NYT Crossword hints and answer for September 7, 2025
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Clues140
Across71
Down69
TitleThe Name Is the Game
Today’s NYT Crossword clues, hints & answers
Every clue from this puzzle with a hint and the answer behind separate buttons, so you only see what you need. Click a clue for its own page.
Across
1A
Where Gloria Estefan was born (6)
Starts with H, ends with AHAVANA→
7A
Hairstyle that can be casual or formal (4)
Starts with U, ends with OUPDO→
11A
Relative of a sultan (4)
Starts with E, ends with REMIR→
15A
Strikebreaking sort (4)
Starts with S, ends with BSCAB→
19A
One who gives a good talking-to? (6)
Starts with O, ends with RORATOR→
20A
Spring's opposite, tidally (4)
Starts with N, ends with PNEAP→
21A
Constant nuisance (4)
Starts with B, ends with EBANE→
22A
Mansión, por ejemplo (4)
Starts with C, ends with ACASA→
23A
As the British pound rises in value, the dollar ___ (11)
Starts with B, ends with SBILLWITHERS→
25A
Sure things (9)
Starts with S, ends with SSLAMDUNKS→
27A
Area with pews (4)
Starts with N, ends with ENAVE→
28A
Part of many a morning routine (5)
Starts with S, ends with ESHAVE→
29A
Equipment (4)
Starts with G, ends with RGEAR→
30A
Orchestra section toward the middle of the pit (5)
Starts with O, ends with SOBOES→
31A
With 76-Down, individually (5)
Starts with O, ends with TONEAT→
34A
After spending the afternoon at Epcot, we had dinner at a ___ bistro (11)
Starts with T, ends with OTONYORLANDO→
36A
Ancestor of the tuba or sousaphone (8)
Starts with B, ends with NBASSHORN→
38A
Low-quality paper? (3)
Starts with R, ends with GRAG→
39A
Like a naughty Beetle Bailey, in brief (4)
Starts with A, ends with LAWOL→
40A
Overdone (5)
Starts with T, ends with ETRITE→
41A
The "E" of Q.E.D. (4)
Starts with E, ends with TERAT→
43A
Depleted (6)
Starts with U, ends with PUSEDUP→
48A
Facetious suffix with most (3)
Starts with E, ends with TEST→
51A
Did Joyce write courtesy of a ___? (12)
Starts with U, ends with TULYSSESGRANT→
55A
Blunt negative (4)
Starts with N, ends with ENOPE→
56A
Philosopher who purportedly said "The best fighter is never angry" (6)
Starts with L, ends with ELAOTSE→
58A
Have a bawl (3)
Starts with S, ends with BSOB→
59A
Son of Hanna-Barbera's Doggie Daddy (5)
Starts with A, ends with EAUGIE→
60A
Reason to relocate a picnic blanket, maybe (4)
Starts with A, ends with SANTS→
61A
Borneo neighbor (7)
Starts with S, ends with ASUMATRA→
63A
Female moose or elephant (3)
Starts with C, ends with WCOW→
65A
Fish-eating raptors (4)
Starts with E, ends with SERNS→
66A
Dab with a towel (4)
Starts with B, ends with TBLOT→
67A
Subdivisions of some counties: Abbr. (4)
Starts with T, ends with STWPS→
68A
An increase in ham prices forced the deli to ___ sandwiches higher (9)
Starts with M, ends with NMARKCUBAN→
71A
Begged (4)
Starts with P, ends with DPLED→
72A
Scorch the surface (4)
Starts with S, ends with RSEAR→
73A
Andean stimulant (4)
Starts with C, ends with ACOCA→
74A
Source of the films "The Blues Brothers" and "Coneheads," in brief (3)
Starts with S, ends with LSNL→
75A
Gerald Ford or William Howard Taft, once (7)
Starts with Y, ends with NYALEMAN→
78A
Peter, Paul and Mary, e.g. (4)
Starts with T, ends with OTRIO→
79A
Words before sea or lunch (5)
Starts with O, ends with OOUTTO→
81A
Summer mo. (3)
Starts with A, ends with GAUG→
83A
Decks for reading (6)
