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NYT Crossword November 18 2025 Answers

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Every answer from the Tuesday, November 18 2025 New York Times Crossword, checked and verified against the published NYT solution. Select a clue for the full explanation.

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1First female musical artist to have a simultaneous #1 film and #1 album, familiarly3 lettersSee answer ›4Rebound, as a pool shot4 lettersSee answer ›8Requirement for domestic air travel starting in 20256 lettersSee answer ›14Body part that might "pop"3 lettersSee answer ›15Words of understanding4 lettersSee answer ›16___ State, nickname for New York6 lettersSee answer ›17Soften, as a message8 lettersSee answer ›19Kitchen strainers6 lettersSee answer ›20"Don't go!"4 lettersSee answer ›21Appear gradually from the black, as a film image6 lettersSee answer ›23Industrialist Lilly3 lettersSee answer ›24Native led by Montezuma5 lettersSee answer ›26A very high price, so to speak9 lettersSee answer ›28Cereal variety from Switzerland6 lettersSee answer ›30Lead female character7 lettersSee answer ›31Summer temp, say6 lettersSee answer ›34River's bottom3 lettersSee answer ›35Dentist, colloquially11 lettersSee answer ›38Actress Long of "Boyz N the Hood"3 lettersSee answer ›39Gets back together6 lettersSee answer ›40Shipped without prepaid postage, for short7 lettersSee answer ›42Much of Mauritania and Mali6 lettersSee answer ›47Japanese stadium that has hosted M.L.B. and N.F.L. games9 lettersSee answer ›50Martian explorer5 lettersSee answer ›51Last number in a countdown3 lettersSee answer ›52Surgical stitch6 lettersSee answer ›54Used a loom4 lettersSee answer ›55Related to spiritual cause and effect6 lettersSee answer ›57Collection of tasks … or what 17-, 26-, 35- and 47-Across comprise?8 lettersSee answer ›59Timeless, to a poet6 lettersSee answer ›60Small vortex4 lettersSee answer ›61"Thanks, Captain Obvious!"3 lettersSee answer ›62Best-of-seven games, say6 lettersSee answer ›63Make airtight4 lettersSee answer ›64Fancy hotel amenity3 lettersSee answer ›

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1Material that's been deliberately thrown overboard6 lettersSee answer ›2Philosopher who wrote the "Tao Te Ching"6 lettersSee answer ›3Fancy and elaborate6 lettersSee answer ›4Auction action3 lettersSee answer ›5Since4 lettersSee answer ›6Just getting started with5 lettersSee answer ›7Martial art with bamboo swords5 lettersSee answer ›8Places to live10 lettersSee answer ›9Key with one sharp6 lettersSee answer ›10Subject of much Jane Goodall research3 lettersSee answer ›11More alert and energetic8 lettersSee answer ›12Limerick's locale7 lettersSee answer ›13Fancy6 lettersSee answer ›18They wink and blink4 lettersSee answer ›22Filmmaker Nora6 lettersSee answer ›25Advertising award4 lettersSee answer ›27Southwestern wolf4 lettersSee answer ›29Presents10 lettersSee answer ›32Punctual people are said to arrive on this6 lettersSee answer ›33End of an academic address3 lettersSee answer ›35One fiddling around in a workshop8 lettersSee answer ›36Like granola bars, typically4 lettersSee answer ›37Onetime leader in St. Petersburg4 lettersSee answer ›38Newborn child7 lettersSee answer ›40Excites6 lettersSee answer ›41Trigonometry ratio6 lettersSee answer ›43Coyote's cry4 lettersSee answer ›44Steers clear of6 lettersSee answer ›45Excites6 lettersSee answer ›46First name of the Queen of Soul6 lettersSee answer ›48Quiets on Zoom5 lettersSee answer ›49Wear away5 lettersSee answer ›53Classic Icelandic saga4 lettersSee answer ›56Scanner whose field strength is measured in teslas, for short3 lettersSee answer ›58Toondom's Olive3 lettersSee answer ›