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SATURDAY STUMPER

Saturday, August 23, 2025 Constructed by Byron Walden 68 clues
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Across

  1. Surfeit of spots? 7 ℓ
  2. Small '40s vessel 6 ℓ
  3. Noisy no more 5 ℓ
  4. Elvis mug 5 ℓ
  5. Kind of credo 3 ℓ
  6. Appealed (to) 4 ℓ
  7. Grating beef 5 ℓ
  8. Capacity 4 ℓ
  9. Volkswagen US debuts of '69 5 ℓ
  10. TVA beneficiary 3 ℓ
  11. Small belts 5 ℓ
  12. 2025's A4 46-Across, for instance 15 ℓ
  13. Check out improperly 6 ℓ
  14. Consumer of shells 8 ℓ
  15. Periods of proper productivity 6 ℓ
  16. Clips used as hooks 7 ℓ
  17. Cutthroat school 8 ℓ
  18. Place to sit 6 ℓ
  19. Max competition 15 ℓ
  20. Skyrocketed 5 ℓ
  21. Sauerkraut-like 5 ℓ
  22. Maximal retribution? 3 ℓ
  23. Edmonton football team, named for beasts nearby 4 ℓ
  24. Dis honor? 5 ℓ
  25. "Politics is the __ in which war develops": Clausewitz 4 ℓ
  26. When many eschew chocolate 5 ℓ
  27. MO 3 ℓ
  28. Gut environment, e.g. 5 ℓ
  29. Symbolically secret 5 ℓ
  30. Advised to avoid 6 ℓ
  31. Fashion inspired by WWII uniforms 15 ℓ
  32. __-demain (Mardi, to Dimanche) 5 ℓ
  33. Family nickname 6 ℓ
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Down

  1. Betty's makeup 6 ℓ
  2. Proving grounds 8 ℓ
  3. Flickering 8 ℓ
  4. Without an intermediary 8 ℓ
  5. Hair ball 3 ℓ
  6. Swank 4 ℓ
  7. Word following rubber or steel 5 ℓ
  8. Refreshers over ice 8 ℓ
  9. Watch window trio 3 ℓ
  10. Not yet eliminated 4 ℓ
  11. Photofloods and ginger jars 5 ℓ
  12. Pool dive-ins 6 ℓ
  13. In desperation 6 ℓ
  14. Booted up? 4 ℓ
  15. Put a salt, as into table salt 6 ℓ
  16. Sandwich shop purchase 6 ℓ
  17. Titular plural thrice as long as its singular 6 ℓ
  18. Stirs up 5 ℓ
  19. Becomes obsolescent, in a way 5 ℓ
  20. Lab order 4 ℓ
  21. Setting for nearly half of Around the World ... 4 ℓ
  22. Where Olympians made offerings 3 ℓ
  23. Floor with flamboyance 3 ℓ
  24. Indulge yourself 13 ℓ
  25. Leakage evidence 4 ℓ
  26. First name of the alphabetically last Best Actress Oscar winner 5 ℓ
  27. Corkscrews 5 ℓ
  28. Terribly intense 5 ℓ
  29. Deere device 5 ℓ
  30. Put on a scale 5 ℓ
  31. It's not hard to swallow 5 ℓ
  32. Writer of the Magna Carta 8 ℓ
  33. Major Novo Testamento writer 8 ℓ
  34. Hole to fill 8 ℓ
  35. Sanka, slangily 8 ℓ

About this puzzle

The Newsday Crossword for Saturday, August 23, 2025 is titled “SATURDAY STUMPER” and was constructed by Byron Walden. The puzzle features 68 clues arranged in a 21×21 grid — the standard format for Sunday-size puzzles.

Click any clue above to view its dedicated answer page, which includes letter-by-letter analysis, the puzzle context, and a history of every other Newsday puzzle the same clue or answer has appeared in. To see the complete grid filled in with every answer, use the “Reveal grid” button at the top of the grid.

The Newsday Crossword is published daily by Newsday on Long Island and edited by Stan Newman. Difficulty builds across the week from a gentle Monday introduction up to Saturday’s legendary themeless Stumper. The official puzzle is available on the Newsday Games site. For other days, browse the complete Newsday Crossword archive indexed by date.

Newsday SATURDAY STUMPER Crossword August 23 2025 Answers