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NYT Crossword — July 26, 2025

Saturday’s 15 × 15 puzzle, 70 clues. The full solution is below — answers stay masked until you reveal them, one clue or all at once.

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33 clues

1Pop singer Rexha

5Playful in tone

9Group that got Sweden its first Eurovision win

13Sautéing option with a high smoke point

16Home, in slang

17Poisonous plant rumored to have killed the emperor Augustus

18Word with hot or double

19Starting to move

20What one reads, watches and listens to, collectively

22Dictionaries have many of these: Abbr.

24Underappreciated

25Lots and lots

32Period coinciding with the growth of the internet

35Chicken ___ king

36When you're in it, you're in hot water

37Sch. that's home to the Mountaineers

38Beast of burden

44Alternative to a bow

47Uppermost limit

48Has only the best intentions

51Feature of many a handbag

55Running, but not moving

56Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea or Taiwan, to an economist

58Eye of the storm

59Plays dice with God, so to speak

60Things on rings

61Casual hangout

62Composer Satie

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37 clues

1Rum-soaked cake

2Times to look forward

5Button next to a suggested contact, maybe

7Possible indicator of construction ahead

8Rishi Sunak was the first one to become a British prime minister

11They separate hands and handlebars

12Give some immoral support, perhaps?

14"This is sooo frustrating!"

15Sprawled out, say

23Street racer, usually

26"Well, as it happens …"

27Sites of mutations on chromosomes

30Denizens of the Great Victoria Desert

33Government policy bigwig

34___ Türeci, physician/scientist who co-founded BioNTech

36Lawn recreation with a portmanteau name

39Germs of ideas

40Possible topic for a couples therapist

43"Get your ___ first and then you can distort them as much as you please": Mark Twain

48Exploit over time

49Common guacamole ingredient

50Goes around, in a way

52Vegan alternative to gelatin

53___ Institute, home to the Carl Sagan Center

54Avenue for early learning, in brief

57Unspecified term in a sequence

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Stats & info

Saturday, Jul 26, 2025

15×15

Grid size

70

Total entries

34/191

Black / letter cells

5.5

Avg entry length

10 ltrs

Longest entry

Hardest

Saturday difficulty

PuzzleThe Crossword

PublishedJul 26, 2025

DaySaturday

ThemeThemeless

ConstructorAdam Levav

EditorWill Shortz

Clue split33 across · 37 down

Longest entries

13ASautéing option with a high smoke point10 ltrs 17APoisonous plant rumored to have killed the emperor Augustus10 ltrs 32APeriod coinciding with the growth of the internet10 ltrs 38ABeast of burden10 ltrs 56AHong Kong, Singapore, South Korea or Taiwan, to an economist10 ltrs

Saturday is the hardest grid of the week, themeless and clued as obliquely as the editor allows. This grid has 34 black squares and averages 5.5 letters per entry.