AIRBORNE
Across
- Toddler's dinner wear
- Fragment of paper
- Corncob's covering
- Story told in segments
- Church benches
- Screen legend Garbo
- Leave undisturbed, as "sleeping dogs"
- Fresh surge of energy
- Grassy yard
- Up to a task
- Workers' group
- Spiced tea of India
- Any bookstore category
- Trumpet or bugle
- TV host Seacrest
- Sugary-tasting
- Just adequate
- Wall calendar box
- __ colada cocktail
- "Help __ the way!"
- Without help
- Sports cable channel
- Sandwich shop
- Droops in the heat, as flowers
- Be introduced to
- Early stage of a manuscript
- By the deadline
- Back-to-health program, for short
- Any prohibited thing
- Profit potential
- Violinist's stick
- "I can answer that for you"
- Police dept. rank
- Has a chat
- Had supper
- Painter's stand
- Tip of a sock
Down
- American buffalo
- Nuisance
- Initial poker throw-in
- Actor's part
- Ascends a mountain
- Tool with teeth
- Steak-cutting utensil
- Powered by sunlight
- Software customer
- Concealed
- Collide with
- Enter, as data
- Pay no attention to
- Climate-affecting current
- Get married
- Computer repairers, for short
- Sneeze sound
- Garden of __
- Embedded decoration
- Neighbor of Egypt
- Rowboat poles
- Corked beverage
- All over again
- Carries with difficulty
- After-tax amount
- "Submarine" prefix for scope
- Med. care group
- Hitchhiker's finger
- Copycat
- "A likely story!"
- Meal for a mare
- Take a nap
- Lamb's mother
- Brown seaweed
- "He said, __ said"
- "Attendee" suffix for movie
- Place for a lace
- Roads that may cross aves.
- Toward the rising sun
- Reduced-price events
- Rip (apart)
About this puzzle
The Newsday Crossword for Tuesday, March 25, 2025 is titled “AIRBORNE” and was constructed by Billie Truitt. 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.