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The Crossword Clues, Hints & Answers for August 1, 2025

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Friday, August 1, 2025

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This archive page covers the The Crossword from Friday, August 1, 2025. The daily crossword is the classic: a 15×15 grid on weekdays and a larger Sunday puzzle, with difficulty rising from a gentle Monday to a fiendish Saturday. Hints come first and the solution stays hidden until you ask for it.

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Thursday, July 31, 2025

across

1. The X-Men, e.g.: MUTANTS
6. Way off: AFAR
10. Blowout victory: ROMP
14. Home of the White Cloud Mountains: IDAHO
15. Excellent sort of person to be a copy editor: PEDANT
16. Dr. ___ (repeated Mike Myers film role): EVIL
17. :: COLON
18. One with a vision: SEER
19. Transfer from one bottle to another: DECANT
20. Ring: ENCLOSE
22. Empty spaces: LACUNAS
24. Rita ___, "Anywhere" singer: ORA
25. Scout's work, informally: RECON
26. Testing the limits, say: AVANTGARDE
30. Little guys: KIDDOS
34. Bloom in several Monet paintings: LILY
35. Best Picture of 1958: GIGI
37. Bit of Chinese New Year décor: LANTERN
38. Filled up with: ATE
39. Ones paying flat rates ... or, when read as two words, a hint to this puzzle's theme: TENANTS
41. Agcy. watching the skies: FAA
42. ___ Gras: MARDI
44. Cut deeply: ETCH
45. Use to the fullest: MILK
46. "Full House" pair: OLSENS
48. "There's no way!": THISCANTBE
50. Award-winning Donald Glover TV series, or where it was filmed: ATLANTA
52. Avalanche group, for short: NHL
53. Manage: OVERSEE
56. Bore importance: MEANTALOT
60. Ingredients in many potpies: PEAS
61. Baby: INFANT
63. Greek goddess of peace: IRENE
64. Out-of-bounds: ERRANT
65. Shred the ___ (conquer a mountain, in skiing slang): GNAR
66. Start of a counting rhyme: EENIE
67. Launch party?: NASA
68. Tennis champ Mandlikova: HANA
69. Little brats: SNOTS

down

1. Laptop accessories: MICE
2. Thick Japanese noodle: UDON
3. Main component of steatite: TALC
4. Collection of literary works: ANTHOLOGY
5. State bordering Arizona: SONORA
6. Only part of Italy's 900-year-old Basilica di Santa Giulia that remains: APSE
7. Cost: FEE
8. "River Lea" singer, 2015: ADELE
9. Did laps, say: RANTRACK
10. Not adding any new information: REDUNDANT
11. Where things might get heated: OVEN
12. Flaky rock: MICA
13. Some spies: PLANTS
21. Certain military leader, informally: SARGE
23. Orderly arrangements of wiring: COILS
25. Something you might sail right through?: REGATTA
26. Thrifty competitor: ALAMO
27. Critical: VITAL
28. Some hunting lodge décor: ANTLERS
29. Have a nice meal, say: DINE
31. Untamable: DEFIANT
32. Big name in dental care: ORALB
33. Animal with sea and coral varieties: SNAKE
36. Move like a sloth: INCH
39. Shades: TINTS
40. Your, of yore: THINE
43. Start of a wish-list letter: DEARSANTA
45. Ferrari's Formula 1 rival: MCLAREN
47. Seasonal carrier: SLEIGH
49. Huts: SHANTIES
51. Part of a bug: ANTENNA
53. Like some questions or doors: OPEN
54. ___ Farmiga, Best Supporting Actress nominee for 2009's "Up in the Air": VERA
55. Corn units: EARS
56. "Location, location, location," to many real estate agents: MANTRA
57. Jay in the Television Hall of Fame: LENO
58. Doing the job: ONIT
59. Some shirts: TEES
62. Item for which "This thing blows" would be a positive review: FAN

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Wednesday: a step up, often with a playful theme.
Thursday: the trick day, with rebus squares (several letters in one square) and answers that turn corners or skip squares.
Friday and Saturday: themeless and tough, with sly clues and long open sections.
Sunday: a bigger 21×21 grid with a theme, about as hard as a Wednesday or Thursday.

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Learn the common fill. Short vowel-heavy words such as ERA, OREO, ALOE and ETNA appear constantly because they help constructors connect sections.
Read clue signals. "?" means wordplay, "Abbr." means an abbreviation, "e.g." means an example of a category, and a foreign word in the clue hints at a foreign answer.
Find the theme. The longest answers usually share a gimmick; the title (on Sundays) or a "revealer" clue explains it.
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