NYT Crossword July 9, 2025 Answers

Across

1A Top dog? 4 5A Top hat? 3 8A Top gun? 6 14A Olympic event in which athletes wear masks 4 15A Balmy time in Bordeaux 3 16A Squids' kin 6 17A Marilyn Monroe used eyeliner to darken the one on her cheek 4 18A Late actor Kilmer 3 19A Be off the mark 6 20A Number with 12 zeros in the U.S. but 18 zeros in other parts of the world 11 23A Cotillion V.I.P. 3 24A Top 10 song 3 25A Auntie ___ (food court chain) 5 27A Who, What or I Don't Know, to Abbott and Costello 7 31A Popular digital wallet service 7 35A Non-Rx 3 36A Dance instruction 4 38A Jason of "How I Met Your Mother" 5 39A One wearing a djellaba robe, typically 4 41A Outer boundaries, as where this puzzle's theme answers are located 5 44A Hospital fluids 4 45A Pat ___, three-time N.B.A. Coach of the Year 5 47A Bit of litter by a theater 4 49A It may be picked by the picky 3 50A Kind of Emmy 7 53A Last Supper guest 7 55A One end of a battery 5 57A State animal of Utah 3 58A Ryder Cup org. 3 61A Famous misquote of a James Cagney line from the 1932 film "Taxi!" 11 66A Beyond belief 6 68A Hunk 3 69A ___ land 4 70A Repeated sounds in "Hey Jude" 6 71A From ___ Z 3 72A Many moons 4 73A Bottom feeder? 6 74A Bottom line? 3 75A Bottom dollar? 4

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1D Side note? 4 2D Agreed-___ 4 3D Prefix with communication 4 4D Grow choppers 6 5D Get off the ground? 8 6D Stressed type: Abbr. 4 7D Singer Reese 5 8D California college where the writer David Foster Wallace taught English 6 9D Unfriendly quality 7 10D Ave. crossers 3 11D Lowly sort 4 12D Redheaded boy of 1960s TV 4 13D Side arm? 4 21D Parts of eyeglass frames 4 22D First magazine to feature Steve Jobs on its cover (October 1981) 3 26D Elvis's "___ Not You" 4 27D Side plank? 5 28D Parts of hearts 5 29D Like snakes 5 30D Mustachioed "Simpsons" character 3 32D 007, for one 5 33D Jeopardy 5 34D Side dish? 5 37D Family-friendly ratings 3 40D Onetime alternative to VHS 4 42D Gate info 3 43D Comic book hero whose secret identity is Conner Kent 8 46D Symbol of contrasting principles 7 48D Get out of the starting gate fast 4 51D Bread 6 52D End of a professor's address 3 54D 1970s space station 6 56D "J. ___" (2011 Clint Eastwood biopic) 5 58D Side kick? 4 59D Growl 4 60D River under the Ponte Vecchio 4 62D Itty bit 4 63D Prego rival 4 64D Guinness of "Star Wars" 4 65D Side job? 4 67D French 101 word that sounds like a letter of the alphabet 3