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GAME ON: With a box and/or board

Sunday, August 24, 2025 Constructed by Gary M. Larson 144 clues
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Across

  1. Movie night turndown 6 ℓ
  2. Magazine sale 6 ℓ
  3. Dog walkers' needs 7 ℓ
  4. Interstellar measure 6 ℓ
  5. Any thing of value 5 ℓ
  6. Packs away 5 ℓ
  7. Common first course 4 ℓ
  8. European noble title of old 11 ℓ
  9. Circle sections 4 ℓ
  10. Alterations expert 6 ℓ
  11. Towels off 5 ℓ
  12. Sound loudly 5 ℓ
  13. "Who, me?" 8 ℓ
  14. Butcher's wares 4 ℓ
  15. Court costumes 5 ℓ
  16. Home plate appearance 5 ℓ
  17. Anne of Volcano 5 ℓ
  18. Hula dancer's adornment 3 ℓ
  19. Extreme fan 4 ℓ
  20. Smartphone network standard: Abbr. 3 ℓ
  21. Night school subj. 3 ℓ
  22. Typo catchers 13 ℓ
  23. Aziz of Parks and Recreation 6 ℓ
  24. Pedal pushers 4 ℓ
  25. Sharpen 4 ℓ
  26. In this way 4 ℓ
  27. In a disreputable way 7 ℓ
  28. "__ creature was stirring..." 4 ℓ
  29. Texter's qualifier 4 ℓ
  30. Poetic Muse 5 ℓ
  31. Senate broadcaster 5 ℓ
  32. Class rank nos. 4 ℓ
  33. Police ploy 14 ℓ
  34. Occult science 6 ℓ
  35. Landscaper, at times 6 ℓ
  36. Deduced beforehand 7 ℓ
  37. Hospital conduit 6 ℓ
  38. Biblical peak 6 ℓ
  39. Good for farming 7 ℓ
  40. Get even for 6 ℓ
  41. Green sauces 6 ℓ
  42. Software instruction file 6 ℓ
  43. Untrustworthy people 7 ℓ
  44. Propelling, as a raft 6 ℓ
  45. Chance worth taking 14 ℓ
  46. Scornful look 5 ℓ
  47. Van Gogh's dealer brother 4 ℓ
  48. Head-over-__ 5 ℓ
  49. Arthurian knight 7 ℓ
  50. Latest fad 4 ℓ
  51. Word on plane tickets 4 ℓ
  52. Small salamander 4 ℓ
  53. Caribbean pirate portrayer 4 ℓ
  54. Cowpokes' contests 6 ℓ
  55. Music of India 4 ℓ
  56. "Clean" solvent brand 3 ℓ
  57. Pronunciation challenge 13 ℓ
  58. Elementary school trio 3 ℓ
  59. Foamy coffee 5 ℓ
  60. Poet W.H. 5 ℓ
  61. Japanese computer maker 3 ℓ
  62. Comic Carvey 4 ℓ
  63. Golf great Lorena 5 ℓ
  64. Currier's partner 4 ℓ
  65. 45% of the answers here 8 ℓ
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Down

  1. Sets the dogs (on) 4 ℓ
  2. Energy measure in physics 3 ℓ
  3. Demographic group, for short 3 ℓ
  4. It's missng here 3 ℓ
  5. Distant source of radio waves 6 ℓ
  6. Wryly amusing 5 ℓ
  7. Pacify 7 ℓ
  8. Turban wearer 4 ℓ
  9. EMT destinations 3 ℓ
  10. __ polloi 3 ℓ
  11. Title for knights 3 ℓ
  12. Eagerness 5 ℓ
  13. Sort of sword 4 ℓ
  14. Wood strip 4 ℓ
  15. __ Aviv 3 ℓ
  16. Accustom 5 ℓ
  17. Most good-natured 6 ℓ
  18. French fashion mag 4 ℓ
  19. Welsh form of John 4 ℓ
  20. Moves on a screen 7 ℓ
  21. Yankee retiree nickname 4 ℓ
  22. Egret cousin 5 ℓ
  23. Cutting-edge 6 ℓ
  24. Rhymer in the ring 3 ℓ
  25. Invent 6 ℓ
  26. Sonnet section 6 ℓ
  27. Midmonth day 4 ℓ
  28. Bikini parts 4 ℓ
  29. Stimulates, as an appetite 5 ℓ
  30. Dual-purpose pronoun 5 ℓ
  31. Prefix for scope 5 ℓ
  32. Citizen Kane studio 3 ℓ
  33. Actress Richards 6 ℓ
  34. Special flair 4 ℓ
  35. Examine by touch 7 ℓ
  36. Irish New Age singer 4 ℓ
  37. Big success 3 ℓ
  38. Sleep acronym 3 ℓ
  39. Camera's memory chip 6 ℓ
  40. Specialties 6 ℓ
  41. Faith with five pillars 5 ℓ
  42. Farming student, informally 5 ℓ
  43. Lift with effort 5 ℓ
  44. Small bills 4 ℓ
  45. Ordered for takeout 4 ℓ
  46. "If it __ broke..." 4 ℓ
  47. Tarzan companions 4 ℓ
  48. Take a survey 4 ℓ
  49. "Office-inappropriate" initials 4 ℓ
  50. Sound from a flock 3 ℓ
  51. Firm knock 3 ℓ
  52. PM periods 3 ℓ
  53. Roth plan, e.g. 3 ℓ
  54. Informal shirt 3 ℓ
  55. "__ we there yet?" 3 ℓ
  56. Elevator chamber 3 ℓ
  57. Go to 6 ℓ
  58. Show biz grand slam 4 ℓ
  59. Emmy actress Falco 4 ℓ
  60. Mends with stitches 5 ℓ
  61. Feel the same way 5 ℓ
  62. Unrewarding 12 ℓ
  63. Formal attire 5 ℓ
  64. Museum display 3 ℓ
  65. Noisy commotion 3 ℓ
  66. Inflict a penalty for 6 ℓ
  67. "Good riddance" 6 ℓ
  68. Spanish "precise" 6 ℓ
  69. Completely unaware 12 ℓ
  70. Links "Tour" org. 3 ℓ
  71. Person on the run 7 ℓ
  72. Brews from bags 4 ℓ
  73. Having roof overhangs 5 ℓ
  74. Upscale tomato sauce brand 4 ℓ
  75. Keep coming back to 7 ℓ
  76. Track beside a canal 7 ℓ
  77. Monopoly foursome: Abbr. 3 ℓ
  78. Piano lesson piece 5 ℓ
  79. Singer Mama __ Elliot 4 ℓ

About this puzzle

The Newsday Crossword for Sunday, August 24, 2025 is titled “GAME ON: With a box and/or board” and was constructed by Gary M. Larson. The puzzle features 144 clues arranged in a 21×21 grid — the standard format for Sunday-size puzzles.

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