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NYT Crossword September 22 2025 Answers

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Every answer from the Monday, September 22 2025 New York Times Crossword, checked and verified against the published NYT solution. Select a clue for the full explanation.

Constructed by Dena R. Verkuil and Andrea Carla Michaels · Edited by Will Shortz

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1School stat like 3.5 or 4.03 lettersSee answer ›4Yeast, mold and mushrooms5 lettersSee answer ›9Desert plants with needles5 lettersSee answer ›14Tree with "American" and "slippery" varieties3 lettersSee answer ›15Alaskan native5 lettersSee answer ›16Synthetic fabric once common in sweaters5 lettersSee answer ›17Born as3 lettersSee answer ›18Wine choice in southern France11 lettersSee answer ›20Bonkers4 lettersSee answer ›22Compete (for)3 lettersSee answer ›23Changes with the times6 lettersSee answer ›24Females that may be fleeced4 lettersSee answer ›26Cinema showing4 lettersSee answer ›27Canadian P.M. who is the son of another Canadian P.M.13 lettersSee answer ›32Cyber Monday sector5 lettersSee answer ›33Put to work3 lettersSee answer ›34Ask God (for)4 lettersSee answer ›37Identify in a Facebook photo3 lettersSee answer ›38Where canines sleep7 lettersSee answer ›42"Du-u-ude!"3 lettersSee answer ›43Basketball's O'Neal, to fans4 lettersSee answer ›45Keanu Reeves's character in "The Matrix"3 lettersSee answer ›46To no ___ (ineffectively)5 lettersSee answer ›48Platform for Donkey Kong Country13 lettersSee answer ›52Ingredient in many hand lotions4 lettersSee answer ›53The lion's share4 lettersSee answer ›54Cigarette butt receptacle6 lettersSee answer ›57Major N.Y.C. concert venue3 lettersSee answer ›58Do the backstroke or breaststroke4 lettersSee answer ›62Chunks found in Ben & Jerry's Half Baked ice cream11 lettersSee answer ›65Avant-garde musical artist Yoko3 lettersSee answer ›66Fixed, as a piano5 lettersSee answer ›67"The Godfather" author Puzo5 lettersSee answer ›68Frequently, to a poet3 lettersSee answer ›69Winter coasters5 lettersSee answer ›70Surgical tube5 lettersSee answer ›71Cry from Homer … or a phonetic hint to the ends of 18-, 27-, 48- and 62- Across3 lettersSee answer ›

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1Kids these days4 lettersSee answer ›2"Not guilty," e.g.4 lettersSee answer ›3"You got that right, sister!"4 lettersSee answer ›4Certain evergreen3 lettersSee answer ›5Like some bars in gymnastics6 lettersSee answer ›6One who is barely seen?6 lettersSee answer ›7Jeer4 lettersSee answer ›8"How was ___ know?"3 lettersSee answer ›9Pamper6 lettersSee answer ›10Tour guide?7 lettersSee answer ›11Crash of thunder4 lettersSee answer ›12Promote enthusiastically4 lettersSee answer ›13"Need You Tonight" rock band4 lettersSee answer ›19Like speakeasies and refrigerators, at times6 lettersSee answer ›21Brand of cooler that shares its name with a Himalayan legend4 lettersSee answer ›25Opposite of tame4 lettersSee answer ›26Join into one4 lettersSee answer ›27Jacuzzi features4 lettersSee answer ›28Where to find the Jazz4 lettersSee answer ›29Long-winded tales5 lettersSee answer ›30Apply, as ointment5 lettersSee answer ›31City-related5 lettersSee answer ›35Desertlike4 lettersSee answer ›36Carefree motto, in modern lingo4 lettersSee answer ›39Low-scoring deadlock6 lettersSee answer ›40Richard of "Pretty Woman"4 lettersSee answer ›41Hurdles for srs.4 lettersSee answer ›44Sounded like a duck7 lettersSee answer ›47Farm docs4 lettersSee answer ›49Tartan patterns6 lettersSee answer ›50"Yeah, right"6 lettersSee answer ›51Bean6 lettersSee answer ›54Does some theater work4 lettersSee answer ›55Word before food or mate4 lettersSee answer ›56Refine, as a skill4 lettersSee answer ›57Castle defense4 lettersSee answer ›59What a whittler whittles4 lettersSee answer ›60Facts4 lettersSee answer ›61Relative of a butterfly4 lettersSee answer ›63Private online chats, for short3 lettersSee answer ›64Spicy3 lettersSee answer ›