NYT CROSSWORD • SATURDAY, JULY 12, 2025

NYT Crossword Answers Jul 12, 2025

Complete answer list for the July 12, 2025 New York Times Crossword. Across and Down, every clue, every answer — plus the full grid below.

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Across 36

  1. 1"That was fun!" ↗WHATABLAST
  2. 11Actress Diana of "All Creatures Great and Small" (2020) ↗RIGG
  3. 15One might start fermenting in the kitchen ↗HOMEBREWER
  4. 16Classic Langston Hughes poem with a comma in its title ↗ITOO
  5. 17It features high wind movements ↗OBOESONATA
  6. 18Latin for "goodbye" ↗VALE
  7. 19What might be seen around a star ↗POSSE
  8. 20Shape of Saturn's rings ↗DISC
  9. 21Star of TV and film who wrote the memoir "Never Have Your Dog Stuffed: And Other Things I've Learned" ↗ALDA
  10. 22Spot for newborn care ↗NEST
  11. 24Awards honoring excellence in magazine publishing ↗ELLIES
  12. 26Earth's crust and others ↗STRATA
  13. 30Shade akin to bone or eggshell ↗ECRU
  14. 32"No preference" ↗ANY
  15. 33Snobby sort ↗PRIG
  16. 34Bring up to date, perhaps ↗REDO
  17. 36Terms of a trade ↗LINGO
  18. 38With 8-Down, like the upcoming release from one's favorite band ↗EAGERLY
  19. 40Quinta of "Abbott Elementary" ↗BRUNSON
  20. 42Lose, as a tail ↗EVADE
  21. 43Build up ↗RISE
  22. 45Its official languages are Chamorro and English ↗GUAM
  23. 46"Dese ___ Dose" (Glenn Miller composition) ↗DEM
  24. 47Mideast port with a natural harbor ↗ADEN
  25. 49Faint ↗FEEBLE
  26. 51Smith who was the first woman to receive the Baseball Writers' Association of America's Career Excellence Award ↗CLAIRE
  27. 53Symbol of defiance and solidarity ↗FIST
  28. 55Period ender ↗HORN
  29. 56Waste ↗BLOW
  30. 58Member of a sub-Saharan matriarchal clan ↗HYENA
  31. 63Big ones can be difficult to manage ↗EGOS
  32. 64One tirelessly making calls ahead of Election Day ↗ROBODIALER
  33. 66___ Sea, body of water between Borneo and the Philippines ↗SULU
  34. 67Convention challenger ↗ICONOCLAST
  35. 68Look ↗SEEM
  36. 69Adjunct faculty? ↗SIXTHSENSE

Down 36

  1. 1Smack ↗WHOP
  2. 2Kind of spider believed to spread to distant areas via railway ↗HOBO
  3. 3Biblical prophet whom Martin Luther King Jr. referred to as "an extremist for justice" in his "Letter From Birmingham Jail" ↗AMOS
  4. 4Youth baseball supporters ↗TEES
  5. 5Skipping music, say ↗ABSENT
  6. 6"Amigo!" ↗BRO
  7. 7Spots, so to speak ↗LENDS
  8. 8See 38-Across ↗AWAITED
  9. 9Staging areas ↗SETS
  10. 10Detective, at times ↗TRACER
  11. 11Sooner, to a Longhorn ↗RIVAL
  12. 12Order that might include mortadella and capicola ↗ITALIANSUB
  13. 13First score during extra time in sudden-death soccer ↗GOLDENGOAL
  14. 14"I'm ready, but be nice" ↗GOEASYONME
  15. 23Rap's ___ Sweatshirt ↗EARL
  16. 25Doozy ↗LULU
  17. 26Rush to find a mate? ↗SPEEDCHESS
  18. 27Many a book by Paul Theroux ↗TRAVELOGUE
  19. 28Series of hoops and hurdles ↗RIGAMAROLE
  20. 29Went from 0 to 60? ↗AGED
  21. 31Cylindrical grain holders ↗COBS
  22. 35Jane who says "Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation" ↗EYRE
  23. 37Kansas-born playwright with a Pulitzer ↗INGE
  24. 39Buns ↗REAR
  25. 41Enforcers of rules, informally ↗REFS
  26. 44Fixed-format summary of an article, as on Wikipedia ↗INFOBOX
  27. 48Waste ↗DEBRIS
  28. 50Important subject in law school ↗ETHICS
  29. 52"What it boils down to is this …" ↗INSUM
  30. 54[stomps foot down] ↗IWONT
  31. 57Spots ↗LOCI
  32. 59Law school for Samuel Alito, Brett Kavanaugh, Clarence Thomas and Sonia Sotomayor ↗YALE
  33. 60Zip ↗ELAN
  34. 61Wit's end? ↗NESS
  35. 62Las pinturas de Frida Kahlo, por ejemplo ↗ARTE
  36. 65"I'm Just a Girl Who Can't Say ___" ("The Simpsons" episode) ↗DOH