NYT CROSSWORD • SUNDAY, AUGUST 24, 2025

NYT Crossword Answers Aug 24, 2025

Complete answer list for the August 24, 2025 New York Times Crossword. Across and Down, every clue, every answer — plus the full grid below.

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Across 64

  1. 1Swanky ↗POSH
  2. 5Bluffer's declaration ↗IRAISE
  3. 11Educational advertisement, for short ↗PSA
  4. 14Farm-related prefix ↗AGRI
  5. 18Ding-dong ditch, e.g. ↗ANTIC
  6. 20Bitter Italian digestif ↗FERNET
  7. 21Close of business? ↗INC
  8. 22Spanish province WSW of Bilbao ↗LEON
  9. 23If HOSTESS & PETCO merged and became a medical supply company, they would sell ___ ↗STETHOSCOPES
  10. 25Small fry? ↗TATERTOT
  11. 27It can be a pain in the neck ↗TONSIL
  12. 28___ Lingus ↗AER
  13. 29One of 200+ stations for NBC, e.g. ↗AFFILIATE
  14. 30Fitting ↗APT
  15. 31If NEUTROGENA, BIC & VANS merged and opened a winery, they would sell ___ ↗CABERNETSAUVIGNON
  16. 35Jane ___, longtime writer for The New Yorker ↗MAYER
  17. 36Author Roald ↗DAHL
  18. 37Cursor icon for clickable links ↗HAND
  19. 38Snack with a Mega Stuf variety ↗OREO
  20. 41Sit tight ↗BIDE
  21. 44Tickle ↗DELIGHT
  22. 48If IBM, DANNON & ACER merged and started a bakery, they would sell ___ ↗CINNAMONBREAD
  23. 52Sallie ___ (student loan program) ↗MAE
  24. 53King in a 1978 novelty hit ↗TUT
  25. 56Made sense ↗ADDEDUP
  26. 57Provides assistance ↗AIDS
  27. 58Working on one's own well-being ↗SELFCARE
  28. 60Russian "no" ↗NYET
  29. 61Las Vegas's W.N.B.A. team ↗ACES
  30. 62October birthstone ↗OPAL
  31. 63Org. for Nelly Korda and Lydia Ko ↗LPGA
  32. 64If POST & SCHICK merged and became a kitchenware company, they would sell ___ ↗CHOPSTICKS
  33. 67If EPSON & CHASE merged and became an electronics accessories company, they would sell ___ ↗PHONECASES
  34. 69French filmmaker Jacques ↗TATI
  35. 70Some train depot figs. ↗ETDS
  36. 71Gent from Kent ↗BRIT
  37. 72Injudicious ↗RASH
  38. 73Debater's skill ↗RHETORIC
  39. 75Golden arrow-shooting deity ↗EROS
  40. 76Lets breathe ↗AIRSOUT
  41. 79"___ Meninas" (Velázquez masterpiece) ↗LAS
  42. 80Big name in the ice cream aisle ↗BEN
  43. 81If FORD & WALGREENS merged and became a landscaping company, they would sell ___ ↗FLOWERGARDENS
  44. 83Like a bicycle or a horse ↗RIDABLE
  45. 85Movie princess who wields a blaster pistol ↗LEIA
  46. 86Winter Olympics setting in 1972, 1998, 2018 and 2022 ↗ASIA
  47. 87Actress Skye ↗IONE
  48. 90German article ↗EINE
  49. 92Atomic number of neodymium ↗SIXTY
  50. 95If GMC, PETSMART & LENOVO merged and became an auto parts company, they would sell ___ ↗GLOVECOMPARTMENTS
  51. 101West Coast airport code ↗SFO
  52. 104Like a column starting a row, perhaps ↗LIBELLOUS
  53. 105Narrow inlet ↗RIA
  54. 106Buckwheat, for one ↗RASCAL
  55. 108Time-shares? ↗OVERLAPS
  56. 109If MERCK, MARS & AIG merged and became an art supplies company, they would sell ___ ↗MAGICMARKERS
  57. 112Most Vermeer works ↗OILS
  58. 113Fair ___ (copyright doctrine) ↗USE
  59. 114Verdi opera that becomes the name of a board game when an "H" is inserted ↗OTELLO
  60. 115Scorch ↗SINGE
  61. 116Old-fashioned invitation enclosure, in brief ↗SASE
  62. 117Ayo Edebiri's character on "The Bear," familiarly ↗SYD
  63. 118Analyzed grammatically ↗PARSED
  64. 119Element of many signs ↗NEON

