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NYT Crossword — August 25, 2026

Tuesday’s 15 × 15 puzzle, 76 clues. The full solution is below — answers stay masked until you reveal them, one clue or all at once.

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Across

40 clues

1Sharpened point of a quill pen

4One-named Senegalese American singer with the #1 hits "I Wanna Love You" and "Don't Matter"

8South Asian royals

13Actress Longoria

14Free-spirited style, informally

16Summer meteor shower named for a mythological hero

19Musical flutter

20Billion years, astronomically

23"Miracle on Ice" foe, for short

26To, informally

27"___ it!" (shout in a game of tag)

30Arouses, as an appetite

36Settled on the ground, say

38Something told with two hands?

39Bluish-silver Christmas trees, maybe

42Hosp. recovery area

47Moon believed to have a subsurface ocean

49Gamer's "off-line"

50Kool-Aid competitor

53McEntire of country music

54Some Monopoly properties: Abbr.

56Drink in a sippy cup, to a toddler

58Mexican beer brand

60"I'd love to go"

63Bygone Russian leader

65Baker's glassware brand

66"Thing with feathers that perches in the soul," per Emily Dickinson

67"Y"-sounding pair of letters, in Spanish

Down

36 clues

2Allen who was the 2001 N.B.A. M.V.P.

3One known for the morning grind?

4Second-born son in the Bible

7Tiny biting insect

8Creature sometimes trained for bomb detection

9Focus of some physicists

11Desert quality

12Epitomes of slowness

15Symbols of fair weather

17Mirror-and-prism camera, for short

21Arrival of symptoms

25"Man, that's hardly fair!"

28Fullness, in hairstyling

29"The Little Mermaid" prince

35Kelly of morning TV

37Neon ___ (aquarium fish)

39Like someone emerging from freezing cold water, typically

40Raceway speed setter

43Reason to go into penalty kicks

44Like the paths of 45-Down, as visually depicted in this puzzle

45Celestial "wanderers" ... or what this puzzle's circled letters represent

46Flirt with, in a way

48"Are you sure?"

53Sunburned, perhaps

59Black-and-white wedding rental

61Gullible sort

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Stats & info

Tuesday, Aug 25, 2026

15×15

Grid size

76

Total entries

37/188

Black / letter cells

4.9

Avg entry length

8 ltrs

Longest entry

Easy

Tuesday difficulty

PuzzleThe Crossword

PublishedAug 25, 2026

DayTuesday

ThemeUntitled

ConstructorBryan Kaproth-Gerecht

EditorWill Shortz

Clue split40 across · 36 down

Longest entries

16ASummer meteor shower named for a mythological hero8 ltrs 60A"I'd love to go"8 ltrs 34A*1st7 ltrs 39ABluish-silver Christmas trees, maybe7 ltrs 1D*8th7 ltrs

Tuesday sits one notch above Monday, usually with a light theme and a few playful clues. This grid has 37 black squares and averages 4.9 letters per entry.