MIRROR MONDAY
Across
- Breakfast strip with eggs
- Short-lived crazes
- Diplomatic skill
- Tire in a trunk
- Overacts
- Restaurant server
- Make lively
- Accumulate, as debts
- Home made of logs
- Verified an age, in a bar
- Family vehicle with mirrors
- Voice of an iPhone
- Events on tracks
- Stepped heavily (on)
- Dog visiting Oz
- Viral Internet trend
- Buildings for tools
- Chicago airport
- Highest poker cards
- Creative thought
- Haircut place with mirrors
- Cash drawer
- Cooktop range
- British noblemen above earls
- Web-spinning crawlers
- Banquet platforms
- Soup utensil
- Noisy summer insect
- Oxygen or neon
- Sneakers' strings
- Actor Alda
- Write (down) quickly
- __ Antony of old Rome
- Dice toss
- Two-tone cookie
- Removed the rind from
- Service charge
Down
- Dylan or Hope
- Store's discount events
- Search deeply (into)
- Spanish goodbye
- Space with mirrors for trying on clothes
- Sugar measure: Abbr.
- Corporate leaders: Abbr.
- Muscle soreness
- Chores to do
- Required
- Poetic sphere
- Family vehicle
- "Now I get it!"
- Lively energy
- People under 18
- Place to wear a watch
- Sound part of a film
- Motionless
- "Humble" dwelling
- Part of a molecule
- Medical breakthrough
- Cash dispenser: Abbr.
- Scrooge's shout
- Cube of frozen water
- Went first
- Letter before tee
- Of farm life
- __ Paulo, Brazil
- Con game
- Mideast seasoned rice
- Sympathetic comment
- Ballet class space with mirrors
- __ and don'ts
- Cross home plate
- Tennis great Sampras
- Frozen rain
- Major blood vessel
- Partly open, as a door
- Misplace
- Jeans fabric
- __ for the course (about average)
About this puzzle
The Newsday Crossword for Monday, August 4, 2025 is titled “MIRROR MONDAY” and was constructed by Guilherme Gilioli. The puzzle features 78 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.