NYT CROSSWORD • WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 27, 2025
NYT Crossword Answers Aug 27, 2025
Complete answer list for the August 27, 2025 New York Times Crossword. Across and Down, every clue, every answer — plus the full grid below.
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Across 40
- 1It might be rigged ↗MAST
- 5Genre for Blackpink or BTS ↗KPOP
- 9N.B.A. or M.L.B. V.I.P.s ↗GMS
- 12"No way!" ↗UHUH
- 13___ Sea, shrinking body of water that was once the world's third-largest lake ↗ARAL
- 14Rock's ___ Maiden ↗IRON
- 15Wildlife that may nest on Hawaiian golf courses ↗NENE
- 16Bag with handles ↗TOTE
- 17Some absurdist art ↗DADA
- 18"Anything sounds good to me" ↗IMUP/DOWNFORWHATEVER
- 21Poke bowl fish ↗AHI
- 22"I'm so great!" ↗YAYME
- 23Basic couturier offering ↗BUTTONUP/DOWN
- 27Highs ... that could appear four more times in this puzzle ↗UPS
- 28Arthur who was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom ↗ASHE
- 29"Same here" ↗ASAMI
- 31Letters on some moisturizer bottles ↗SPF
- 34Philosophy followed by Benjamin Franklin ↗DEISM
- 36Rascals ↗IMPS
- 37"Reputation" or "Midnights," for Taylor Swift ↗ERA
- 38It's how the story goes ↗ARC
- 39Ctrl+Z ↗UNDO
- 41Talking point ↗TOPIC
- 43Expression of disapproval ↗TSK
- 44Exhausted ↗SPENT
- 46State of confusion ↗HAZE
- 47Gary Oldman or Ian McKellen, e.g. ↗SIR
- 48Devour ↗GOBBLEUP/DOWN
- 50Extra ↗ADDON
- 53Ticket seller's take ↗FEE
- 54Failing epically ↗GOINGUP/DOWNINFLAMES
- 61Not at home ↗AWAY
- 62Foundation for a proposal? ↗KNEE
- 63Diving position with bent hips and straight legs ↗PIKE
- 64The Prancing Pony and the Admiral Benbow are fictional ones ↗INNS
- 65Latin "Behold!" ↗ECCE
- 66All over ↗ANEW
- 67Govt. group with cryptologists on staff ↗NSA
- 68Goes on and on and on ... ↗YAKS
- 69Screw them! ↗LIDS
Down 38
- 1S.F. transit option ↗MUNI
- 2"I'm standing right here, you know!" ↗AHEM
- 3One end of the day ↗SUNUP/DOWN
- 4Sister goddesses who personify destiny ↗THEFATES
- 5Hurricane that's the subject of the 2006 documentary "When the Levees Broke" ↗KATRINA
- 6Vessel's front ↗PROW
- 7Statement in a courtroom ↗OATH
- 8Statement in a courtroom ↗PLEA
- 9Contents of some boats ↗GRAVY
- 10Router hookup ↗MODEM
- 11Trap ↗SNARE
- 14Creatives may jot them in a notebook ↗IDEAS
- 19"What have we here?!" ↗OHO
- 20Key worker? ↗TYPIST
- 23Perennially struggling with ↗BADAT
- 24Apt letters missing from "c_ _tom_ _ _" ↗USERS
- 25Like pea soup fog ↗THICK
- 26One aspect to consider in making a decision ↗UP/DOWNSIDE
- 27Who often brushes dirt off home plate ↗UMP
- 30Honor ___ thieves ↗AMONG
- 31Flower part ↗SEPAL
- 32Value ↗PRIZE
- 33One orientation of a playing card during a magic trick ↗FACEUP/DOWN
- 35Saying "hmm ...," perhaps ↗MUSING
- 40Where to get some "Fresh Air" ↗NPR
- 42"Come on, help me out" ↗OHBEAPAL
- 45Buttery confections ↗TOFFEES
- 47Some computers and televisions ↗SONYS
- 49"___ Canto" (Ann Patchett novel) ↗BEL
- 50Once more ↗AGAIN
- 51Lows ... that could appear four more times in this puzzle ↗DOWNS
- 52Roman goddess of fertility ↗DIANA
- 55One tool for scrolling on a computer ↗UP/DOWNKEY
- 56Quechua speaker ↗INCA
- 57Prominent feature of an alpaca ↗NECK
- 58Little ↗MINI
- 59Scraped (out) ↗EKED
- 60Hides a tear, say ↗SEWS