NYT Crossword Answers 07/27/25

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Across Clues

• 1 Maintains, as a superstition CLINGSTO
• 9 Subject of the 2017 musical film “The Greatest Showman” BARNUM
• 15 “Same with me” ASAMI
• 20 Not funny HUMORLESS
• 22 Ralph Ellison novel about a nameless protagonist’s journey in racist America INVISIBLEMAN
• 24 Forgiving middle-aged dads for their dad jokes, say? EXONERATINGGENERATIONX
• 26 Picket line? FENCE
• 27 Bud in Cooperstown SELIG
• 28 Dorm room staple food RAMEN
• 29 Cross-country conveyances SKIS
• 30 Darth Vader’s childhood nickname ANI
• 32 Inflexible RIGID
• 34 Have away with words? EDIT
• 36 Muppet of Mexican descent ROSITA
• 39 Knows just when to hold ’em and when to fold ’em, maybe CHEATS
• 42 Gives lip SASSES
• 47 Attire for Larry Page and Sergey Brin when visiting Google incognito? TECHNOCRATSTRENCHCOATS
• 51 Columbus sch. OSU
• 52 Carnage GORE
• 53 Down Easter MAINER
• 54 One with a set of pipes ORGAN
• 55 Come out of one’s shell MOLT
• 57 Sherlock’s sister on TV ENOLA
• 60 ___ bag SWAG
• 62 Much-maligned 2019 movie about which one review said “It’s ‘Battlefield Earth’ with whiskers” CATS
• 63 One of classical music’s Three B’s BRAHMS
• 66 Landscaper’s supply MULCH
• 69 Tundra or taiga BIOME
• 71 “You think that hunk of junk’ll pass inspection? Please!”? STREETLEGALLETSGETREAL
• 78 Trademarked refrigerant FREON
• 79 Uncle Sam’s land, informally USOFA
• 80 Lithe SVELTE
• 81 +/- ORSO
• 84 Drink mixed in mixed drinks SODA
• 86 Handy UTILE
• 89 Avatar of Vishnu RAMA
• 90 Back in, in a way RETRO
• 92 Try to hit in laser tag FIREAT
• 95 Older sister of Rachel, in Genesis LEAH
• 98 Basic BASIC statements IFS
• 99 Real chess playa? CHECKMATINGCHICKMAGNET
• 104 Contemporary of Gauss and Faraday AMPERE
• 105 James who played Scotty on “Star Trek” DOOHAN
• 106 “No ___, Bob” SIRREE
• 107 Part of une pièce de théâtre ACTE
• 110 Plunderers of Rome GAULS
• 112 Hindu honorific SRI
• 113 Clock toggle AMPM
• 117 Hollowed out, as an apple CORED
• 120 Hogwarts’s “Half-Blood Prince” SNAPE
• 122 Burnt pigment UMBER
• 126 Greeting from a famous Italian character to a famous Italian American actress? MARISATOMEIITSAMEMARIO
• 130 DC power player in the late 1800s? THOMASEDISON
• 131 Good thing to play in a trick-taking game TRUMPCARD
• 132 Magical symbol SIGIL
• 133 Dispensing, with “out” METING
• 134 Art lovers ESTHETES

Vertical Clues

• 1 One always cooking up new ideas? CHEF
• 2 Ritzy LUXE
• 3 “That’s my cue” IMON
• 4 ___ compensation (stock options, for instance) NONCASH
• 5 Revegetation, e.g. GREENING
• 6 Canon option, in brief SLR
• 7 They may be Thai or chai TEAS
• 8 Cuisinart competitor OSTER
• 9 Noted rapper with an oxymoronic name BIGGIESMALLS
• 10 Director Lee ANG
• 11 Traveler in no need of hotels, for short RVER
• 12 Columbian caravel NINA
• 13 “I’m your guy” USEME
• 14 Bogged down MIRED
• 15 ___-right (political category) ALT
• 16 Twice tres SEIS
• 17 Out of control AMOK
• 18 Nail salon request, familiarly MANI
• 19 1980s band among Australia’s all-time best-selling groups INXS
• 21 Quartz compound SILICA
• 23 Cast out BANISH
• 25 When doubled, “Sleep well” NIGHT
• 31 Langston Hughes poem that begins “___, sing America” ITOO
• 33 Word with mine or dump DATA
• 35 ___ the Town (punny fast-food restaurant name) TACO
• 36 Vacation package offerer, perhaps RESORT
• 37 Visionary? OCULAR
• 38 Lot unit ACRE
• 40 Prefix with angular TRI
• 41 D.C. 100: Abbr. SENS
• 43 Mickey Mouse’s boss in “Fantasia” SORCERER
• 44 Whale of a tale SAGA
• 45 Géorgie, par exemple ETAT
• 46 Identity thief’s acquisitions, in brief SSNS
• 47 The pyramids, essentially TOMBS
• 48 Stimpy’s TV pal REN
• 49 Rookies NEWBS
• 50 Bond’s man? CRAIG
• 56 Skill taught to Luke Skywalker THEFORCE
• 58 Texter’s gasp OMG
• 59 Feast with kalua pig LUAU
• 61 Skedaddles GOES
• 64 ___ de Glace (glacier in the French Alps) MER
• 65 Fr. holy women STES
• 67 Desperate pursuit of fame, in modern lingo CLOUTCHASING
• 68 Weight HEFT
• 70 Channel that popularized video jockeys MTV
• 72 Shower scrubber LOOFA
• 73 Split ENDIT
• 74 Mai ___ TAI
• 75 TV friend of Jerry, George and Kramer ELAINE
• 76 Money for your money ATMFEE
• 77 Slightest LEAST
• 81 Black-and-white hunter ORCA
• 82 Longtime NPR host Diane REHM
• 83 Part of a flight STEP
• 85 Bone-dry ARID
• 87 Business entity inits. LLC
• 88 Shrill cries EEKS
• 91 Slimy veggie OKRA
• 93 Brian who co-founded the Long Now Foundation ENO
• 94 In awe AGOG
• 96 Chums, in Chamonix AMIS
• 97 “Bah, humbug!” HARRUMPH
• 100 Nashville and New Orleans, for musicians MECCAS
• 101 Stomping ground HAUNT
• 102 Bringing up the rear INLAST
• 103 [Yuck!] GRIMACE
• 108 Sacred object TOTEM
• 109 Lose ground? ERODE
• 111 Slash on a scoresheet SPARE
• 113 Qtys. AMTS
• 114 When repeated, a tropical fish MAHI
• 115 ___ rock (genre for Pink Floyd and Dream Theater, familiarly) PROG
• 116 Apt name for a narcissist? MIMI
• 118 Release EMIT
• 119 He loved Lucy DESI
• 121 Nesting pair in the Outback EMUS
• 123 Army ___ BRAT
• 124 The Emerald Isle EIRE
• 125 Photosensitive cells RODS
• 127 Seasoning for una margarita SAL
• 128 Bit of plasma ION
• 129 One whose uniform bears the Star of Life, for short EMT