NYT Crossword August 21, 2025 Answers

Across

1A 50 things on the Argo 4 5A Units equal to nine inches 5 10A Needing more salt, perhaps 5 15A Swiss-born artist whose name sounds like an art medium 4 16A What pronouns and their antecedents should do 5 17A *Person who persists in a hopeless cause 5 18A Destroyer of Hindu cosmogony 4 19A *Wildlife parks 5 20A Layer of bricks 5 21A Show obeisance 5 23A Smart TV features 4 25A Eye covering 3 26A *Enjoy the moment, say 5 27A Name on a check 5 29A Porter of Broadway 4 30A Sucker's lament 8 32A Repeat 7 34A Cheryl of "Charlie's Angels" 4 35A Bit of Q.E.D. 4 37A Features of some stadia 5 38A Start of a popular saying about gravity ... or a hint to completing the answers to the starred clues 10 41A Big name in Russian ballet 5 43A Capital on the Mediterranean 4 44A Blew away 4 48A Legislative bodies 7 50A Old wide-screen format 8 52A Crime show extra, informally 4 53A Lead-in to "they" 5 55A *Storm-tracking aid 5 56A Brew designed to survive trips to the subcontinent, in brief 3 57A Early PC game whose nonsense working title stuck 4 58A Partner of older 5 59A Guardian spirits 5 61A *Musical appreciation? 5 64A Deity with the raven familiars Huginn and Muninn 4 66A *Forming a union 5 67A ___ Day (April celebration) 5 68A A or B, e.g. 4 69A Yani ___, youngest pro golfer to win five major championships (age 22) 5 70A Score keeper? 5 71A Peeved state 4

Down

1D Gives a "go" 3 2D Fictional character with a famous opening line 7 3D Took back 7 4D Sushi treatment that's also a spa treatment 11 5D Palm starch 4 6D ___ Tour 3 7D What's off to the side in a selfie 3 8D Demanding attention 5 9D Waits on 6 10D Watson and Deep Blue, for two 4 11D Grp. aptly hidden in "special ops" 3 12D "We're head over heels!" 7 13D Prima ballerinas 7 14D Melt down 6 22D ___ can, item first made and patented in Britain in 1810 3 24D Turns the page, say 7 26D Up to 3 27D Take leave of each other 4 28D Just saying? 5 29D Taste tests, e.g. 11 31D Boot 7 33D Pronoun repeated in "___ do ___" 3 36D Graze 5 39D High on the Scoville scale 3 40D Lake that's home to Kelleys Island 4 41D Best candidates for permanent relationships 7 42D Callable, say 7 45D Gestured to keep moving 7 46D Some retired faculty 7 47D ___ es Salaam 3 48D Tap 6 49D Certain mattresses 6 51D Name that means "my God" in Hebrew 3 54D Bit of hybrid field hockey attire 5 57D Criticize wittily 4 58D District 4 60D Holm or McKellen of "The Hobbit" 3 62D Wizards' org. 3 63D Over there 3 65D Mesh 3