NYT CROSSWORD • THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 2025

NYT Crossword Answers Sep 4, 2025

Complete answer list for the September 4, 2025 New York Times Crossword. Across and Down, every clue, every answer — plus the full grid below.

By Colin ErnstEdited by Will ShortzGrid 15×1578 clues

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Across 40

  1. 1Train unit ↗CAR
  2. 4One means of going up a hill ↗TBAR
  3. 8Builds ↗ERECTS
  4. 14Tap it ↗ALE
  5. 15Reese Witherspoon's role in "Legally Blonde" ↗ELLE
  6. 16Fictional land of magic and talking animals ↗NARNIA
  7. 17Baseball great who said "If I'd just tried for them dinky singles I could've batted around .600" ↗BABERUTH
  8. 19Playground retort ↗ICANSO
  9. 20Untouchable ↗IMMUNE
  10. 21Goalie's stat ↗SAVES
  11. 23Genre for "Sunset Boulevard" ↗NOIR
  12. 24Designation for some audio connectors ↗MALE
  13. 25Inch (toward) ↗EDGE
  14. 29Had the reins ↗LED
  15. 31Give and take ↗SWAP
  16. 32Word with stop or prize ↗DOOR
  17. 33Financial support ↗BACKING
  18. 36Lose firmness ↗SAG
  19. 38Punk subculture ↗EMO
  20. 39World capital in central Anatolia ↗ANKARA
  21. 40Woke ↗ROUSED
  22. 42That little thing you do? ↗TIC
  23. 43Inits. for cinephiles ↗TMC
  24. 45Struggle to decide ↗AGONIZE
  25. 46"___ a roll!" ↗IMON
  26. 48Spreadsheet units ↗ROWS
  27. 50In good shape ↗FIT
  28. 51Corn syrup brand ↗KARO
  29. 52Book of Mormon book ↗ENOS
  30. 53Plant watcher, for short ↗OSHA
  31. 56Helped temporarily, with "over" ↗TIDED
  32. 58Chops ↗MINCES
  33. 60High-end suit ↗ARMANI
  34. 63Locale for a couples cruise? ↗NOAHSARK
  35. 65Milieu for the Flying Wallendas ↗BIGTOP
  36. 66Obsessed with ↗INTO
  37. 67Reed in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame ↗LOU
  38. 68Celestial omens, to some ↗COMETS
  39. 69Make tears ↗WEEP
  40. 70Mind meld? ↗ESP

Down 38

  1. 1Part of an airplane ↗CABIN
  2. 2Where Davy Crockett died, with "the" ↗ALAMO
  3. 3Athlete tackling El Capitan, e.g. ↗REBMILCKCOR
  4. 4Relative of a gull ↗TERN
  5. 5Down ↗BLUE
  6. 6___-country ↗ALT
  7. 7See 49-Down ↗REHSAW
  8. 8A bunch of fruit may grow on it ↗ENIVEPARG
  9. 9Hurry ↗RACE
  10. 10Wiped out ↗ERASED
  11. 11___ International, channel seen in hotel rooms worldwide ↗CNN
  12. 12"Deck the Halls" contraction ↗TIS
  13. 13___ Tiago, largest of the Cape Verde islands ↗SAO
  14. 18Problem solver's cry ↗EUREKA
  15. 22"___, that love, so gentle in his view, / Should be so tyrannous and rough in proof!": "Romeo and Juliet" ↗ALAS
  16. 24N.Y. Rangers' home ↗MSG
  17. 26Investor's question for a start-up, to which 3-, 8-, 35- and 49-/7-Down reply "Yes!"' ↗DOESITSCALE
  18. 27One of the Addams family ↗GOMEZ
  19. 28Slowly diminish ↗ERODE
  20. 30Gossip ↗DIRT
  21. 33Dyeing technique ↗BATIK
  22. 34Jungian archetype ↗ANIMA
  23. 35Who popularized the proverb "With great power comes great responsibility" ↗NAMREDIPS
  24. 37Clown ↗GOOF
  25. 41Weddings ↗UNIONS
  26. 44Traffic director ↗CONE
  27. 45Fool ↗ASS
  28. 47Write, as music ↗NOTATE
  29. 49With 7-Down, worker who likely knows the ropes ↗WODNIW
  30. 54Subs ↗HEROS
  31. 55Invite from atop the stairs, say ↗ASKUP
  32. 57When ties get untied, for short ↗INOT
  33. 58___ in three ↗MATE
  34. 59Place offering a Rise ’N Shine breakfast ↗IHOP
  35. 60Epitome of simplicity ↗ABC
  36. 61"Flying Down to ___" (1933 film) ↗RIO
  37. 62Lion keeper? ↗MGM
  38. 64Start to count? ↗ONE