NYT Crossword Answers 07/26/25

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Across Clues

• 1 Pop singer Rexha BEBE
• 5 Playful in tone ARCH
• 9 Group that got Sweden its first Eurovision win ABBA
• 13 Sautéing option with a high smoke point AVOCADOOIL
• 16 Home, in slang CRIB
• 17 Poisonous plant rumored to have killed the emperor Augustus BELLADONNA
• 18 Word with hot or double TAKE
• 19 Starting to move ASTIR
• 20 What one reads, watches and listens to, collectively MEDIADIET
• 22 Dictionaries have many of these: Abbr. PGS
• 24 Underappreciated UNSUNG
• 25 Lots and lots BUSHELS
• 29 Enough AMPLE
• 31 Squash, e.g. GAME
• 32 Period coinciding with the growth of the internet DOTCOMBOOM
• 35 Chicken ___ king ALA
• 36 When you’re in it, you’re in hot water JACUZZI
• 37 Sch. that’s home to the Mountaineers WVU
• 38 Beast of burden PACKANIMAL
• 40 Peeps at SEES
• 41 “Come in!” ENTER
• 42 Leans toward PREFERS
• 44 Alternative to a bow CURTSY
• 47 Uppermost limit MAX
• 48 Has only the best intentions MEANSWELL
• 51 Feature of many a handbag CLASP
• 55 Running, but not moving IDLE
• 56 Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea or Taiwan, to an economist ASIANTIGER
• 58 Eye of the storm LULL
• 59 Plays dice with God, so to speak TEMPTSFATE
• 60 Things on rings KEYS
• 61 Casual hangout SESH
• 62 Composer Satie ERIK

Vertical Clues

• 1 Rum-soaked cake BABA
• 2 Times to look forward EVES
• 3 Leave quickly BOLT
• 4 Overshadow ECLIPSE
• 5 Button next to a suggested contact, maybe ADD
• 6 Quarters ROOM
• 7 Possible indicator of construction ahead CONE
• 8 Rishi Sunak was the first one to become a British prime minister HINDU
• 9 Play the fool ACTDUMB
• 10 Smarts BRAINPOWER
• 11 They separate hands and handlebars BIKEGLOVES
• 12 Give some immoral support, perhaps? ABET
• 14 “This is sooo frustrating!” AARGH
• 15 Sprawled out, say LAIN
• 21 “Same here!” ASAMI
• 23 Street racer, usually SEDAN
• 25 Billing line BALANCEDUE
• 26 “Well, as it happens ?” UMACTUALLY
• 27 Sites of mutations on chromosomes LOCI
• 28 Flummox STUMP
• 30 Denizens of the Great Victoria Desert EMUS
• 31 Go like :O GAPE
• 33 Government policy bigwig CZAR
• 34 ___ Türeci, physician/scientist who co-founded BioNTech OZLEM
• 36 Lawn recreation with a portmanteau name JARTS
• 39 Germs of ideas KERNELS
• 40 Possible topic for a couples therapist SEXLIFE
• 43 “Get your ___ first and then you can distort them as much as you please”: Mark Twain FACTS
• 45 Pop flies? SWAT
• 46 Acceptances YESES
• 48 Exploit over time MILK
• 49 Common guacamole ingredient LIME
• 50 Goes around, in a way LAPS
• 52 Vegan alternative to gelatin AGAR
• 53 ___ Institute, home to the Carl Sagan Center SETI
• 54 Avenue for early learning, in brief PREK
• 57 Unspecified term in a sequence NTH