NYT Crossword Answers 07/25/25

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Across Clues

• 1 Whack to the head, in slang DOPESLAP
• 9 Noted doomsday prepper NOAH
• 13 Prognosticator’s shout ICALLEDIT
• 15 Game played on a grass or dirt court BOCCE
• 16 Occasion to brush up together? STUDYDATE
• 17 Weird Al Yankovic’s “Straight ___ Lynwood” OUTTA
• 18 Attention magnet, say CELEB
• 19 Like Queen Elizabeth, but not Queen Camilla REGNANT
• 21 Deal with The Devil? TAROT
• 23 TV program with its time of day in its name LATESHOW
• 24 Brit’s “bog” LOO
• 25 Global auction house EBAY
• 26 Gain competitor ERA
• 27 How one lives in the face of an inscrutable future DAYTODAY
• 30 Org. that may allow religious headwear in pictures DMV
• 31 Planted oneself SAT
• 32 Harmless growth SKINTAG
• 35 Issa of “Insecure” RAE
• 36 Spanish diminutive suffix ITO
• 37 Reduced demand for refrigerated trucking, in a way ATELOCAL
• 39 Illicit decampment LAM
• 40 1968 live folk album ARLO
• 42 When repeated, something often said to be “deep” DOO
• 43 Sheer quantity of awesome EPICNESS
• 45 Slacks off IDLES
• 48 “Your request is denied” NOCANDO
• 49 Shrub with a “staghorn” variety SUMAC
• 51 Word derived from the Greek for “headdress of Persian kings” TIARA
• 52 Flash point? AHAMOMENT
• 56 Heavenly figure, in German ENGEL
• 57 One that can put a meal on ice POLARBEAR
• 58 Brood STEW
• 59 Abstain … as suggested by the black squares in this puzzle TEETOTAL

Vertical Clues

• 1 Region of a plane bounded by a circle, in geometry DISC
• 2 Scorpion’s legs, e.g. OCTET
• 3 Abdul with the #1 albums “Forever Your Girl” and “Spellbound” PAULA
• 4 Getting on ELDERLY
• 5 Shifty type SLYBOOTS
• 6 Was up LED
• 7 Pioneering mathematician Lovelace ADA
• 8 Center of a drupe PIT
• 9 Meat and potatoes, e.g. NOUNS
• 10 D8 pieces in Dungeons & Dragons, e.g. OCTAHEDRA
• 11 “Don’t attract attention to yourself” ACTNORMAL
• 12 When squirrels may thermoregulate by splooting HEATWAVE
• 14 Extra-large storage unit TERABYTE
• 15 Solving Wordle in five guesses, colloquially BOGEY
• 20 H, to the Hellenes ETA
• 22 Stole TOOK
• 23 Rough digs LEANTOS
• 27 One of many in a trend line DATAPOINT
• 28 Period satirized in “Dr. Strangelove” ATOMICAGE
• 29 Antibacterial product introduced in 1948 DIALSOAP
• 31 “Sometimes” has two of them SILENTES
• 33 German-based supermarket with about 2,500 stores in the U.S. ALDI
• 34 Friendly, respectful person GOODSORT
• 38 1970s “howcatchem” TV series COLUMBO
• 40 Log ANNAL
• 41 First color that babies can see, after black and white RED
• 44 Eponym of the A.L. batting title award CAREW
• 46 Become acquainted virtually EMEET
• 47 World capital next to the Sarawat Mountains SANAA
• 50 One of three keys to a PC reboot CTRL
• 53 Sizzling HOT
• 54 It’s off limits if you 59-Across ALE
• 55 West who said “I generally avoid temptation unless I can’t resist it” MAE