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NYT Crossword September 3 2025 Answers

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Every answer from the Wednesday, September 3 2025 New York Times Crossword, checked and verified against the published NYT solution. Select a clue for the full explanation.

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1Project for a beginning knitter5 lettersSee answer ›6Petri dish medium4 lettersSee answer ›10Niecy ___ of "Clean House"4 lettersSee answer ›14Exposed, as one's dirty laundry5 lettersSee answer ›15Protein in a niçoise salad4 lettersSee answer ›16Guthrie who sang "Alice's Restaurant"4 lettersSee answer ›17Neutral shade in some Florida décor?10 lettersSee answer ›19One getting top billing4 lettersSee answer ›20Just OK4 lettersSee answer ›21Break in the action4 lettersSee answer ›22Censures5 lettersSee answer ›23Lighthearted invitation for joining one's sled team?12 lettersSee answer ›26[Is this thing on?]6 lettersSee answer ›29Fish feared by dragons in "How to Train Your Dragon"4 lettersSee answer ›30Cry of defeat5 lettersSee answer ›31Chess piece that can be promoted4 lettersSee answer ›34Creature of Sherpa folklore4 lettersSee answer ›37Chop (off)3 lettersSee answer ›38Fancify … or a phonetic hint to 17-, 23-, 50- and 62-Across7 lettersSee answer ›41Stalling sounds3 lettersSee answer ›42Tolkien trilogy, to fans4 lettersSee answer ›44Word after latch or glom4 lettersSee answer ›45"Death of a Salesman" salesman5 lettersSee answer ›47A half-filled auditorium, per Robert Frost4 lettersSee answer ›49Puts the pedal to the metal6 lettersSee answer ›50Headline during a zombie attack?12 lettersSee answer ›55Pair of cymbals with a foot pedal5 lettersSee answer ›56Gain4 lettersSee answer ›57World's most-watched television franchise, informally4 lettersSee answer ›61School within both Princeton and Carleton?4 lettersSee answer ›62Price of makeup at the dollar store, informally?10 lettersSee answer ›64No longer applicable4 lettersSee answer ›65Feel sore4 lettersSee answer ›66Console for the game Pitfall!5 lettersSee answer ›67Partner of odds4 lettersSee answer ›68Rhyming word after speed4 lettersSee answer ›69Loses color5 lettersSee answer ›

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1Exams that are often optional4 lettersSee answer ›2Florence farewell4 lettersSee answer ›3Munitions4 lettersSee answer ›4Spreads on social media7 lettersSee answer ›5Cosmetics-regulating org.3 lettersSee answer ›6Couldn't get enough of5 lettersSee answer ›7Reason for a tucked tail, perhaps5 lettersSee answer ›8___-Saxon5 lettersSee answer ›9Issa of "Insecure"3 lettersSee answer ›10How a Dylan impersonator might sing7 lettersSee answer ›11Tate Modern and others10 lettersSee answer ›12"That slaps," for something good, e.g.5 lettersSee answer ›13One might be mounted5 lettersSee answer ›18Tiny deviation from a general trend4 lettersSee answer ›22Product from Rit3 lettersSee answer ›24New York City deli name4 lettersSee answer ›25It might be fixed at a chef's table4 lettersSee answer ›26Cashier's tray4 lettersSee answer ›27___ gobi (potato curry)4 lettersSee answer ›28Prepare to do an oil change, say10 lettersSee answer ›31"The shoddy sandwich knife couldn't cut the mustard," e.g.3 lettersSee answer ›32Early H.I.V. med3 lettersSee answer ›33"___ knows?"3 lettersSee answer ›35Phuket native4 lettersSee answer ›36"___ she lovely?" (Stevie Wonder question)4 lettersSee answer ›39Greeting that becomes another greeting if you add an A at the front and reverse it4 lettersSee answer ›40Promote4 lettersSee answer ›43Stinging insects7 lettersSee answer ›46The least amount a person might give7 lettersSee answer ›48Tennis umpire's call3 lettersSee answer ›49Rowlands of "A Woman Under the Influence"4 lettersSee answer ›50Subject5 lettersSee answer ›51Discover by chance5 lettersSee answer ›52Two in a hand5 lettersSee answer ›53___ Baron Cohen, "The Trial of the Chicago 7" actor5 lettersSee answer ›54Ticked off5 lettersSee answer ›58Twofold4 lettersSee answer ›59Fairy tale baddie4 lettersSee answer ›60Some island rings4 lettersSee answer ›62Setting for many a joke with a priest, a pastor and a rabbi3 lettersSee answer ›63Sharp knock3 lettersSee answer ›