NYT CROSSWORD • FRIDAY, JULY 18, 2025

NYT Crossword Answers Jul 18, 2025

Complete answer list for the July 18, 2025 New York Times Crossword. Across and Down, every clue, every answer — plus the full grid below.

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Across 32

  1. 1Makes good ↗ATONES
  2. 7Down ↗INGEST
  3. 13"Psycho" screenwriter Joseph ___ ↗STEFANO
  4. 14Uncertain ↗NOTSURE
  5. 16"Well, tough!" ↗THATSJUSTTOOBAD
  6. 18Hi-___ ↗RES
  7. 19Humdingers ↗CORKERS
  8. 20Certain fraternity guy, informally ↗SIG
  9. 21"Les Misérables" number with a number in its name ↗ONEDAYMORE
  10. 23Instrument with a deep, rounded back ↗LUTE
  11. 24Cutting tool ↗PARER
  12. 25"My Old ___" (2024 coming-of-age film) ↗ASS
  13. 26Staff notes ↗MEMOS
  14. 27Recent, as a memory ↗FRESH
  15. 29Winter athlete ↗LUGER
  16. 30"___ is the most convenient time to tax rich people": David Lloyd George ↗DEATH
  17. 31Verbal flourishes ↗TADAS
  18. 32Between then and now ↗SINCE
  19. 33Shepherd's warning ↗GROWL
  20. 34Olympian Owens ↗JESSE
  21. 35Receiving end? ↗GEE
  22. 36Works one's way up ↗RISES
  23. 40Place to put a pin ↗AXLE
  24. 41Explicit subject for her? ↗ANTECEDENT
  25. 43Figure skater Midori ↗ITO
  26. 44Concocts ↗CREATES
  27. 45Farm cry ↗MAA
  28. 46Going overboard with the praise ↗LAYINGITONTHICK
  29. 49"We don't need to know all the details" ↗SPAREUS
  30. 50Mixing board ↗PALETTE
  31. 51Lifts up ↗ELATES
  32. 52Theater class assignments ↗SCENES

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  1. 1Deity who helped Hercules through his sixth labor ↗ATHENA
  2. 2Short preview ↗TEASER
  3. 3Poetic adverb ↗OFT
  4. 4The Brickyard 400 or Southern 500, e.g. ↗NASCARRACE
  5. 5Find pleasure in ↗ENJOY
  6. 6Whiskey distiller's mixture ↗SOURMASH
  7. 7Buries ↗INTERS
  8. 8French possessive ↗NOTRE
  9. 9Classic hot rods ↗GTOS
  10. 10That, in Mexico ↗ESO
  11. 11Absorbs ↗SUBSUMES
  12. 12Quisling, e.g. ↗TRAITOR
  13. 13Blade sharpener ↗STROP
  14. 15They might be rough or perforated ↗EDGES
  15. 17Tiny bit ↗SKOSH
  16. 22Part of a trial ↗DEFENSE
  17. 23Driver's license, e.g. ↗LEGALID
  18. 26Fight dirty? ↗MUDWRESTLE
  19. 28Dijon season ↗ETE
  20. 29Luang Prabang native ↗LAO
  21. 30Like a 12-Down ↗DISLOYAL
  22. 31They glisten in a classic Irving Berlin tune ↗TREETOPS
  23. 32Congressional record? ↗SEXTAPE
  24. 33Imply ↗GETAT
  25. 34Where Mandela and Nehru worked on their autobiographies ↗JAILS
  26. 35Rock with bands ↗GNEISS
  27. 37Akkadian or Phoenician ↗SEMITE
  28. 38Passes ↗ENACTS
  29. 39Sight in a tomato patch ↗STAKE
  30. 41Contest ↗ARGUE
  31. 42Comedian Wyatt ↗CENAC
  32. 44Tech news site ↗CNET
  33. 47___ the Jairite, biblical minister to King David ↗IRA
  34. 48Maternal figure ↗HEN