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NYT Crossword — July 21, 2025

Monday’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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31 clues

1K-pop supergroup

4What an angry customer may leave

9Vast Mongolian desert

13Google.com, e.g.

14Sound heard before "Bless you!"

15One producing cakes and cookies

16Successful throws to the end zone

20Côte d'___ (French Riviera)

21Regular 6 p.m. broadcast of daily events

31Big TV network in the U.K.

34Take the ___ (acquire control)

38Vans from hotels to terminals and back

42Sports org. at the center of a 2021 antitrust ruling

43Ones crossing picket lines

44Ending with lemon or orange

45Rejected, as an application

48Enjoy a book or magazine

50Their are fore of them hear in this sentance

56Series of push-ups or curls at a gym

58Slogan for the Pokémon franchise ... also appropriate for 16-, 21-, 38- and 50-Across?

65Actress Amy or President John Quincy

66Like the boonies

67Abbreviation for an Army absence

70Place for a pig

Down

45 clues

1Remainder of a cigarette

2Word after rainbow or steelhead

5Anxiety-related condition, for short

6Even if, informally

7Des Moines denizen

8___ scheme (financial fraud)

9Purchase at a pump

10Gives the go-ahead

11"Busy" buzzer

12Org. that orders audits

15Flat-bottomed boat

17One-named singer of "If I Could Turn Back Time"

18Common fourth-and-long decision

22Currency in Lyon but not London

24Does some copy desk work

25Semiaquatic salamander

26___ Holmes (Sherlock's sister, on Netflix)

27Overcaffeinated, colloquially

28Have a feeling

31Lineup at Woodstock or Coachella

32Muscle used in pull-ups, informally

33Basic bird made in origami

35Situation Room grp.

36What two toddlers should learn to do

39Aid in making a sandcastle

41Bygone Russian ruler

46Man's name that is an anagram of AISLE

47Kind of golf that uses baskets instead of holes

49Housing on a college quad

52Elaborate outfit

53Quantities of paper

54Treat with bananas and ice cream

57Kill it, in a good way

58Gossip, gossip, gossip

59Positive poem

60Something to pick up at a beach?

61Celebrity gossip website

62Word on a French wine label

63___ Solo of "Star Wars"

64Animal with a fraternal order named after it

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Stats & info

Monday, Jul 21, 2025

15×15

Grid size

76

Total entries

42/183

Black / letter cells

4.8

Avg entry length

15 ltrs

Longest entry

Easiest

Monday difficulty

PuzzleThe Crossword

PublishedJul 21, 2025

DayMonday

ThemeUntitled

ConstructorKaty Steinmetz and Rich Katz

EditorWill Shortz

Clue split31 across · 45 down

Longest entries

16ASuccessful throws to the end zone15 ltrs 38AVans from hotels to terminals and back15 ltrs 58ASlogan for the Pokémon franchise ... also appropriate for 16-, 21-, 38- and 50-Across?15 ltrs 21ARegular 6 p.m. broadcast of daily events14 ltrs 50ATheir are fore of them hear in this sentance14 ltrs

Monday grids are the gentlest of the week: straightforward definitions, familiar fill and almost no wordplay. This grid has 42 black squares and averages 4.8 letters per entry.