Newsday Crossword August 23 2025 Answers (8/23/25)

Here are all of the answers to today's Newsday Crossword puzzle for August 23 2025 to help you finish it up!

Our Newsday Crossword August 23, 2025 answers guide should help you finish today’s crossword if you’ve found yourself stuck on a crossword clue. The Newsday Crossword is a syndicated crossword that is published across different apps and websites each day. It is one of the “easier” crosswords to work on compared to some of the heavy-hitters like the NYT Crossword.

There is a new puzzle to work through each day of the week. This crossword is considered to be balanced between being fun and engaging with some challenge but entirely solvable without tearing one’s hair out!

Newsday Crossword August 23, 2025 Answers

If you need help solving the Newsday Crossword on 8/23/25, we’ve listed all of the crossword clues below so you can find the answer(s) you need. You can search for the clue and then select the appropriate clue to get the answer. We have done it this way so that if you’re just looking for a handful of clues, you won’t spoil other ones you’re working on!

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# Clue
1A Surfeit of spots?
8A Small '40s vessel
14A Cutthroat school
16A Place to sit
17A Max competition
19A Skyrocketed
20A Sauerkraut-like
21A Maximal retribution?
22A Edmonton football team, named for beasts nearby
23A Dis honor?
24A "Politics is the __ in which war develops": Clausewitz
25A MO
26A When many eschew chocolate
27A Gut environment, e.g.
28A Symbolically secret
29A Advised to avoid
30A Fashion inspired by WWII uniforms
34A Family nickname
35A __-demain (Mardi, to Dimanche)
36A Noisy no more
37A Elvis mug
38A Kind of credo
41A Appealed (to)
42A Grating beef
43A Capacity
44A TVA beneficiary
45A Small belts
46A Volkswagen US debuts of '69
47A 2025's A4 46-Across, for instance
50A Check out improperly
51A Consumer of shells
52A Periods of proper productivity
53A Clips used as hooks
1D Betty's makeup
2D In desperation
3D Pool dive-ins
4D Photofloods and ginger jars
5D Not yet eliminated
6D Watch window trio
7D Refreshers over ice
8D Word following rubber or steel
9D Swank
10D Hair ball
11D Without an intermediary
12D Flickering
13D Proving grounds
15D Indulge yourself
18D Leakage evidence
23D First name of the alphabetically last Best Actress Oscar winner
24D Corkscrews
26D Terribly intense
27D Deere device
28D Put on a scale
29D It's not hard to swallow
30D Major Novo Testamento writer
31D Writer of the Magna Carta
32D Sanka, slangily
33D Hole to fill
37D Booted up?
38D Put a salt, as into table salt
39D Sandwich shop purchase
40D Titular plural thrice as long as its singular
42D Stirs up
43D Becomes obsolescent, in a way
45D Lab order
46D Setting for nearly half of Around the World ...
48D Where Olympians made offerings
49D Floor with flamboyance

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