Down 76

  1. 1Corkscrews and such ↗PASTA
  2. 2In the #1 position ↗ONTOP
  3. 3Inner tube? ↗STENT
  4. 4Billboard chart listings ↗HITS
  5. 5Hypotheticals ↗IFS
  6. 6Suggestion, casually ↗REC
  7. 7Cheering loudly ↗AROAR
  8. 8Like a "wet" signature ↗INPEN
  9. 9Be furious ↗SEERED
  10. 10Visitors from afar, in brief ↗ETS
  11. 11Hazard for the unwary ↗PITFALL
  12. 12Hot mess ↗SNAFU
  13. 13When Ophelia dies in "Hamlet" ↗ACTIV
  14. 142015 Kendrick Lamar anthem that won two Grammys ↗ALRIGHT
  15. 15Ace the test ↗GETANA
  16. 16Cheer for ↗ROOTON
  17. 17Mean ↗INTEND
  18. 19Spanish girl ↗CHICA
  19. 24Skin-care brand with the slogan "Face Anything" ↗OLAY
  20. 26___ Lilly and Company ↗ELI
  21. 29Tapped, as a cigarette ↗ASHED
  22. 32Jazz style ↗BEBOP
  23. 33"___, Oh ___" (Thomas Moore poem) ↗ERIN
  24. 34Magicians' flourishes ↗TADAS
  25. 35What a fixer-upper might become, pessimistically ↗MONEYPIT
  26. 38South American tuber ↗OCA
  27. 39Relieved (of) ↗RID
  28. 40Supplementary data and suggestions for further reading, maybe ↗ENDNOTES
  29. 42Rival of the Dodgers and Rockies, informally ↗DBACKS
  30. 43Great Lakes natives ↗ERIES
  31. 45Precursor to a clarifying remark ↗IMEAN
  32. 46Fancy shopping mall ↗GALLERIA
  33. 47Playboy's founder, in brief ↗HEF
  34. 49Fruit drinks ↗ADES
  35. 50Complained under one's breath ↗MUTTERED
  36. 51Ones making margin calls, for short? ↗EDS
  37. 53Purchases that come with metal plates ↗TAPSHOES
  38. 54Craving ↗URGE
  39. 55Bags with black and green varieties ↗TEAS
  40. 58Lend, as money ↗SPOT
  41. 59Celebration for seniors ↗CLASSDAY
  42. 61"Highway to Hell" band ↗ACDC
  43. 62"Aha, got it!" ↗OHISEE
  44. 64Key near Fn ↗CTRL
  45. 65Response to a routine delivery? ↗HAHA
  46. 661986 rock autobiography ↗ITINA
  47. 67Be on the hunt ↗PROWL
  48. 68Baker v. ___ (landmark voting rights case) ↗CARR
  49. 71Fratty type ↗BRO
  50. 74Kimono sash ↗OBI
  51. 75Novelist Ferrante ↗ELENA
  52. 76From the top ↗AGAIN
  53. 77Sea urchin, on a sushi menu ↗UNI
  54. 78Govt. agency whose busiest days usually precede major holidays ↗TSA
  55. 81Some gymnastics moves ↗FLIPS
  56. 82Go up ↗RISE
  57. 83"R" in a car ↗REVERSE
  58. 84Puzzled ↗BEMUSED
  59. 87Cool places to live? ↗IGLOOS
  60. 88Singer Rodrigo ↗OLIVIA
  61. 89Awards partially bestowed by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences ↗NOBELS
  62. 91List of mistakes ↗ERRATA
  63. 93Pibb ___ (soft drink) ↗XTRA
  64. 94Ruling Romanovs, e.g. ↗TSARS
  65. 96Bend in a pipe ↗ELL
  66. 97Santa ___ ↗CLAUS
  67. 98"Clumsy me!" ↗OOPSY
  68. 99University of Memphis athlete ↗TIGER
  69. 100Sends off ↗MAILS
  70. 101Spectacle ↗SCENE
  71. 102Hit 1996 movie billed as a "homespun murder story" ↗FARGO
  72. 103"Love & Death" actress Elizabeth ↗OLSEN
  73. 107Pelt ↗SKIN
  74. 109Janitorial implement ↗MOP
  75. 110The Guardians, on sports tickers ↗CLE
  76. 111Hip ↗MOD