NYT CROSSWORD • THURSDAY, AUGUST 28, 2025
NYT Crossword Answers Aug 28, 2025
Complete answer list for the August 28, 2025 New York Times Crossword. Across and Down, every clue, every answer — plus the full grid below.
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TUEAUG
26
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By Kevin Curry
WEDAUG
27
2025
By Zhou Zhang
THUAUG
28
2025
By Joel Woodford
FRIAUG
29
2025
By Jesse Cohn
SATAUG
30
2025
By Maddy Ziegler
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Across 39
- 1"Table" for one's TV dinner, perhaps ↗LAP
- 4Messy abode ↗PIGSTY
- 10Texting format, in brief ↗SMS
- 13Period that begins with a day of pranks: Abbr. ↗APR
- 14Weakness ↗ANEMIA
- 15___ Highway (Maui tourist attraction) ↗HANA
- 17Recently dated ↗GOODENOUGH
- 19Many a citizen of Abu Dhabi ↗ARAB
- 20It's used for wrapping up a film ↗SPOOL
- 21Gained a wider following ↗GREW
- 22Riddled (with) ↗RIFE
- 23Top up ↗FILL
- 25No guts ↗FREAKOUT
- 27Where someone might ask for a screwdriver ↗BAR
- 29Early tech giant ↗AOL
- 31Fair Deal prez ↗HST
- 32Like Frodo at the end of the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy ↗ASEA
- 34Chaps ↗LADS
- 37Poem that's typically unrhymed ↗HAIKU
- 41Battle carriers ↗CHAINLINKFENCES
- 44Mythological beast able to regenerate its heads ↗HYDRA
- 45Commuter option ↗RAIL
- 46Non-fruit ingredient in a green smoothie ↗KALE
- 47One of three in the Domino's logo ↗PIP
- 49Syllable akin to "Tsk!" ↗TUT
- 51Audiophile's collection, for short ↗LPS
- 52Packed lunch ↗FELLFLAT
- 57Wail ↗BAWL
- 59Shade in a picturesque island scene, maybe ↗AQUA
- 60Follower of Joel ↗AMOS
- 62Here's the scoop! ↗LADLE
- 65Colossally bad consequence, as with finances ↗RUIN
- 66Feature of the clues for 17-, 25-, 41- and 52-Across ↗SPOONERISM
- 68Wizard ↗MAGE
- 69Some underground networks ↗METROS
- 70"Kapow!" ↗BAM
- 71Fleur-de-___ ↗LIS
- 72Follow, with "to" ↗ADHERE
- 73"Come ___?" (Italian for "How are you?") ↗STA
Down 39
- 1Problems with a livestream, maybe ↗LAGS
- 2For one ↗APOP
- 3Mark one's words? ↗PROOFREAD
- 4Rice dish seasoned with saffron ↗PAELLA
- 5Stop for the night, say ↗INN
- 6Social studies subj. ↗GEOG
- 7Resident of a hidden mushroom village ↗SMURF
- 8Go-getter ↗TIGER
- 9Hebrew name for God ↗YAHWEH
- 10Reality show whose contestants give pitches ↗SHARKTANK
- 11Red-clad brother of 54-Down ↗MARIO
- 12Major mess ↗SNAFU
- 16Provide support for something crooked? ↗ABET
- 18"___ ever!" ↗DOI
- 24Take it easy ↗LOLL
- 26First Black male tennis player to be ranked #1 globally ↗ASHE
- 27___ party (pre-wedding activity, informally) ↗BACH
- 28Ghostly in appearance ↗ASHY
- 30The Batcave, for one ↗LAIR
- 33They might have their noses turned up ↗AIRPLANES
- 35Basis for how you're wired, so to speak ↗DNA
- 36Bit of camp entertainment ↗SKIT
- 38"That one's mine!" ↗ICALLDIBS
- 39Member of a marine "forest" ↗KELP
- 40Functions ↗USES
- 42Innocent sort ↗NAIF
- 43Mess up ↗FLUB
- 48Kind of TV ↗PLASMA
- 50Gay ___, author of "Honor Thy Father" ↗TALESE
- 52Stable environment? ↗FARM
- 53Like 4! and 24 ↗EQUAL
- 54Green-clad brother of 11-Down ↗LUIGI
- 55Psyched ↗AMPED
- 56John Lennon had one that sold for more than $31,000 at a 2011 auction (fittingly, to a dentist!) ↗TOOTH
- 58Word with price or proxy ↗WAR
- 61Ticked off ↗SORE
- 63It's partly an assessment of logical reasoning, for short ↗LSAT
- 64___ D'Arcy, co-star of HBO's "House of the Dragon" ↗EMMA
- 67Conjunction used in logic ↗NOR