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NYT Crossword September 28 2025 Answers

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Every answer from the Sunday, September 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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1Caveat ___ ("Buyer beware")6 lettersSee answer ›7Spice that's characteristic of Hungarian cooking7 lettersSee answer ›14Marvel Comics mutant who can freeze his own body6 lettersSee answer ›20Arizona county or Indigenous people6 lettersSee answer ›21Tries some water, say7 lettersSee answer ›22Like a win-win situation6 lettersSee answer ›23___ law, concept in computing technology6 lettersSee answer ›24Alternative to a nanny7 lettersSee answer ›25Fire starters6 lettersSee answer ›26Contents of a flagon3 lettersSee answer ›27Ole Miss athletes, to fans4 lettersSee answer ›29X3 lettersSee answer ›30___ Scott, who the Supreme Court said was not free to sue for his freedom4 lettersSee answer ›32Org. not getting many happy returns?3 lettersSee answer ›33Remove surgically, as tissue6 lettersSee answer ›35"They tell me …"5 lettersSee answer ›37Beethoven symphony originally intended to honor Napoleon6 lettersSee answer ›39Class that might cause some high schoolers to blush6 lettersSee answer ›40Sprawling Indian metropolis5 lettersSee answer ›41Like some bridges6 lettersSee answer ›42"Let me check on that"6 lettersSee answer ›44Expiates, with "for"6 lettersSee answer ›46Man's name that's 49-Across plus a letter4 lettersSee answer ›49Woman's name that's the first three letters of 46-Across3 lettersSee answer ›50Rap battle participants3 lettersSee answer ›53Tampa Bay athlete, in brief3 lettersSee answer ›54Twists off course, as a ship4 lettersSee answer ›58Witch3 lettersSee answer ›59Exploited4 lettersSee answer ›60"Weekend Update" co-host Michael3 lettersSee answer ›61All over again4 lettersSee answer ›63___Guessr, hit online game whose players deduce locations from Google Street View images3 lettersSee answer ›64Where a hurricane forms5 lettersSee answer ›66Wish someone "Happy Birthday," perhaps9 lettersSee answer ›69At dawn, say5 lettersSee answer ›71Mammal with long whiskers6 lettersSee answer ›73Extra5 lettersSee answer ›74They stand for art6 lettersSee answer ›75Called6 lettersSee answer ›77___ Day, Billie Holiday's portrayer in "The United States vs. Billie Holiday"5 lettersSee answer ›78Celebrity chef Ina6 lettersSee answer ›79Demanding entertainer4 lettersSee answer ›80X3 lettersSee answer ›82He was né Clay3 lettersSee answer ›83Watchdog's warning3 lettersSee answer ›84Words of understanding4 lettersSee answer ›86Outback baby4 lettersSee answer ›87Familiar initialism coined by a U.S. Air Force captain3 lettersSee answer ›88Do-over at Wimbledon3 lettersSee answer ›89Kind of sauce at a sushi bar3 lettersSee answer ›90Sewer in American history4 lettersSee answer ›91"Weekend Update" show, for short3 lettersSee answer ›92Zipped4 lettersSee answer ›93Like some alcohol … or places that prohibit alcohol3 lettersSee answer ›94Not present and not excused, for short4 lettersSee answer ›96Foreign policy grp.3 lettersSee answer ›97Brezhnev of the Soviet Union6 lettersSee answer ›99Cherokee and Cheyenne6 lettersSee answer ›101Relationship featuring casual intimacy … or a hint to six pairs of intersecting answers in this puzzle19 lettersSee answer ›108Starbucks competitor5 lettersSee answer ›109Spot for an ornament7 lettersSee answer ›110Giants in California and New York5 lettersSee answer ›112"Beat it!"7 lettersSee answer ›115Actor Wilson of "The Office"5 lettersSee answer ›116Rye, e.g.7 lettersSee answer ›118"Wouldn't miss it for the world!"7 lettersSee answer ›119Like slow filers and fast drivers, at times5 lettersSee answer ›120Furniture retailer owned by Williams-Sonoma7 lettersSee answer ›121Lives (in)7 lettersSee answer ›122Iditarod transports5 lettersSee answer ›123Involves7 lettersSee answer ›

