NYT Mini Crossword for August 22, 2025

Across

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Coating for Babybel cheese
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Sweet potato lookalike
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Feature of a Southern accent
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Top-notch, informally
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Greenskeeper's roll of grass
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Campfire remnants
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Places to store shovels and leaf blowers
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Streaming glitch
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"___ vs. Predator" (2004 sci-fi film)
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Docking spots
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Down

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"2001: A Space Odyssey" villain
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Cast out from a country
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"Uptown Funk" and "Downtown," for two
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"Can I bend your ___ for a second?"
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Like an ambitious, competitive personality
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Simple-living sect
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Shop owner's stock
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Barkeep on "The Simpsons"
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Simple-to-play card game for two
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Nickname for the Florida Gators football stadium, with "the"
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