Starts with T, ends with STAROTS→
84A
Biblical preposition (4)
Starts with U, ends with OUNTO→
85A
To Washington ___, Germany, seemed far from Tarrytown, N.Y. (12)
Starts with I, ends with NIRVINGBERLIN→
88A
Big word in advertising (3)
Starts with N, ends with WNEW→
91A
Buzz, so to speak (4)
Starts with C, ends with LCALL→
92A
Charles or Ray who lent their name to a kind of chair (5)
Starts with E, ends with SEAMES→
94A
Unpleasant look (4)
Starts with L, ends with RLEER→
97A
Social gathering of a sort (3)
Starts with B, ends with EBEE→
98A
Certain canines (8)
Starts with E, ends with HEYETEETH→
102A
Some Californians consider Santa ___ on Earth (11)
Starts with B, ends with NBARBARAEDEN→
107A
___-cone (3)
Starts with S, ends with OSNO→
108A
Stockpile (5)
Starts with S, ends with ESTORE→
109A
Anesthetic first used on a patient in 1842 (5)
Starts with E, ends with RETHER→
110A
"Fine as is, actually" (4)
Starts with S, ends with TSTET→
111A
Canada's first national park, founded in 1885 (5)
Starts with B, ends with FBANFF→
113A
"___ Three Lives" (early TV drama) (4)
Starts with I, ends with DILED→
114A
The shark-warning notes of "Jaws," for example (9)
Starts with L, ends with FLEITMOTIF→
116A
The supermodel was holding a copy of ___ herself on the beach (11)
Starts with E, ends with GELLEFANNING→
118A
Tackle box item (4)
Starts with L, ends with ELINE→
119A
Home makeover, in brief (4)
Starts with R, ends with ORENO→
120A
Election Day is one: Abbr. (4)
Starts with T, ends with STUES→
121A
Work on the score of (6)
Starts with N, ends with ENOTATE→
122A
Carbon compound (4)
Starts with E, ends with LENOL→
123A
Beat one's chest (4)
Starts with B, ends with GBRAG→
124A
Set of pull-ups? (4)
Starts with A, ends with SARMS→
125A
Very high (6)
Starts with S, ends with DSTONED→
Down
1D
Schmooze (6)
Starts with H, ends with BHOBNOB→
2D
___ Afghan Airlines, carrier to the Mideast (6)
Starts with A, ends with AARIANA→
3D
Parts of a heart or trumpet (6)
Starts with V, ends with SVALVES→
4D
No fewer than (7)
Starts with A, ends with TATLEAST→
5D
"Stat!" (3)
Starts with N, ends with WNOW→
6D
Media personalities Melber and Fleischer (4)
Starts with A, ends with SARIS→
7D
Remove a restraint from (9)
Starts with U, ends with SUNHARNESS→
9D
Have the nerve (4)
Starts with D, ends with EDARE→
10D
Special ___ (3)
Starts with O, ends with SOPS→
11D
Buddy who portrayed TV's Jed Clampett (5)
Starts with E, ends with NEBSEN→
12D
Peninsula in southeast Asia (6)
Starts with M, ends with AMALAYA→
13D
Consecutively (6)
Starts with I, ends with WINAROW→
14D
Somnial acronym (3)
Starts with R, ends with MREM→
15D
Aquatic acronym (5)
Starts with S, ends with ASCUBA→
16D
Collection of laws (5)
Starts with C, ends with NCANON→
17D
"Jeez, sorry I ___!" (5)
Starts with A, ends with DASKED→
18D
Sarastro in Mozart's "The Magic Flute," e.g. (5)
Starts with B, ends with OBASSO→
24D
Product of the first three primes (6)
Starts with T, ends with YTHIRTY→
26D
Tiny house occupants (5)
Starts with D, ends with SDOLLS→
29D
Get crazy (over) (6)
Starts with G, ends with AGOGAGA→
32D
Pushes with force (7)
Starts with T, ends with STHRUSTS→
34D
Smears (4)
Starts with T, ends with STARS→
35D
Directs, as cargo (6)
Starts with R, ends with SROUTES→
37D
Edmonton N.H.L. player (5)
Starts with O, ends with ROILER→
38D
International shoe brand originating in England (6)
