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NYT Crossword October 25 2025 Answers

Deborah Simmons ✓Solving & explaining puzzles since 1998 · Updated October 25 2025

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Every answer from the Saturday, October 25 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

1Calendar month between Sha'ban and Shawwal7 lettersSee answer ›8Some solid marks7 lettersSee answer ›15"Here's the hard truth …"15 lettersSee answer ›1746 years?15 lettersSee answer ›18Sudden movement5 lettersSee answer ›19Pinched5 lettersSee answer ›20___ Maroni, Gotham City mobster in the DC Comics universe3 lettersSee answer ›21Runs superbly4 lettersSee answer ›22Bug5 lettersSee answer ›23Word on either side of "against"4 lettersSee answer ›241992 U2 hit inspired by German reunification3 lettersSee answer ›25Busby Berkeley musical film that introduced "I Only Have Eyes for You"5 lettersSee answer ›26Printing mark whose name is from the Latin for "is lacking"5 lettersSee answer ›27Financial reporter?8 lettersSee answer ›29Balances6 lettersSee answer ›30"You've called at a bad time"9 lettersSee answer ›32Heads6 lettersSee answer ›35Shiva, for example8 lettersSee answer ›39Suffix meaning "rule"5 lettersSee answer ›40Combinations with numbers and sets5 lettersSee answer ›4124-Across co-producer, whose name is the song title spelled backward3 lettersSee answer ›42Climax of operational planning4 lettersSee answer ›43Brand for which General Foods distributed orange-handled coffeepots to restaurants5 lettersSee answer ›44Core supporters4 lettersSee answer ›45Ferrer who co-starred in "War and Peace," 19563 lettersSee answer ›46Shot-putter?5 lettersSee answer ›47Baba ghanouj, e.g.5 lettersSee answer ›48Where gold "beaver coins" were used as currency15 lettersSee answer ›51Green suit?15 lettersSee answer ›52Pricey catering option7 lettersSee answer ›53Scuffled, in dialect7 lettersSee answer ›

Down

1Sharp blow to the chest7 lettersSee answer ›2Staple in a poke bowl7 lettersSee answer ›3Titular figure in a scandalous John Singer Sargent portrait7 lettersSee answer ›4Maintains5 lettersSee answer ›5Negative impression4 lettersSee answer ›6Sports org. in the 2024 film "Challengers"3 lettersSee answer ›7Longship builders8 lettersSee answer ›8Intoxicates6 lettersSee answer ›9___ Farnsworth, inventor dubbed "The Father of Television"5 lettersSee answer ›10Treasure hunter's find4 lettersSee answer ›11La ___ (leading Belgian French-language TV channel)3 lettersSee answer ›12Mocap suit components7 lettersSee answer ›13Break character?7 lettersSee answer ›14Slender hospital tools7 lettersSee answer ›16Especially gratifying, so to speak13 lettersSee answer ›22Done-up dos5 lettersSee answer ›23Eastern lines5 lettersSee answer ›25Very iffy5 lettersSee answer ›26They might go faster with zinc5 lettersSee answer ›28Suspect5 lettersSee answer ›29British slang for a police car5 lettersSee answer ›31Improviser at a workbench8 lettersSee answer ›32Cursed vibe7 lettersSee answer ›33Call at the plate?7 lettersSee answer ›34Geometry term from the Greek for "uneven"7 lettersSee answer ›36Application for smoother shifting7 lettersSee answer ›37Even, or nearly so, at Wimbledon7 lettersSee answer ›38Naïve-looking, in a way7 lettersSee answer ›40Transaction with no money down6 lettersSee answer ›43Leader of the Afrofuturistic jazz collective Arkestra for almost four decades5 lettersSee answer ›44Seat fillers5 lettersSee answer ›46Greenhorn, informally4 lettersSee answer ›47Oldest four-letter papal name4 lettersSee answer ›49Call in a card game3 lettersSee answer ›50Early major producer of vacuum tubes3 lettersSee answer ›