The NYT Midi Crossword August 25, 2026 puzzle by Shannon Rapp is solved below. The answers were grouped based on their orientation on the grid.
Across
- 1 Open windows on an internet browser TABS
- 5 Waymo cars, e.g. ROBOTS
- 7 Snoopy’s hip alter ego JOECOOL
- 8 Post-Ramadan festival that translates to “festival” EID
- 9 “All ___ Well” (Taylor Swift song with a “10 Minute Version”) TOO
- 10 Language behind much dynamic web content JAVASCRIPT
- 14 Actress Thurman UMA
- 15 Section of a color wheel HUE
- 16 Entryway for dropping off backpacks and dirty shoes MUDROOM
- 19 Prefix with intellectual or science PSEUDO
- 20 Jigsaw puzzle border EDGE
Down
- 1 Where a Hindu woman wears a bichiya TOE
- 2 “Eric Carle’s ___” (children’s book whose first pages include drawings of ants, a bird and a crocodile) ABC
- 3 Baby’s knitted foot warmer BOOTIE
- 4 Brownstone “porch” STOOP
- 5 Some pretzel shapes RODS
- 6 Piggy bank opening SLOT
- 7 “Trick Mirror” author ___ Tolentino JIA
- 8 Got away from EVADED
- 10 React at a haunted house, maybe JUMP
- 11 Bring a smile to AMUSE
- 12 Shoe designer Jimmy CHOO
- 13 Liquor in a mojito RUM
- 17 Handwoven floor cover, perhaps RUG
- 18 “An ___ We Owe” (Amanda Gorman poem) ODE
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