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SATURDAY STUMPER

Saturday, July 26, 2025 Constructed by Winston Emmons 72 clues
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Across

  1. Unimagined? 6 ℓ
  2. Self-styled stinger 3 ℓ
  3. Self-evident, these days 4 ℓ
  4. Carry on 4 ℓ
  5. Duplicate 4 ℓ
  6. Makes green quickly, maybe 4 ℓ
  7. Speaking of 4 ℓ
  8. Green Bay Packers' half a million+ 6 ℓ
  9. They don't settle 6 ℓ
  10. Eleve 5 ℓ
  11. Pushback against parents 8 ℓ
  12. Wedding band, sometimes 6 ℓ
  13. Soccer quintuple, e.g. 8 ℓ
  14. Sister of Helios 6 ℓ
  15. HBs and FBs run for them 3 ℓ
  16. Former fleet fleet 4 ℓ
  17. Pries free 6 ℓ
  18. Casting for cymbals 6 ℓ
  19. Wiccan 8 ℓ
  20. Descartes start 6 ℓ
  21. Defeat dominatingly 8 ℓ
  22. Large number 5 ℓ
  23. What the Toy Story films are 6 ℓ
  24. Pop song portion 6 ℓ
  25. French-Toasted Donuts seller 4 ℓ
  26. 2025 Cubs Hall of Fame inductee 4 ℓ
  27. Cloning candidates of the past 4 ℓ
  28. Frequent port of call before Mazatlan 4 ℓ
  29. American benchmark 8 ℓ
  30. Dire straits 6 ℓ
  31. Aloha, for instance 15 ℓ
  32. Esau, in Genesis 8 ℓ
  33. Glinda in the Wicked film 6 ℓ
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Down

  1. Basic training 4 ℓ
  2. It's like -like 3 ℓ
  3. __ mic (clip-on amplifier) 3 ℓ
  4. Line 11 of IRS Form 1040 3 ℓ
  5. "Flat-out fun" hardware 4 ℓ
  6. House calls 5 ℓ
  7. Competitive challenge 6 ℓ
  8. Slots 15 ℓ
  9. He has an early cameo in most 007 films 3 ℓ
  10. Language related to Comanche 5 ℓ
  11. Indivisible thing 4 ℓ
  12. Wrap sheet 4 ℓ
  13. Peppers, but not salts 4 ℓ
  14. Try to strike 6 ℓ
  15. Last word of Antony and Cleopatra 5 ℓ
  16. Very steep 5 ℓ
  17. Boorish bunch 4 ℓ
  18. Are in Monte Carlo 4 ℓ
  19. What's up with some weddings 4 ℓ
  20. They've got a southern Colorado reservation 4 ℓ
  21. What grease might go on 4 ℓ
  22. Compass reading 3 ℓ
  23. Word from the Greek for "twisted" 3 ℓ
  24. Ordered or outwitted 3 ℓ
  25. Nos. after alumni in alumni mags 3 ℓ
  26. They work in swimming pools 9 ℓ
  27. Puck alias 5 ℓ
  28. Medical privacy law since '96 5 ℓ
  29. Battleship maker 6 ℓ
  30. Closely followed 6 ℓ
  31. Stumpers, say 6 ℓ
  32. Timbuktu neighbor 6 ℓ
  33. Works with scores 6 ℓ
  34. Joint holder 6 ℓ
  35. Without warning 9 ℓ
  36. Quasi-opposite of "flash" 3 ℓ
  37. Garnishing gadget 5 ℓ
  38. Biodegrade 3 ℓ
  39. Cheats slyly 5 ℓ

About this puzzle

The Newsday Crossword for Saturday, July 26, 2025 is titled “SATURDAY STUMPER” and was constructed by Winston Emmons. 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 SATURDAY STUMPER Crossword July 26 2025 Answers