Newsday Crossword September 5, 2025 Answers

Across

Widespread4 South Sudan's capital4 Hit the __ (decline suddenly)5 Many an operatic performance4 Heavy duty4 Fjord, essentially5 Ristorante turnover9 Spirited attack5 Media mogul moniker5 Bach wrote sonatas for it8 Precisely correct6 Looped fastener for cables6 Do the numbers4 Brewed beverage5 Ostentatious display4 Has no use for5 Was known as6 Call conclusion3 '60s ill-fated NASA mission7 Store to improve3 Auspices6 Cranial cavity5 Evaluation symbol4 Prepare for action5 C-suite4 Give refuge to6 Bloke's "first-rate"6 Out of nothing8 In the dark5 Anxiety5 Tiny detail9 Speed demon5 Understand intuitively4 Time Machine people4 Excess5 Burnt, as briquettes4 What Boone 33-Across4

Down

Script writers3 Phone's time saver8 Treacherous people8 Warehousing7 Change positions a lot6 Hour after mezzanotte3 Narcissus, for instance4 Where eggplant was first eaten4 Oscar winner as Loretta5 Unprincipled conduct7 Land of Lincoln collegians6 Reverent6 Whom Fox replaced in Back to the Future6 Seething3 Make sure of5 Joke you haven't heard before6 Byron's "__ Walks in Beauty"3 Swift's significant other5 "We exclusively!"6 Lose momentum3 Grafton's Burglar starter3 Lab dish deviser5 British Caribbean island8 Informal initiative8 Appraisal abbr.3 Person settling disputes7 Tacit7 Wool gathering need6 IRS' compliance shortfall6 Botanical balm for bruises6 Courageous6 #5 busiest US airport5 Aesopian saver3 Louise Suggs Rookie of the Year awarder4 Communally owned4 Kin of kabuki3 __ change (what the five longest Across answers end with)3