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NYT Crossword — July 27, 2025

Sunday’s 22 × 21 puzzle, 141 clues. The full solution is below — answers stay masked until you reveal them, one clue or all at once.

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Across

57 clues

1Maintains, as a superstition

9Subject of the 2017 musical film "The Greatest Showman"

15"Same with me"

22Ralph Ellison novel about a nameless protagonist's journey in racist America

24Forgiving middle-aged dads for their dad jokes, say?

27Bud in Cooperstown

28Dorm room staple food

29Cross-country conveyances

30Darth Vader's childhood nickname

34Have away with words?

36Muppet of Mexican descent

39Knows just when to hold 'em and when to fold 'em, maybe

47Attire for Larry Page and Sergey Brin when visiting Google incognito?

51Columbus sch.

54One with a set of pipes

55Come out of one's shell

57Sherlock's sister on TV

62Much-maligned 2019 movie about which one review said "It's 'Battlefield Earth' with whiskers"

63One of classical music's Three B's

66Landscaper's supply

69Tundra or taiga

71"You think that hunk of junk'll pass inspection? Please!"?

78Trademarked refrigerant

79Uncle Sam's land, informally

84Drink mixed in mixed drinks

89Avatar of Vishnu

90Back in, in a way

92Try to hit in laser tag

95Older sister of Rachel, in Genesis

98Basic BASIC statements

99Real chess playa?

104Contemporary of Gauss and Faraday

105James who played Scotty on "Star Trek"

106"No ___, Bob"

107Part of une pièce de théâtre

110Plunderers of Rome

112Hindu honorific

113Clock toggle

117Hollowed out, as an apple

120Hogwarts's "Half-Blood Prince"

122Burnt pigment

126Greeting from a famous Italian character to a famous Italian American actress?

130DC power player in the late 1800s?

131Good thing to play in a trick-taking game

132Magical symbol

133Dispensing, with "out"

Down

84 clues

1One always cooking up new ideas?

3"That's my cue"

4___ compensation (stock options, for instance)

5Revegetation, e.g.

6Canon option, in brief

7They may be Thai or chai

8Cuisinart competitor

9Noted rapper with an oxymoronic name

11Traveler in no need of hotels, for short

12Columbian caravel

13"I'm your guy"

15___-right (political category)

17Out of control

18Nail salon request, familiarly

191980s band among Australia's all-time best-selling groups

21Quartz compound

25When doubled, "Sleep well"

31Langston Hughes poem that begins "___, sing America"

33Word with mine or dump

35___ the Town (punny fast-food restaurant name)

36Vacation package offerer, perhaps

40Prefix with angular

41D.C. 100: Abbr.

43Mickey Mouse's boss in "Fantasia"

44Whale of a tale

45Géorgie, par exemple

46Identity thief's acquisitions, in brief

47The pyramids, essentially

48Stimpy's TV pal

56Skill taught to Luke Skywalker

58Texter's gasp

59Feast with kalua pig

64___ de Glace (glacier in the French Alps)

65Fr. holy women

67Desperate pursuit of fame, in modern lingo

70Channel that popularized video jockeys

72Shower scrubber

75TV friend of Jerry, George and Kramer

76Money for your money

81Black-and-white hunter

82Longtime NPR host Diane

83Part of a flight

87Business entity inits.

93Brian who co-founded the Long Now Foundation

96Chums, in Chamonix

97"Bah, humbug!"

100Nashville and New Orleans, for musicians

101Stomping ground

102Bringing up the rear

108Sacred object

109Lose ground?

111Slash on a scoresheet

114When repeated, a tropical fish

115___ rock (genre for Pink Floyd and Dream Theater, familiarly)

116Apt name for a narcissist?

119He loved Lucy

121Nesting pair in the Outback

124The Emerald Isle

125Photosensitive cells

127Seasoning for una margarita

128Bit of plasma

129One whose uniform bears the Star of Life, for short

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Stats & info

Sunday, Jul 27, 2025

22×21

Grid size

141

Total entries

72/390

Black / letter cells

5.5

Avg entry length

22 ltrs

Longest entry

Themed

Sunday difficulty

PuzzleThe Crossword

PublishedJul 27, 2025

DaySunday

ThemeArranged Marriages

ConstructorJohn Kugelman

EditorWill Shortz

Clue split57 across · 84 down

Longest entries

24AForgiving middle-aged dads for their dad jokes, say?22 ltrs 47AAttire for Larry Page and Sergey Brin when visiting Google incognito?22 ltrs 71A"You think that hunk of junk'll pass inspection? Please!"?22 ltrs 99AReal chess playa?22 ltrs 126AGreeting from a famous Italian character to a famous Italian American actress?22 ltrs

Sunday is the big one, a 21 by 21 grid built around a named theme rather than raw difficulty. This grid has 72 black squares and averages 5.5 letters per entry.