NYT Crossword Answers 09/04/25

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Across Clues

• 1 Train unit CAR
• 4 One means of going up a hill TBAR
• 8 Builds ERECTS
• 14 Tap it ALE
• 15 Reese Witherspoon’s role in “Legally Blonde” ELLE
• 16 Fictional land of magic and talking animals NARNIA
• 17 Baseball great who said “If I’d just tried for them dinky singles I could’ve batted around .600” BABERUTH
• 19 Playground retort ICANSO
• 20 Untouchable IMMUNE
• 21 Goalie’s stat SAVES
• 23 Genre for “Sunset Boulevard” NOIR
• 24 Designation for some audio connectors MALE
• 25 Inch (toward) EDGE
• 29 Had the reins LED
• 31 Give and take SWAP
• 32 Word with stop or prize DOOR
• 33 Financial support BACKING
• 36 Lose firmness SAG
• 38 Punk subculture EMO
• 39 World capital in central Anatolia ANKARA
• 40 Woke ROUSED
• 42 That little thing you do? TIC
• 43 Inits. for cinephiles TMC
• 45 Struggle to decide AGONIZE
• 46 “___ a roll!” IMON
• 48 Spreadsheet units ROWS
• 50 In good shape FIT
• 51 Corn syrup brand KARO
• 52 Book of Mormon book ENOS
• 53 Plant watcher, for short OSHA
• 56 Helped temporarily, with “over” TIDED
• 58 Chops MINCES
• 60 High-end suit ARMANI
• 63 Locale for a couples cruise? NOAHSARK
• 65 Milieu for the Flying Wallendas BIGTOP
• 66 Obsessed with INTO
• 67 Reed in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame LOU
• 68 Celestial omens, to some COMETS
• 69 Make tears WEEP
• 70 Mind meld? ESP

Vertical Clues

• 1 Part of an airplane CABIN
• 2 Where Davy Crockett died, with “the” ALAMO
• 3 Athlete tackling El Capitan, e.g. REBMILCKCOR
• 4 Relative of a gull TERN
• 5 Down BLUE
• 6 ___-country ALT
• 7 See 49-Down REHSAW
• 8 A bunch of fruit may grow on it ENIVEPARG
• 9 Hurry RACE
• 10 Wiped out ERASED
• 11 ___ International, channel seen in hotel rooms worldwide CNN
• 12 “Deck the Halls” contraction TIS
• 13 ___ Tiago, largest of the Cape Verde islands SAO
• 18 Problem solver’s cry EUREKA
• 22 “___, that love, so gentle in his view, / Should be so tyrannous and rough in proof!”: “Romeo and Juliet” ALAS
• 24 N.Y. Rangers’ home MSG
• 26 Investor’s question for a start-up, to which 3-, 8-, 35- and 49-/7-Down reply “Yes!”‘ DOESITSCALE
• 27 One of the Addams family GOMEZ
• 28 Slowly diminish ERODE
• 30 Gossip DIRT
• 33 Dyeing technique BATIK
• 34 Jungian archetype ANIMA
• 35 Who popularized the proverb “With great power comes great responsibility” NAMREDIPS
• 37 Clown GOOF
• 41 Weddings UNIONS
• 44 Traffic director CONE
• 45 Fool ASS
• 47 Write, as music NOTATE
• 49 With 7-Down, worker who likely knows the ropes WODNIW
• 54 Subs HEROS
• 55 Invite from atop the stairs, say ASKUP
• 57 When ties get untied, for short INOT
• 58 ___ in three MATE
• 59 Place offering a Rise ?N Shine breakfast IHOP
• 60 Epitome of simplicity ABC
• 61 “Flying Down to ___” (1933 film) RIO
• 62 Lion keeper? MGM
• 64 Start to count? ONE