NYT Crossword hints and answer for August 4, 2025
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Clues78
Across37
Down41
ConstructorPatti Varol
Today’s NYT Crossword clues, hints & answers
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Across
1A
Letters on a radio switch (4)
Starts with A, ends with MAMFM→
5A
"Cómo está ___?" ("How are you?," in Spanish) (5)
Starts with U, ends with DUSTED→
10A
Indian tourist city on the Taj Express route (4)
Starts with A, ends with AAGRA→
14A
Garment seen in Hindi cinema (4)
Starts with S, ends with ISARI→
15A
Glistened (5)
Starts with S, ends with ESHONE→
16A
Like a grade of B+, say (4)
Starts with G, ends with DGOOD→
17A
Seed covering (4)
Starts with A, ends with LARIL→
18A
Yankees slugger who hit a record-setting 62 home runs in 2022 (10)
Starts with A, ends with EAARONJUDGE→
20A
Rotary phone feature (4)
Starts with D, ends with LDIAL→
21A
Garment from Playtex or Maidenform (3)
Starts with B, ends with ABRA→
22A
"Meet the Press" group (5)
Starts with P, ends with LPANEL→
23A
Image from a drone (11)
Starts with A, ends with OAERIALPHOTO→
27A
Metal from a mine (3)
Starts with O, ends with EORE→
28A
Bills with George Washington's face (4)
Starts with O, ends with SONES→
29A
Small dish served in Spain (4)
Starts with T, ends with ATAPA→
31A
Accra's country (5)
Starts with G, ends with AGHANA→
34A
Path of a baseball pop-up (3)
Starts with A, ends with CARC→
39A
"Keep dreaming!" (15)
Starts with A, ends with NAINTGONNAHAPPEN→
43A
Opposite of "nope" (4)
Starts with Y, ends with HYEAH→
44A
"Star Wars" saga heroine (3)
Starts with R, ends with YREY→
45A
Desert plants (5)
Starts with C, ends with ICACTI→
46A
Home of the New York Mets until 2008 (4)
Starts with S, ends with ASHEA→
48A
College mil. program (4)
Starts with R, ends with CROTC→
50A
"___, amas, amat …" (Latin 101 conjugation) (3)
Starts with A, ends with OAMO→
53A
Outlet from the heart's left ventricle (11)
Starts with A, ends with EAORTICVALVE→
58A
Dance to "The Blue Danube," e.g. (5)
Starts with W, ends with ZWALTZ→
60A
E.P.A.-banned pesticide (3)
Starts with D, ends with TDDT→
61A
Get an F (4)
Starts with F, ends with LFAIL→
62A
Poet with the essay collection "Sister Outsider" (10)
Starts with A, ends with EAUDRELORDE→
65A
Home services app that lists local vendors (4)
Starts with A, ends with IANGI→
66A
Jumping-off point for an inventor (4)
Starts with I, ends with AIDEA→
67A
Grown-up (5)
Starts with A, ends with TADULT→
68A
Pest control brand (4)
Starts with R, ends with DRAID→
69A
Four years, for a U.S. president (4)
Starts with T, ends with MTERM→
70A
Trait transmitters (5)
Starts with G, ends with SGENES→
71A
One of 26, approximately, in a marathon (4)
Starts with M, ends with EMILE→
Down
1D
Carne ___ (grilled meat dish) (5)
Starts with A, ends with AASADA→
2D
Decluttering maven Kondo (5)
Starts with M, ends with EMARIE→
3D
Monastery resident (5)
Starts with F, ends with RFRIAR→
4D
Very, very small fractions (10)
Starts with M, ends with SMILLIONTHS→
5D
In working order (6)
Starts with U, ends with EUSABLE→
6D
Musical counterparts of flats (6)
Starts with S, ends with SSHARPS→
7D
Bat mitzvah reading (5)
Starts with T, ends with HTORAH→
8D
Musician Brian who has an asteroid named after him (3)
Starts with E, ends with OENO→
9D
TV room (3)
Starts with D, ends with NDEN→
10D
H2O, in Mexico (4)
Starts with A, ends with AAGUA→
11D
Emphatic rejection (5)
Starts with G, ends with OGODNO→
12D
Slugger Maris (5)
Starts with R, ends with RROGER→
13D
"Skyfall" singer (5)
Starts with A, ends with EADELE→
19D
Music genre from Tokyo (4)
Starts with J, ends with PJPOP→
24D
Scrambled word: Abbr. (4)
Starts with A, ends with GANAG→
25D
Other: Sp. (4)
Starts with O, ends with AOTRA→
26D
R.p.m. indicator (4)
Starts with T, ends with HTACH→
30D
Wool-producing ranch (10)
Starts with A, ends with MALPACAFARM→
32D
Go quickly, quaintly (3)
Starts with H, ends with EHIE→
33D
Actress de Armas (3)
Starts with A, ends with AANA→
34D
___ port in a storm (3)
Starts with A, ends with YANY→
36D
Short lines at the register? (3)
Starts with U, ends with CUPC→
37D
Permit (3)
Starts with L, ends with TLET→
38D
Prefix with cycle or code (3)
Starts with U, ends with IUNI→
40D
Black-and-white cookie (4)
Starts with O, ends with OOREO→
41D
In the neighborhood (4)
Starts with N, ends with RNEAR→
42D
When Hamlet duels with Laertes in "Hamlet" (4)
Starts with A, ends with VACTV→
47D
Smog, e.g. (4)
Starts with H, ends with EHAZE→
48D
Enigma (6)
Starts with R, ends with ERIDDLE→
49D
Groups of eight musicians (6)
Starts with O, ends with SOCTETS→
50D
Hang around for (5)
Starts with A, ends with TAWAIT→
51D
"Harold and ___" (1971 black comedy) (5)
Starts with M, ends with EMAUDE→
52D
From further in the past (5)
Starts with O, ends with ROLDER→
54D
Successful dash to the end zone, in brief (5)
Starts with T, ends with NTDRUN→
55D
Hawaiian porch (5)
Starts with L, ends with ILANAI→
56D
Prayer ___ (5)
Starts with V, ends with LVIGIL→
57D
Skip over, as the "i" in "family" (5)
Starts with E, ends with EELIDE→
59D
Transit option to N.Y.C.'s Roosevelt Island (4)
Starts with T, ends with MTRAM→
63D
Fall behind (3)
Starts with L, ends with GLAG→
64D
Beethoven's "___ to Joy" (3)
Starts with O, ends with EODE→
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How many clues are in the NYT Crossword for August 4, 2025?+
78 clues: 37 Across and 41 Down. The puzzle was constructed by Patti Varol and edited by Will Shortz.
What are some answers in today’s NYT Crossword?+
For example: Letters on a radio switch (AMFM); "Cómo está ___?" ("How are you?," in Spanish) (USTED); Indian tourist city on the Taj Express route (AGRA).
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