Beginning of consciousness? Crossword Clue

We have the 4-letter answer for Beginning of consciousness? crossword clue, last seen in the NYT Crossword August 26, 2025 puzzle. Let us help you solve the crossword clue that has you stumped so you can finish the puzzle.

Beginning of consciousness? Crossword Answer

↓8.

Find more clues, hints, and info below.

Hide

Find more clues, hints, and info below.

Helpful Hints

(noun)
1. your consciousness of your own identity
2. a person considered as a unique individual

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

CONSCIOUSNESS (noun)
1. having knowledge of
2. an alert cognitive state in which you are aware of yourself and your situation
BEGINNING (adjective)
1. serving to begin
BEGINNING (noun)
1. the time at which something is supposed to begin
2. the place where something begins, where it springs into being

More NYT Crossword (8/26/2025) Answers

Across

1. Something tapped at a bar

4. ___ monster (only venomous lizard native to the U.S.)

8. Go caroling, say

12. British weekly on business, politics and culture, with "The"

15. Devils' center, appropriately

16. Ones taking baby pictures in the delivery room, maybe

18. Stead

19. University just north of Harvard

20. Overall impact

22. Like drone photography

23. "Look here!"

24. Study of the mind, for short

29. Tavern owner who's often prank-called by Bart Simpson

31. Attire for a contemporary dancer

33. Source of a certain essential oil

37. R, as in a Rolls-Royce?

38. Hush-hush

39. What the shepherd heard, perhaps

40. Highest level of minor-league baseball

42. They spike during the holidays

43. Apt name for a socialite?

45. Some pre-streaming music purchases

47. Goose of Hawaii

48. Global movement to end violence against women

51. “That’s unbelievable!”

53. “That’s unbelievable!”

55. Fish that can burrow into the seabed

56. Subtle acknowledgment

57. Carpenter or plumber's kit

60. Fruit traditionally eaten with the fish it's named for

63. Toilette water

64. Like goods bought before they hit the shelves

65. Alternative to AOL

66. Unusual feature of this puzzle … or, when parsed as two words (1,8), another unusual feature of this puzzle

67. When a plane is due in, in brief

All Answers

Down

1. Didn't tell, as a secret

2. Light beige

3. Blooper

4. Combatants in the Titanomachy

5. Teacher's pest

6. Former NPR host Hansen

7. In line with

9. Group of elite colleges

10. Mother's daughter's daughter, perhaps

11. Largest human muscle, informally

13. Little fastener

14. Comic actor Jacques

17. Sailors

21. A&W specialties

22. Broadcasts

24. Where the sidewalk ends?

25. First-year legal student, informally

26. Donate

27. Like a good sharpshooter's hand

28. A la ___

30. Renewable gasoline additive

32. Anti-trafficking org.

33. ___ Hall ("The Wind in the Willows" residence)

34. Cry to a captor

35. Idyllic spot

36. Ultimatum word

41. ___ in the hole

44. Marilyn Monroe or Britney Spears

46. Cutlass, e.g.

48. Italian scooter brand

49. Darlings

50. Spot for cats and rats

52. "My gut says …"

54. Today, in Tijuana

56. What you'd expect when you're expecting?

57. Shot that made its N.B.A. debut in 1979, slangily

58. Big ___ (college conference)

59. Common sushi fish

61. Certain parent

62. Make a typo, say:

All Answers