Starts with R, ends with KREEBOK→
42D
Extremely loyal (8)
Starts with T, ends with ETRUEBLUE→
44D
One who's a well-meaning but bad influence on a friend, maybe (7)
Starts with E, ends with RENABLER→
45D
Why do none of the Fruit of the Loom characters ___-colored clothing? (8)
Starts with D, ends with NDONLEMON→
46D
Current (8)
Starts with U, ends with EUPTODATE→
47D
Annoyance (4)
Starts with P, ends with TPEST→
48D
Trains above street level (3)
Starts with E, ends with SELS→
49D
White wine named for a region in France (8)
Starts with S, ends with ESAUTERNE→
50D
Peeping ___ for Lady Godiva to appear (8)
Starts with T, ends with STOMWAITS→
52D
Like some philosophical arguments (8)
Starts with S, ends with CSOCRATIC→
53D
Taj Mahal's city (4)
Starts with A, ends with AAGRA→
54D
Numbskull (5)
Starts with N, ends with YNINNY→
57D
Bar with drafts (7)
Starts with T, ends with MTAPROOM→
62D
Love, in Lyon (5)
Starts with A, ends with RAMOUR→
64D
Spots to go in the U.K. (3)
Starts with W, ends with SWCS→
69D
End of any Shakespeare play (4)
Starts with A, ends with VACTV→
70D
Powerless (6)
Starts with U, ends with EUNABLE→
71D
Space balls (7)
Starts with P, ends with SPLANETS→
72D
Bed-___ (Brooklyn neighborhood, familiarly) (4)
Starts with S, ends with YSTUY→
73D
Shakespeare, vis-à-vis the expression "brave new world" (6)
Starts with C, ends with RCOINER→
76D
See 31-Across (5)
Starts with A, ends with EATIME→
77D
Sydney's state: Abbr. (3)
Starts with N, ends with WNSW→
80D
How some risks are taken (6)
Starts with O, ends with TONABET→
82D
Immaturity (9)
Starts with G, ends with SGREENNESS→
86D
Secluded valley (4)
Starts with G, ends with NGLEN→
87D
"Take it easy, will you?!" (6)
Starts with L, ends with FLAYOFF→
90D
Startle (5)
Starts with A, ends with MALARM→
93D
Mounted below the surface of (7)
Starts with S, ends with OSETINTO→
95D
___ Sunday (6)
Starts with E, ends with REASTER→
96D
Body part containing photoreceptors (6)
Starts with R, ends with ARETINA→
99D
Relating to the wind's movement (6)
Starts with E, ends with NEOLIAN→
100D
Vingt + dix (6)
Starts with T, ends with ETRENTE→
101D
Equivocated (6)
Starts with H, ends with DHEDGED→
102D
Ball girl? (5)
Starts with B, ends with EBELLE→
103D
Didn't dine out (5)
Starts with A, ends with NATEIN→
104D
Large safari sight (5)
Starts with R, ends with ORHINO→
105D
Intoxicating Asian plant whose name sounds like an insect (5)
Starts with B, ends with LBETEL→
106D
Clear, in a way, as a windshield (5)
Starts with D, ends with GDEFOG→
107D
Beaver State capital (5)
Starts with S, ends with MSALEM→
111D
Sight of a speeding car, maybe (4)
Starts with B, ends with RBLUR→
112D
Season ticket holders, presumably (4)
Starts with F, ends with SFANS→
115D
Spherical shape (3)
Starts with O, ends with BORB→
116D
Info for a traveler, for short (3)
Starts with E, ends with AETA→
117D
Follower of waste and want (3)
Starts with N, ends with TNOT→
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How many clues are in the NYT Crossword for September 7, 2025?+
140 clues: 71 Across and 69 Down. The puzzle was constructed by Derrick Niederman and edited by Will Shortz.
What are some answers in today’s NYT Crossword?+
For example: Where Gloria Estefan was born (HAVANA); Hairstyle that can be casual or formal (UPDO); Relative of a sultan (EMIR).
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