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1Title heroine described as "handsome, clever and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition"4 lettersSee answer ›2Dough6 lettersSee answer ›3Fly-catching bird with a name derived from Greek6 lettersSee answer ›4Driveway goo3 lettersSee answer ›5As a whole7 lettersSee answer ›6Moves elsewhere9 lettersSee answer ›7Tenured profs, often4 lettersSee answer ›8Small battery … or an org. that might help with a battery3 lettersSee answer ›9It's all in your head6 lettersSee answer ›10Mother of Joseph and Benjamin, in the Bible6 lettersSee answer ›11Book after Song of Solomon6 lettersSee answer ›12French cocktail made with crème de cassis3 lettersSee answer ›13Mirrored4 lettersSee answer ›14Reasoned conclusion9 lettersSee answer ›15Brewski7 lettersSee answer ›16Bulldog fan in Connecticut3 lettersSee answer ›17Santa ___6 lettersSee answer ›18Stellar6 lettersSee answer ›19Van ___ Avenue, thoroughfare in San Francisco4 lettersSee answer ›28Minds one's P's and Q's7 lettersSee answer ›31Contribute (to), as one's reputation7 lettersSee answer ›34Been asleep, say4 lettersSee answer ›35Texter's "Beats me"3 lettersSee answer ›36Small inlet3 lettersSee answer ›38Li'l4 lettersSee answer ›43One-named singer born in Nigeria4 lettersSee answer ›45Skier's conveyance4 lettersSee answer ›46Online site for D.I.Y.ers4 lettersSee answer ›47Time out, perhaps8 lettersSee answer ›48Info commonly shown on a board game box8 lettersSee answer ›50Clown around with food?8 lettersSee answer ›51City SE of Phoenix8 lettersSee answer ›52Purpose of some cameras8 lettersSee answer ›55Reaches a shared opinion about8 lettersSee answer ›56Holistic contentment8 lettersSee answer ›57Some beans or sauces4 lettersSee answer ›59"E pluribus ___"4 lettersSee answer ›62Sport4 lettersSee answer ›65Matrix5 lettersSee answer ›67Sun bloc?3 lettersSee answer ›68Pretty ___ picture3 lettersSee answer ›70Moving around5 lettersSee answer ›72Attack7 lettersSee answer ›74You can put a ring on it7 lettersSee answer ›76Back6 lettersSee answer ›78Came back, as hair6 lettersSee answer ›79Music's Fatboy Slim and David Guetta, informally3 lettersSee answer ›81Error message on a Blu-ray device6 lettersSee answer ›83Targeted (to)6 lettersSee answer ›85Key for a quick exit3 lettersSee answer ›92Boils with rage7 lettersSee answer ›95Liberal-leaning7 lettersSee answer ›97Chinese "nut" that's really a fruit6 lettersSee answer ›98Makes small in comparison6 lettersSee answer ›99Government debt obligations, familiarly6 lettersSee answer ›10040 winks6 lettersSee answer ›101___ fatale5 lettersSee answer ›102Gets 40 winks5 lettersSee answer ›103Letter-shaped train track piece5 lettersSee answer ›104"To ___ own self be true"5 lettersSee answer ›105Sharpened5 lettersSee answer ›106George of "Star Trek"5 lettersSee answer ›107Bad thing to discover in the pantry5 lettersSee answer ›108AA or JJ, e.g.4 lettersSee answer ›111Jazz singer Sylvia ___4 lettersSee answer ›113Come to3 lettersSee answer ›114"For sure"3 lettersSee answer ›116Org. that merged with the U.F.C. in 20233 lettersSee answer ›117Kind of party3 lettersSee answer ›