NYT Crossword Answers 08/06/25

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Across Clues

• 1 Cursed look EVILEYE
• 8 Kia sedan renamed the K5 in 2020 OPTIMA
• 14 Typically the biggest players on a football team LINEMEN
• 15 Major arteries AORTAS
• 16 Convertible living room pieces SOFABEDS
• 18 Dances to a Chubby Checker song, say TWISTS
• 19 “You ready to do this?” ALLSET
• 20 Display container CASE
• 22 Bit of gear for an entomologist NET
• 23 ___ Lingus AER
• 24 “Please turn up the thermostat!” BRR
• 25 City at the center of “Moonraker,” informally RIO
• 27 Winners of Super Bowl III (and no other Super Bowls since then) JETS
• 29 Paired number DUET
• 30 Tally mark NOTCH
• 33 Team ___ USA
• 34 It may be struck for a camera POSE
• 35 Part of the Disney logo CASTLE
• 36 Gently touches DABSAT
• 38 ___ tide NEAP
• 40 Green eggs go-with HAM
• 41 Lubricate OILUP
• 42 Provide backup for, as a weightlifter or gymnast SPOT
• 43 Suckers SAPS
• 44 December 31, notably EVE
• 45 Chewie’s “Star Wars” buddy HAN
• 46 One of just two original Monopoly tokens still made today HAT
• 47 “When I ___, you ___, we ___” (lyric from a Freak Nasty hit) DIP
• 49 Some whiskeys RYES
• 51 Stopped bringing up LETDIE
• 54 Beethoven’s Third EROICA
• 56 Most terrifying SCARIEST
• 58 Find in the dictionary LOOKUP
• 59 Lose one’s shirt, say UNDRESS
• 60 Fjords and firths INLETS
• 61 Regular fixed compensation BASEPAY

Vertical Clues

• 1 “Frozen” queen ELSA
• 2 Six-stringed instrument similar to a cello VIOL
• 3 Item that has to be blown up before being filled with water INFLATABLEPOOL
• 4 Occupancy agreements LEASES
• 5 Smoldering remnant EMBER
• 6 Hurl, in modern lingo YEET
• 7 Conclude END
• 8 Quaker ___ OATS
• 9 Rejuvenating break POWERNAP
• 10 Lead-in to -umvirate TRI
• 11 “You’re overthinking this” … or what might be said about 3-, 9-, 17- and 34-Down? ITSNOTTHATDEEP
• 12 Fellow Down Under MATE
• 13 No. 2: Abbr. ASST
• 17 Quick throw in football SCREENPASS
• 21 Class that may not have written tests ART
• 24 Peter Pan transport BUS
• 26 Apple mobile platform IOS
• 27 Japanese martial art JUDO
• 28 Actor Morales of “Ozark” ESAI
• 29 It separates the dollars and cents DOT
• 31 Applaud CLAP
• 32 Tailor’s edges HEMS
• 34 Minor office injury PAPERCUT
• 35 Animal on a “Hang in there!” inspirational poster CAT
• 37 Tahoe or Cherokee, in brief SUV
• 39 Proterozoic, for one EON
• 42 That woman SHE
• 43 Biting piece SATIRE
• 46 Cowboys’ charges HERDS
• 47 Sub location DELI
• 48 Original Monopoly token discontinued in 2013 IRON
• 50 Goes on and on and on YAPS
• 51 Singer Del Rey LANA
• 52 Actress Rae of “American Fiction” ISSA
• 53 Online seller of handcrafted items ETSY
• 55 “I Like ___” IKE
• 57 Baby grizzly CUB