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NYT Crossword — August 4, 2025

Monday’s 15 × 15 puzzle, 78 clues. The full solution is below — answers stay masked until you reveal them, one clue or all at once.

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Across

37 clues

1Letters on a radio switch

5"Cómo está ___?" ("How are you?," in Spanish)

10Indian tourist city on the Taj Express route

14Garment seen in Hindi cinema

16Like a grade of B+, say

17Seed covering

18Yankees slugger who hit a record-setting 62 home runs in 2022

20Rotary phone feature

21Garment from Playtex or Maidenform

22"Meet the Press" group

23Image from a drone

27Metal from a mine

28Bills with George Washington's face

29Small dish served in Spain

31Accra's country

34Path of a baseball pop-up

39"Keep dreaming!"

43Opposite of "nope"

44"Star Wars" saga heroine

45Desert plants

46Home of the New York Mets until 2008

48College mil. program

50"___, amas, amat …" (Latin 101 conjugation)

53Outlet from the heart's left ventricle

58Dance to "The Blue Danube," e.g.

60E.P.A.-banned pesticide

62Poet with the essay collection "Sister Outsider"

65Home services app that lists local vendors

66Jumping-off point for an inventor

68Pest control brand

69Four years, for a U.S. president

70Trait transmitters

71One of 26, approximately, in a marathon

Down

41 clues

1Carne ___ (grilled meat dish)

2Decluttering maven Kondo

3Monastery resident

4Very, very small fractions

5In working order

6Musical counterparts of flats

7Bat mitzvah reading

8Musician Brian who has an asteroid named after him

10H2O, in Mexico

11Emphatic rejection

12Slugger Maris

13"Skyfall" singer

19Music genre from Tokyo

24Scrambled word: Abbr.

26R.p.m. indicator

30Wool-producing ranch

32Go quickly, quaintly

33Actress de Armas

34___ port in a storm

36Short lines at the register?

38Prefix with cycle or code

40Black-and-white cookie

41In the neighborhood

42When Hamlet duels with Laertes in "Hamlet"

49Groups of eight musicians

50Hang around for

51"Harold and ___" (1971 black comedy)

52From further in the past

54Successful dash to the end zone, in brief

55Hawaiian porch

57Skip over, as the "i" in "family"

59Transit option to N.Y.C.'s Roosevelt Island

64Beethoven's "___ to Joy"

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Stats & info

Monday, Aug 4, 2025

15×15

Grid size

78

Total entries

38/187

Black / letter cells

4.8

Avg entry length

15 ltrs

Longest entry

Easiest

Monday difficulty

PuzzleThe Crossword

PublishedAug 4, 2025

DayMonday

ThemeUntitled

ConstructorPatti Varol

EditorWill Shortz

Clue split37 across · 41 down

Longest entries

39A"Keep dreaming!"15 ltrs 23AImage from a drone11 ltrs 53AOutlet from the heart's left ventricle11 ltrs 18AYankees slugger who hit a record-setting 62 home runs in 202210 ltrs 62APoet with the essay collection "Sister Outsider"10 ltrs

Monday grids are the gentlest of the week: straightforward definitions, familiar fill and almost no wordplay. This grid has 38 black squares and averages 4.8 letters per entry.