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NYT Crossword — August 24, 2025

Sunday’s 21 × 21 puzzle, 140 clues. The full solution is below — answers stay masked until you reveal them, one clue or all at once.

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64 clues

5Bluffer's declaration

11Educational advertisement, for short

14Farm-related prefix

18Ding-dong ditch, e.g.

20Bitter Italian digestif

21Close of business?

22Spanish province WSW of Bilbao

23If HOSTESS & PETCO merged and became a medical supply company, they would sell ___

27It can be a pain in the neck

29One of 200+ stations for NBC, e.g.

31If NEUTROGENA, BIC & VANS merged and opened a winery, they would sell ___

35Jane ___, longtime writer for The New Yorker

37Cursor icon for clickable links

38Snack with a Mega Stuf variety

48If IBM, DANNON & ACER merged and started a bakery, they would sell ___

52Sallie ___ (student loan program)

53King in a 1978 novelty hit

57Provides assistance

58Working on one's own well-being

61Las Vegas's W.N.B.A. team

62October birthstone

63Org. for Nelly Korda and Lydia Ko

64If POST & SCHICK merged and became a kitchenware company, they would sell ___

67If EPSON & CHASE merged and became an electronics accessories company, they would sell ___

69French filmmaker Jacques

70Some train depot figs.

71Gent from Kent

73Debater's skill

75Golden arrow-shooting deity

79"___ Meninas" (Velázquez masterpiece)

80Big name in the ice cream aisle

81If FORD & WALGREENS merged and became a landscaping company, they would sell ___

83Like a bicycle or a horse

85Movie princess who wields a blaster pistol

86Winter Olympics setting in 1972, 1998, 2018 and 2022

90German article

92Atomic number of neodymium

95If GMC, PETSMART & LENOVO merged and became an auto parts company, they would sell ___

101West Coast airport code

104Like a column starting a row, perhaps

105Narrow inlet

106Buckwheat, for one

108Time-shares?

109If MERCK, MARS & AIG merged and became an art supplies company, they would sell ___

112Most Vermeer works

113Fair ___ (copyright doctrine)

114Verdi opera that becomes the name of a board game when an "H" is inserted

116Old-fashioned invitation enclosure, in brief

117Ayo Edebiri's character on "The Bear," familiarly

118Analyzed grammatically

119Element of many signs

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76 clues

1Corkscrews and such

2In the #1 position

4Billboard chart listings

6Suggestion, casually

7Cheering loudly

8Like a "wet" signature

10Visitors from afar, in brief

11Hazard for the unwary

13When Ophelia dies in "Hamlet"

142015 Kendrick Lamar anthem that won two Grammys

24Skin-care brand with the slogan "Face Anything"

26___ Lilly and Company

29Tapped, as a cigarette

33"___, Oh ___" (Thomas Moore poem)

34Magicians' flourishes

35What a fixer-upper might become, pessimistically

38South American tuber

39Relieved (of)

40Supplementary data and suggestions for further reading, maybe

42Rival of the Dodgers and Rockies, informally

43Great Lakes natives

45Precursor to a clarifying remark

46Fancy shopping mall

47Playboy's founder, in brief

50Complained under one's breath

51Ones making margin calls, for short?

53Purchases that come with metal plates

55Bags with black and green varieties

58Lend, as money

59Celebration for seniors

61"Highway to Hell" band

62"Aha, got it!"

65Response to a routine delivery?

661986 rock autobiography

67Be on the hunt

68Baker v. ___ (landmark voting rights case)

75Novelist Ferrante

77Sea urchin, on a sushi menu

78Govt. agency whose busiest days usually precede major holidays

81Some gymnastics moves

87Cool places to live?

88Singer Rodrigo

89Awards partially bestowed by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

91List of mistakes

93Pibb ___ (soft drink)

94Ruling Romanovs, e.g.

96Bend in a pipe

99University of Memphis athlete

102Hit 1996 movie billed as a "homespun murder story"

103"Love & Death" actress Elizabeth

109Janitorial implement

110The Guardians, on sports tickers

111Hip

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Stats & info

Sunday, Aug 24, 2025

21×21

Grid size

140

Total entries

71/370

Black / letter cells

5.3

Avg entry length

17 ltrs

Longest entry

Themed

Sunday difficulty

PuzzleThe Crossword

PublishedAug 24, 2025

DaySunday

ThemeMixed Company

ConstructorMichael Lieberman

EditorWill Shortz

Clue split64 across · 76 down

Longest entries

31AIf NEUTROGENA, BIC & VANS merged and opened a winery, they would sell ___17 ltrs 95AIf GMC, PETSMART & LENOVO merged and became an auto parts company, they would sell ___17 ltrs 48AIf IBM, DANNON & ACER merged and started a bakery, they would sell ___13 ltrs 81AIf FORD & WALGREENS merged and became a landscaping company, they would sell ___13 ltrs 23AIf HOSTESS & PETCO merged and became a medical supply company, they would sell ___12 ltrs

Sunday is the big one, a 21 by 21 grid built around a named theme rather than raw difficulty. This grid has 71 black squares and averages 5.3 letters per entry.