NYT Crossword July 25, 2025 Answers

Across

1A Whack to the head, in slang 8 9A Noted doomsday prepper 4 13A Prognosticator's shout 9 15A Game played on a grass or dirt court 5 16A Occasion to brush up together? 9 17A Weird Al Yankovic's "Straight ___ Lynwood" 5 18A Attention magnet, say 5 19A Like Queen Elizabeth, but not Queen Camilla 7 21A Deal with The Devil? 5 23A TV program with its time of day in its name 8 24A Brit's "bog" 3 25A Global auction house 4 26A Gain competitor 3 27A How one lives in the face of an inscrutable future 8 30A Org. that may allow religious headwear in pictures 3 31A Planted oneself 3 32A Harmless growth 7 35A Issa of "Insecure" 3 36A Spanish diminutive suffix 3 37A Reduced demand for refrigerated trucking, in a way 8 39A Illicit decampment 3 40A 1968 live folk album 4 42A When repeated, something often said to be "deep" 3 43A Sheer quantity of awesome 8 45A Slacks off 5 48A "Your request is denied" 7 49A Shrub with a "staghorn" variety 5 51A Word derived from the Greek for "headdress of Persian kings" 5 52A Flash point? 9 56A Heavenly figure, in German 5 57A One that can put a meal on ice 9 58A Brood 4 59A Abstain ... as suggested by the black squares in this puzzle 8

Down

1D Region of a plane bounded by a circle, in geometry 4 2D Scorpion's legs, e.g. 5 3D Abdul with the #1 albums "Forever Your Girl" and "Spellbound" 5 4D Getting on 7 5D Shifty type 8 6D Was up 3 7D Pioneering mathematician Lovelace 3 8D Center of a drupe 3 9D Meat and potatoes, e.g. 5 10D D8 pieces in Dungeons & Dragons, e.g. 9 11D "Don't attract attention to yourself" 9 12D When squirrels may thermoregulate by splooting 8 14D Extra-large storage unit 8 15D Solving Wordle in five guesses, colloquially 5 20D H, to the Hellenes 3 22D Stole 4 23D Rough digs 7 27D One of many in a trend line 9 28D Period satirized in "Dr. Strangelove" 9 29D Antibacterial product introduced in 1948 8 31D "Sometimes" has two of them 8 33D German-based supermarket with about 2,500 stores in the U.S. 4 34D Friendly, respectful person 8 38D 1970s "howcatchem" TV series 7 40D Log 5 41D First color that babies can see, after black and white 3 44D Eponym of the A.L. batting title award 5 46D Become acquainted virtually 5 47D World capital next to the Sarawat Mountains 5 50D One of three keys to a PC reboot 4 53D Sizzling 3 54D It's off limits if you 59-Across 3 55D West who said "I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it" 3