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NYT Crossword July 12 2025 Answers

Deborah Simmons ✓Solving & explaining puzzles since 1998 · Updated July 12 2025

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Every answer from the Saturday, July 12 2025 New York Times Crossword, checked and verified against the published NYT solution. Select a clue for the full explanation.

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1"That was fun!"10 lettersSee answer ›11Actress Diana of "All Creatures Great and Small" (2020)4 lettersSee answer ›15One might start fermenting in the kitchen10 lettersSee answer ›16Classic Langston Hughes poem with a comma in its title4 lettersSee answer ›17It features high wind movements10 lettersSee answer ›18Latin for "goodbye"4 lettersSee answer ›19What might be seen around a star5 lettersSee answer ›20Shape of Saturn's rings4 lettersSee answer ›21Star of TV and film who wrote the memoir "Never Have Your Dog Stuffed: And Other Things I've Learned"4 lettersSee answer ›22Spot for newborn care4 lettersSee answer ›24Awards honoring excellence in magazine publishing6 lettersSee answer ›26Earth's crust and others6 lettersSee answer ›30Shade akin to bone or eggshell4 lettersSee answer ›32"No preference"3 lettersSee answer ›33Snobby sort4 lettersSee answer ›34Bring up to date, perhaps4 lettersSee answer ›36Terms of a trade5 lettersSee answer ›38With 8-Down, like the upcoming release from one's favorite band7 lettersSee answer ›40Quinta of "Abbott Elementary"7 lettersSee answer ›42Lose, as a tail5 lettersSee answer ›43Build up4 lettersSee answer ›45Its official languages are Chamorro and English4 lettersSee answer ›46"Dese ___ Dose" (Glenn Miller composition)3 lettersSee answer ›47Mideast port with a natural harbor4 lettersSee answer ›49Faint6 lettersSee answer ›51Smith who was the first woman to receive the Baseball Writers' Association of America's Career Excellence Award6 lettersSee answer ›53Symbol of defiance and solidarity4 lettersSee answer ›55Period ender4 lettersSee answer ›56Waste4 lettersSee answer ›58Member of a sub-Saharan matriarchal clan5 lettersSee answer ›63Big ones can be difficult to manage4 lettersSee answer ›64One tirelessly making calls ahead of Election Day10 lettersSee answer ›66___ Sea, body of water between Borneo and the Philippines4 lettersSee answer ›67Convention challenger10 lettersSee answer ›68Look4 lettersSee answer ›69Adjunct faculty?10 lettersSee answer ›

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1Smack4 lettersSee answer ›2Kind of spider believed to spread to distant areas via railway4 lettersSee answer ›3Biblical prophet whom Martin Luther King Jr. referred to as "an extremist for justice" in his "Letter From Birmingham Jail"4 lettersSee answer ›4Youth baseball supporters4 lettersSee answer ›5Skipping music, say6 lettersSee answer ›6"Amigo!"3 lettersSee answer ›7Spots, so to speak5 lettersSee answer ›8See 38-Across7 lettersSee answer ›9Staging areas4 lettersSee answer ›10Detective, at times6 lettersSee answer ›11Sooner, to a Longhorn5 lettersSee answer ›12Order that might include mortadella and capicola10 lettersSee answer ›13First score during extra time in sudden-death soccer10 lettersSee answer ›14"I'm ready, but be nice"10 lettersSee answer ›23Rap's ___ Sweatshirt4 lettersSee answer ›25Doozy4 lettersSee answer ›26Rush to find a mate?10 lettersSee answer ›27Many a book by Paul Theroux10 lettersSee answer ›28Series of hoops and hurdles10 lettersSee answer ›29Went from 0 to 60?4 lettersSee answer ›31Cylindrical grain holders4 lettersSee answer ›35Jane who says "Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation"4 lettersSee answer ›37Kansas-born playwright with a Pulitzer4 lettersSee answer ›39Buns4 lettersSee answer ›41Enforcers of rules, informally4 lettersSee answer ›44Fixed-format summary of an article, as on Wikipedia7 lettersSee answer ›48Waste6 lettersSee answer ›50Important subject in law school6 lettersSee answer ›52"What it boils down to is this …"5 lettersSee answer ›54[stomps foot down]5 lettersSee answer ›57Spots4 lettersSee answer ›59Law school for Samuel Alito, Brett Kavanaugh, Clarence Thomas and Sonia Sotomayor4 lettersSee answer ›60Zip4 lettersSee answer ›61Wit's end?4 lettersSee answer ›62Las pinturas de Frida Kahlo, por ejemplo4 lettersSee answer ›65"I'm Just a Girl Who Can't Say ___" ("The Simpsons" episode)3 lettersSee answer ›