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NYT Crossword — July 15, 2025

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

0 of 78 revealed

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4S

5N

6O

7G

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20K

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Across

37 clues

1Neighbor of Vt. and N.H.

5Canceled, as a mission

9Debt to equity, for example

14Longer of the two lower arm bones

15Word with monetary or military

16Option on a popular car service

18"Designing Women" co-star of 1980s-’90s TV

20Japanese theatrical genre

22The new oil, it's said

23Yahoo alternative

24Snorkeling site

26Nonspecific cash quantities

28Player of the middle son on TV's "The Partridge Family"

34Dress in Delhi

35Readies, as a fishing line

38Blowout game, in sports headlines

40Auto-___, setting for many subscription services

43American city in the Sonoran Desert

44Work on with the hands, as dough or tired muscles

46First corner square after Go on a Monopoly board

48Author Fleming

49"E.T." actress

53One of the life sciences: Abbr.

54Dry, as the Sonoran Desert

55Dr. whose "lab" is a studio

58Bad way to run

60First basic cable show to win an Emmy for Outstanding Drama Series

64Singer who starred in "Labyrinth" (1986) and "The Man Who Fell to Earth" (1976)

67Shakespearean conspirator

69Rips in a review

71Carolers' celebrations

72Sound of either weariness or relief

73One place to find 18-, 28-, 49- and 64-Across ... or, parsed differently, how these people might introduce themselves

Down

41 clues

2Heroine of Tennessee Williams's "Summer and Smoke"

3Give the cold shoulder

4What NASA's Cassini probe orbited for 13 years

5Gentlemen's club, colloquially

6Point value of 68% of Scrabble tiles

7Coat with a thin auric layer

8Capital city on the banks of the Rideau River

9Nonsense syllables one might say in a tub

11Contract clause

21Ivories, on a piano

25Cry from a klutzy golfer

28Socially awkward sort

29Stratford-on-___

31Stealthy assassin with a sword

32Farmyard refrain in a children's song

36Ruler opposed by the Bolsheviks

39Remove the skin from

41Notable features of elves and basset hounds

42Latticed metal used in construction and fencing

45Divisions in some history books

47Constellation resembling a musical instrument

50Development center?

51Arcing baseball hits

52House of ___ (old Italian banking family)

55June 6 remembrance

56Competitor of Rao's

59Title river in an Oscar-winning movie

61Severely injure

62Antiquated "OMG!"

63Modern greenhorn

65___ de la Cité

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Stats & info

Tuesday, Jul 15, 2025

15×15

Grid size

78

Total entries

40/185

Black / letter cells

4.7

Avg entry length

13 ltrs

Longest entry

Easy

Tuesday difficulty

PuzzleThe Crossword

PublishedJul 15, 2025

DayTuesday

ThemeUntitled

ConstructorDaniel Britt

EditorWill Shortz

Clue split37 across · 41 down

Longest entries

28APlayer of the middle son on TV's "The Partridge Family"13 ltrs 49A"E.T." actress13 ltrs 18A"Designing Women" co-star of 1980s-’90s TV10 ltrs 64ASinger who starred in "Labyrinth" (1986) and "The Man Who Fell to Earth" (1976)10 ltrs 5DGentlemen's club, colloquially8 ltrs

Tuesday sits one notch above Monday, usually with a light theme and a few playful clues. This grid has 40 black squares and averages 4.7 letters per entry.