Today's USA Today Puzzle Crossword Clues & Answers

Clues & Answers For The USA Today

(July 26, 2025)

ACROSS

• 1. Tower-building game - Crossword Clue
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• 6. Tax org. - Crossword Clue
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• 9. Speck of dust - Crossword Clue
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• 13. One might be set before an early flight - Crossword Clue
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• 14. Serving of butter - Crossword Clue
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• 15. Cause to laugh - Crossword Clue
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• 17. Summer camp boat - Crossword Clue
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• 18. Bill in a tip jar - Crossword Clue
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• 19. "___ la vista!" - Crossword Clue
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• 20. Professional whose job involves critical thinking - Crossword Clue
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• 23. Place for gloss - Crossword Clue
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• 24. Cleaning cloth - Crossword Clue
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• 25. "Is this someone I know?" - Crossword Clue
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• 28. "Pronto!" - Crossword Clue
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• 31. Dishes served with dressing - Crossword Clue
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• 36. What electrolytes contain - Crossword Clue
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• 38. Has to pay back - Crossword Clue
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• 40. "Nose goes" phrase - Crossword Clue
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• 41. What punch cards are designed to reward - Crossword Clue
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• 44. Haunted house sound - Crossword Clue
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• 45. Former wound - Crossword Clue
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• 46. Destiny - Crossword Clue
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• 47. Word before "projection" or "plane" - Crossword Clue
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• 49. Where "it's fun to stay," in a Village People hit - Crossword Clue
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• 51. Palindromic "help!" - Crossword Clue
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• 52. "___ can't win 'em all" - Crossword Clue
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• 54. Cooling systems, for short - Crossword Clue
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• 56. Furniture, rugs, e.g., for a residence - Crossword Clue
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• 65. Early video game console - Crossword Clue
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• 66. Place a wager - Crossword Clue
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• 67. 1986 autobiography of the "Queen of Rock 'n' Roll" - Crossword Clue
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• 68. Grieve - Crossword Clue
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• 69. "What ___ your plans?" - Crossword Clue
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• 70. Grandmas - Crossword Clue
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• 71. Otherwise - Crossword Clue
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• 72. ___ de plume - Crossword Clue
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• 73. Gets bigger - Crossword Clue
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DOWN

• 1. Face card with the lowest value - Crossword Clue
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• 2. Gusto - Crossword Clue
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• 3. Prefix meaning "one billionth" - Crossword Clue
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• 4. "I'm a dog and I'm angry" sound - Crossword Clue
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• 5. Aviator Earhart - Crossword Clue
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• 6. Former Apple music device - Crossword Clue
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• 7. Used a doorbell - Crossword Clue
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• 8. Take the helm - Crossword Clue
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• 9. "I have many leather-bound books and my apartment smells of rich ___" ("Anchorman" quote) - Crossword Clue
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• 10. This Is Us actor Epps - Crossword Clue
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• 11. Walrus feature - Crossword Clue
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• 12. Ninety degrees from norte - Crossword Clue
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• 16. Elf's pointy body part - Crossword Clue
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• 21. ___ salts - Crossword Clue
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• 22. Used to be - Crossword Clue
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• 25. Religion also known as "The Craft" - Crossword Clue
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• 26. The month of August has 744 - Crossword Clue
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• 27. Beginning phase - Crossword Clue
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• 29. Wows - Crossword Clue
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• 30. "___ Jackson & the Olympians" - Crossword Clue
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• 32. Challah unit - Crossword Clue
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• 33. Map book - Crossword Clue
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• 34. "Same!" - Crossword Clue
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• 35. Eyelid afflictions - Crossword Clue
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• 37. Shape of some chore chart stickers - Crossword Clue
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• 39. Poetry event - Crossword Clue
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• 42. "Have it your way" - Crossword Clue
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• 43. Marine predators - Crossword Clue
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• 48. Gymnast Mary ___ Retton - Crossword Clue
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• 50. Feeling sore - Crossword Clue
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• 53. City-related - Crossword Clue
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• 55. Anoushka Shankar's instrument - Crossword Clue
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• 56. Monte Cristo meat - Crossword Clue
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• 57. Great Plains tribe - Crossword Clue
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• 58. Totally wallop in competition - Crossword Clue
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• 59. Drops the ball - Crossword Clue
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• 60. Infamous Roman emperor - Crossword Clue
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• 61. Tabloid couple - Crossword Clue
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• 62. "The Godfather" composer Rota - Crossword Clue
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• 63. Chew like a beaver - Crossword Clue
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• 64. Back talk - Crossword Clue
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