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NYT Crossword October 21 2025 Answers

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Every answer from the Tuesday, October 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

1A right one is 90°5 lettersSee answer ›6Hairstyle for Questlove4 lettersSee answer ›10___ de plume3 lettersSee answer ›13Luxury watch brand5 lettersSee answer ›14Half of a classic lunch special4 lettersSee answer ›15Donate4 lettersSee answer ›16Reward for rolling over, perhaps5 lettersSee answer ›17Redwood or cottonwood4 lettersSee answer ›18Best starting hand in Texas hold ’em4 lettersSee answer ›19Device for capturing thermal images14 lettersSee answer ›22Little locking brick4 lettersSee answer ›23Radical religious groups5 lettersSee answer ›24Where you might dance to some underground music?13 lettersSee answer ›30Specialty coffee order5 lettersSee answer ›31Make a speech5 lettersSee answer ›32Buck's mate3 lettersSee answer ›35Valuable Minecraft blocks4 lettersSee answer ›36Entertain5 lettersSee answer ›37Postseason college football game4 lettersSee answer ›38Fig. on a college transcript3 lettersSee answer ›39Latin phrase that's often abbreviated5 lettersSee answer ›40Big name in briefs5 lettersSee answer ›41Venue for combatants wearing vests with sensors13 lettersSee answer ›44Maki or temaki5 lettersSee answer ›46Belgrade resident4 lettersSee answer ›47Wild guess … or what 19-, 24- and 41-Across let you take?14 lettersSee answer ›53Bobber in a lake4 lettersSee answer ›54Peeved4 lettersSee answer ›55Nut-brown hue5 lettersSee answer ›57Head-butts4 lettersSee answer ›58"Summer of ___," Questlove documentary about the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival4 lettersSee answer ›59Cone or sphere5 lettersSee answer ›60Pub order3 lettersSee answer ›61The brother in "Am I my brother's keeper?"4 lettersSee answer ›62It might be picante5 lettersSee answer ›

Down

1The "A" of MoMA3 lettersSee answer ›2Seaweed wrap for maki4 lettersSee answer ›3Secluded valley4 lettersSee answer ›4Some info sheets8 lettersSee answer ›5Radical7 lettersSee answer ›6One doing stellar work?10 lettersSee answer ›7Golfer's warning4 lettersSee answer ›8Regretted4 lettersSee answer ›9Major oil cartel, in brief4 lettersSee answer ›10"Bravo!"10 lettersSee answer ›11Blatant5 lettersSee answer ›12Flat-topped landforms5 lettersSee answer ›15Full range5 lettersSee answer ›20Tinder account datum that can't be edited3 lettersSee answer ›21The Hundred ___ Wood (storybook setting)4 lettersSee answer ›24Post to an online journal4 lettersSee answer ›25Org. for seniors4 lettersSee answer ›26Advances from third while the pitcher is distracted, say10 lettersSee answer ›27What team-building activities are designed to build5 lettersSee answer ›28Noodle that might be stuffed10 lettersSee answer ›29Dined3 lettersSee answer ›33Actor Wilson4 lettersSee answer ›34"Frozen" queen4 lettersSee answer ›36Suffix with lemon or stock3 lettersSee answer ›37Slow-cooked taco filling8 lettersSee answer ›39"___ just me, or …?"4 lettersSee answer ›40Rigorously demanding sort7 lettersSee answer ›42Nautical greetings5 lettersSee answer ›43"Gosh!"3 lettersSee answer ›44Popular hummus brand5 lettersSee answer ›45Run-of-the-mill5 lettersSee answer ›48Rae of "Barbie"4 lettersSee answer ›49Inexperienced gamer, informally4 lettersSee answer ›50Factual4 lettersSee answer ›51What "maki" means in Japanese4 lettersSee answer ›52Kardashian matriarch4 lettersSee answer ›56Contract enforcing secrecy, for short3 lettersSee answer ›