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The Crossword Clues, Hints & Answers for August 18, 2025

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Monday, August 18, 2025

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This archive page covers the The Crossword from Monday, August 18, 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.

78 clues · jump to Across or Down. Tap a tile for one letter, or Answer for the whole word.

Across clues & answers

Down clues & answers

1
Kind of car San Francisco is famous for
2
Common typeface
3
Clear component of blood
4
___ nous
5
"___ be an honor"
6
Stow away, big-time
7
Killed, mob-style
8
Magic dragon's name, in song
9
Furthermore
10
Baked item whose name suggests how much of each ingredient to use
11
Fairy tale's first word
12
Bother, as a bear
14
Rehab treatment
19
Pained cry
21
Falcons' and Eagles' org.
25
"Give me five!"
27
Dream up, as a plan
29
Good thing that comes to those who wait?
30
Colorado Plateau natives
31
Role to play
32
Long-necked bird with a "knob" on its beak
33
Brouhaha
34
Stop and No Passing, for two
35
Forum manager, for short
37
Ground-breaking garden tool
38
Do a tally of
41
"___ is me!"
42
Green science
47
Word after golf or before sandwich
49
Hardly any
51
Kind of colony in the film "Papillon"
52
Dadaist Max
53
€€€
54
Post-snowfall vehicles
55
Dickens's "The Mystery of ___ Drood"
56
Sommelier's stock
57
Share a border
58
Stubborn farm animal
60
Lamp insert
63
Plopped down
64
"You got it!"

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Sunday, August 17, 2025

across

1. Sign off on: AGREETO
8. Feel the pain: SUFFER
14. One of music's Three B's: BACH
18. They're paving the way: ROADGANG
20. Island with ferries to Ibiza: MINORCA
21. Tangent line?: ALSO
22. One of the better morning beverages?: NOTYOURAVERAGEOJ
24. Zoom background option: BLUR
25. Hrs. for Augusta in August: EDT
26. "___ Q" (1968 hit): SUZIE
27. Styling substance: GEL
28. "C'mon, the car door's open!": GETIN
29. Avoid ___ (GPS option): TOLLS
32. Slice of the economy: SECTOR
35. First non-English-language film to win Best Picture: PARASITE
37. Just one inning left after this?: THEEIGHTHUNDERWAY
40. Annual gala locale, with "the": MET
41. Meat sauce in Italian cooking: RAGU
42. Go-getter sorts: TYPEAS
43. Trifling: MERE
45. View from the Quai d'Orsay: SEINE
47. Character with a Jamaican accent in Disney's "The Little Mermaid": SEBASTIAN
51. How a mountain road may rise or fall: STEEPLY
54. Threads, e.g.: APP
57. Query of worry: AREYOUOK
59. Units on a multimeter: OHMS
60. Seasoning preference when eating Maryland blue crab?: EXTRAOLDBAY
64. Berry plant related to a hawthorn: SLOE
65. The lion in summer?: LEO
66. "So here's my question ...": IASKYOU
67. Humorous ending with hater: ADE
68. Sephora competitor: ULTA
70. Two-pound tomahawk steak, for instance?: JUMBOENTREE
74. Underwater respirator: GILL
75. Home on the internet, perhaps: MAINPAGE
77. Prescriptions, for short: RXS
78. Arouses: EXCITES
80. Slimy scheme for profit: MONEYGRAB
83. Listing that might include an explanation of benefits: CLAIM
84. Anchors provide this: NEWS
85. Casual shoe: LOAFER
89. New Jersey?: CALF
91. A.C.C. school: UVA
93. "Do I *really* wanna start an online bidding war? Hmm ..."?: TOEBAYORNOTTOEBAY
99. Czech brew: PILSENER
101. Move (over): SCOOCH
102. Michael of R.E.M.: STIPE
103. The government, at times: TAXER
104. What Pomeranians do: YAP
106. The (middle) sound of "silence": SCHWA
108. "___ but a scratch": TIS
109. Creature in Magic: The Gathering: OGRE
110. Give an extra perk to a cigarette smoker?: TOSSINTHEASHTRAY
115. Finish filming: WRAP
116. ___ Attucks, Revolutionary War casualty who posthumously became an abolitionist symbol: CRISPUS
117. Cherish: TREASURE
118. No side: NAYS
119. Become gooey over, as cheese atop a hot burger: MELTON
120. They're usually found to the left of Q's: TABKEYS

