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NYT Crossword September 27 2025 Answers

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Every answer from the Saturday, September 27 2025 New York Times Crossword, checked and verified against the published NYT solution. Select a clue for the full explanation.

Constructed by Adrian Johnson and Christina Iverson · Edited by Will Shortz

Across

1Thin underlayer4 lettersSee answer ›5Comment often made with an eye roll4 lettersSee answer ›9African capital whose name translates to "ants"5 lettersSee answer ›14Derby, e.g.9 lettersSee answer ›16Commit a library taboo5 lettersSee answer ›17Ship-to-ship communication9 lettersSee answer ›18Lacks5 lettersSee answer ›19Parent whose child is taking steps to improve?8 lettersSee answer ›20Backbiter?4 lettersSee answer ›21Puts in a protected place9 lettersSee answer ›23They arose from Ra's tears, according to Egyptian mythology4 lettersSee answer ›24Cries of disappointment3 lettersSee answer ›25Components of some brick buildings8 lettersSee answer ›28It might be living on the edge5 lettersSee answer ›31Showing tough love, say5 lettersSee answer ›32Mash at a luau3 lettersSee answer ›33"Please avoid brutal honesty!"7 lettersSee answer ›35Wise7 lettersSee answer ›37Certain drug classification, in brief3 lettersSee answer ›38Ally of Athens during the Peloponnesian War5 lettersSee answer ›40Fathers5 lettersSee answer ›41Two-humper8 lettersSee answer ›43Period that begins on July 233 lettersSee answer ›44It's not an option4 lettersSee answer ›45Zest source9 lettersSee answer ›50Brown alternative4 lettersSee answer ›51Enterprise enterprise8 lettersSee answer ›52WWE star Randy ___5 lettersSee answer ›54Part of a high-tech security system9 lettersSee answer ›55"Lift ___ Voice and Sing" (protest anthem)5 lettersSee answer ›56They go from season to season9 lettersSee answer ›57Short5 lettersSee answer ›58Hibernation stations4 lettersSee answer ›59Seven ___4 lettersSee answer ›

Down

1Contempt, in slang5 lettersSee answer ›2Actress with a dual role in 1998's "The Parent Trap"5 lettersSee answer ›3Tends to some pressing matters5 lettersSee answer ›4Punk8 lettersSee answer ›5The first Musketeer, alphabetically6 lettersSee answer ›6Kept hidden, as information5 lettersSee answer ›7Product for winter sidewalk safety7 lettersSee answer ›8"Mean Girls" writer3 lettersSee answer ›9Firewood choice, or its destiny3 lettersSee answer ›10Rubs the wrong way6 lettersSee answer ›11Alternative to a crib9 lettersSee answer ›12Classic rock?9 lettersSee answer ›13Paratha flour4 lettersSee answer ›15Digital file?10 lettersSee answer ›22Runs slowly5 lettersSee answer ›23Kind of contest with multiple chances to participate10 lettersSee answer ›26[This makes me mad!]3 lettersSee answer ›27Is on the bottom?4 lettersSee answer ›28One who's slow to pick things up4 lettersSee answer ›29What an insensitive joke might do9 lettersSee answer ›30Locale for many community courts9 lettersSee answer ›31"Love Story" author Erich5 lettersSee answer ›34Diagnostic tool, in brief3 lettersSee answer ›36Natural history museum collection8 lettersSee answer ›39Simplest possible phone plan7 lettersSee answer ›42Sam Cooke and Marvin Gaye, among others6 lettersSee answer ›43Solo sorts6 lettersSee answer ›46Particle accelerator byproduct5 lettersSee answer ›47Statement that might follow a hug5 lettersSee answer ›48___ Lines (ancient Peruvian geoglyphs)5 lettersSee answer ›49Bandage5 lettersSee answer ›50Burns, e.g.4 lettersSee answer ›53What comes before 1/13 lettersSee answer ›54Drug discussed in Aldous Huxley's "Heaven and Hell"3 lettersSee answer ›