NYT CROSSWORD • SATURDAY, AUGUST 23, 2025

NYT Crossword Answers Aug 23, 2025

Complete answer list for the August 23, 2025 New York Times Crossword. Across and Down, every clue, every answer — plus the full grid below.

By Ryan JudgeEdited by Will ShortzGrid 15×1572 clues

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Across 33

  1. 1Relative of upward dog, to 50-Down ↗COBRAPOSE
  2. 10Many Intuit employees, for short ↗CPAS
  3. 14Noted line in Buddhism ↗DALAILAMAS
  4. 15International grocery chain founded in Germany ↗ALDI
  5. 16Galaxy program, e.g. ↗ANDROIDAPP
  6. 17Break ↗REST
  7. 18Rapper whose father is the jazz musician Olu Dara ↗NAS
  8. 19Certain tray's contents ↗ASH
  9. 20Country whose name is an anagram of a common means of getting there ↗NEPAL
  10. 22Makes rapidly, with "out" ↗CRANKS
  11. 25Mutually accepts ↗AGREESON
  12. 28M.L.B. All-Star closer ___ Díaz ↗EDWIN
  13. 29Staple at a car wash ↗RAG
  14. 30One might be fragile ↗EGO
  15. 31Product pitched by a pitcher ↗KOOLAID
  16. 35Drew Carey once called it "crossword puzzle cheese" on "Whose Line Is It Anyway?" ↗EDAM
  17. 36"I've helped all I can" ↗MYJOBHEREISDONE
  18. 40Steven ___, Best Actor nominee for 2020's "Minari" ↗YEUN
  19. 41Field goal announcement ↗ITSGOOD
  20. 42___ Hill ↗SAM
  21. 43Bit of drag attire ↗BOA
  22. 44Hands, humorously ↗MITTS
  23. 48Hit list ↗TOPFORTY
  24. 51Eye up and down ↗LEERAT
  25. 52Japanese healing technique ↗REIKI
  26. 53Medical lead-in to -scope ↗OTO
  27. 55Type of alcoholic beverage that originated in the U.K., despite its name ↗IPA
  28. 56Overturn ↗UNDO
  29. 57Plant-based meat alternative that sizzles ↗VEGANBACON
  30. 61One's primary character, in video game lingo ↗MAIN
  31. 62Criminal mastermind ↗EVILGENIUS
  32. 63Very vocal avian ↗MYNA
  33. 64Purr-fect adoptee ↗RESCUECAT

Down 39

  1. 1Unfounded rumor ↗CANARD
  2. 2Tired expression ↗OLDSAW
  3. 3Something that can be raised or passed ↗BAR
  4. 4Mexico's ___ Conchos ↗RIO
  5. 5Literally, "at another time" ↗ALIAS
  6. 6Artificially inflates ↗PADS
  7. 7City where the Men's College World Series takes place ↗OMAHA
  8. 8Stuff boiled in sugar shacks ↗SAP
  9. 9Place to hear game results and analysis ↗ESPNRADIO
  10. 10"___ noctem" (motto meaning "go enjoy the night") ↗CARPE
  11. 11"By all means, go ahead!" ↗PLEASEDO
  12. 12Jingle accompaniment ↗ADSLOGAN
  13. 13Remain untouched ↗SIT
  14. 14Take a series of steps? ↗DANCE
  15. 21Hosp. test ↗EEG
  16. 23Japanese company whose products click with customers ↗NIKON
  17. 24Dresser part ↗KNOB
  18. 26Composer of "In the Hall of the Mountain King" ↗GRIEG
  19. 27Destination of an annual race since 1973 ↗NOME
  20. 32It's formed in Pittsburgh ↗OHIORIVER
  21. 33Allowed to strike ↗LETAT
  22. 34Horace's "___ Poetica" ↗ARS
  23. 35Boy on "The Munsters" ↗EDDIE
  24. 36Island in a classic video game ↗MYST
  25. 37"What's your decision?" ↗YEAORNAY
  26. 38Joined enthusiastically ↗JUMPEDIN
  27. 39Word before how or where, but not who ↗SOME
  28. 43___ choy ↗BOK
  29. 45White House daughter of the 1960s-'70s ↗TRICIA
  30. 46Have no more money to bet ↗TAPOUT
  31. 47Is really into, in slang ↗STANS
  32. 49Animated princess of film ↗FIONA
  33. 501-Across teachers ↗YOGIS
  34. 51Cute sound? ↗LONGU
  35. 54Mineral with a Mohs hardness of 1 ↗TALC
  36. 56"Lemme think ..." ↗UMM
  37. 58Night to remember, perhaps ↗EVE
  38. 59Busy ___ ↗BEE
  39. 60Anti-apartheid party, in brief ↗ANC