NYT Crossword July 26, 2025 Answers

Across

1A Pop singer Rexha 4 5A Playful in tone 4 9A Group that got Sweden its first Eurovision win 4 13A Sautéing option with a high smoke point 10 16A Home, in slang 4 17A Poisonous plant rumored to have killed the emperor Augustus 10 18A Word with hot or double 4 19A Starting to move 5 20A What one reads, watches and listens to, collectively 9 22A Dictionaries have many of these: Abbr. 3 24A Underappreciated 6 25A Lots and lots 7 29A Enough 5 31A Squash, e.g. 4 32A Period coinciding with the growth of the internet 10 35A Chicken ___ king 3 36A When you're in it, you're in hot water 7 37A Sch. that's home to the Mountaineers 3 38A Beast of burden 10 40A Peeps at 4 41A "Come in!" 5 42A Leans toward 7 44A Alternative to a bow 6 47A Uppermost limit 3 48A Has only the best intentions 9 51A Feature of many a handbag 5 55A Running, but not moving 4 56A Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea or Taiwan, to an economist 10 58A Eye of the storm 4 59A Plays dice with God, so to speak 10 60A Things on rings 4 61A Casual hangout 4 62A Composer Satie 4

Down

1D Rum-soaked cake 4 2D Times to look forward 4 3D Leave quickly 4 4D Overshadow 7 5D Button next to a suggested contact, maybe 3 6D Quarters 4 7D Possible indicator of construction ahead 4 8D Rishi Sunak was the first one to become a British prime minister 5 9D Play the fool 7 10D Smarts 10 11D They separate hands and handlebars 10 12D Give some immoral support, perhaps? 4 14D "This is sooo frustrating!" 5 15D Sprawled out, say 4 21D "Same here!" 5 23D Street racer, usually 5 25D Billing line 10 26D "Well, as it happens …" 10 27D Sites of mutations on chromosomes 4 28D Flummox 5 30D Denizens of the Great Victoria Desert 4 31D Go like :O 4 33D Government policy bigwig 4 34D ___ Türeci, physician/scientist who co-founded BioNTech 5 36D Lawn recreation with a portmanteau name 5 39D Germs of ideas 7 40D Possible topic for a couples therapist 7 43D "Get your ___ first and then you can distort them as much as you please": Mark Twain 5 45D Pop flies? 4 46D Acceptances 5 48D Exploit over time 4 49D Common guacamole ingredient 4 50D Goes around, in a way 4 52D Vegan alternative to gelatin 4 53D ___ Institute, home to the Carl Sagan Center 4 54D Avenue for early learning, in brief 4 57D Unspecified term in a sequence 3