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NYT Crossword October 28 2025 Answers

Deborah Simmons ✓Solving & explaining puzzles since 1998 · Updated October 28 2025

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Every answer from the Tuesday, October 28 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

1Six years, for a U.S. senator4 lettersSee answer ›5Portable speaker?4 lettersSee answer ›9Is behind4 lettersSee answer ›13___ jelly, popular boba tea topping4 lettersSee answer ›14Beginning5 lettersSee answer ›15Orbit, e.g.4 lettersSee answer ›16Little guys in striped coats10 lettersSee answer ›18What a booth in a recording studio shouldn't have4 lettersSee answer ›19Build-your-own breakfast spot9 lettersSee answer ›20Tattoo artist5 lettersSee answer ›21$$$ set aside for old age3 lettersSee answer ›22Child's living room hideaway8 lettersSee answer ›24Leftover piece7 lettersSee answer ›28Santa ___, Calif.3 lettersSee answer ›29___ Max, singer with the 2018 hit "Sweet but Psycho"3 lettersSee answer ›30Vessel with a spout6 lettersSee answer ›33Hook or Cook: Abbr.4 lettersSee answer ›37Alternative cut to a bob5 lettersSee answer ›39Comedian Margaret3 lettersSee answer ›40Style of a room5 lettersSee answer ›41Word before chance or pickings4 lettersSee answer ›42Plea before an impulsive act6 lettersSee answer ›44Singer Grande, to fans3 lettersSee answer ›45Plop yourself down3 lettersSee answer ›47Melodramatic crying7 lettersSee answer ›49Beverage containers for people on the move8 lettersSee answer ›54A/C measure3 lettersSee answer ›55Adam of "The O.C."5 lettersSee answer ›56Reason why9 lettersSee answer ›61Eight, in Spain4 lettersSee answer ›62Personal treasure chest ... or what each of the five groups of shaded letters illustrates?10 lettersSee answer ›63Tandoori-baked bread4 lettersSee answer ›64Businesswoman Lauder5 lettersSee answer ›65German-based international supermarket chain4 lettersSee answer ›66"Twilight" vampire Cullen4 lettersSee answer ›67General ___ shrimp4 lettersSee answer ›68Russian denial4 lettersSee answer ›

Down

1Tea brand once owned by Starbucks4 lettersSee answer ›2Kind of sch. for grades one to six4 lettersSee answer ›3Bit of spa attire4 lettersSee answer ›4Magician of Arthurian legend6 lettersSee answer ›5Sort who's too good for everyone else4 lettersSee answer ›6Cuba y Puerto Rico5 lettersSee answer ›7Fashionably old-fashioned5 lettersSee answer ›8"___ a date!"3 lettersSee answer ›9Like some sandwiches8 lettersSee answer ›10Super-silly sort5 lettersSee answer ›11Thin air5 lettersSee answer ›12Brief5 lettersSee answer ›14It may be in the low 90s6 lettersSee answer ›17Make fizzy6 lettersSee answer ›20McKellen who played Gandalf3 lettersSee answer ›23The 2% in 2% milk3 lettersSee answer ›24Performs like Playboi Carti, say4 lettersSee answer ›25The dark side4 lettersSee answer ›26Longer than midi4 lettersSee answer ›27Diplomat's skill4 lettersSee answer ›31Vietnamese soup3 lettersSee answer ›32"That was clumsy of me!"4 lettersSee answer ›34Smoothie "superfruit"4 lettersSee answer ›35NSFW stuff4 lettersSee answer ›36Calc prerequisite4 lettersSee answer ›38"Get me out of here!"8 lettersSee answer ›40Person who's in the red6 lettersSee answer ›42Good name for a chef?3 lettersSee answer ›43Hanging over a baby's crib6 lettersSee answer ›46Very cold and wet3 lettersSee answer ›48John who wrote "The Pilgrim's Progress"6 lettersSee answer ›49Certain steak5 lettersSee answer ›50Deep-sea predators5 lettersSee answer ›51Give extreme effort, in slang5 lettersSee answer ›52"Any ___ is good ___" (public relations saying)5 lettersSee answer ›53Managed5 lettersSee answer ›57Informal shirts4 lettersSee answer ›58With dexterity4 lettersSee answer ›59Ore deposit4 lettersSee answer ›60Opposite of entrance4 lettersSee answer ›62Hot tub nozzle3 lettersSee answer ›