NYT CROSSWORD • TUESDAY, AUGUST 25, 2026

NYT Crossword Answers Aug 25, 2026

Complete answer list for the August 25, 2026 New York Times Crossword. Across and Down, every clue, every answer — plus the full grid below.

By Bryan Kaproth-GerechtEdited by Will ShortzGrid 15×1576 clues

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The Grid

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Across 40

  1. 1Sharpened point of a quill pen ↗NIB
  2. 4One-named Senegalese American singer with the #1 hits "I Wanna Love You" and "Don't Matter" ↗AKON
  3. 8South Asian royals ↗RAJAS
  4. 13Actress Longoria ↗EVA
  5. 14Free-spirited style, informally ↗BOHO
  6. 15*6th ↗SATURN
  7. 16Summer meteor shower named for a mythological hero ↗PERSEIDS
  8. 18Paradise ↗UTOPIA
  9. 19Musical flutter ↗TRILL
  10. 20Billion years, astronomically ↗AEON
  11. 22___ skirt ↗MIDI
  12. 23"Miracle on Ice" foe, for short ↗USSR
  13. 24Smart set ↗MENSA
  14. 26To, informally ↗TIL
  15. 27"___ it!" (shout in a game of tag) ↗NOT
  16. 28*2nd ↗VENUS
  17. 30Arouses, as an appetite ↗WHETS
  18. 32Captivate ↗ENAMOR
  19. 34*1st ↗MERCURY
  20. 36Settled on the ground, say ↗ALIT
  21. 38Something told with two hands? ↗TIME
  22. 39Bluish-silver Christmas trees, maybe ↗SPRUCES
  23. 42Hosp. recovery area ↗POSTOP
  24. 46Great divide ↗CHASM
  25. 47Moon believed to have a subsurface ocean ↗TITAN
  26. 49Gamer's "off-line" ↗IRL
  27. 50Kool-Aid competitor ↗HIC
  28. 51*3rd ↗EARTH
  29. 53McEntire of country music ↗REBA
  30. 54Some Monopoly properties: Abbr. ↗AVES
  31. 56Drink in a sippy cup, to a toddler ↗WAWA
  32. 57Commence ↗BEGIN
  33. 58Mexican beer brand ↗TECATE
  34. 60"I'd love to go" ↗ITSADATE
  35. 62*7th ↗URANUS
  36. 63Bygone Russian leader ↗TSAR
  37. 64Pad ↗MAT
  38. 65Baker's glassware brand ↗PYREX
  39. 66"Thing with feathers that perches in the soul," per Emily Dickinson ↗HOPE
  40. 67"Y"-sounding pair of letters, in Spanish ↗ELS

Down 36

  1. 1*8th ↗NEPTUNE
  2. 2Allen who was the 2001 N.B.A. M.V.P. ↗IVERSON
  3. 3One known for the morning grind? ↗BARISTA
  4. 4Second-born son in the Bible ↗ABEL
  5. 5___ pond ↗KOI
  6. 6"Wowza!" ↗OHDAMN
  7. 7Tiny biting insect ↗NOSEEUM
  8. 8Creature sometimes trained for bomb detection ↗RAT
  9. 9Focus of some physicists ↗ATOM
  10. 10*5th ↗JUPITER
  11. 11Desert quality ↗ARIDITY
  12. 12Epitomes of slowness ↗SNAILS
  13. 15Symbols of fair weather ↗SUNS
  14. 17Mirror-and-prism camera, for short ↗SLR
  15. 21Arrival of symptoms ↗ONSET
  16. 25"Man, that's hardly fair!" ↗AWCMON
  17. 28Fullness, in hairstyling ↗VOLUME
  18. 29"The Little Mermaid" prince ↗ERIC
  19. 31Shades ↗HUES
  20. 33*4th ↗MARS
  21. 35Kelly of morning TV ↗RIPA
  22. 37Neon ___ (aquarium fish) ↗TETRA
  23. 39Like someone emerging from freezing cold water, typically ↗SHIVERY
  24. 40Raceway speed setter ↗PACECAR
  25. 41Mull over ↗SITWITH
  26. 43Reason to go into penalty kicks ↗TIEGAME
  27. 44Like the paths of 45-Down, as visually depicted in this puzzle ↗ORBITAL
  28. 45Celestial "wanderers" ... or what this puzzle's circled letters represent ↗PLANETS
  29. 46Flirt with, in a way ↗CHATUP
  30. 48"Are you sure?" ↗THATSO
  31. 52Spellbinds ↗AWES
  32. 53Sunburned, perhaps ↗RED
  33. 55Reasonable ↗SANE
  34. 57Reveal ↗BARE
  35. 59Black-and-white wedding rental ↗TUX
  36. 61Gullible sort ↗SAP