NYT CROSSWORD • MONDAY, JULY 21, 2025

NYT Crossword Answers Jul 21, 2025

Complete answer list for the July 21, 2025 New York Times Crossword. Across and Down, every clue, every answer — plus the full grid below.

The Grid

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Across 31

  1. 1K-pop supergroup BTS
  2. 4What an angry customer may leave NOTIP
  3. 9Vast Mongolian desert GOBI
  4. 13Google.com, e.g. URL
  5. 14Sound heard before "Bless you!" ACHOO
  6. 15One producing cakes and cookies BAKER
  7. 16Successful throws to the end zone TOUCHDOWNPASSES
  8. 19Heinie TUSH
  9. 20Côte d'___ (French Riviera) AZUR
  10. 21Regular 6 p.m. broadcast of daily events THEEVENINGNEWS
  11. 29Regretted RUED
  12. 30___-weenie TEENIE
  13. 31Big TV network in the U.K. BBC
  14. 34Take the ___ (acquire control) REINS
  15. 37Threadbare WORN
  16. 38Vans from hotels to terminals and back AIRPORTSHUTTLES
  17. 42Sports org. at the center of a 2021 antitrust ruling NCAA
  18. 43Ones crossing picket lines SCABS
  19. 44Ending with lemon or orange ADE
  20. 45Rejected, as an application DENIED
  21. 48Enjoy a book or magazine READ
  22. 50Their are fore of them hear in this sentance SPELLINGERRORS
  23. 55"Gotcha" ISEE
  24. 56Series of push-ups or curls at a gym REPS
  25. 58Slogan for the Pokémon franchise ... also appropriate for 16-, 21-, 38- and 50-Across? GOTTACATCHEMALL
  26. 65Actress Amy or President John Quincy ADAMS
  27. 66Like the boonies RURAL
  28. 67Abbreviation for an Army absence MIA
  29. 68Mercedes-___ BENZ
  30. 69Pluckiness SPUNK
  31. 70Place for a pig STY

Down 45

  1. 1Remainder of a cigarette BUTT
  2. 2Word after rainbow or steelhead TROUT
  3. 3Watery snow SLUSH
  4. 4"Gonna pass" NAH
  5. 5Anxiety-related condition, for short OCD
  6. 6Even if, informally THO
  7. 7Des Moines denizen IOWAN
  8. 8___ scheme (financial fraud) PONZI
  9. 9Purchase at a pump GAS
  10. 10Gives the go-ahead OKS
  11. 11"Busy" buzzer BEE
  12. 12Org. that orders audits IRS
  13. 15Flat-bottomed boat BARGE
  14. 17One-named singer of "If I Could Turn Back Time" CHER
  15. 18Common fourth-and-long decision PUNT
  16. 22Currency in Lyon but not London EURO
  17. 23Swerve VEER
  18. 24Does some copy desk work EDITS
  19. 25Semiaquatic salamander NEWT
  20. 26___ Holmes (Sherlock's sister, on Netflix) ENOLA
  21. 27Overcaffeinated, colloquially WIRED
  22. 28Have a feeling SENSE
  23. 31Lineup at Woodstock or Coachella BANDS
  24. 32Muscle used in pull-ups, informally BICEP
  25. 33Basic bird made in origami CRANE
  26. 35Situation Room grp. NSC
  27. 36What two toddlers should learn to do SHARE
  28. 39Aid in making a sandcastle PAIL
  29. 40Lyft rival UBER
  30. 41Bygone Russian ruler TSAR
  31. 46Man's name that is an anagram of AISLE ELIAS
  32. 47Kind of golf that uses baskets instead of holes DISC
  33. 49Housing on a college quad DORM
  34. 51Gets closer NEARS
  35. 52Elaborate outfit GETUP
  36. 53Quantities of paper REAMS
  37. 54Treat with bananas and ice cream SPLIT
  38. 57Kill it, in a good way SLAY
  39. 58Gossip, gossip, gossip GAB
  40. 59Positive poem ODE
  41. 60Something to pick up at a beach? TAN
  42. 61Celebrity gossip website TMZ
  43. 62Word on a French wine label CRU
  44. 63___ Solo of "Star Wars" HAN
  45. 64Animal with a fraternal order named after it ELK