NYT Crossword September 4, 2025 Answers

Across

1A Train unit 3 4A One means of going up a hill 4 8A Builds 6 14A Tap it 3 15A Reese Witherspoon's role in "Legally Blonde" 4 16A Fictional land of magic and talking animals 6 17A Baseball great who said "If I'd just tried for them dinky singles I could've batted around .600" 8 19A Playground retort 6 20A Untouchable 6 21A Goalie's stat 5 23A Genre for "Sunset Boulevard" 4 24A Designation for some audio connectors 4 25A Inch (toward) 4 29A Had the reins 3 31A Give and take 4 32A Word with stop or prize 4 33A Financial support 7 36A Lose firmness 3 38A Punk subculture 3 39A World capital in central Anatolia 6 40A Woke 6 42A That little thing you do? 3 43A Inits. for cinephiles 3 45A Struggle to decide 7 46A "___ a roll!" 4 48A Spreadsheet units 4 50A In good shape 3 51A Corn syrup brand 4 52A Book of Mormon book 4 53A Plant watcher, for short 4 56A Helped temporarily, with "over" 5 58A Chops 6 60A High-end suit 6 63A Locale for a couples cruise? 8 65A Milieu for the Flying Wallendas 6 66A Obsessed with 4 67A Reed in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame 3 68A Celestial omens, to some 6 69A Make tears 4 70A Mind meld? 3

Down

1D Part of an airplane 5 2D Where Davy Crockett died, with "the" 5 3D Athlete tackling El Capitan, e.g. 11 4D Relative of a gull 4 5D Down 4 6D ___-country 3 7D See 49-Down 6 8D A bunch of fruit may grow on it 9 9D Hurry 4 10D Wiped out 6 11D ___ International, channel seen in hotel rooms worldwide 3 12D "Deck the Halls" contraction 3 13D ___ Tiago, largest of the Cape Verde islands 3 18D Problem solver's cry 6 22D "___, that love, so gentle in his view, / Should be so tyrannous and rough in proof!": "Romeo and Juliet" 4 24D N.Y. Rangers' home 3 26D Investor's question for a start-up, to which 3-, 8-, 35- and 49-/7-Down reply "Yes!"' 11 27D One of the Addams family 5 28D Slowly diminish 5 30D Gossip 4 33D Dyeing technique 5 34D Jungian archetype 5 35D Who popularized the proverb "With great power comes great responsibility" 9 37D Clown 4 41D Weddings 6 44D Traffic director 4 45D Fool 3 47D Write, as music 6 49D With 7-Down, worker who likely knows the ropes 6 54D Subs 5 55D Invite from atop the stairs, say 5 57D When ties get untied, for short 4 58D ___ in three 4 59D Place offering a Rise ’N Shine breakfast 4 60D Epitome of simplicity 3 61D "Flying Down to ___" (1933 film) 3 62D Lion keeper? 3 64D Start to count? 3