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NYT Crossword November 21 2025 Answers

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Every answer from the Friday, November 21 2025 New York Times Crossword, checked and verified against the published NYT solution. Select a clue for the full explanation.

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Across

1Allow5 lettersSee answer ›6Snappy sort, for short?4 lettersSee answer ›10Tahoe runners4 lettersSee answer ›14Fanny Brice portrayer on Broadway10 lettersSee answer ›16Governess of Thornfield Hall4 lettersSee answer ›17Sits legs akimbo, pejoratively10 lettersSee answer ›18Highway attention-getter4 lettersSee answer ›19Calculating3 lettersSee answer ›20Symbol of fertility in ancient Egypt4 lettersSee answer ›21Settled down6 lettersSee answer ›23Shakespearean "Hush!"4 lettersSee answer ›24"Sorry to tell ya"7 lettersSee answer ›25What "it's not," they say13 lettersSee answer ›29Eschew5 lettersSee answer ›30Parts of some wedding rituals5 lettersSee answer ›31Clubs opening, perhaps3 lettersSee answer ›34Prized people4 lettersSee answer ›35She was totally taken by Paris5 lettersSee answer ›36Popular perfume named after a singing star4 lettersSee answer ›37Modern art?3 lettersSee answer ›38Germs5 lettersSee answer ›39That's a wrap!5 lettersSee answer ›40Suspenseful13 lettersSee answer ›43Grown-up gummies, e.g.7 lettersSee answer ›45Touch4 lettersSee answer ›46King and queen6 lettersSee answer ›47Strength of character4 lettersSee answer ›48One in a cage3 lettersSee answer ›51That's a laugh!4 lettersSee answer ›52Insomniac's aid10 lettersSee answer ›55Juana ___ de la Cruz, classic Mexican writer known as "The Tenth Muse"4 lettersSee answer ›56Aces10 lettersSee answer ›57Schlep4 lettersSee answer ›58Alumni notes datum4 lettersSee answer ›59St. ___ (vacation spot)5 lettersSee answer ›

Down

1Old-time charity4 lettersSee answer ›2Word with good or raw4 lettersSee answer ›3A host of4 lettersSee answer ›4Hits up online, in a way3 lettersSee answer ›5Crept cautiously7 lettersSee answer ›6Some memory aids11 lettersSee answer ›7___-a-thon4 lettersSee answer ›8Senescent3 lettersSee answer ›9It may bring out the kid in you8 lettersSee answer ›10Height or width, e.g.6 lettersSee answer ›11Sydney Adamu portrayer on "The Bear"10 lettersSee answer ›12Peeved5 lettersSee answer ›13Brief blowup5 lettersSee answer ›15"Tomb Raider" heroine5 lettersSee answer ›22Camel and fawn4 lettersSee answer ›23Lodge rental4 lettersSee answer ›24Barbecuer's aid11 lettersSee answer ›25Sitarist's composition4 lettersSee answer ›26Totally done with4 lettersSee answer ›27Flirtatious10 lettersSee answer ›28Nose woes5 lettersSee answer ›32Azerbaijan neighbor4 lettersSee answer ›33Find fault with, informally4 lettersSee answer ›35Lead-in to a clarification8 lettersSee answer ›36Riveted4 lettersSee answer ›38Word often printed in red4 lettersSee answer ›39"Fellow traveler," in Russian7 lettersSee answer ›41Certain marketing deluge6 lettersSee answer ›42Tony's cousins5 lettersSee answer ›43Moral virtue5 lettersSee answer ›44Anne's best friend in "Anne of Green Gables"5 lettersSee answer ›47___ monster4 lettersSee answer ›48Real hoot4 lettersSee answer ›49Ain't proper?4 lettersSee answer ›50They have five eyes and communicate by dancing4 lettersSee answer ›53Break ground, in a way3 lettersSee answer ›54Japanese ogre3 lettersSee answer ›