Newsday Crossword August 4, 2025 Answers

Complete answers for the Newsday crossword puzzle from August 4, 2025.

Newsday Crossword August 4, 2025 Answers

This Newsday puzzle from August 4, 2025 contains 78 total clues—37 across and 41 down. Below you'll find every clue with its answer and helpful hints. If you're working on a different date, check our Newsday crossword archive.

Across Clues

#	Clue	Answer
1A	Breakfast strip with eggs	BACON
6A	Diplomatic skill	TACT
10A	Short-lived crazes	FADS
14A	Chicago airport	OHARE
15A	Highest poker cards	ACES
16A	Creative thought	IDEA
17A	Haircut place with mirrors	BARBERSHOP
19A	Cash drawer	TILL
20A	British noblemen above earls	DUKES
21A	Cooktop range	STOVE
22A	Web-spinning crawlers	SPIDERS
26A	Banquet platforms	DAISES
27A	Noisy summer insect	CICADA
28A	Soup utensil	SPOON
30A	Actor Alda	ALAN
31A	Sneakers' strings	LACES
33A	Oxygen or neon	GAS
36A	__ Antony of old Rome	MARC
37A	Write (down) quickly	JOT
38A	Dice toss	ROLL
40A	Service charge	FEE
41A	Removed the rind from	PARED
43A	Two-tone cookie	OREO
44A	Tire in a trunk	SPARE
46A	Overacts	EMOTES
48A	Restaurant server	WAITER
51A	Make lively	ANIMATE
52A	Accumulate, as debts	RUNUP
53A	Home made of logs	CABIN
55A	Verified an age, in a bar	IDED
56A	Family vehicle with mirrors	AUTOMOBILE
61A	Voice of an iPhone	SIRI
62A	Stepped heavily (on)	TROD
63A	Events on tracks	RACES
64A	Dog visiting Oz	TOTO
65A	Viral Internet trend	MEME
66A	Buildings for tools	SHEDS

Down Clues

#	Clue	Answer
1D	Dylan or Hope	BOB
2D	"Now I get it!"	AHA
3D	Family vehicle	MINIVAN
4D	Poetic sphere	ORB
5D	Required	NEEDED
6D	Chores to do	TASKS
7D	Muscle soreness	ACHE
8D	Corporate leaders: Abbr.	CEOS
9D	Sugar measure: Abbr.	TSP
10D	Space with mirrors for trying on clothes	FITTINGROOM
11D	Spanish goodbye	ADIOS
12D	Search deeply (into)	DELVE
13D	Store's discount events	SALES
18D	Of farm life	RURAL
21D	__ Paulo, Brazil	SAO
22D	Con game	SCAM
23D	Mideast seasoned rice	PILAF
24D	Sympathetic comment	ICARE
25D	Ballet class space with mirrors	DANCESTUDIO
26D	__ and don'ts	DOS
28D	Cross home plate	SCORE
29D	Tennis great Sampras	PETE
32D	Partly open, as a door	AJAR
34D	Major blood vessel	AORTA
35D	Frozen rain	SLEET
39D	Misplace	LOSE
41D	__ for the course (about average)	PAR
42D	Jeans fabric	DENIM
45D	Lively energy	PEP
47D	People under 18	MINORS
48D	Place to wear a watch	WRIST
49D	Sound part of a film	AUDIO
50D	Motionless	IMMOBILE
51D	"Humble" dwelling	ABODE
53D	Medical breakthrough	CURE
54D	Part of a molecule	ATOM
56D	Cash dispenser: Abbr.	ATM
57D	Scrooge's shout	BAH
58D	Cube of frozen water	ICE
59D	Went first	LED
60D	Letter before tee	ESS