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NYT Crossword July 18 2025 Answers

Deborah Simmons ✓Solving & explaining puzzles since 1998 · Updated July 18 2025

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Every answer from the Friday, July 18 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

1Makes good6 lettersSee answer ›7Down6 lettersSee answer ›13"Psycho" screenwriter Joseph ___7 lettersSee answer ›14Uncertain7 lettersSee answer ›16"Well, tough!"15 lettersSee answer ›18Hi-___3 lettersSee answer ›19Humdingers7 lettersSee answer ›20Certain fraternity guy, informally3 lettersSee answer ›21"Les Misérables" number with a number in its name10 lettersSee answer ›23Instrument with a deep, rounded back4 lettersSee answer ›24Cutting tool5 lettersSee answer ›25"My Old ___" (2024 coming-of-age film)3 lettersSee answer ›26Staff notes5 lettersSee answer ›27Recent, as a memory5 lettersSee answer ›29Winter athlete5 lettersSee answer ›30"___ is the most convenient time to tax rich people": David Lloyd George5 lettersSee answer ›31Verbal flourishes5 lettersSee answer ›32Between then and now5 lettersSee answer ›33Shepherd's warning5 lettersSee answer ›34Olympian Owens5 lettersSee answer ›35Receiving end?3 lettersSee answer ›36Works one's way up5 lettersSee answer ›40Place to put a pin4 lettersSee answer ›41Explicit subject for her?10 lettersSee answer ›43Figure skater Midori3 lettersSee answer ›44Concocts7 lettersSee answer ›45Farm cry3 lettersSee answer ›46Going overboard with the praise15 lettersSee answer ›49"We don't need to know all the details"7 lettersSee answer ›50Mixing board7 lettersSee answer ›51Lifts up6 lettersSee answer ›52Theater class assignments6 lettersSee answer ›

Down

1Deity who helped Hercules through his sixth labor6 lettersSee answer ›2Short preview6 lettersSee answer ›3Poetic adverb3 lettersSee answer ›4The Brickyard 400 or Southern 500, e.g.10 lettersSee answer ›5Find pleasure in5 lettersSee answer ›6Whiskey distiller's mixture8 lettersSee answer ›7Buries6 lettersSee answer ›8French possessive5 lettersSee answer ›9Classic hot rods4 lettersSee answer ›10That, in Mexico3 lettersSee answer ›11Absorbs8 lettersSee answer ›12Quisling, e.g.7 lettersSee answer ›13Blade sharpener5 lettersSee answer ›15They might be rough or perforated5 lettersSee answer ›17Tiny bit5 lettersSee answer ›22Part of a trial7 lettersSee answer ›23Driver's license, e.g.7 lettersSee answer ›26Fight dirty?10 lettersSee answer ›28Dijon season3 lettersSee answer ›29Luang Prabang native3 lettersSee answer ›30Like a 12-Down8 lettersSee answer ›31They glisten in a classic Irving Berlin tune8 lettersSee answer ›32Congressional record?7 lettersSee answer ›33Imply5 lettersSee answer ›34Where Mandela and Nehru worked on their autobiographies5 lettersSee answer ›35Rock with bands6 lettersSee answer ›37Akkadian or Phoenician6 lettersSee answer ›38Passes6 lettersSee answer ›39Sight in a tomato patch5 lettersSee answer ›41Contest5 lettersSee answer ›42Comedian Wyatt5 lettersSee answer ›44Tech news site4 lettersSee answer ›47___ the Jairite, biblical minister to King David3 lettersSee answer ›48Maternal figure3 lettersSee answer ›