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Spoilers: Here are the across and down answers for the NYT Mini Crossword dated August 22, 2025. The answer list is supported by two matching secondary answer guides, rather than an official NYT answer key.
Across answers
- 1A — SHEDS: Places to store shovels and leaf blowers
- 5A — WAX: Coating for Babybel cheese
- 6A — ALIEN: “___ vs. Predator” (2004 sci-fi film)
- 8A — LAG: Streaming glitch
- 9A — PIERS: Docking spots
- 10A — TWANG: Feature of a Southern accent
- 14A — YAM: Sweet potato lookalike
- 15A — PRIMO: Top-notch, informally
- 17A — SOD: Greenskeeper’s roll of grass
- 18A — ASHES: Campfire remnants
Down answers
- 1D — SWAMP: Nickname for the Florida Gators football stadium, with “the”
- 2D — HAL: “2001: A Space Odyssey” villain
- 3D — EXILE: Cast out from a country
- 4D — SONGS: “Uptown Funk” and “Downtown,” for two
- 7D — EAR: “Can I bend your ___ for a second?”
- 10D — TYPE A: Like an ambitious, competitive personality
- 11D — WAR: Simple-to-play card game for two
- 12D — AMISH: Simple-living sect
- 13D — GOODS: Shop owner’s stock
- 16D — MOE: Barkeep on “The Simpsons”
Source note
News24 and Analytics Insight publish matching clue-and-answer lists for this date. Another answer guide reported PRIME and ASH instead of PRIMO and ASHES; the two matching lists support the entries shown above.
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