New York Times Crossword Puzzle Answers Today 08/25/2026. The August 25 2026 Puzzle Answers are listed below in such order that they are easy to find.
The puzzles get harder and harder to solve and more complex as the week passes You can search by clue name, number or direction for example for 2 Across clue just type '2A' or '2D' for 2nd down clue.
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- Across
- 1a Sharpened point of a quill penNIB
- 4a One-named Senegalese American singer with the #1 hits “I Wanna Love You” and “Don’t Matter”AKON
- 8a South Asian royalsRAJAS
- 13a Actress LongoriaEVA
- 14a Free-spirited style, informallyBOHO
- 15a *6thSATURN
- 16a Summer meteor shower named for a mythological heroPERSEIDS
- 18a ParadiseUTOPIA
- 19a Musical flutterTRILL
- 20a Billion years, astronomicallyAEON
- 22a ___ skirtMIDI
- 23a “Miracle on Ice” foe, for shortUSSR
- 24a Smart setMENSA
- 26a To, informallyTIL
- 27a “___ it!” (shout in a game of tag)NOT
- 28a *2ndVENUS
- 30a Arouses, as an appetiteWHETS
- 32a CaptivateENAMOR
- 34a *1stMERCURY
- 36a Settled on the ground, sayALIT
- 38a Something told with two hands?TIME
- 39a Bluish-silver Christmas trees, maybeSPRUCES
- 42a Hosp. recovery areaPOSTOP
- 46a Great divideCHASM
- 47a Moon believed to have a subsurface oceanTITAN
- 49a Gamer’s “off-line”IRL
- 50a Kool-Aid competitorHIC
- 51a *3rdEARTH
- 53a McEntire of country musicREBA
- 54a Some Monopoly properties: Abbr.AVES
- 56a Drink in a sippy cup, to a toddlerWAWA
- 57a CommenceBEGIN
- 58a Mexican beer brandTECATE
- 60a “I’d love to go”ITSADATE
- 62a *7thURANUS
- 63a Bygone Russian leaderTSAR
- 64a PadMAT
- 65a Baker’s glassware brandPYREX
- 66a “Thing with feathers that perches in the soul,” per Emily DickinsonHOPE
- 67a “Y”-sounding pair of letters, in SpanishELS
- Down
- 1d *8thNEPTUNE
- 2d Allen who was the 2001 N.B.A. M.V.P.IVERSON
- 3d One known for the morning grind?BARISTA
- 4d Second-born son in the BibleABEL
- 5d ___ pondKOI
- 6d “Wowza!”OHDAMN
- 7d Tiny biting insectNOSEEUM
- 8d Creature sometimes trained for bomb detectionRAT
- 9d Focus of some physicistsATOM
- 10d *5thJUPITER
- 11d Desert qualityARIDITY
- 12d Epitomes of slownessSNAILS
- 15d Symbols of fair weatherSUNS
- 17d Mirror-and-prism camera, for shortSLR
- 21d Arrival of symptomsONSET
- 25d “Man, that’s hardly fair!”AWCMON
- 28d Fullness, in hairstylingVOLUME
- 29d “The Little Mermaid” princeERIC
- 31d ShadesHUES
- 33d *4thMARS
- 35d Kelly of morning TVRIPA
- 37d Neon ___ (aquarium fish)TETRA
- 39d Like someone emerging from freezing cold water, typicallySHIVERY
- 40d Raceway speed setterPACECAR
- 41d Mull overSITWITH
- 43d Reason to go into penalty kicksTIEGAME
- 44d Like the paths of 45-Down, as visually depicted in this puzzleORBITAL
- 45d Celestial “wanderers” … or what this puzzle’s circled letters representPLANETS
- 46d Flirt with, in a wayCHATUP
- 48d “Are you sure?”THATSO
- 52d SpellbindsAWES
- 53d Sunburned, perhapsRED
- 55d ReasonableSANE
- 57d RevealBARE
- 59d Black-and-white wedding rentalTUX
- 61d Gullible sortSAP