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New York Times Crossword August 21 2025 Answers

Thursday puzzle · 81 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 81 clues from the New York Times Crossword for August 21 2025. Stuck on one? Click the clue to reveal its verified answer, plus every other answer that clue has had across every publisher in our database.

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Across

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ClueLetters#Answer
50 things on the Argo41 AcrossReveal answer → Units equal to nine inches55 AcrossReveal answer → Needing more salt, perhaps510 AcrossReveal answer → Swiss-born artist whose name sounds like an art medium415 AcrossReveal answer → What pronouns and their antecedents should do516 AcrossReveal answer → *Person who persists in a hopeless cause517 AcrossReveal answer → Destroyer of Hindu cosmogony418 AcrossReveal answer → *Wildlife parks519 AcrossReveal answer → Layer of bricks520 AcrossReveal answer → Show obeisance521 AcrossReveal answer → Smart TV features423 AcrossReveal answer → Eye covering325 AcrossReveal answer → *Enjoy the moment, say526 AcrossReveal answer → Name on a check527 AcrossReveal answer → Porter of Broadway429 AcrossReveal answer → Sucker's lament830 AcrossReveal answer → Repeat732 AcrossReveal answer → Cheryl of "Charlie's Angels"434 AcrossReveal answer → Bit of Q.E.D.435 AcrossReveal answer → Features of some stadia537 AcrossReveal answer → Start of a popular saying about gravity ... or a hint to completing the answers to the starred clues1038 AcrossReveal answer → Big name in Russian ballet541 AcrossReveal answer → Capital on the Mediterranean443 AcrossReveal answer → Blew away444 AcrossReveal answer → Legislative bodies748 AcrossReveal answer → Old wide-screen format850 AcrossReveal answer → Crime show extra, informally452 AcrossReveal answer → Lead-in to "they"553 AcrossReveal answer → *Storm-tracking aid555 AcrossReveal answer → Brew designed to survive trips to the subcontinent, in brief356 AcrossReveal answer → Early PC game whose nonsense working title stuck457 AcrossReveal answer → Partner of older558 AcrossReveal answer → Guardian spirits559 AcrossReveal answer → *Musical appreciation?561 AcrossReveal answer → Deity with the raven familiars Huginn and Muninn464 AcrossReveal answer → *Forming a union566 AcrossReveal answer → ___ Day (April celebration)567 AcrossReveal answer → A or B, e.g.468 AcrossReveal answer → Yani ___, youngest pro golfer to win five major championships (age 22)569 AcrossReveal answer → Score keeper?570 AcrossReveal answer → Peeved state471 AcrossReveal answer →

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Gives a "go"31 DownReveal answer → Fictional character with a famous opening line72 DownReveal answer → Took back73 DownReveal answer → Sushi treatment that's also a spa treatment114 DownReveal answer → Palm starch45 DownReveal answer → ___ Tour36 DownReveal answer → What's off to the side in a selfie37 DownReveal answer → Demanding attention58 DownReveal answer → Waits on69 DownReveal answer → Watson and Deep Blue, for two410 DownReveal answer → Grp. aptly hidden in "special ops"311 DownReveal answer → "We're head over heels!"712 DownReveal answer → Prima ballerinas713 DownReveal answer → Melt down614 DownReveal answer → ___ can, item first made and patented in Britain in 1810322 DownReveal answer → Turns the page, say724 DownReveal answer → Up to326 DownReveal answer → Take leave of each other427 DownReveal answer → Just saying?528 DownReveal answer → Taste tests, e.g.1129 DownReveal answer → Boot731 DownReveal answer → Pronoun repeated in "___ do ___"333 DownReveal answer → Graze536 DownReveal answer → High on the Scoville scale339 DownReveal answer → Lake that's home to Kelleys Island440 DownReveal answer → Best candidates for permanent relationships741 DownReveal answer → Callable, say742 DownReveal answer → Gestured to keep moving745 DownReveal answer → Some retired faculty746 DownReveal answer → ___ es Salaam347 DownReveal answer → Tap648 DownReveal answer → Certain mattresses649 DownReveal answer → Name that means "my God" in Hebrew351 DownReveal answer → Bit of hybrid field hockey attire554 DownReveal answer → Criticize wittily457 DownReveal answer → District458 DownReveal answer → Holm or McKellen of "The Hobbit"360 DownReveal answer → Wizards' org.362 DownReveal answer → Over there363 DownReveal answer → Mesh365 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the New York Times crossword published on Thursday, August 21, 2025. Answers are checked against the completed grid before publishing and live on each clue's own page, so you only see the solutions you ask for. If a clue looks familiar, open it — the same wording often runs in other puzzles with a different answer, and the clue page shows every version we have on record.