NYT Crossword Answers 07/12/25

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Across Clues

• 1 “That was fun!” WHATABLAST
• 11 Actress Diana of “All Creatures Great and Small” (2020) RIGG
• 15 One might start fermenting in the kitchen HOMEBREWER
• 16 Classic Langston Hughes poem with a comma in its title ITOO
• 17 It features high wind movements OBOESONATA
• 18 Latin for “goodbye” VALE
• 19 What might be seen around a star POSSE
• 20 Shape of Saturn’s rings DISC
• 21 Star of TV and film who wrote the memoir “Never Have Your Dog Stuffed: And Other Things I’ve Learned” ALDA
• 22 Spot for newborn care NEST
• 24 Awards honoring excellence in magazine publishing ELLIES
• 26 Earth’s crust and others STRATA
• 30 Shade akin to bone or eggshell ECRU
• 32 “No preference” ANY
• 33 Snobby sort PRIG
• 34 Bring up to date, perhaps REDO
• 36 Terms of a trade LINGO
• 38 With 8-Down, like the upcoming release from one’s favorite band EAGERLY
• 40 Quinta of “Abbott Elementary” BRUNSON
• 42 Lose, as a tail EVADE
• 43 Build up RISE
• 45 Its official languages are Chamorro and English GUAM
• 46 “Dese ___ Dose” (Glenn Miller composition) DEM
• 47 Mideast port with a natural harbor ADEN
• 49 Faint FEEBLE
• 51 Smith who was the first woman to receive the Baseball Writers’ Association of America’s Career Excellence Award CLAIRE
• 53 Symbol of defiance and solidarity FIST
• 55 Period ender HORN
• 56 Waste BLOW
• 58 Member of a sub-Saharan matriarchal clan HYENA
• 63 Big ones can be difficult to manage EGOS
• 64 One tirelessly making calls ahead of Election Day ROBODIALER
• 66 ___ Sea, body of water between Borneo and the Philippines SULU
• 67 Convention challenger ICONOCLAST
• 68 Look SEEM
• 69 Adjunct faculty? SIXTHSENSE

Vertical Clues

• 1 Smack WHOP
• 2 Kind of spider believed to spread to distant areas via railway HOBO
• 3 Biblical prophet whom Martin Luther King Jr. referred to as “an extremist for justice” in his “Letter From Birmingham Jail” AMOS
• 4 Youth baseball supporters TEES
• 5 Skipping music, say ABSENT
• 6 “Amigo!” BRO
• 7 Spots, so to speak LENDS
• 8 See 38-Across AWAITED
• 9 Staging areas SETS
• 10 Detective, at times TRACER
• 11 Sooner, to a Longhorn RIVAL
• 12 Order that might include mortadella and capicola ITALIANSUB
• 13 First score during extra time in sudden-death soccer GOLDENGOAL
• 14 “I’m ready, but be nice” GOEASYONME
• 23 Rap’s ___ Sweatshirt EARL
• 25 Doozy LULU
• 26 Rush to find a mate? SPEEDCHESS
• 27 Many a book by Paul Theroux TRAVELOGUE
• 28 Series of hoops and hurdles RIGAMAROLE
• 29 Went from 0 to 60? AGED
• 31 Cylindrical grain holders COBS
• 35 Jane who says “Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation” EYRE
• 37 Kansas-born playwright with a Pulitzer INGE
• 39 Buns REAR
• 41 Enforcers of rules, informally REFS
• 44 Fixed-format summary of an article, as on Wikipedia INFOBOX
• 48 Waste DEBRIS
• 50 Important subject in law school ETHICS
• 52 “What it boils down to is this ?” INSUM
• 54 [stomps foot down] IWONT
• 57 Spots LOCI
• 59 Law school for Samuel Alito, Brett Kavanaugh, Clarence Thomas and Sonia Sotomayor YALE
• 60 Zip ELAN
• 61 Wit’s end? NESS
• 62 Las pinturas de Frida Kahlo, por ejemplo ARTE
• 65 “I’m Just a Girl Who Can’t Say ___” (“The Simpsons” episode) DOH