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NYT Crossword October 16 2025 Answers

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Every answer from the Thursday, October 16 2025 New York Times Crossword, checked and verified against the published NYT solution. Select a clue for the full explanation.

Constructed by Kareem Ayas · Edited by Will Shortz

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1"___ Talkin' ’bout Love" (Van Halen song)4 lettersSee answer ›5*Treat with kindness5 lettersSee answer ›10Noted works of the Roman poet Horace4 lettersSee answer ›14Brute4 lettersSee answer ›15Statuette modeled after a knight holding a crusader’s sword5 lettersSee answer ›16Feeling associated with skipping a party, perhaps4 lettersSee answer ›17Unchangeable10 lettersSee answer ›19Horned creature in "Pan's Labyrinth"4 lettersSee answer ›20Hungers for6 lettersSee answer ›21Early Germanic people5 lettersSee answer ›23Move around the world5 lettersSee answer ›24*Expensive3 lettersSee answer ›26Lift5 lettersSee answer ›29Mardi Gras locale, informally4 lettersSee answer ›30Ovarian sac contents3 lettersSee answer ›31Fuddy-duddies6 lettersSee answer ›32"Still ___" (1999 rap hit)3 lettersSee answer ›33Meander4 lettersSee answer ›34High lights?6 lettersSee answer ›35Practice chiromancy9 lettersSee answer ›37Disappear, as a trail6 lettersSee answer ›40"Central Park in the Dark" composer4 lettersSee answer ›41Music box?3 lettersSee answer ›44Diviner6 lettersSee answer ›45Jerry’s uncle on "Seinfeld"3 lettersSee answer ›46Box a bit4 lettersSee answer ›47Tonkatsu coating5 lettersSee answer ›48*Deli device3 lettersSee answer ›49Bug expert, for short5 lettersSee answer ›50Invite at the door5 lettersSee answer ›52Extreme pressure6 lettersSee answer ›53El ___4 lettersSee answer ›55Felt tired during the day, say10 lettersSee answer ›58Words to a betrayer4 lettersSee answer ›59“The Philosophy of Right” author5 lettersSee answer ›60Like a computer with a running screensaver4 lettersSee answer ›61How whiskey might be served … with a hint to the answers to the seven starred clues4 lettersSee answer ›62*Risky endeavor, idiomatically5 lettersSee answer ›63Onetime resident of the Winter Palace4 lettersSee answer ›

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1Bolt7 lettersSee answer ›2Certain Windows hard drive malfunction7 lettersSee answer ›3*Conspicuous7 lettersSee answer ›4Stupid stuff it's fun to know6 lettersSee answer ›5Level-ending foe4 lettersSee answer ›6Educated guess: Abbr.3 lettersSee answer ›7Sgt., e.g.3 lettersSee answer ›8Like lemon curd5 lettersSee answer ›9Preceder of "Bites" and "Bars" in commercial names4 lettersSee answer ›10*Chance to meet one-on-one with a professor8 lettersSee answer ›11"Copy me"7 lettersSee answer ›12Runner Down Under3 lettersSee answer ›13Certain heir3 lettersSee answer ›18Make in the end3 lettersSee answer ›22Steady humming sounds6 lettersSee answer ›24Locale for catfish or carp4 lettersSee answer ›25What allows Neo to disconnect from the Matrix7 lettersSee answer ›27Spanish 101 verb3 lettersSee answer ›28Whom you might greet with open arms, for short?3 lettersSee answer ›30Novelist Charles who wrote "The Cloister and the Hearth"5 lettersSee answer ›31Prefix with botanist5 lettersSee answer ›33"Sure … if you say so"6 lettersSee answer ›35Enjoys oneself uninhibitedly … or a punny title for this puzzle8 lettersSee answer ›36Profess4 lettersSee answer ›37Something Lincoln once led, for short3 lettersSee answer ›38Italian time unit3 lettersSee answer ›39Card game with a winning score of 5,000 points7 lettersSee answer ›41*Book addenda7 lettersSee answer ›42Chicken ___7 lettersSee answer ›43Thrive7 lettersSee answer ›46Narrow channel6 lettersSee answer ›48Derisive look5 lettersSee answer ›49OB/GYN offering3 lettersSee answer ›51Crisply shown, as on TV4 lettersSee answer ›52Wooded valley4 lettersSee answer ›53Coop3 lettersSee answer ›54Performed amazingly, in slang3 lettersSee answer ›56Id's counterpart3 lettersSee answer ›57The First State: Abbr.3 lettersSee answer ›