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NYT Crossword September 26 2025 Answers

Deborah Simmons ✓Solving & explaining puzzles since 1998 · Updated September 26 2025

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Every answer from the Friday, September 26 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

1Hogwash5 lettersSee answer ›6Smart4 lettersSee answer ›10Dip that can be made in a molcajete, for short4 lettersSee answer ›14Start of a count-off5 lettersSee answer ›15Stream with a lot of shade?9 lettersSee answer ›17"You interested?"5 lettersSee answer ›18Something a newlywed usually lacks9 lettersSee answer ›19Embark7 lettersSee answer ›21Some wraps6 lettersSee answer ›22Flock : geese :: business : ___7 lettersSee answer ›23Comic book sound3 lettersSee answer ›24"Alea iacta ___" ("The die is cast")3 lettersSee answer ›25Politician who organized the first congressional hearing on global warming (1981)6 lettersSee answer ›26Indigenous person of northern South America5 lettersSee answer ›28It holds the line4 lettersSee answer ›29Lots and lots4 lettersSee answer ›31"Hogwash!"3 lettersSee answer ›33Takes in the trash?13 lettersSee answer ›37It gets pumped at a party3 lettersSee answer ›38"Is this seat taken ...?"4 lettersSee answer ›39Pet food brand whose name reflects its founding in Allentown, Pa.4 lettersSee answer ›41Blowouts5 lettersSee answer ›43Chew on6 lettersSee answer ›45"The Walking Dead" network3 lettersSee answer ›48Call at the table?3 lettersSee answer ›49In need of an evening out?7 lettersSee answer ›50Greeting that combines a handshake and an embrace6 lettersSee answer ›52Put together7 lettersSee answer ›53Sign before picking up9 lettersSee answer ›55Border (on)5 lettersSee answer ›57Digitally altered videos of celebrities, say9 lettersSee answer ›58Race, in a way5 lettersSee answer ›59Icelandic saga4 lettersSee answer ›60Creature that can be "red-spotted"4 lettersSee answer ›61Novelist Ferrante5 lettersSee answer ›

Down

1Put in stitches3 lettersSee answer ›2Talked one's way (out of)8 lettersSee answer ›3It might be on display at Comic-Con9 lettersSee answer ›4Cleaning product commonly used by pet owners10 lettersSee answer ›5One receiving monthly payments6 lettersSee answer ›6Drinks made with cardamom5 lettersSee answer ›7Word with study or city4 lettersSee answer ›8"Who am ___ question?"3 lettersSee answer ›9Bowdlerize, maybe6 lettersSee answer ›10Enemigo de un ratón4 lettersSee answer ›11Serving a purpose5 lettersSee answer ›12High points5 lettersSee answer ›13It's where the heart is5 lettersSee answer ›16Diaper bag item7 lettersSee answer ›20Patronized, in a way5 lettersSee answer ›22Repeated word in the "Star Wars" prologue3 lettersSee answer ›23Variety of violet5 lettersSee answer ›26Closing bars5 lettersSee answer ›27Classic thing to slip on10 lettersSee answer ›30City east of Phoenix5 lettersSee answer ›32Didn't get broken9 lettersSee answer ›34Search for oneself7 lettersSee answer ›35Antibiotic used to treat anthrax5 lettersSee answer ›36Problem for someone who's pushing 90, say8 lettersSee answer ›40Chicago airport code3 lettersSee answer ›42Duchess of Sussex beginning in 20186 lettersSee answer ›44The works?6 lettersSee answer ›45Building … or a building material, if you swap its consonants5 lettersSee answer ›46Cincinnati sports mascot5 lettersSee answer ›47Made some Java, say5 lettersSee answer ›49Cockatoo feature5 lettersSee answer ›51Purifying filter acronym4 lettersSee answer ›52Waxed, in a way4 lettersSee answer ›54Scrape (out)3 lettersSee answer ›56Org. that measures A.Q.I.3 lettersSee answer ›