Newsday Crossword August 9, 2025 Answers

Complete answers for the Newsday crossword puzzle from August 9, 2025.

Newsday Crossword August 9, 2025 Answers

This Newsday puzzle from August 9, 2025 contains 70 total clues—36 across and 34 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	Small presses	DABS
5A	Unprepared performance	VAMP
9A	Org. promoting "Serving Success"	USTA
13A	Head, as a project	PILOT
14A	Rosetta Stone characters	ETAS
15A	AV format	MPEG
16A	Deflective protection	ARMOR
17A	Brand of Stax snacks	LAYS
18A	Point of foul play?	POLE
19A	Pedestrian	MEATANDPOTATOES
22A	Change color, maybe	MUTATE
23A	Grunge-y group	GENX
24A	It's handled in the kitchen	TEAPOT
26A	Revel in	ADORE
29A	It's near a PC Z	ALT
30A	Taking for a ride	SUCKERINGIN
35A	Last-renamed MLB team	CLE
36A	Smiling on	PRO
37A	Boston Marathon setting	EDT
38A	Cold __	ONE
39A	Sign of falling down on the job?	HARDHATAREA
42A	Duke's domain	EDU
43A	Did the wave?	EELED
44A	Clears out	RIDSOF
46A	"Mein __ Marquis" (Die Fledermaus aria)	HERR
48A	Real-time loggers	STENOS
50A	Model power source	RUBBERBANDMOTOR
55A	Sand "mine"	AMOI
56A	Rancher accessory	BOLO
57A	Urban legend spreader	EMAIL
58A	First pronoun in the last paragraph of Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address	NONE
59A	"Doubtful"	IBET
60A	Elle alternative	NELLY
61A	Banners of the Charleston era	DRYS
62A	Correspondence come-back	SASE
63A	Quite in Quebec	TRES

Down Clues

#	Clue	Answer
1D	Far from fortunate	DIRE
2D	Reunion rendition	ALMAMATER
3D	Start with your software	BOOTUP
4D	Metaphoric height	STRATOSPHERE
5D	Zebra crossing?	VELDT
6D	Riding high	ATAPEAK
7D	What many a salad requires	MAYO
8D	Onomatopoeic prompt	PSST
9D	Fuzzy number	UMPTEEN
10D	Transfer bit by bit	SPOON
11D	57-Across forerunner	TELEX
12D	Great times	AGES
13D	Upside-down map	PAM
20D	Unrefined	CRUDE
21D	Corn mazes, hayrides, etc.	AGRITAINMENT
24D	Monitor with a red needle	TACH
25D	__ and Basie! (Grammy Hall of Fame album)	ELLA
27D	Quick game	DEER
28D	Set up logically	ORDERED
31D	Word from Old English for "hut"	COTE
32D	Becomes tired	GOESSTALE
33D	__-Aryan languages	INDO
34D	Small French square	NEUF
40D	Hit shows at county fairs	DERBIES
41D	What dailies depend on	ADSALES
45D	Eternal pessimist	DOOMER
46D	What "our opposition...don't know how to handle": John Lennon	HUMOR
47D	Winds wood	EBONY
49D	Security in many an IRA	TNOTE
50D	Name on the cover of Primary School Geography (1894)	RAND
51D	Round-tripper rewards	RBIS
52D	TikTok beverage trend	BOBA
53D	What Palmolive was named for	OILS
54D	"R U kidding?"	RLY