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NYT Crossword July 25 2025 Answers

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Every answer from the Friday, July 25 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

1Whack to the head, in slang8 lettersSee answer ›9Noted doomsday prepper4 lettersSee answer ›13Prognosticator's shout9 lettersSee answer ›15Game played on a grass or dirt court5 lettersSee answer ›16Occasion to brush up together?9 lettersSee answer ›17Weird Al Yankovic's "Straight ___ Lynwood"5 lettersSee answer ›18Attention magnet, say5 lettersSee answer ›19Like Queen Elizabeth, but not Queen Camilla7 lettersSee answer ›21Deal with The Devil?5 lettersSee answer ›23TV program with its time of day in its name8 lettersSee answer ›24Brit's "bog"3 lettersSee answer ›25Global auction house4 lettersSee answer ›26Gain competitor3 lettersSee answer ›27How one lives in the face of an inscrutable future8 lettersSee answer ›30Org. that may allow religious headwear in pictures3 lettersSee answer ›31Planted oneself3 lettersSee answer ›32Harmless growth7 lettersSee answer ›35Issa of "Insecure"3 lettersSee answer ›36Spanish diminutive suffix3 lettersSee answer ›37Reduced demand for refrigerated trucking, in a way8 lettersSee answer ›39Illicit decampment3 lettersSee answer ›401968 live folk album4 lettersSee answer ›42When repeated, something often said to be "deep"3 lettersSee answer ›43Sheer quantity of awesome8 lettersSee answer ›45Slacks off5 lettersSee answer ›48"Your request is denied"7 lettersSee answer ›49Shrub with a "staghorn" variety5 lettersSee answer ›51Word derived from the Greek for "headdress of Persian kings"5 lettersSee answer ›52Flash point?9 lettersSee answer ›56Heavenly figure, in German5 lettersSee answer ›57One that can put a meal on ice9 lettersSee answer ›58Brood4 lettersSee answer ›59Abstain ... as suggested by the black squares in this puzzle8 lettersSee answer ›

Down

1Region of a plane bounded by a circle, in geometry4 lettersSee answer ›2Scorpion's legs, e.g.5 lettersSee answer ›3Abdul with the #1 albums "Forever Your Girl" and "Spellbound"5 lettersSee answer ›4Getting on7 lettersSee answer ›5Shifty type8 lettersSee answer ›6Was up3 lettersSee answer ›7Pioneering mathematician Lovelace3 lettersSee answer ›8Center of a drupe3 lettersSee answer ›9Meat and potatoes, e.g.5 lettersSee answer ›10D8 pieces in Dungeons & Dragons, e.g.9 lettersSee answer ›11"Don't attract attention to yourself"9 lettersSee answer ›12When squirrels may thermoregulate by splooting8 lettersSee answer ›14Extra-large storage unit8 lettersSee answer ›15Solving Wordle in five guesses, colloquially5 lettersSee answer ›20H, to the Hellenes3 lettersSee answer ›22Stole4 lettersSee answer ›23Rough digs7 lettersSee answer ›27One of many in a trend line9 lettersSee answer ›28Period satirized in "Dr. Strangelove"9 lettersSee answer ›29Antibacterial product introduced in 19488 lettersSee answer ›31"Sometimes" has two of them8 lettersSee answer ›33German-based supermarket with about 2,500 stores in the U.S.4 lettersSee answer ›34Friendly, respectful person8 lettersSee answer ›381970s "howcatchem" TV series7 lettersSee answer ›40Log5 lettersSee answer ›41First color that babies can see, after black and white3 lettersSee answer ›44Eponym of the A.L. batting title award5 lettersSee answer ›46Become acquainted virtually5 lettersSee answer ›47World capital next to the Sarawat Mountains5 lettersSee answer ›50One of three keys to a PC reboot4 lettersSee answer ›53Sizzling3 lettersSee answer ›54It's off limits if you 59-Across3 lettersSee answer ›55West who said "I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it"3 lettersSee answer ›