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NYT Crossword October 15 2025 Answers

Deborah Simmons ✓Solving & explaining puzzles since 1998 · Updated October 15 2025

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Every answer from the Wednesday, October 15 2025 New York Times Crossword, checked and verified against the published NYT solution. Select a clue for the full explanation.

Constructed by Nick Offerman and Christina Iverson · Edited by Will Shortz

Across

1Auto on the autobahn3 lettersSee answer ›4Sign of justice5 lettersSee answer ›9Middling grade5 lettersSee answer ›14Acknowledgment of applause, maybe3 lettersSee answer ›15Lead-up to a ski jump5 lettersSee answer ›16Spots for solar panels5 lettersSee answer ›17Really spectacular drill component?9 lettersSee answer ›19Midwest city known as the "Rubber Capital of the World"5 lettersSee answer ›20___ Root, U.S. secretary of war who received a Nobel Peace Prize5 lettersSee answer ›21Hobbled, in gamer slang6 lettersSee answer ›23Seedy bar4 lettersSee answer ›24Lively kind of saw for cutting intricate shapes?10 lettersSee answer ›28Large catch of fish, say6 lettersSee answer ›30Whole bunch3 lettersSee answer ›31Host Glass of radio's "This American Life"3 lettersSee answer ›32Pecan-chocolate-caramel candy6 lettersSee answer ›34Noted chairman?5 lettersSee answer ›36Truly awesome implement for ensuring stability?9 lettersSee answer ›39"The Master Builder" playwright5 lettersSee answer ›42Launches6 lettersSee answer ›44Word that's often shortened to its middle letter in texts3 lettersSee answer ›45Sister network of Paramount+, for short3 lettersSee answer ›48General Motors subsidiary6 lettersSee answer ›50Ideal instrument for shaping wood surfaces?10 lettersSee answer ›53Always4 lettersSee answer ›55Girlfriends in Madrid6 lettersSee answer ›56Banish5 lettersSee answer ›57Bit of grillmaster's attire5 lettersSee answer ›59Something you might exclaim when talking about 17-, 24-, 36- or 50-Across?9 lettersSee answer ›62Compose5 lettersSee answer ›63Protection5 lettersSee answer ›64Record label for SZA and A$AP Rocky3 lettersSee answer ›65Falls short, say5 lettersSee answer ›66Medium-term govt. security5 lettersSee answer ›67Cerulean expanse3 lettersSee answer ›

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1Like some briskets and pork ribs, informally5 lettersSee answer ›2"___ Rouge!" (2001 musical film)6 lettersSee answer ›3One who may have stormed the beaches at Normandy, in brief7 lettersSee answer ›4Place4 lettersSee answer ›5___ while3 lettersSee answer ›6"Hang on a sec"3 lettersSee answer ›7Feeling remorse for5 lettersSee answer ›8Tidbit popular in Thai cuisine6 lettersSee answer ›9Artisanal brewers' offerings10 lettersSee answer ›10Lockup5 lettersSee answer ›11Joseph Conrad novel made into a 1965 film starring Peter O'Toole7 lettersSee answer ›12Frequent conspiracy subject3 lettersSee answer ›13Something usually kept private, for short3 lettersSee answer ›18London's underground7 lettersSee answer ›22___ Speed Wagon (vintage vehicle)3 lettersSee answer ›24Protrudes4 lettersSee answer ›25Unfortunate situations4 lettersSee answer ›26Fury3 lettersSee answer ›27Grand old time, in slang3 lettersSee answer ›29Area of greatest danger10 lettersSee answer ›33Llama's head?3 lettersSee answer ›35Description of an online image7 lettersSee answer ›37Kind of collar4 lettersSee answer ›38It's blowing in the wind4 lettersSee answer ›39"___ what ___"3 lettersSee answer ›40"Dude …"3 lettersSee answer ›41Humorist who describes his stint working as a Macy's Christmas elf in "Santaland Diaries"7 lettersSee answer ›43Hero lifeguards, e.g.7 lettersSee answer ›46Efficiency stat not needed in an E.V.3 lettersSee answer ›47Scratch6 lettersSee answer ›49Secure again, as a door6 lettersSee answer ›51Overact5 lettersSee answer ›52Visibly afraid5 lettersSee answer ›54Race with an anchor5 lettersSee answer ›56Comfort4 lettersSee answer ›57Hole puncher3 lettersSee answer ›58Reason to consider something favorably3 lettersSee answer ›60Long ___3 lettersSee answer ›61Relative of the chickadee3 lettersSee answer ›