Do the backstroke or breaststroke Crossword Clue

We have the 4-letter answer for Do the backstroke or breaststroke crossword clue, last seen in the NYT Crossword September 22, 2025 puzzle. Let us help you solve the crossword clue that has you stumped so you can finish the puzzle.

Do the backstroke or breaststroke Crossword Answer

→58.

Find more clues, hints, and info below.

Hide

Find more clues, hints, and info below.

Helpful Hints

(noun)
1. the act of swimming
(verb)
1. be covered with or submerged in a liquid
2. be afloat either on or below a liquid surface and not sink to the bottom

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

BACKSTROKE (noun)
1. a swimming stroke that resembles the crawl except the swimmer lies on his or her back
BACKSTROKE (verb)
1. swim on one’s back
BREASTSTROKE (noun)
1. a swimming stroke; the arms are extended together in front of the head and swept back on either side accompanied by a frog kick
BREASTSTROKE (verb)
1. swim with the face down and extend the arms forward and outward while kicking with the leg

More NYT Crossword (9/22/2025) Answers

Across

1. School stat like 3.5 or 4.0

4. Yeast, mold and mushrooms

9. Desert plants with needles

14. Tree with "American" and "slippery" varieties

15. Alaskan native

16. Synthetic fabric once common in sweaters

17. Born as

18. Wine choice in southern France

20. Bonkers

22. Compete (for)

23. Changes with the times

24. Females that may be fleeced

26. Cinema showing

27. Canadian P.M. who is the son of another Canadian P.M.

32. Cyber Monday sector

33. Put to work?

34. Ask God (for)

37. Identify in a Facebook photo

38. Where canines sleep

42. "Du-u-ude!"

43. Basketball's O'Neal, to fans

45. Keanu Reeves's character in "The Matrix"

46. To no ___ (ineffectively)

48. Platform for Donkey Kong Country

52. Ingredient in many hand lotions

53. The lion's share

54. Cigarette butt receptacle

57. Major N.Y.C. concert venue

62. Chunks found in Ben & Jerry's Half Baked ice cream

65. Avant-garde musical artist Yoko

66. Fixed, as a piano

67. "The Godfather" author Puzo

68. "Frequently," to a poet

69. Winter coasters

70. Surgical tube

71. Cry from Homer … or a phonetic hint to the ends of 18-, 27-, 48- and 62- Across

All Answers

Down

1. Kids these days

2. "Not guilty," e.g.

3. "You got that right, sister!"

4. Certain evergreen

5. Like some bars in gymnastics

6. One who is barely seen?

7. Jeer

8. How was __ know?

9. Pamper

10. Tour guide

11. Crash (of thunder)

12. Promote enthusiastically

13. "Need You Tonight" rock band

19. Like speakeasies and refrigerators, at times

21. Brand of cooler that shares its name with a Himalayan legend

25. Opposite of 'tame'

26. Join into one

27. Jacuzzi features

28. Where to find the Jazz

29. Long-winded tales

30. Apply, as ointment

31. City-related

35. Desertlike

36. Carefree motto, in modern lingo

39. Low-scoring deadlock

40. Richard of "Pretty Woman"

41. Hurdles for srs.

44. Sounded like a duck

47. Farm docs

49. Tartan patterns

50. "Yeah, right"

51. — bean

54. Does some theater work

55. Word before 'food' or 'mate'

56. Refine, as a skill

57. Castle defense

59. What a whittler whittles

60. “Facts!”

61. Relative of a butterfly

63. Private online chats, for short

64. Spicy

All Answers