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Missing Letter Crossword August 3, 2025 Answers

Complete answers for the Missing Letter crossword puzzle from August 3, 2025.

Missing Letter Crossword August 3, 2025 Answers

This Missing Letter puzzle from August 3, 2025 contains 80 total clues—40 across and 40 down. Below you'll find every clue with its answer and helpful hints. If you're working on a different date, check our Missing Letter crossword archive.

Across Clues

# Clue Answer
1A NOUN: "any of various usually nocturnal lepidopteran insects...with larvae that are plant-eating caterpillars" MOTH
5A Cancel, as plans SCRAP
10A Suffix with class or canon ICAL
14A Vegas hotel/casino ARIA
15A GEOGRAPHICAL NAME: "city and capital...located on a fertile plateau just south of the Equator" QUITO
16A "You won't get away with this!" OHNO
17A NOUN: "one who knows little or nothing of the sea or seamanship" LANDLUBBER
19A Kristen of the "Saturday Night Live" sketch "The Californians" WIIG
20A Crazes MANIAS
21A Southern capital ATLANTA
23A The Blue Jays, on scoreboards TOR
24A Heat measurements (abbr.) BTUS
25A Has the ability to CAN
26A AL East or NL West, e.g. DIV
29A Classic drink brand NEHI
31A VERB: "to make an effusive display of affection or enthusiasm" GUSH
33A Overact, maybe EMOTE
35A Disney princess at a high latitude ELSA
37A NOUN: "a native or resident of New Zealand" KIWI
40A ADJECTIVE: "characterized by jesting" JOCULAR
42A Skit PLAYLET
44A Similar (to) AKIN
45A Tiniest bit IOTA
47A Reese of "Touched by an Angel" DELLA
48A NOUN: "an unpleasant often strong emotion caused by anticipation or awareness of danger" FEAR
50A IDIOM: "used to say that a number, amount, etc., is not exact" ORSO
52A Word in many tennis scores ALL
53A Lumberjack's tool AXE
55A Vehicle-tracking chip RFID
57A Drive up a wall IRK
59A The basis of education, casually THREERS
61A VERB: "to make a sudden violent spasmodic audible expiration of breath through the nose and mouth especially as a reflex act" SNEEZE
64A NOUN: "a handheld device that aids in accomplishing a task" TOOL
65A NOUN: "opposite sides, elements, or extremes" YINANDYANG
68A "This ___" (Mandy Moore show) ISUS
69A NOUN: "a piece of music for the practice of a point of technique" ETUDE
70A ___ way (not at all) INNO
71A Instance CASE
72A Yelp user, sometimes RATER
73A Moscow "maybe another time" NYET

Down Clues

# Clue Answer
1D Prefix meaning "bad" DYS
2D "___ I wrong about that?" ORAM
3D Wry Fey TINA
4D "I ___ noticed" HADNT
5D Crossword puzzle shape, usually SQUARE
6D Wrigley Field crew CUBS
7D NOUN: "any of the paired curved bony or partly cartilaginous rods that stiffen the walls of the body of most vertebrates and protect the viscera" RIB
8D Patronized, as a bistro ATEAT
9D GEOGRAPHICAL NAME: "country in southwestern Europe in the western Iberian Peninsula bordering on the Atlantic Ocean" PORTUGAL
10D GEOGRAPHICAL NAME: "state of the central U.S. between the Mississippi River on the east and the Missouri River on the west" IOWA
11D NOUN: "either of two small South American rodents...of the high Andes that are the size of large squirrels" CHINCHILLA
12D "You Bring Me Joy" singer Baker, 1986 ANITA
13D Boston airport LOGAN
18D Toy train name LIONEL
22D Shaq's alma mater LSU
24D ABBREVIATION: "a number equal to 1,000 million" BIL
26D ___ vu DEJA
27D "Everything's going fine these days" IMOK
28D ADJECTIVE: "marked by or given to vehement insistent outcry" VOCIFEROUS
30D NOUN: "a person admired for achievements and noble qualities" HERO
32D Scotland's Isle of ___ SKYE
34D Make adjustments to, as a guitar TUNE
36D Practice in the ring SPAR
38D NOUN: "a pit or hole sunk into the earth to reach a supply of water" WELL
39D Slanted type (abbr.) ITAL
41D NOUN: "usually small electrical appliance for quick cooking of foods" AIRFRYER
43D Couldn't get enough of ATEUP
46D Director Williams TOD
49D "What ___ the odds?" ARE
51D Gentlemen's champion at Wimbledon in 2025 SINNER
53D Roof-adjacent room ATTIC
54D NOUN: "a Bantu language" XHOSA
56D "___ Crime?" (1986 hit sung by 61-Down) ISITA
58D Enter, as data BREADBIN
60D "Or ___!" (vague threat) ELSE
61D See 56-Down SADE
62D ADJECTIVE: "very eccentric" ZANY
63D Feminizing French finish ENNE
66D NOUN: "a hard-shelled dry fruit or seed with a separable rind or shell and interior kernel" NUT
67D Understood ISEE

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