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NYT Crossword — July 19, 2025

Saturday’s 15 × 16 puzzle, 69 clues. The full solution is below — answers stay masked until you reveal them, one clue or all at once.

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28 clues

1What R-rated photos may do

14Tearing up or breaking down

15Madame's family member

16Graduate-level degree

18The leaders of Thailand and Malaysia, e.g., for short

19Subject of click fraud

20What has an eye on the TV

23"Get outta here!"

25Lead-in to "boy" or "girl"

28Gold, in Spanish

31Extemporaneous

35Canine breed named after an English river valley

36Vince Carter quote-turned-meme regarding his return for a 22nd N.B.A. season

37Warning to a troublemaker

38Case study org.?

40Surname shared by a Hollywood father and daughter

41___ Jayawardenepura Kotte (capital city in South Asia)

44Entertainment between innings at a baseball game

50"Moving to ___" (email phrase)

53Stygian blue or reddish-green

56Pantheon part

57Trans activist who founded the Sylvia Rivera Law Project

59Biblical tax collector

Down

41 clues

4Addams Family member

5Apt letters for the blanks in _ _ B _ L

6Large-eyed primate

8President whose middle name was Howard

10Actions that, despite being legal, resulted in hundreds of arrests in 1961

11Observance that ends on Holy Thursday

12Sea creature with a saddle patch

13Ingredient in some brownies

15Suomi speaker

17Dispenser of cones

20Leader before the King?

21Barbecued Mongolian dish whose name sounds like a disapproving canine

24People for whom a Great Lake is named

25Sportsperson, in Italian

26What something scattershot is all over

27Range of the Rockies

29Surname shared by a Hollywood father and son

30Lead-in to band or army

32Unauthorized cuts of existing movies

33Crispy Crinkles brand

43Davis who played Thelma in "Thelma & Louise"

44Intermediate size

45Iowa State's city

46Cast in a different light

48Assist, as a lifter?

49Chowder ingredient

51Do some tech work

52Group working on a pilot … or a group that includes a pilot

54Winter setting in K.C.

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Stats & info

Saturday, Jul 19, 2025

15×16

Grid size

69

Total entries

36/204

Black / letter cells

5.9

Avg entry length

15 ltrs

Longest entry

Hardest

Saturday difficulty

PuzzleThe Crossword

PublishedJul 19, 2025

DaySaturday

ThemeThemeless

ConstructorErik Agard

EditorWill Shortz

Clue split28 across · 41 down

Longest entries

16AGraduate-level degree15 ltrs 31AExtemporaneous15 ltrs 35ACanine breed named after an English river valley15 ltrs 36AVince Carter quote-turned-meme regarding his return for a 22nd N.B.A. season15 ltrs 37AWarning to a troublemaker15 ltrs

Saturday is the hardest grid of the week, themeless and clued as obliquely as the editor allows. This grid has 36 black squares and averages 5.9 letters per entry.