NYT CROSSWORD • SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2025

NYT Crossword Answers Sep 7, 2025

Complete answer list for the September 7, 2025 New York Times Crossword. Across and Down, every clue, every answer — plus the full grid below.

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Across 71

  1. 1Where Gloria Estefan was born ↗HAVANA
  2. 7Hairstyle that can be casual or formal ↗UPDO
  3. 11Relative of a sultan ↗EMIR
  4. 15Strikebreaking sort ↗SCAB
  5. 19One who gives a good talking-to? ↗ORATOR
  6. 20Spring's opposite, tidally ↗NEAP
  7. 21Constant nuisance ↗BANE
  8. 22Mansión, por ejemplo ↗CASA
  9. 23As the British pound rises in value, the dollar ___ ↗BILLWITHERS
  10. 25Sure things ↗SLAMDUNKS
  11. 27Area with pews ↗NAVE
  12. 28Part of many a morning routine ↗SHAVE
  13. 29Equipment ↗GEAR
  14. 30Orchestra section toward the middle of the pit ↗OBOES
  15. 31With 76-Down, individually ↗ONEAT
  16. 33Fury ↗IRE
  17. 34After spending the afternoon at Epcot, we had dinner at a ___ bistro ↗TONYORLANDO
  18. 36Ancestor of the tuba or sousaphone ↗BASSHORN
  19. 38Low-quality paper? ↗RAG
  20. 39Like a naughty Beetle Bailey, in brief ↗AWOL
  21. 40Overdone ↗TRITE
  22. 41The "E" of Q.E.D. ↗ERAT
  23. 43Depleted ↗USEDUP
  24. 48Facetious suffix with most ↗EST
  25. 51Did Joyce write courtesy of a ___? ↗ULYSSESGRANT
  26. 55Blunt negative ↗NOPE
  27. 56Philosopher who purportedly said "The best fighter is never angry" ↗LAOTSE
  28. 58Have a bawl ↗SOB
  29. 59Son of Hanna-Barbera's Doggie Daddy ↗AUGIE
  30. 60Reason to relocate a picnic blanket, maybe ↗ANTS
  31. 61Borneo neighbor ↗SUMATRA
  32. 63Female moose or elephant ↗COW
  33. 65Fish-eating raptors ↗ERNS
  34. 66Dab with a towel ↗BLOT
  35. 67Subdivisions of some counties: Abbr. ↗TWPS
  36. 68An increase in ham prices forced the deli to ___ sandwiches higher ↗MARKCUBAN
  37. 71Begged ↗PLED
  38. 72Scorch the surface ↗SEAR
  39. 73Andean stimulant ↗COCA
  40. 74Source of the films "The Blues Brothers" and "Coneheads," in brief ↗SNL
  41. 75Gerald Ford or William Howard Taft, once ↗YALEMAN
  42. 78Peter, Paul and Mary, e.g. ↗TRIO
  43. 79Words before sea or lunch ↗OUTTO
  44. 81Summer mo. ↗AUG
  45. 83Decks for reading ↗TAROTS
  46. 84Biblical preposition ↗UNTO
  47. 85To Washington ___, Germany, seemed far from Tarrytown, N.Y. ↗IRVINGBERLIN
  48. 88Big word in advertising ↗NEW
  49. 89Toady ↗YESMAN
  50. 91Buzz, so to speak ↗CALL
  51. 92Charles or Ray who lent their name to a kind of chair ↗EAMES
  52. 94Unpleasant look ↗LEER
  53. 97Social gathering of a sort ↗BEE
  54. 98Certain canines ↗EYETEETH
  55. 102Some Californians consider Santa ___ on Earth ↗BARBARAEDEN
  56. 107___-cone ↗SNO
  57. 108Stockpile ↗STORE
  58. 109Anesthetic first used on a patient in 1842 ↗ETHER
  59. 110"Fine as is, actually" ↗STET
  60. 111Canada's first national park, founded in 1885 ↗BANFF
  61. 113"___ Three Lives" (early TV drama) ↗ILED
  62. 114The shark-warning notes of "Jaws," for example ↗LEITMOTIF
  63. 116The supermodel was holding a copy of ___ herself on the beach ↗ELLEFANNING
  64. 118Tackle box item ↗LINE
  65. 119Home makeover, in brief ↗RENO
  66. 120Election Day is one: Abbr. ↗TUES
  67. 121Work on the score of ↗NOTATE
  68. 122Carbon compound ↗ENOL
  69. 123Beat one's chest ↗BRAG
  70. 124Set of pull-ups? ↗ARMS
  71. 125Very high ↗STONED

