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NYT Crossword July 9 2025 Answers

Deborah Simmons ✓Solving & explaining puzzles since 1998 · Updated July 9 2025

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Every answer from the Wednesday, July 9 2025 New York Times Crossword, checked and verified against the published NYT solution. Select a clue for the full explanation.

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1Top dog?4 lettersSee answer ›5Top hat?3 lettersSee answer ›8Top gun?6 lettersSee answer ›14Olympic event in which athletes wear masks4 lettersSee answer ›15Balmy time in Bordeaux3 lettersSee answer ›16Squids' kin6 lettersSee answer ›17Marilyn Monroe used eyeliner to darken the one on her cheek4 lettersSee answer ›18Late actor Kilmer3 lettersSee answer ›19Be off the mark6 lettersSee answer ›20Number with 12 zeros in the U.S. but 18 zeros in other parts of the world11 lettersSee answer ›23Cotillion V.I.P.3 lettersSee answer ›24Top 10 song3 lettersSee answer ›25Auntie ___ (food court chain)5 lettersSee answer ›27Who, What or I Don't Know, to Abbott and Costello7 lettersSee answer ›31Popular digital wallet service7 lettersSee answer ›35Non-Rx3 lettersSee answer ›36Dance instruction4 lettersSee answer ›38Jason of "How I Met Your Mother"5 lettersSee answer ›39One wearing a djellaba robe, typically4 lettersSee answer ›41Outer boundaries, as where this puzzle's theme answers are located5 lettersSee answer ›44Hospital fluids4 lettersSee answer ›45Pat ___, three-time N.B.A. Coach of the Year5 lettersSee answer ›47Bit of litter by a theater4 lettersSee answer ›49It may be picked by the picky3 lettersSee answer ›50Kind of Emmy7 lettersSee answer ›53Last Supper guest7 lettersSee answer ›55One end of a battery5 lettersSee answer ›57State animal of Utah3 lettersSee answer ›58Ryder Cup org.3 lettersSee answer ›61Famous misquote of a James Cagney line from the 1932 film "Taxi!"11 lettersSee answer ›66Beyond belief6 lettersSee answer ›68Hunk3 lettersSee answer ›69___ land4 lettersSee answer ›70Repeated sounds in "Hey Jude"6 lettersSee answer ›71From ___ Z3 lettersSee answer ›72Many moons4 lettersSee answer ›73Bottom feeder?6 lettersSee answer ›74Bottom line?3 lettersSee answer ›75Bottom dollar?4 lettersSee answer ›

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1Side note?4 lettersSee answer ›2Agreed-___4 lettersSee answer ›3Prefix with communication4 lettersSee answer ›4Grow choppers6 lettersSee answer ›5Get off the ground?8 lettersSee answer ›6Stressed type: Abbr.4 lettersSee answer ›7Singer Reese5 lettersSee answer ›8California college where the writer David Foster Wallace taught English6 lettersSee answer ›9Unfriendly quality7 lettersSee answer ›10Ave. crossers3 lettersSee answer ›11Lowly sort4 lettersSee answer ›12Redheaded boy of 1960s TV4 lettersSee answer ›13Side arm?4 lettersSee answer ›21Parts of eyeglass frames4 lettersSee answer ›22First magazine to feature Steve Jobs on its cover (October 1981)3 lettersSee answer ›26Elvis's "___ Not You"4 lettersSee answer ›27Side plank?5 lettersSee answer ›28Parts of hearts5 lettersSee answer ›29Like snakes5 lettersSee answer ›30Mustachioed "Simpsons" character3 lettersSee answer ›32007, for one5 lettersSee answer ›33Jeopardy5 lettersSee answer ›34Side dish?5 lettersSee answer ›37Family-friendly ratings3 lettersSee answer ›40Onetime alternative to VHS4 lettersSee answer ›42Gate info3 lettersSee answer ›43Comic book hero whose secret identity is Conner Kent8 lettersSee answer ›46Symbol of contrasting principles7 lettersSee answer ›48Get out of the starting gate fast4 lettersSee answer ›51Bread6 lettersSee answer ›52End of a professor's address3 lettersSee answer ›541970s space station6 lettersSee answer ›56"J. ___" (2011 Clint Eastwood biopic)5 lettersSee answer ›58Side kick?4 lettersSee answer ›59Growl4 lettersSee answer ›60River under the Ponte Vecchio4 lettersSee answer ›62Itty bit4 lettersSee answer ›63Prego rival4 lettersSee answer ›64Guinness of "Star Wars"4 lettersSee answer ›65Side job?4 lettersSee answer ›67French 101 word that sounds like a letter of the alphabet3 lettersSee answer ›