NYT CROSSWORD • FRIDAY, AUGUST 22, 2025

NYT Crossword Answers Aug 22, 2025

Complete answer list for the August 22, 2025 New York Times Crossword. Across and Down, every clue, every answer — plus the full grid below.

By Gia BoskoEdited by Will ShortzGrid 15×1568 clues

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Across 29

  1. 1Accessory for overseas travel ↗ADAPTOR
  2. 8Camila with the hit 2022 album "Familia" ↗CABELLO
  3. 15Disassemble in order to understand ↗REVERSEENGINEER
  4. 17Ideal resolution ↗FAIRYTALEENDING
  5. 18Bit of a blind ↗SLAT
  6. 19Button added to iPhone messages in 2022 ↗EDIT
  7. 20Like challenging kite-flying weather ↗GUSTY
  8. 21Becky on "Full House" and Esther on "Sanford and Son" ↗AUNTS
  9. 23A little "Help here!"? ↗SOS
  10. 24Access, in a way ↗LOGINTO
  11. 27Regards with astonishment ↗GAPESAT
  12. 31___ Gorman, "The Hill We Climb" poet ↗AMANDA
  13. 32Stone to cast? ↗EMMA
  14. 33For ↗PRO
  15. 34Reveal all ↗RAISETHECURTAIN
  16. 37One might walk right into a trap ↗ANT
  17. 38Baroque stringed instrument ↗VIOL
  18. 39Plaza resident of fiction ↗ELOISE
  19. 40Apollo 13, for one ↗MISSION
  20. 42Made funny faces, say ↗CLOWNED
  21. 43Solo in space ↗HAN
  22. 44Inlay material on some guitars ↗NACRE
  23. 45Attacks ↗HASAT
  24. 48Alternative to 53-Across ↗ROTH
  25. 49Blowout ↗ROMP
  26. 53Some nest eggs ↗TRADITIONALIRAS
  27. 56Be ruthless ↗TAKENOPRISONERS
  28. 57Brothers-to-be ↗PLEDGES
  29. 58Beloved kid on one's farm, maybe ↗PETGOAT

Down 39

  1. 1Yaps ↗ARFS
  2. 2"You're on!" ↗DEAL
  3. 3Brand of athletic shoes ↗AVIA
  4. 4Relates (to) ↗PERTAINS
  5. 5Cause headaches for ↗TRY
  6. 6Peacock's display ↗OSTENTATION
  7. 7Entertain at bedtime, maybe ↗READTO
  8. 8Website whose contributors might write about mice ↗CNET
  9. 9Dating app filter ↗AGE
  10. 10Where many gather to form a line? ↗BINGOPARLOR
  11. 11Ultimate function ↗ENDUSE
  12. 12Attire for hula dancers ↗LEIS
  13. 13Time of abstinence ↗LENT
  14. 14Not-so-conservative party? ↗ORGY
  15. 16Clinton and Bush, for two ↗ELIS
  16. 22Steadfast ↗UNDEVIATING
  17. 23Founding father who is the only Supreme Court justice to have ever been impeached ↗SAMUELCHASE
  18. 24Super Bowl LVI winner, in brief ↗LARAM
  19. 25Resident of the Arab world's oldest continuously independent state ↗OMANI
  20. 26Equestrian's choices ↗GAITS
  21. 27Sierra or Yukon ↗GMC
  22. 28Its national anthem has no words ↗SPAIN
  23. 29Come about ↗ARISE
  24. 30Buff ↗TONED
  25. 32Unakyu roll ingredient ↗EEL
  26. 35Dearie ↗HON
  27. 36Very, very tall ↗TOWERING
  28. 41Not directly in the sun ↗SHADED
  29. 42Something very attractive ↗CATNIP
  30. 44Former queen of Jordan ↗NOOR
  31. 45URL letters ↗HTTP
  32. 46___ Sea, body of water nowadays divided into "North" and "South" ↗ARAL
  33. 47Drink served hot or cold ↗SAKE
  34. 48Criticizes viciously ↗RIPS
  35. 50___ cow (black bovine with a white belt around its middle) ↗OREO
  36. 51Kate of "Fantastic Four" ↗MARA
  37. 52Whisper in a classroom, maybe ↗PSST
  38. 54"Little piggy" ↗TOE
  39. 55Studio locale ↗LOT