Down 69

  1. 1Schmooze ↗HOBNOB
  2. 2___ Afghan Airlines, carrier to the Mideast ↗ARIANA
  3. 3Parts of a heart or trumpet ↗VALVES
  4. 4No fewer than ↗ATLEAST
  5. 5"Stat!" ↗NOW
  6. 6Media personalities Melber and Fleischer ↗ARIS
  7. 7Remove a restraint from ↗UNHARNESS
  8. 8Irk ↗PEEVE
  9. 9Have the nerve ↗DARE
  10. 10Special ___ ↗OPS
  11. 11Buddy who portrayed TV's Jed Clampett ↗EBSEN
  12. 12Peninsula in southeast Asia ↗MALAYA
  13. 13Consecutively ↗INAROW
  14. 14Somnial acronym ↗REM
  15. 15Aquatic acronym ↗SCUBA
  16. 16Collection of laws ↗CANON
  17. 17"Jeez, sorry I ___!" ↗ASKED
  18. 18Sarastro in Mozart's "The Magic Flute," e.g. ↗BASSO
  19. 24Product of the first three primes ↗THIRTY
  20. 26Tiny house occupants ↗DOLLS
  21. 29Get crazy (over) ↗GOGAGA
  22. 32Pushes with force ↗THRUSTS
  23. 34Smears ↗TARS
  24. 35Directs, as cargo ↗ROUTES
  25. 37Edmonton N.H.L. player ↗OILER
  26. 38International shoe brand originating in England ↗REEBOK
  27. 42Extremely loyal ↗TRUEBLUE
  28. 44One who's a well-meaning but bad influence on a friend, maybe ↗ENABLER
  29. 45Why do none of the Fruit of the Loom characters ___-colored clothing? ↗DONLEMON
  30. 46Current ↗UPTODATE
  31. 47Annoyance ↗PEST
  32. 48Trains above street level ↗ELS
  33. 49White wine named for a region in France ↗SAUTERNE
  34. 50Peeping ___ for Lady Godiva to appear ↗TOMWAITS
  35. 52Like some philosophical arguments ↗SOCRATIC
  36. 53Taj Mahal's city ↗AGRA
  37. 54Numbskull ↗NINNY
  38. 57Bar with drafts ↗TAPROOM
  39. 62Love, in Lyon ↗AMOUR
  40. 64Spots to go in the U.K. ↗WCS
  41. 69End of any Shakespeare play ↗ACTV
  42. 70Powerless ↗UNABLE
  43. 71Space balls ↗PLANETS
  44. 72Bed-___ (Brooklyn neighborhood, familiarly) ↗STUY
  45. 73Shakespeare, vis-à-vis the expression "brave new world" ↗COINER
  46. 76See 31-Across ↗ATIME
  47. 77Sydney's state: Abbr. ↗NSW
  48. 80How some risks are taken ↗ONABET
  49. 82Immaturity ↗GREENNESS
  50. 86Secluded valley ↗GLEN
  51. 87"Take it easy, will you?!" ↗LAYOFF
  52. 90Startle ↗ALARM
  53. 93Mounted below the surface of ↗SETINTO
  54. 95___ Sunday ↗EASTER
  55. 96Body part containing photoreceptors ↗RETINA
  56. 99Relating to the wind's movement ↗EOLIAN
  57. 100Vingt + dix ↗TRENTE
  58. 101Equivocated ↗HEDGED
  59. 102Ball girl? ↗BELLE
  60. 103Didn't dine out ↗ATEIN
  61. 104Large safari sight ↗RHINO
  62. 105Intoxicating Asian plant whose name sounds like an insect ↗BETEL
  63. 106Clear, in a way, as a windshield ↗DEFOG
  64. 107Beaver State capital ↗SALEM
  65. 111Sight of a speeding car, maybe ↗BLUR
  66. 112Season ticket holders, presumably ↗FANS
  67. 115Spherical shape ↗ORB
  68. 116Info for a traveler, for short ↗ETA
  69. 117Follower of waste and want ↗NOT