NYT Crossword August 25, 2026 Answers

Across

1A Sharpened point of a quill pen 3 4A One-named Senegalese American singer with the #1 hits "I Wanna Love You" and "Don't Matter" 4 8A South Asian royals 5 13A Actress Longoria 3 14A Free-spirited style, informally 4 15A *6th 6 16A Summer meteor shower named for a mythological hero 8 18A Paradise 6 19A Musical flutter 5 20A Billion years, astronomically 4 22A ___ skirt 4 23A "Miracle on Ice" foe, for short 4 24A Smart set 5 26A To, informally 3 27A "___ it!" (shout in a game of tag) 3 28A *2nd 5 30A Arouses, as an appetite 5 32A Captivate 6 34A *1st 7 36A Settled on the ground, say 4 38A Something told with two hands? 4 39A Bluish-silver Christmas trees, maybe 7 42A Hosp. recovery area 6 46A Great divide 5 47A Moon believed to have a subsurface ocean 5 49A Gamer's "off-line" 3 50A Kool-Aid competitor 3 51A *3rd 5 53A McEntire of country music 4 54A Some Monopoly properties: Abbr. 4 56A Drink in a sippy cup, to a toddler 4 57A Commence 5 58A Mexican beer brand 6 60A "I'd love to go" 8 62A *7th 6 63A Bygone Russian leader 4 64A Pad 3 65A Baker's glassware brand 5 66A "Thing with feathers that perches in the soul," per Emily Dickinson 4 67A "Y"-sounding pair of letters, in Spanish 3

Down

1D *8th 7 2D Allen who was the 2001 N.B.A. M.V.P. 7 3D One known for the morning grind? 7 4D Second-born son in the Bible 4 5D ___ pond 3 6D "Wowza!" 6 7D Tiny biting insect 7 8D Creature sometimes trained for bomb detection 3 9D Focus of some physicists 4 10D *5th 7 11D Desert quality 7 12D Epitomes of slowness 6 15D Symbols of fair weather 4 17D Mirror-and-prism camera, for short 3 21D Arrival of symptoms 5 25D "Man, that's hardly fair!" 6 28D Fullness, in hairstyling 6 29D "The Little Mermaid" prince 4 31D Shades 4 33D *4th 4 35D Kelly of morning TV 4 37D Neon ___ (aquarium fish) 5 39D Like someone emerging from freezing cold water, typically 7 40D Raceway speed setter 7 41D Mull over 7 43D Reason to go into penalty kicks 7 44D Like the paths of 45-Down, as visually depicted in this puzzle 7 45D Celestial "wanderers" ... or what this puzzle's circled letters represent 7 46D Flirt with, in a way 6 48D "Are you sure?" 6 52D Spellbinds 4 53D Sunburned, perhaps 3 55D Reasonable 4 57D Reveal 4 59D Black-and-white wedding rental 3 61D Gullible sort 3