Daily Puzzle Solution
NYT Crossword
Tuesday, August 25, 2026
The New York Times crossword puzzle for Tuesday, August 25, 2026 features 76 clues. Today's puzzle has an average answer length of 4.9 letters. The longest answer is "PERSEIDS".
Total Clues
76
Longest
PERSEIDS
Avg Length
4.9
Shortest
NIB
Featured Clue
"Summer meteor shower named for a mythological hero"
8 Letters
PERSEIDS
ALLComplete Solution List
Sharpened point of a quill pen
3NIB
One-named Senegalese American singer with the #1 hits "I Wanna Love You" and "Don't Matter"
4AKON
South Asian royals
5RAJAS
Actress Longoria
3EVA
Free-spirited style, informally
4BOHO
*6th
6SATURN
Summer meteor shower named for a mythological hero
8PERSEIDS
Paradise
6UTOPIA
Musical flutter
5TRILL
Billion years, astronomically
4AEON
Skirt
4MIDI
"Miracle on Ice" foe, for short
4USSR
Smart set
5MENSA
To, informally
3TIL
"___ it!" (shout in a game of tag)
3NOT
*2nd
5VENUS
Arouses, as an appetite
5WHETS
Captivate
6ENAMOR
*1st
7MERCURY
Settled on the ground, say
4ALIT
Something told with two hands?
4TIME
Bluish-silver Christmas trees, maybe
7SPRUCES
Hosp. recovery area
6POSTOP
Great divide
5CHASM
Moon believed to have a subsurface ocean
5TITAN
Gamer's "off-line"
3IRL
Kool-Aid competitor
3HIC
*3rd
5EARTH
McEntire of country music
4REBA
Some Monopoly properties (abbr.)
4AVES
Drink in a sippy cup, to a toddler
4WAWA
Commence
5BEGIN
Mexican beer brand
6TECATE
"I'd love to go"
8ITSADATE
*7th
6URANUS
Bygone Russian leader
4TSAR
Pad
3MAT
Baker's glassware brand
5PYREX
"Thing with feathers that perches in the soul," per Emily Dickinson
4HOPE
"Y"-sounding pair of letters, in Spanish
3ELS
*8th
7NEPTUNE
Allen who was the 2001 N.B.A. M.V.P.
7IVERSON
One known for the morning grind?
7BARISTA
Second-born son in the Bible
4ABEL
Pond.
3KOI
Wowza
6OHDAMN
Tiny biting insect
7NOSEEUM
Creature sometimes trained for bomb detection
3RAT
Focus of some physicists
4ATOM
5th ___.
7JUPITER
Desert quality
7ARIDITY
Epitomes of slowness
6SNAILS
Symbols of fair weather
4SUNS
Mirror-and-prism camera, for short
3SLR
Arrival of symptoms
5ONSET
"Man, that's hardly fair!"
6AWCMON
Fullness, in hairstyling
6VOLUME
{/The Little Mermaid/} prince
4ERIC
Shades
4HUES
*4th
4MARS
Kelly of morning TV
4RIPA
Neon aquarium fish
5TETRA
Like someone emerging from freezing cold water, typically
7SHIVERY
Raceway speed setter
7PACECAR
Mull over
7SITWITH
Reason to go into penalty kicks
7TIEGAME
Like the paths of 45-Down, as visually depicted in this puzzle
7ORBITAL
Celestial "wanderers" ... or what this puzzle's circled letters represent
7PLANETS
Flirt with, in a way
6CHATUP
Are you sure?
6THATSO
Spellbinds
4AWES
Sunburned, perhaps
3RED
Reasonable
4SANE
Reveal
4BARE
Black-and-white wedding rental
3TUX
Gullible sort
3SAP