Home›NYT Crossword›November 2 2025

NYT Crossword November 2 2025 Answers

Deborah SimmonsDeborah Simmons ✓Solving & explaining puzzles since 1998 · Updated November 2 2025Sharef𝕏✉

All Clues & Answers

117 CLUESDIFFICULTY

Every answer from the Sunday, November 2 2025 New York Times Crossword, checked and verified against the published NYT solution. Select a clue for the full explanation.

Constructed by Rafael Musa · Edited by Will Shortz · “Open-Faced”

Across

1Cause a mess, as with frying oil8 lettersSee answer ›9Create an intricate series of lies, say8 lettersSee answer ›17Offerings to prospective bicycle buyers9 lettersSee answer ›19"Ben-Hur" or "Lawrence of Arabia"9 lettersSee answer ›20Or more10 lettersSee answer ›22Like many public housing projects10 lettersSee answer ›23Comprehends4 lettersSee answer ›24Way to manipulate public opinion through fear11 lettersSee answer ›26"The ___ is done"4 lettersSee answer ›27Some ambulance destinations, for short3 lettersSee answer ›28Ceramicists' devices13 lettersSee answer ›30Hog heaven?3 lettersSee answer ›31Wrong idea15 lettersSee answer ›33Word with bean or lemon4 lettersSee answer ›34___ Jones, author of "How We Fight for Our Lives"5 lettersSee answer ›35Tick off4 lettersSee answer ›37Pieces of art?7 lettersSee answer ›40Allude (to)3 lettersSee answer ›41Winter Olympics event7 lettersSee answer ›44Agreements where one party takes some heat?9 lettersSee answer ›46Old-time theater item9 lettersSee answer ›48They point toward Mecca while salah is performed10 lettersSee answer ›50Evergreen pointer10 lettersSee answer ›51Sharpen4 lettersSee answer ›52Natural process of maturing11 lettersSee answer ›54Airplane wing feature4 lettersSee answer ›55Girder whose name assumes a serif font5 lettersSee answer ›57Paleolithic-era tools9 lettersSee answer ›58Have spiritual unity (with)5 lettersSee answer ›59Falsify6 lettersSee answer ›61___ syndrome (allergic reaction to some bug bites)7 lettersSee answer ›62Actress and model Ali ___6 lettersSee answer ›63Like some pricing strategies6 lettersSee answer ›65Annual awards whose name is an acronym5 lettersSee answer ›66Affectedly clever6 lettersSee answer ›67Allude (to)5 lettersSee answer ›69Southwest landform5 lettersSee answer ›70Smokey Bear spot, e.g., for short3 lettersSee answer ›73Area with the highest percentage of homes valued at $1 million or more13 lettersSee answer ›79[ha ha!]3 lettersSee answer ›82Reddish-brown color4 lettersSee answer ›84Ones skilled in governance11 lettersSee answer ›85Gram4 lettersSee answer ›86Return analogue5 lettersSee answer ›88"You're one to talk!"9 lettersSee answer ›89Mumbo jumbo5 lettersSee answer ›90Instrument for which Beethoven and Mozart composed10 lettersSee answer ›92Drink order at a sushi restaurant10 lettersSee answer ›94What might have green rooms?9 lettersSee answer ›95Unlikely sportsmanship award winner9 lettersSee answer ›96___ Lupton, author of the 2010 best seller "Sister"8 lettersSee answer ›97Quarter-barrel containers of beer8 lettersSee answer ›

Down

1Talking ___ (early dating period, in modern lingo)5 lettersSee answer ›2Fizzle (out)5 lettersSee answer ›3Exams whose analytical reasoning sections were removed in 20245 lettersSee answer ›4PINpoints?4 lettersSee answer ›5Lead-in to state or Star3 lettersSee answer ›6Typically red-coated toy figurines11 lettersSee answer ›7Official proclamations6 lettersSee answer ›8Try to produce better offspring from6 lettersSee answer ›9Bursts6 lettersSee answer ›10Feels for6 lettersSee answer ›11Sport with crampons and carabiners11 lettersSee answer ›12Document that promises secrecy, for short3 lettersSee answer ›13Like the climate in Antarctica4 lettersSee answer ›14Does the Narrows hike at Zion National Park, say5 lettersSee answer ›15Become acquainted over Zoom, e.g.5 lettersSee answer ›16Villain5 lettersSee answer ›18"No doubt about it!"6 lettersSee answer ›19Inscribed6 lettersSee answer ›21Mythical creature with scales6 lettersSee answer ›22Lost one's temper6 lettersSee answer ›25Like some donations that anyone can accept5 lettersSee answer ›28Pride celebration6 lettersSee answer ›29"That much is obvious"6 lettersSee answer ›31Child who refuses to put things away?10 lettersSee answer ›32Flag thrower10 lettersSee answer ›33Olympic gymnast Nadia who was the first to receive a perfect 10 score8 lettersSee answer ›36Livestock facilities regulated by the E.P.A.8 lettersSee answer ›37TV series starring Rami Malek as a hacktivist7 lettersSee answer ›38Absurdist philosopher born in Algeria5 lettersSee answer ›39Perspectives6 lettersSee answer ›41More difficult to eat, as fish6 lettersSee answer ›42Tandoors, e.g.5 lettersSee answer ›43Lucy ___, African American slave narrator7 lettersSee answer ›44Garden pest5 lettersSee answer ›45Butterfly, e.g.6 lettersSee answer ›46Cheeky flirts6 lettersSee answer ›47Sufferer healed by Jesus5 lettersSee answer ›49Unit circle ratios5 lettersSee answer ›50Like some soils high in organic matter5 lettersSee answer ›53Small protestation4 lettersSee answer ›56Sociologist's concern5 lettersSee answer ›58Eccentric5 lettersSee answer ›60Update the equipment in5 lettersSee answer ›62Musical instruments that become other musical instruments when an F is added to the front5 lettersSee answer ›64Erasure8 lettersSee answer ›66Person idolized by a niche audience8 lettersSee answer ›68Physics Nobelist Feynman7 lettersSee answer ›69Covert mission, familiarly7 lettersSee answer ›70Be partial to6 lettersSee answer ›71Shell competitor6 lettersSee answer ›72Daikin Park team6 lettersSee answer ›74Gregorian ___5 lettersSee answer ›75Aware of4 lettersSee answer ›76We, in Portuguese3 lettersSee answer ›77Bygone devices whose tapes had to be rewound4 lettersSee answer ›78Teatro alla Scala solos5 lettersSee answer ›79Ancient philosopher whose name means "old master"6 lettersSee answer ›80Support for the tree pose in yoga6 lettersSee answer ›81Strategy against fickle weather6 lettersSee answer ›83One more than 5-Down5 lettersSee answer ›85Unacceptable5 lettersSee answer ›87___ Kassis, author of "The Arabesque Table"4 lettersSee answer ›89Hallowed4 lettersSee answer ›91Nittany Lions' sch.3 lettersSee answer ›93Big ___3 lettersSee answer ›