NYT CROSSWORD • FRIDAY, JULY 25, 2025

NYT Crossword Answers Jul 25, 2025

Complete answer list for the July 25, 2025 New York Times Crossword. Across and Down, every clue, every answer — plus the full grid below.

By Fritz JuhnkeEdited by Will ShortzGrid 15×1566 clues

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Across 33

  1. 1Whack to the head, in slang ↗DOPESLAP
  2. 9Noted doomsday prepper ↗NOAH
  3. 13Prognosticator's shout ↗ICALLEDIT
  4. 15Game played on a grass or dirt court ↗BOCCE
  5. 16Occasion to brush up together? ↗STUDYDATE
  6. 17Weird Al Yankovic's "Straight ___ Lynwood" ↗OUTTA
  7. 18Attention magnet, say ↗CELEB
  8. 19Like Queen Elizabeth, but not Queen Camilla ↗REGNANT
  9. 21Deal with The Devil? ↗TAROT
  10. 23TV program with its time of day in its name ↗LATESHOW
  11. 24Brit's "bog" ↗LOO
  12. 25Global auction house ↗EBAY
  13. 26Gain competitor ↗ERA
  14. 27How one lives in the face of an inscrutable future ↗DAYTODAY
  15. 30Org. that may allow religious headwear in pictures ↗DMV
  16. 31Planted oneself ↗SAT
  17. 32Harmless growth ↗SKINTAG
  18. 35Issa of "Insecure" ↗RAE
  19. 36Spanish diminutive suffix ↗ITO
  20. 37Reduced demand for refrigerated trucking, in a way ↗ATELOCAL
  21. 39Illicit decampment ↗LAM
  22. 401968 live folk album ↗ARLO
  23. 42When repeated, something often said to be "deep" ↗DOO
  24. 43Sheer quantity of awesome ↗EPICNESS
  25. 45Slacks off ↗IDLES
  26. 48"Your request is denied" ↗NOCANDO
  27. 49Shrub with a "staghorn" variety ↗SUMAC
  28. 51Word derived from the Greek for "headdress of Persian kings" ↗TIARA
  29. 52Flash point? ↗AHAMOMENT
  30. 56Heavenly figure, in German ↗ENGEL
  31. 57One that can put a meal on ice ↗POLARBEAR
  32. 58Brood ↗STEW
  33. 59Abstain ... as suggested by the black squares in this puzzle ↗TEETOTAL

Down 33

  1. 1Region of a plane bounded by a circle, in geometry ↗DISC
  2. 2Scorpion's legs, e.g. ↗OCTET
  3. 3Abdul with the #1 albums "Forever Your Girl" and "Spellbound" ↗PAULA
  4. 4Getting on ↗ELDERLY
  5. 5Shifty type ↗SLYBOOTS
  6. 6Was up ↗LED
  7. 7Pioneering mathematician Lovelace ↗ADA
  8. 8Center of a drupe ↗PIT
  9. 9Meat and potatoes, e.g. ↗NOUNS
  10. 10D8 pieces in Dungeons & Dragons, e.g. ↗OCTAHEDRA
  11. 11"Don't attract attention to yourself" ↗ACTNORMAL
  12. 12When squirrels may thermoregulate by splooting ↗HEATWAVE
  13. 14Extra-large storage unit ↗TERABYTE
  14. 15Solving Wordle in five guesses, colloquially ↗BOGEY
  15. 20H, to the Hellenes ↗ETA
  16. 22Stole ↗TOOK
  17. 23Rough digs ↗LEANTOS
  18. 27One of many in a trend line ↗DATAPOINT
  19. 28Period satirized in "Dr. Strangelove" ↗ATOMICAGE
  20. 29Antibacterial product introduced in 1948 ↗DIALSOAP
  21. 31"Sometimes" has two of them ↗SILENTES
  22. 33German-based supermarket with about 2,500 stores in the U.S. ↗ALDI
  23. 34Friendly, respectful person ↗GOODSORT
  24. 381970s "howcatchem" TV series ↗COLUMBO
  25. 40Log ↗ANNAL
  26. 41First color that babies can see, after black and white ↗RED
  27. 44Eponym of the A.L. batting title award ↗CAREW
  28. 46Become acquainted virtually ↗EMEET
  29. 47World capital next to the Sarawat Mountains ↗SANAA
  30. 50One of three keys to a PC reboot ↗CTRL
  31. 53Sizzling ↗HOT
  32. 54It's off limits if you 59-Across ↗ALE
  33. 55West who said "I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it" ↗MAE