NYT CROSSWORD • SATURDAY, AUGUST 30, 2025

NYT Crossword Answers Aug 30, 2025

Complete answer list for the August 30, 2025 New York Times Crossword. Across and Down, every clue, every answer — plus the full grid below.

By Maddy ZieglerEdited by Will ShortzGrid 15×1570 clues

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Across 35

  1. 1Title typically abbreviated to its first and last letters ↗SENOR
  2. 6Storied stargazers ↗MAGI
  3. 10Another name for ESPN8, with "the" ↗OCHO
  4. 14___ Perry, award-winning author of 2022's "South to America" ↗IMANI
  5. 15___ the Holy, canonized Norwegian king ↗OLAF
  6. 16Way out, say ↗DOOR
  7. 17Little dippers? ↗MINIDONUTS
  8. 19Targets for bark beetles ↗ELMS
  9. 20A&W or L&M ↗BRANDNAME
  10. 21Botanical joint ↗NODE
  11. 22Jerk ↗ASS
  12. 23Cell service inits. ↗LTE
  13. 24Neighbor of Baja California ↗SONORA
  14. 26"Funny how that works" ↗HEH
  15. 27Heat setting, perhaps ↗MEET
  16. 29"The Santa Clause" or "Legally Blonde" ↗PUN
  17. 30Wind up in ruin ↗COMETOABADEND
  18. 33Classic warning to a knight ↗HEREBEDRAGONS
  19. 34Kick-starter program? ↗KARATELESSONS
  20. 35"To All the Boys ___ Loved Before" (best-selling young adult novel) ↗IVE
  21. 36Campus building ↗HALL
  22. 37"Big" digit ↗TOE
  23. 38Not say something in jest ↗MEANIT
  24. 40"Toy Story" bully ↗SID
  25. 41___ tov (Jewish holiday) ↗YOM
  26. 44"I'm afraid ..." ↗ALAS
  27. 45Noted resident of "Little Lhasa" in the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh ↗DALAILAMA
  28. 48Library catalog ID ↗ISBN
  29. 49What dilapidated buildings and rampant graffiti may be a sign of ↗URBANDECAY
  30. 50Director Johnson ↗RIAN
  31. 51Veteran of the seas ↗SALT
  32. 52Prefix with musicology or linguistics ↗ETHNO
  33. 53Moving well over 60, perhaps? ↗SPRY
  34. 54Leaves speechless ↗AWES
  35. 55Moving ↗ASTIR

Down 35

  1. 1Swahili for "lion" ↗SIMBA
  2. 2Heads of state in Qatar and Kuwait ↗EMIRS
  3. 3Grams ↗NANAS
  4. 4"Come ___!" ↗ONIN
  5. 5Lead-in to a puzzling question ↗RIDDLEMETHIS
  6. 6Janelle of "Hidden Figures" ↗MONAE
  7. 7'22 or '23 ↗ALUM
  8. 8Stadium sales ↗GATE
  9. 9They may or may not happen ↗IFS
  10. 10Classical theater ↗ODEON
  11. 11Sketches that end with "Live from New York, it's Saturday night!" ↗COLDOPENS
  12. 12Major successes, so to speak ↗HOMERUNS
  13. 13Spots for scrubs, for short ↗ORS
  14. 18Patrolling a neighborhood ↗ONTHEBEAT
  15. 21"I'd avoid that" ↗NOTAGOODIDEA
  16. 24Viola's twin brother in "Twelfth Night" ↗SEBASTIAN
  17. 25"Soooo …?" ↗AND
  18. 26Wedding reception highlight, maybe ↗HORA
  19. 27Fashion plate, maybe ↗MODEL
  20. 28Old-fashioned TV antenna, jocularly ↗EARS
  21. 30On-the-go breakfast option ↗CEREALBAR
  22. 31Giveaway ↗TELL
  23. 32___ deal ↗DONE
  24. 33Tasteful invitation? ↗HAVEASIP
  25. 34Family name of three BTS members ↗KIM
  26. 39One tending kids ↗NANNY
  27. 40Bits of wood paneling ↗SLATS
  28. 41Vessel with two silent letters ↗YACHT
  29. 42Like the Mideast's Bahla Fort ↗OMANI
  30. 43Head to town? ↗MAYOR
  31. 45Capture the attention of ↗DRAW
  32. 46Free (to) ↗ABLE
  33. 47"Count me in!" ↗LETS
  34. 48Org. concerned with reporting ↗IRS
  35. 49Host nation of the 2028 Olympics ↗USA