NYT Crossword July 12, 2025 Answers

Across

1A "That was fun!" 10 11A Actress Diana of "All Creatures Great and Small" (2020) 4 15A One might start fermenting in the kitchen 10 16A Classic Langston Hughes poem with a comma in its title 4 17A It features high wind movements 10 18A Latin for "goodbye" 4 19A What might be seen around a star 5 20A Shape of Saturn's rings 4 21A Star of TV and film who wrote the memoir "Never Have Your Dog Stuffed: And Other Things I've Learned" 4 22A Spot for newborn care 4 24A Awards honoring excellence in magazine publishing 6 26A Earth's crust and others 6 30A Shade akin to bone or eggshell 4 32A "No preference" 3 33A Snobby sort 4 34A Bring up to date, perhaps 4 36A Terms of a trade 5 38A With 8-Down, like the upcoming release from one's favorite band 7 40A Quinta of "Abbott Elementary" 7 42A Lose, as a tail 5 43A Build up 4 45A Its official languages are Chamorro and English 4 46A "Dese ___ Dose" (Glenn Miller composition) 3 47A Mideast port with a natural harbor 4 49A Faint 6 51A Smith who was the first woman to receive the Baseball Writers' Association of America's Career Excellence Award 6 53A Symbol of defiance and solidarity 4 55A Period ender 4 56A Waste 4 58A Member of a sub-Saharan matriarchal clan 5 63A Big ones can be difficult to manage 4 64A One tirelessly making calls ahead of Election Day 10 66A ___ Sea, body of water between Borneo and the Philippines 4 67A Convention challenger 10 68A Look 4 69A Adjunct faculty? 10

Down

1D Smack 4 2D Kind of spider believed to spread to distant areas via railway 4 3D Biblical prophet whom Martin Luther King Jr. referred to as "an extremist for justice" in his "Letter From Birmingham Jail" 4 4D Youth baseball supporters 4 5D Skipping music, say 6 6D "Amigo!" 3 7D Spots, so to speak 5 8D See 38-Across 7 9D Staging areas 4 10D Detective, at times 6 11D Sooner, to a Longhorn 5 12D Order that might include mortadella and capicola 10 13D First score during extra time in sudden-death soccer 10 14D "I'm ready, but be nice" 10 23D Rap's ___ Sweatshirt 4 25D Doozy 4 26D Rush to find a mate? 10 27D Many a book by Paul Theroux 10 28D Series of hoops and hurdles 10 29D Went from 0 to 60? 4 31D Cylindrical grain holders 4 35D Jane who says "Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation" 4 37D Kansas-born playwright with a Pulitzer 4 39D Buns 4 41D Enforcers of rules, informally 4 44D Fixed-format summary of an article, as on Wikipedia 7 48D Waste 6 50D Important subject in law school 6 52D "What it boils down to is this …" 5 54D [stomps foot down] 5 57D Spots 4 59D Law school for Samuel Alito, Brett Kavanaugh, Clarence Thomas and Sonia Sotomayor 4 60D Zip 4 61D Wit's end? 4 62D Las pinturas de Frida Kahlo, por ejemplo 4 65D "I'm Just a Girl Who Can't Say ___" ("The Simpsons" episode) 3