NYT CROSSWORD • THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 2025
NYT Crossword Answers Aug 21, 2025
Complete answer list for the August 21, 2025 New York Times Crossword. Across and Down, every clue, every answer — plus the full grid below.
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TUEAUG
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WEDAUG
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THUAUG
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FRIAUG
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By Gia Bosko
SATAUG
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Across 41
- 150 things on the Argo ↗OARS
- 5Units equal to nine inches ↗SPANS
- 10Needing more salt, perhaps ↗ICIER
- 15Swiss-born artist whose name sounds like an art medium ↗KLEE
- 16What pronouns and their antecedents should do ↗AGREE
- 17*Person who persists in a hopeless cause ↗BITTE
- 18Destroyer of Hindu cosmogony ↗SIVA
- 19*Wildlife parks ↗GAMER
- 20Layer of bricks ↗MASON
- 21Show obeisance ↗BOWTO
- 23Smart TV features ↗DVRS
- 25Eye covering ↗LID
- 26*Enjoy the moment, say ↗TAKEI
- 27Name on a check ↗PAYEE
- 29Porter of Broadway ↗COLE
- 30Sucker's lament ↗IBEENHAD
- 32Repeat ↗SAYOVER
- 34Cheryl of "Charlie's Angels" ↗LADD
- 35Bit of Q.E.D. ↗ERAT
- 37Features of some stadia ↗DOMES
- 38Start of a popular saying about gravity ... or a hint to completing the answers to the starred clues ↗WHATGOESUP
- 41Big name in Russian ballet ↗KIROV
- 43Capital on the Mediterranean ↗EURO
- 44Blew away ↗AWED
- 48Legislative bodies ↗SENATES
- 50Old wide-screen format ↗CINERAMA
- 52Crime show extra, informally ↗PERP
- 53Lead-in to "they" ↗HESHE
- 55*Storm-tracking aid ↗LIVER
- 56Brew designed to survive trips to the subcontinent, in brief ↗IPA
- 57Early PC game whose nonsense working title stuck ↗ZORK
- 58Partner of older ↗WISER
- 59Guardian spirits ↗GENII
- 61*Musical appreciation? ↗TONYA
- 64Deity with the raven familiars Huginn and Muninn ↗ODIN
- 66*Forming a union ↗ORGAN
- 67___ Day (April celebration) ↗ARBOR
- 68A or B, e.g. ↗NOTE
- 69Yani ___, youngest pro golfer to win five major championships (age 22) ↗TSENG
- 70Score keeper? ↗STAND
- 71Peeved state ↗SNIT
Down 40
- 1Gives a "go" ↗OKS
- 2Fictional character with a famous opening line ↗ALIBABA
- 3Took back ↗REVOKED
- 4Sushi treatment that's also a spa treatment ↗SEAWEEDWRAP
- 5Palm starch ↗SAGO
- 6___ Tour ↗PGA
- 7What's off to the side in a selfie ↗ARM
- 8Demanding attention ↗NEEDY
- 9Waits on ↗SERVES
- 10Watson and Deep Blue, for two ↗IBMS
- 11Grp. aptly hidden in "special ops" ↗CIA
- 12"We're head over heels!" ↗ITSLOVE
- 13Prima ballerinas ↗ETOILES
- 14Melt down ↗RENDER
- 22___ can, item first made and patented in Britain in 1810 ↗TIN
- 24Turns the page, say ↗READSON
- 26Up to ↗TIL
- 27Take leave of each other ↗PART
- 28Just saying? ↗ADAGE
- 29Taste tests, e.g. ↗COMPARISONS
- 31Boot ↗HEAVEHO
- 33Pronoun repeated in "___ do ___" ↗YOU
- 36Graze ↗TOUCH
- 39High on the Scoville scale ↗HOT
- 40Lake that's home to Kelleys Island ↗ERIE
- 41Best candidates for permanent relationships ↗KEEPERS
- 42Callable, say ↗INRANGE
- 45Gestured to keep moving ↗WAVEDON
- 46Some retired faculty ↗EMERITI
- 47___ es Salaam ↗DAR
- 48Tap ↗SPIGOT
- 49Certain mattresses ↗SERTAS
- 51Name that means "my God" in Hebrew ↗ELI
- 54Bit of hybrid field hockey attire ↗SKORT
- 57Criticize wittily ↗ZING
- 58District ↗WARD
- 60Holm or McKellen of "The Hobbit" ↗IAN
- 62Wizards' org. ↗NBA
- 63Over there ↗YON
- 65Mesh ↗NET