NYT Crossword August 29, 2025 Answers

Across

1A Coaster, usually 4 5A Start of some temple names 4 9A Bug spray ingredient 4 13A Kind of rover 5 14A Figure with two tails 9 16A Habitation 5 17A Queen's guard? 9 18A Language whose name consists of four consecutive U.S. state postal abbreviations 8 20A Genre for 5-Down 5 21A Certain graph shape 3 22A Word with Man or can 3 23A Per ___ 4 24A Places where it's OK to push someone at school 9 27A Evidence of a fire 3 30A Christmas story villain 5 31A Plot device in many a rom-com 8 33A Samurai with no master 5 34A Big bust 3 35A Little pieces 5 36A Welcome sight for a business 8 38A What fan fiction is not 5 39A "Odds" follower 3 40A Loaded with excitement 9 42A Blow off steam, say 4 43A Start to do? 3 44A Some Slack convos 3 47A Happiness and excitement, for two 5 49A Four-star review, say 8 51A Spitting contest? 9 53A Manage to lose 5 54A Some workplace perks 9 55A "Seriously!," in slang 5 56A Fighters on the beach in 2023's "Barbie" 4 57A Old car concern 4 58A Preschoolers, e.g. 4

Down

1D Home to the torus-shaped Museum of the Future 5 2D By some measure 10 3D Safety org. for young people 4 4D Painting on the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, with "The" 14 5D "The Thrill Is Gone" musician, 1970 6 6D Kant's "no" 4 7D Even more than most 3 8D "OK, now you've got me intrigued ..." 7 9D Macaroni wheat 5 10D Kathryn of "Law & Order: Criminal Intent" 4 11D Anticipatory times 4 12D Anger, with "off" 3 13D Lantern, e.g. 4 15D Eclipse, for one 14 19D Peel 4 23D Proof of a plot 4 25D Order in the court 4 26D 1980s cartoon foe of Gargamel 5 27D Library regular, perhaps 10 28D Eminem song that samples Dido 4 29D "___ a real nowhere man ..." 3 30D Billing unit 4 32D Dog's post-op wear 4 33D Label that sold the first 33 1/3 r.p.m. records 3 34D Make an impression on 4 37D Member of a 1960s TV family 7 38D Geppetto's pet goldfish in Disney's "Pinocchio" 4 41D Least active 6 42D They might hang out in a hotel room 5 45D Big name in mufflers 5 46D Bit of a how-to 4 47D Stable mate 4 48D Move the first pawn, say 4 49D Troubles 4 50D High-quality flavoring for salad dressings, in brief 4 51D Inits. of the statesman who said "Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly" 3 52D Time constant symbol in physics 3