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NYT Crossword — July 12, 2025

Saturday’s 15 × 15 puzzle, 72 clues. The full solution is below — answers stay masked until you reveal them, one clue or all at once.

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4T
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6B
7L
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17O
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18V
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65D
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Across

36 clues
1"That was fun!"
11Actress Diana of "All Creatures Great and Small" (2020)
15One might start fermenting in the kitchen
16Classic Langston Hughes poem with a comma in its title
17It features high wind movements
18Latin for "goodbye"
19What might be seen around a star
20Shape of Saturn's rings
21Star of TV and film who wrote the memoir "Never Have Your Dog Stuffed: And Other Things I've Learned"
22Spot for newborn care
24Awards honoring excellence in magazine publishing
26Earth's crust and others
30Shade akin to bone or eggshell
32"No preference"
33Snobby sort
34Bring up to date, perhaps
36Terms of a trade
38With 8-Down, like the upcoming release from one's favorite band
40Quinta of "Abbott Elementary"
42Lose, as a tail
43Build up
45Its official languages are Chamorro and English
46"Dese ___ Dose" (Glenn Miller composition)
47Mideast port with a natural harbor
49Faint
51Smith who was the first woman to receive the Baseball Writers' Association of America's Career Excellence Award
53Symbol of defiance and solidarity
55Period ender
56Waste
58Member of a sub-Saharan matriarchal clan
63Big ones can be difficult to manage
64One tirelessly making calls ahead of Election Day
66___ Sea, body of water between Borneo and the Philippines
67Convention challenger
68Look
69Adjunct faculty?

Down

36 clues
1Smack
2Kind of spider believed to spread to distant areas via railway
3Biblical prophet whom Martin Luther King Jr. referred to as "an extremist for justice" in his "Letter From Birmingham Jail"
4Youth baseball supporters
5Skipping music, say
6"Amigo!"
7Spots, so to speak
8See 38-Across
9Staging areas
10Detective, at times
11Sooner, to a Longhorn
12Order that might include mortadella and capicola
13First score during extra time in sudden-death soccer
14"I'm ready, but be nice"
23Rap's ___ Sweatshirt
25Doozy
26Rush to find a mate?
27Many a book by Paul Theroux
28Series of hoops and hurdles
29Went from 0 to 60?
31Cylindrical grain holders
35Jane who says "Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation"
37Kansas-born playwright with a Pulitzer
39Buns
41Enforcers of rules, informally
44Fixed-format summary of an article, as on Wikipedia
48Waste
50Important subject in law school
52"What it boils down to is this …"
54[stomps foot down]
57Spots
59Law school for Samuel Alito, Brett Kavanaugh, Clarence Thomas and Sonia Sotomayor
60Zip
61Wit's end?
62Las pinturas de Frida Kahlo, por ejemplo
65"I'm Just a Girl Who Can't Say ___" ("The Simpsons" episode)

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Stats & info

Saturday, Jul 12, 2025
15×15
Grid size
72
Total entries
29/196
Black / letter cells
5.4
Avg entry length
10 ltrs
Longest entry
Hardest
Saturday difficulty
PuzzleThe Crossword
PublishedJul 12, 2025
DaySaturday
ThemeThemeless
ConstructorKatie Hoody
EditorWill Shortz
Clue split36 across · 36 down
Longest entries
1A"That was fun!"10 ltrs15AOne might start fermenting in the kitchen10 ltrs17AIt features high wind movements10 ltrs64AOne tirelessly making calls ahead of Election Day10 ltrs67AConvention challenger10 ltrs

Saturday is the hardest grid of the week, themeless and clued as obliquely as the editor allows. This grid has 29 black squares and averages 5.4 letters per entry.