"What it boils down to is this …" Crossword Clue

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Hint 1: Clue Definition

DOWN (noun)
1. English physician who first described Down’s syndrome (1828-1896)
2. soft fine feathers
DOWN (adjective)
1. understood perfectly
2. extending or moving from a higher to a lower place
DOWN (adverb)
1. spatially or metaphorically from a higher to a lower level or position
DOWN (verb)
1. eat up completely, as with great appetite
2. cause to come or go down

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More NYT Crossword (7/12/2025) Answers

Across

1. "That was fun!"

11. Actress Diana of "All Creatures Great and Small" (2020)

15. One might start fermenting in the kitchen

16. Classic Langston Hughes poem with a comma in its title

17. It features high wind movements

18. Latin for "goodbye"

19. What might be seen around a star

20. Shape of Saturn's rings

21. Star of TV and film who wrote the memoir "Never Have Your Dog Stuffed: And Other Things I've Learned"

22. Spot for newborn care

24. Awards honoring excellence in magazine publishing

26. Earth's crust and others

30. Shade akin to bone or eggshell

32. "No preference"

33. Snobby sort

34. Bring up to date, perhaps

36. Terms of a trade

38. With 8-Down, like the upcoming release from one's favorite band

40. Quinta of "Abbott Elementary"

42. Lose, as a tail

43. Build up

45. Its official languages are Chamorro and English

46. "Dese ___ Dose" (Glenn Miller composition)

47. Mideast port with a natural harbor

49. Faint

51. Smith who was the first woman to receive the Baseball Writers' Association of America's Career Excellence Award

53. Symbol of defiance and solidarity

55. Period ender

56. Waste

58. Member of a sub-Saharan matriarchal clan

63. Big ones can be difficult to manage

64. One tirelessly making calls ahead of Election Day

66. ___ Sea, body of water between Borneo and the Philippines

67. Convention challenger

68. 'Look!'

69. Adjunct faculty?

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Down

1. Smack

2. Kind of spider believed to spread to distant areas via railway

3. Biblical prophet whom Martin Luther King Jr. referred to as "an extremist for justice" in his "Letter From Birmingham Jail"

4. Youth baseball supporters

5. Skipping music, say

6. Amigo

7. Spots, so to speak

8. See 38-Across

9. Staging areas

10. Detective, at times

11. Sooner, to a Longhorn

12. Order that might include mortadella and capicola

13. First score during extra time in sudden-death soccer

14. "I'm ready, but be nice"

23. Rap's ___ Sweatshirt

25. Doozy

26. Rush to find a mate?

27. Many a book by Paul Theroux

28. Series of hoops and hurdles

29. Went from 0 to 60?

31. Cylindrical grain holders

35. Jane who says "Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation"

37. Kansas-born playwright with a Pulitzer

39. Buns

41. Enforcers of rules, informally

44. Fixed-format summary of an article, as on Wikipedia

48. Waste

50. Important subject in law school

54. [stomps foot down]

57. Spots

59. Law school for Samuel Alito, Brett Kavanaugh, Clarence Thomas and Sonia Sotomayor

60. Zip

61. Wit's end?

62. Las pinturas de Frida Kahlo, por ejemplo

65. "I'm Just a Girl Who Can't Say ___" ("The Simpsons" episode)

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