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NYT Crossword — August 26, 2025

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

35 clues

1Something tapped at a bar

4___ monster (only venomous lizard native to the U.S.)

8Go caroling, say

12British weekly on business, politics and culture, with "The"

15Devils' center, appropriately

16Ones taking baby pictures in the delivery room, maybe

19University just north of Harvard

20Overall impact

22Like drone photography

23"Look here …"

24Study of the mind, for short

29Tavern owner who's often prank-called by Bart Simpson

31Attire for a contemporary dancer

33Source of a certain essential oil

37R, as in a Rolls-Royce?

39What the shepherd heard, perhaps

40Highest level of minor-league baseball

42They spike during the holidays

43Apt name for a socialite?

45Some pre-streaming music purchases

47Goose of Hawaii

48Global movement to end violence against women

51That's unbelievable!

53"That's unbelievable!"

55Fish that can burrow into the seabed

56Subtle acknowledgment

57Carpenter or plumber's kit

60Fruit traditionally eaten with the fish it's named for

63Toilette water

64Like goods bought before they hit the shelves

65Alternative to AOL

66Unusual feature of this puzzle … or, when parsed as two words (1,8), another unusual feature of this puzzle

67When a plane is due in, in brief

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1Didn't tell, as a secret

4Combatants in the Titanomachy

5Teacher's pest

6Former NPR host Hansen

8Beginning of consciousness?

9Group of elite colleges

10Mother's daughter's daughter, perhaps

11Largest human muscle, informally

13Little fastener

14Comic actor Jacques

21A&W specialties

24Where the sidewalk ends

25First-year legal student, informally

27Like a good sharpshooter's hand

30Renewable gasoline additive

32Anti-trafficking org.

33___ Hall ("The Wind in the Willows" residence)

34Cry to a captor

36Ultimatum word

41___ in the hole

44Marilyn Monroe or Britney Spears

46Cutlass, e.g.

48Italian scooter brand

50Spot for cats and rats

52"My gut says …"

54Today, in Tijuana

56What you'd expect when you're expecting?

57Shot that made its N.B.A. debut in 1979, slangily

58Big ___ (college conference)

59Common sushi fish

61Certain parent

62Make a typo, say

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Stats & info

Tuesday, Aug 26, 2025

15×15

Grid size

76

Total entries

41/184

Black / letter cells

4.8

Avg entry length

11 ltrs

Longest entry

Easy

Tuesday difficulty

PuzzleThe Crossword

PublishedAug 26, 2025

DayTuesday

ThemeUntitled

ConstructorKevin Curry

EditorWill Shortz

Clue split35 across · 41 down

Longest entries

60AFruit traditionally eaten with the fish it's named for11 ltrs 16AOnes taking baby pictures in the delivery room, maybe10 ltrs 64ALike goods bought before they hit the shelves10 ltrs 12ABritish weekly on business, politics and culture, with "The"9 ltrs 20AOverall impact9 ltrs

Tuesday sits one notch above Monday, usually with a light theme and a few playful clues. This grid has 41 black squares and averages 4.8 letters per entry.