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NYT Crossword October 17 2025 Answers

Deborah Simmons ✓Solving & explaining puzzles since 1998 · Updated October 17 2025

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Every answer from the Friday, October 17 2025 New York Times Crossword, checked and verified against the published NYT solution. Select a clue for the full explanation.

Constructed by Karen Steinberg · Edited by Will Shortz

Across

1What a comment might be made in4 lettersSee answer ›5Plant often confused with algae4 lettersSee answer ›9"The Craft"5 lettersSee answer ›14Pulitzer-winning historian and journalist Applebaum4 lettersSee answer ›15Understanding response4 lettersSee answer ›16Amazon smart speakers5 lettersSee answer ›17British singer with the top 10 albums "Crash" and "Brat"9 lettersSee answer ›19Some suitors5 lettersSee answer ›20Sets in motion6 lettersSee answer ›21Sake, for one8 lettersSee answer ›23Not fixed, as a stone5 lettersSee answer ›24Drinking game with projectiles9 lettersSee answer ›25Sign of healing4 lettersSee answer ›26New service member7 lettersSee answer ›27Mental image, for short?3 lettersSee answer ›28Fun-size, so to speak4 lettersSee answer ›29Stalk4 lettersSee answer ›31First releases6 lettersSee answer ›33Taking out the trash and others6 lettersSee answer ›35Lab liquids4 lettersSee answer ›36Max ___, boxer nicknamed "Madcap Maxie"4 lettersSee answer ›37Corn ___ (snack misnomer)3 lettersSee answer ›39Longtime Nestlé candy brand7 lettersSee answer ›41Arizona tribe with matrilineal clans4 lettersSee answer ›421992 Whoopi Goldberg comedy9 lettersSee answer ›45Survived, so to speak5 lettersSee answer ›46Portmanteau for evidence based solely on personal accounts8 lettersSee answer ›47Popular name of the 1958 Italian hit "Nel Blu, Dipinto di Blu"6 lettersSee answer ›48___ month5 lettersSee answer ›49Act of writing down whatever comes to mind in order to clear mental clutter9 lettersSee answer ›51Wipe5 lettersSee answer ›52Biblical locale in a Steinbeck title4 lettersSee answer ›53Golfer Aoki4 lettersSee answer ›54Rationed (out)5 lettersSee answer ›55Bleak4 lettersSee answer ›56Gravitate4 lettersSee answer ›

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1Historic Émile Zola letter of 18987 lettersSee answer ›2Improved8 lettersSee answer ›3Meaty dog treats "in a blanket"9 lettersSee answer ›4Less prolix6 lettersSee answer ›5Customizable Nintendo avatars4 lettersSee answer ›6Mac platform renamed in 20163 lettersSee answer ›7Condition of discretion7 lettersSee answer ›8More seductive6 lettersSee answer ›9One managing online content9 lettersSee answer ›10Drink that comes with free refills8 lettersSee answer ›11Word with easy or high5 lettersSee answer ›12Matter5 lettersSee answer ›13Insufferable sorts5 lettersSee answer ›18Court call3 lettersSee answer ›22Handles beautifully, in slang7 lettersSee answer ›24Bills worth 100 buckaroos4 lettersSee answer ›26British singer with the hits "R.I.P." and "Radioactive"7 lettersSee answer ›28Showed embarrassment, say9 lettersSee answer ›30Event typically occurring in one's late 40s or early 50s9 lettersSee answer ›32Hoped-for scenario8 lettersSee answer ›33America, for one: Abbr.4 lettersSee answer ›34DC figure since 19388 lettersSee answer ›36Brand of rum mentioned in Hemingway novels7 lettersSee answer ›38Certain unit of detergent7 lettersSee answer ›40Pet gear often eschewed in favor of someone's lap6 lettersSee answer ›41"Stop the presses!"6 lettersSee answer ›42Capital that's home to the oldest university in the Western U.S. (1842)5 lettersSee answer ›43Habituate5 lettersSee answer ›44Upper house of the French parliament5 lettersSee answer ›45With, in Spanish3 lettersSee answer ›47Plant on a pergola4 lettersSee answer ›50___ Lingus3 lettersSee answer ›