down

1. Actor Will of "BoJack Horseman": ARNETT
2. British cry of approval: GOODOH
3. Scary snake: RATTLER
4. Joseph who co-invented rocky road ice cream: EDY
5. Obstruction to teamwork, maybe: EGO
6. Greek crosses: TAUS
7. Sudden surge: ONRUSH
8. Round Table title: SIR
9. "___ cerveza, por favor": UNA
10. Phileas in "Around the World in Eighty Days": FOGG
11. The power of social media from a marketing standpoint, informally: FREEPR
12. Bit of green legislation: ECOLAW
13. Hindi for "reign": RAJ
14. Sweethearts: BABES
15. One of the best coffee beverages ever?: ALLTIMEAULAIT
16. Top execs, collectively: CSUITE
17. Charlotte N.B.A. player: HORNET
19. Montreal newspaper continuously published since 1778, with "The": GAZETTE
20. Get-together: MEETUP
23. French city from which a soup gets its name: VICHY
28. Merriment, in one spelling: GAYETY
30. Doesn't own, say: LEASES
31. Largest college fraternity in the U.S., familiarly: SIGEP
33. No U.S. area code starts with this: ONE
34. Nutrition figs.: RDAS
36. Minnesota county whose seat is St. Paul: RAMSEY
38. Artfulness: GUILE
39. Suffix with journal: ESE
44. Some natural borders en México: RIOS
46. Greek goddess of the night: NYX
48. Emperor who founded the Mughal Empire: BABUR
49. Palindromic constellation: ARA
50. Noggin: NOODLE
51. Latin for "only": SOLUM
52. What fugitives are on: THELAM
53. What might confirm the worst for an athlete's injury?: EMOTIONALXRAY
54. Many a Bahraini: ARAB
55. Old El ___ (Tex-Mex brand): PASO
56. Game with an annual World Series since 1970: POKER
58. Collapses, with "over": KEELS
61. Smartphone clock function: TIMER
62. A bobcat is one, technically: LYNX
63. ...: DOTS
69. Actress Bancroft: ANNE
70. Many-time N.B.A. All-Star Tatum: JAYSON
71. Boot out of Australia?: UGG
72. Creature with flat, transparent larvae called "leptocephali": EEL
73. ___ change: EXACT
74. Vodka-and-lime cocktail: GIMLET
76. Metal material used for dishware before porcelain became popular: PEWTER
79. Ta-tas: CIAOS
81. In the style of: ALA
82. School bathroom sign: BOYS
83. Spin a yarn, perhaps?: CROCHET
86. Progressive inits. in the U.S. Congress: AOC
87. Puts icing on: FROSTS
88. Methuselah's father: ENOCH
90. Paramount+ docuseries with real-life crime stories: FBITRUE
91. Like Manhattan in the 80s and 90s?: UPTOWN
92. Cialis alternative: VIAGRA
94. Long-eared pal of Pooh: EEYORE
95. Country whose name Americans spell with a "z": BRASIL
96. Stymie: THWART
97. Abode that's abuzz: APIARY
98. "Ah, that's right!": YESYES
100. Trickles: SEEPS
105. Vowelless attention-getter: PSST
107. Traveling in waves, say: ASEA
110. Vintage film channel: TCM
111. Milestone for a start-up, for short: IPO
112. Sister figure: NUN
113. Pre-___ (exercise program in advance of surgery): HAB
114. Vowelless rebuke: TSK

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