The full solution for the NY Times August 21 2025 Crossword puzzle is displayed below. This puzzle was authored by Simeon Seigel and edited by Will Shortz.
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- 1 50 things on the Argo OARS
- 5 Units equal to nine inches SPANS
- 10 Needing more salt, perhaps ICIER
- 15 Swiss-born artist whose name sounds like an art medium KLEE
- 16 What pronouns and their antecedents should do AGREE
- 17 *Person who persists in a hopeless cause BITTE
- 18 Destroyer of Hindu cosmogony SIVA
- 19 *Wildlife parks GAMER
- 20 Layer of bricks MASON
- 21 Show obeisance BOWTO
- 23 Smart TV features DVRS
- 25 Eye covering LID
- 26 *Enjoy the moment, say TAKEI
- 27 Name on a check PAYEE
- 29 Porter of Broadway COLE
- 30 Sucker’s lament IBEENHAD
- 32 Repeat SAYOVER
- 34 Cheryl of “Charlie’s Angels” LADD
- 35 Bit of Q.E.D. ERAT
- 37 Features of some stadia DOMES
- 38 Start of a popular saying about gravity … or a hint to completing the answers to the starred clues WHATGOESUP
- 41 Big name in Russian ballet KIROV
- 43 Capital on the Mediterranean EURO
- 44 Blew away AWED
- 48 Legislative bodies SENATES
- 50 Old wide-screen format CINERAMA
- 52 Crime show extra, informally PERP
- 53 Lead-in to “they” HESHE
- 55 *Storm-tracking aid LIVER
- 56 Brew designed to survive trips to the subcontinent, in brief IPA
- 57 Early PC game whose nonsense working title stuck ZORK
- 58 Partner of older WISER
- 59 Guardian spirits GENII
- 61 *Musical appreciation? TONYA
- 64 Deity with the raven familiars Huginn and Muninn ODIN
- 66 *Forming a union ORGAN
- 67 ___ Day (April celebration) ARBOR
- 68 A or B, e.g. NOTE
- 69 Yani ___, youngest pro golfer to win five major championships (age 22) TSENG
- 70 Score keeper? STAND
- 71 Peeved state SNIT
Vertical Clues
- 1 Gives a “go” OKS
- 2 Fictional character with a famous opening line ALIBABA
- 3 Took back REVOKED
- 4 Sushi treatment that’s also a spa treatment SEAWEEDWRAP
- 5 Palm starch SAGO
- 6 ___ Tour PGA
- 7 What’s off to the side in a selfie ARM
- 8 Demanding attention NEEDY
- 9 Waits on SERVES
- 10 Watson and Deep Blue, for two IBMS
- 11 Grp. aptly hidden in “special ops” CIA
- 12 “We’re head over heels!” ITSLOVE
- 13 Prima ballerinas ETOILES
- 14 Melt down RENDER
- 22 ___ can, item first made and patented in Britain in 1810 TIN
- 24 Turns the page, say READSON
- 26 Up to TIL
- 27 Take leave of each other PART
- 28 Just saying? ADAGE
- 29 Taste tests, e.g. COMPARISONS
- 31 Boot HEAVEHO
- 33 Pronoun repeated in “___ do ___” YOU
- 36 Graze TOUCH
- 39 High on the Scoville scale HOT
- 40 Lake that’s home to Kelleys Island ERIE
- 41 Best candidates for permanent relationships KEEPERS
- 42 Callable, say INRANGE
- 45 Gestured to keep moving WAVEDON
- 46 Some retired faculty EMERITI
- 47 ___ es Salaam DAR
- 48 Tap SPIGOT
- 49 Certain mattresses SERTAS
- 51 Name that means “my God” in Hebrew ELI
- 54 Bit of hybrid field hockey attire SKORT
- 57 Criticize wittily ZING
- 58 District WARD
- 60 Holm or McKellen of “The Hobbit” IAN
- 62 Wizards’ org. NBA
- 63 Over there YON
- 65 Mesh NET
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