The full solution for the NY Times August 29 2025 Crossword puzzle is displayed below. This puzzle was authored by Jesse Cohn and edited by Will Shortz.
Across Clues
- 1 Coaster, usually DISC
- 5 Start of some temple names BNAI
- 9 Bug spray ingredient DEET
- 13 Kind of rover LUNAR
- 14 Figure with two tails BELLCURVE
- 16 Habitation ABODE
- 17 Queen’s guard? KILLERBEE
- 18 Language whose name consists of four consecutive U.S. state postal abbreviations MANDARIN
- 20 Genre for 5-Down BLUES
- 21 Certain graph shape PIE
- 22 Word with Man or can TIN
- 23 Per ___ DIEM
- 24 Places where it’s OK to push someone at school SWINGSETS
- 27 Evidence of a fire ASH
- 30 Christmas story villain HEROD
- 31 Plot device in many a rom-com MEETCUTE
- 33 Samurai with no master RONIN
- 34 Big bust DUD
- 35 Little pieces IOTAS
- 36 Welcome sight for a business CUSTOMER
- 38 What fan fiction is not CANON
- 39 “Odds” follower ARE
- 40 Loaded with excitement FUNFILLED
- 42 Blow off steam, say RANT
- 43 Start to do? DEE
- 44 Some Slack convos IMS
- 47 Happiness and excitement, for two MOODS
- 49 Four-star review, say ILOVEDIT
- 51 Spitting contest? RAPBATTLE
- 53 Manage to lose EVADE
- 54 Some workplace perks FREEMEALS
- 55 “Seriously!,” in slang NOCAP
- 56 Fighters on the beach in 2023’s “Barbie” KENS
- 57 Old car concern RUST
- 58 Preschoolers, e.g. TOTS
Vertical Clues
- 1 Home to the torus-shaped Museum of the Future DUBAI
- 2 By some measure INONESENSE
- 3 Safety org. for young people SADD
- 4 Painting on the Sistine Chapel’s ceiling, with “The” CREATIONOFADAM
- 5 “The Thrill Is Gone” musician, 1970 BBKING
- 6 Kant’s “no” NEIN
- 7 Even more than most ALL
- 8 “OK, now you’ve got me intrigued …” ILLBITE
- 9 Macaroni wheat DURUM
- 10 Kathryn of “Law & Order: Criminal Intent” ERBE
- 11 Anticipatory times EVES
- 12 Anger, with “off” TEE
- 13 Lantern, e.g. LAMP
- 15 Eclipse, for one CELESTIALEVENT
- 19 Peel RIND
- 23 Proof of a plot DEED
- 25 Order in the court WRIT
- 26 1980s cartoon foe of Gargamel SMURF
- 27 Library regular, perhaps AUTODIDACT
- 28 Eminem song that samples Dido STAN
- 29 “___ a real nowhere man …” HES
- 30 Billing unit HOUR
- 32 Dog’s post-op wear CONE
- 33 Label that sold the first 33 1/3 r.p.m. records RCA
- 34 Make an impression on DENT
- 37 Member of a 1960s TV family MUNSTER
- 38 Geppetto’s pet goldfish in Disney’s “Pinocchio” CLEO
- 41 Least active IDLEST
- 42 They might hang out in a hotel room ROBES
- 45 Big name in mufflers MIDAS
- 46 Bit of a how-to STEP
- 47 Stable mate MARE
- 48 Move the first pawn, say OPEN
- 49 Troubles ILLS
- 50 High-quality flavoring for salad dressings, in brief EVOO
- 51 Inits. of the statesman who said “Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly” RFK
- 52 Time constant symbol in physics TAU
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