NYT Daily Crossword for August 29, 2025

38 Across: What fan fiction is not 33 Down: Label that sold the first 33 1/3 r.p.m. records 41 Down: Least active 46 Down: Bit of a how-to 51 Down: Inits. of the statesman who said “Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly”5 Across: Start of some temple names 9 Across: Bug spray ingredient 13 Across: Kind of rover 14 Across: Figure with two tails 16 Across: Habitation 17 Across: Queen’s guard?18 Across: Language whose name consists of four consecutive U.S. state postal abbreviations 20 Across: Genre for 5-Down 21 Across: Certain graph shape 22 Across: Word with Man or can 23 Across: Per ___24 Across: Places where it’s OK to push someone at school 30 Across: Christmas story villain 31 Across: Plot device in many a rom-com 33 Across: Samurai with no master 34 Across: Big bust 35 Across: Little pieces 36 Across: Welcome sight for a business 39 Across: “Odds” follower 40 Across: Loaded with excitement 42 Across: Blow off steam, say 43 Across: Start to do?44 Across: Some Slack convos 47 Across: Happiness and excitement, for two 49 Across: Four-star review, say 51 Across: Spitting contest?55 Across: “Seriously!,” in slang 56 Across: Fighters on the beach in 2023’s “Barbie”57 Across: Old car concern 58 Across: Preschoolers, e.g.1 Down: Home to the torus-shaped Museum of the Future 2 Down: By some measure 3 Down: Safety org. for young people 4 Down: Painting on the Sistine Chapel’s ceiling, with “The”5 Down: “The Thrill Is Gone” musician, 1970 6 Down: Kant’s “no”7 Down: Even more than most 8 Down: “OK, now you’ve got me intrigued …”9 Down: Macaroni wheat 10 Down: Kathryn of “Law & Order: Criminal Intent”12 Down: Anger, with “off”13 Down: Lantern, e.g.15 Down: Eclipse, for one 19 Down: Peel 23 Down: Proof of a plot 25 Down: Order in the court 26 Down: 1980s cartoon foe of Gargamel 27 Down: Library regular, perhaps 28 Down: Eminem song that samples Dido 29 Down: “___ a real nowhere man …”30 Down: Billing unit 32 Down: Dog’s post-op wear 34 Down: Make an impression on 37 Down: Member of a 1960s TV family 38 Down: Geppetto’s pet goldfish in Disney’s “Pinocchio”42 Down: They might hang out in a hotel room 47 Down: Stable mate 50 Down: High-quality flavoring for salad dressings, in brief 52 Down: Time constant symbol in physics 1 Across: Coaster, usually 53 Across: Manage to lose 48 Down: Move the first pawn, say 54 Across: Some workplace perks 11 Down: Anticipatory times 27 Across: Evidence of a fire 45 Down: Big name in mufflers 49 Down: Troubles

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