WAY COOL
Across
- Top of the head
- Pets that purr
- Cash dispensers, for short
- Winfrey's production company
- Home document
- Industrious insect
- Otherwise
- Shade tree
- Qt. fractions
- 22-Across team members
- Canine's squeal
- Edith __ (Cotillard Oscar role)
- Rarely rained on
- Sibling's daughter
- In that case
- Transportation on rails
- Brazilian soccer great
- __-do-well
- Pack away
- Leafy side dish
- Melodic
- Friendly talk
- Spherical coif
- Loosen, as knots
- Top of some heads
- Fight tooth and __
- Annual Alaskan race on snow
- Keogh plan alternatives: Abbr.
- Ribs cookout, for short
- Full collection
- Made haste
- Baseball great Gehrig
- At any time
- Shapes of hockey pucks
- Blue jeans
- All over again
- Point opp. WNW
- Route for 22-Across
- Spelling contest
- Looked happy
- Italian farewell
Down
- Letters after R
- Auctioned off
- Small band
- Miles off
- From Toronto or Quebec
- Piece of bacon
- Hotel room cleaners
- Southeast Asian
- German exclamation
- "Fine with me"
- Hideout
- Model T Ford, for one
- Pro and __
- From ancient times
- Bath bars
- Marsh bird
- Rural tower
- Create, as a web
- Vitality
- Make less complicated
- Former Italian coin
- Lawn dampener
- Espionage org.
- Come to a close
- Disconnects
- Actor Danson
- Laundry bottle
- Croatia neighbor
- Coffee-break hr.
- Unwilling to yield
- Attribute of some upscale ads
- Component of concrete
- Candies and cakes
- Unwilling to yield
- Free-for-all brawl
- Miscellaneous things
- Much-desired
About this puzzle
The Newsday Crossword for Wednesday, February 19, 2025 is titled “WAY COOL” and was constructed by Jerry Clarkson. 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.