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NYT Crossword — July 25, 2025

Friday’s 15 × 15 puzzle, 66 clues. The full solution is below — answers stay masked until you reveal them, one clue or all at once.

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6L
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17O
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18C
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19R
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24L
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30D
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Across

33 clues
1Whack to the head, in slang
9Noted doomsday prepper
13Prognosticator's shout
15Game played on a grass or dirt court
16Occasion to brush up together?
17Weird Al Yankovic's "Straight ___ Lynwood"
18Attention magnet, say
19Like Queen Elizabeth, but not Queen Camilla
21Deal with The Devil?
23TV program with its time of day in its name
24Brit's "bog"
25Global auction house
26Gain competitor
27How one lives in the face of an inscrutable future
30Org. that may allow religious headwear in pictures
31Planted oneself
32Harmless growth
35Issa of "Insecure"
36Spanish diminutive suffix
37Reduced demand for refrigerated trucking, in a way
39Illicit decampment
401968 live folk album
42When repeated, something often said to be "deep"
43Sheer quantity of awesome
45Slacks off
48"Your request is denied"
49Shrub with a "staghorn" variety
51Word derived from the Greek for "headdress of Persian kings"
52Flash point?
56Heavenly figure, in German
57One that can put a meal on ice
58Brood
59Abstain ... as suggested by the black squares in this puzzle

Down

33 clues
1Region of a plane bounded by a circle, in geometry
2Scorpion's legs, e.g.
3Abdul with the #1 albums "Forever Your Girl" and "Spellbound"
4Getting on
5Shifty type
6Was up
7Pioneering mathematician Lovelace
8Center of a drupe
9Meat and potatoes, e.g.
10D8 pieces in Dungeons & Dragons, e.g.
11"Don't attract attention to yourself"
12When squirrels may thermoregulate by splooting
14Extra-large storage unit
15Solving Wordle in five guesses, colloquially
20H, to the Hellenes
22Stole
23Rough digs
27One of many in a trend line
28Period satirized in "Dr. Strangelove"
29Antibacterial product introduced in 1948
31"Sometimes" has two of them
33German-based supermarket with about 2,500 stores in the U.S.
34Friendly, respectful person
381970s "howcatchem" TV series
40Log
41First color that babies can see, after black and white
44Eponym of the A.L. batting title award
46Become acquainted virtually
47World capital next to the Sarawat Mountains
50One of three keys to a PC reboot
53Sizzling
54It's off limits if you 59-Across
55West who said "I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it"

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Stats & info

Friday, Jul 25, 2025
15×15
Grid size
66
Total entries
40/185
Black / letter cells
5.6
Avg entry length
9 ltrs
Longest entry
Hard
Friday difficulty
PuzzleThe Crossword
PublishedJul 25, 2025
DayFriday
ThemeThemeless
ConstructorFritz Juhnke
EditorWill Shortz
Clue split33 across · 33 down
Longest entries
13APrognosticator's shout9 ltrs16AOccasion to brush up together?9 ltrs52AFlash point?9 ltrs57AOne that can put a meal on ice9 ltrs10DD8 pieces in Dungeons & Dragons, e.g.9 ltrs

Friday puzzles run themeless, so the fill leans on long open entries and wordplay clues rather than a central gimmick. This grid has 40 black squares and averages 5.6 letters per entry.