer ›22Begins dealing with5 lettersSee answer ›25Chatted online, in brief9 lettersSee answer ›27Risk-___6 lettersSee answer ›29Sporting great who said "Tennis uses the language of life"6 lettersSee answer ›30School that's a rival of 37-Down4 lettersSee answer ›31P.R. piece?6 lettersSee answer ›35Stat used to calculate a QB's passer rating3 lettersSee answer ›36In vain ... or how to read the answers to 17-, 25-, 49- and 58-Across11 lettersSee answer ›39Org. that monitors on-air obscenity3 lettersSee answer ›41Matter in a neon sign6 lettersSee answer ›42Subjects of some European fishing bans4 lettersSee answer ›45Start of a lovelorn soliloquy6 lettersSee answer ›47Bridges in Baghdad cross it6 lettersSee answer ›49Some fishing gear9 lettersSee answer ›53Level in a social hierarchy5 lettersSee answer ›54Street urchin5 lettersSee answer ›55Less merry6 lettersSee answer ›57Abbr. standing in for co-authors4 lettersSee answer ›58Investigate in detail10 lettersSee answer ›62Pitchfork point4 lettersSee answer ›63Rivian competitor5 lettersSee answer ›64Gemstone found in hot springs4 lettersSee answer ›65Org. promoting sober motoring4 lettersSee answer ›66Half-___ (desultory)5 lettersSee answer ›67Winter sports venue4 lettersSee answer ›

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1Be up3 lettersSee answer ›2What arrives in the film "Arrival"3 lettersSee answer ›3Dash display in some cars3 lettersSee answer ›4Tax ___8 lettersSee answer ›5Tourist destination outside of Delhi4 lettersSee answer ›6Nighttime sound?5 lettersSee answer ›7Classical performance space5 lettersSee answer ›8One with diplomatic plates in N.Y.C.5 lettersSee answer ›9"Mesa para ___" (request at a Spanish restaurant)3 lettersSee answer ›10Wool source6 lettersSee answer ›11Futures experts?11 lettersSee answer ›12Most pucker-inducing7 lettersSee answer ›13"Gimme!"7 lettersSee answer ›18Culture vulture's concerns4 lettersSee answer ›21Financial center of West Africa5 lettersSee answer ›22Kind of "fever" that's not actually a fever, and is typically caused by pollen3 lettersSee answer ›23Director DuVernay3 lettersSee answer ›24It's needed to stay calm11 lettersSee answer ›26Rankles no end6 lettersSee answer ›28Prose postscript6 lettersSee answer ›32___ Hagen, Tony-winning actress and theater practitioner3 lettersSee answer ›33Trains for the Chicago White Sox?3 lettersSee answer ›34Dreamily named rock group?3 lettersSee answer ›37School that's a rival of 30-Across, informally5 lettersSee answer ›38Part of a jouster's protection8 lettersSee answer ›39Thinks nothing of7 lettersSee answer ›40European land where much of "Game of Thrones" was filmed7 lettersSee answer ›43On fire3 lettersSee answer ›44Seattle-to-Mount Rainier dir.3 lettersSee answer ›46On its way, in a way6 lettersSee answer ›48Drink that might turn your tongue blue4 lettersSee answer ›50Fiends of folklore5 lettersSee answer ›51Useless leftovers5 lettersSee answer ›52Fur once favored by Russian royalty5 lettersSee answer ›56Baseball Hall-of-Famer Guerrero, to fans4 lettersSee answer ›58Org. that might sponsor a read-a-thon, in brief3 lettersSee answer ›59Mani-pedi brand3 lettersSee answer ›60Grammy, in the U.K.3 lettersSee answer ›61Creature on the state flags of Michigan and Idaho3 lettersSee answer ›