Newsday Crossword August 23, 2025 Answers

Across

Surfeit of spots?7 Small '40s vessel6 Cutthroat school8 Place to sit6 Max competition15 Skyrocketed5 Sauerkraut-like5 Maximal retribution?3 Edmonton football team, named for beasts nearby4 Dis honor?5 "Politics is the __ in which war develops": Clausewitz4 MO3 When many eschew chocolate5 Gut environment, e.g.5 Symbolically secret5 Advised to avoid6 Fashion inspired by WWII uniforms15 Family nickname6 __-demain (Mardi, to Dimanche)5 Noisy no more5 Elvis mug5 Kind of credo3 Appealed (to)4 Grating beef5 Capacity4 TVA beneficiary3 Small belts5 Volkswagen US debuts of '695 2025's A4 46-Across, for instance15 Check out improperly6 Consumer of shells8 Periods of proper productivity6 Clips used as hooks7

Down

Betty's makeup6 In desperation6 Pool dive-ins6 Photofloods and ginger jars5 Not yet eliminated4 Watch window trio3 Refreshers over ice8 Word following rubber or steel5 Swank4 Hair ball3 Without an intermediary8 Flickering8 Proving grounds8 Indulge yourself13 Leakage evidence4 First name of the alphabetically last Best Actress Oscar winner5 Corkscrews5 Terribly intense5 Deere device5 Put on a scale5 It's not hard to swallow5 Major Novo Testamento writer8 Writer of the Magna Carta8 Sanka, slangily8 Hole to fill8 Booted up?4 Put a salt, as into table salt6 Sandwich shop purchase6 Titular plural thrice as long as its singular6 Stirs up5 Becomes obsolescent, in a way5 Lab order4 Setting for nearly half of Around the World ...4 Where Olympians made offerings3 Floor with flamboyance3