Newsday.Answers
Daily Newsday Crossword
Newsday Crossword

DARING DEFINITION

Friday, July 18, 2025 Constructed by Billie Truitt 72 clues
The Grid Click “Reveal grid” to fill in every answer
→

Across

  1. Lock opener 4 ℓ
  2. Helvetica kin 5 ℓ
  3. Miner's accessory 4 ℓ
  4. Close kin 4 ℓ
  5. Leftovers 4 ℓ
  6. Campus org. for future ensigns 5 ℓ
  7. Some jabs 6 ℓ
  8. Made up for 6 ℓ
  9. End of quote 9 ℓ
  10. O'Haras' home 4 ℓ
  11. Slimming procedure, for short 4 ℓ
  12. Wears out 5 ℓ
  13. Share a side with 4 ℓ
  14. Greet with disdain 5 ℓ
  15. Prefix meaning "surrounding" 4 ℓ
  16. First Burr in Hamilton 4 ℓ
  17. Battery appendage 5 ℓ
  18. Coordinate 4 ℓ
  19. Needle work of a sort 4 ℓ
  20. Poetic time 4 ℓ
  21. Smoothie flavor 4 ℓ
  22. Cardio/dance program 5 ℓ
  23. Store serving stacks 4 ℓ
  24. Compulsion 4 ℓ
  25. Faint of heart 5 ℓ
  26. Start of a Plato quote 9 ℓ
  27. Arthurian lady 4 ℓ
  28. Rather arrogant 6 ℓ
  29. Adjective for overlook 6 ℓ
  30. Nursing sch. class 4 ℓ
  31. Observe, in Ecclesiastes 5 ℓ
  32. Minor progress 4 ℓ
  33. Pasta sauce herbs 8 ℓ
  34. Grp. like CARE 3 ℓ
  35. Middle of quote 11 ℓ
  36. Frequent book fair sponsor 3 ℓ
  37. Haile __ 8 ℓ
↓

Down

  1. __ brief (court filing) 6 ℓ
  2. Minor male 3 ℓ
  3. Unshakable 7 ℓ
  4. Coming soon 8 ℓ
  5. Irreparable 6 ℓ
  6. Mexican forebears 5 ℓ
  7. Quiches, essentially 4 ℓ
  8. New Testament travelers 4 ℓ
  9. Significant plot 4 ℓ
  10. Show that you got it 5 ℓ
  11. Where Bunyan wrote Pilgrim's Progress 8 ℓ
  12. Road show company 6 ℓ
  13. Nary a chance 6 ℓ
  14. Bookbinding material 6 ℓ
  15. New York's largest lake 6 ℓ
  16. Small brewer 6 ℓ
  17. AOL mailed more than a billion of them, through 2006 6 ℓ
  18. Lofty story 5 ℓ
  19. Small bite 5 ℓ
  20. Go bad 4 ℓ
  21. Follow closely 4 ℓ
  22. Refreshers of a sort 4 ℓ
  23. Initials meaning "undecided" 3 ℓ
  24. Rangers' rivals 6 ℓ
  25. Packs away 5 ℓ
  26. Firm's data security exec 3 ℓ
  27. Mentally quick 5 ℓ
  28. Nonround fruits, cutely 5 ℓ
  29. Uneasy feeling 5 ℓ
  30. Still-life crockery 5 ℓ
  31. Pacific Rim faith 6 ℓ
  32. Emblem on Australia's coat of arms 8 ℓ
  33. Flier to Saint Petersburg 8 ℓ
  34. Cost of learning 7 ℓ
  35. Hole number 3 ℓ

About this puzzle

The Newsday Crossword for Friday, July 18, 2025 is titled “DARING DEFINITION” and was constructed by Billie Truitt. The puzzle features 72 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 DARING DEFINITION Crossword July 18 2025 Answers