FOUR PAIRS
Across
- Skidded
- Casual conversation
- Performs in a film
- Layers of paint
- Nut that sounds like a sneeze
- Take residency in
- Water beside San Francisco
- __ wheat bread
- Pair for cutting paper
- Constant wanderer
- Toward the sunset
- Blood vessel
- Software buyers
- Start a poker pot
- Much-admired person
- Tabbies and terriers
- Bit of heredity
- Misplaced
- Evergreen with cones
- "Not guilty," for one
- Recliner or throne
- Two-band, as a radio
- Charged atoms
- Jockey's mount
- Cider fruit
- Pair that holds novels on a shelf
- Cubes in a cold drink
- Is nostalgic for
- OK to consume
- Tilt a bit
- Rural hotels
- Short class test
- Deserve to receive
- Prepare a meal
- Handbag
- __ course (entree)
- Shoe for hockey
- Raise up from the floor
- "In addition..."
Down
- Resort with saunas
- Oaks and elms
- Airplane walkway
- Angelic instruments
- Pair of implements for Chinese food
- ratty backtalk
- __ bar (serve drinks)
- Biological duplicate
- Per item
- Showroom sample, for short
- Helpful facts, for short
- Arm or leg
- Newspaper essays, for short
- Fairy tale king's palace
- Confess (to)
- Selected
- Celestial object with a tail
- American buffalo
- Hand over legally
- Gulp from a flask
- Egg-shaped
- Nevada casino city
- Occupies a bench
- Tennis court divider
- __-link fence
- Bagpiper's skirt
- Pencil puzzle with paths
- Pair for viewing things at a distance
- Watson or Stone of films
- Hand out poker cards
- Colorful part of the eye
- Browses websites
- Grocery shopper's sheet
- Brief memo
- Distort, as facts
- Builder of the Ark
- Resign from a job
- Broadway production
- Expresses verbally
About this puzzle
The Newsday Crossword for Monday, July 14, 2025 is titled “FOUR PAIRS” and was constructed by Doug Peterson. 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.