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NYT Crossword September 30 2025 Answers

Deborah Simmons ✓Solving & explaining puzzles since 1998 · Updated September 30 2025

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Every answer from the Tuesday, September 30 2025 New York Times Crossword, checked and verified against the published NYT solution. Select a clue for the full explanation.

Constructed by Justin Werfel · Edited by Will Shortz

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1Wood turner5 lettersSee answer ›6Frank who directed "It's a Wonderful Life"5 lettersSee answer ›11Yuletide beverage3 lettersSee answer ›14Storyteller of antiquity5 lettersSee answer ›15How tuna may be packed5 lettersSee answer ›16Card game that involves shouting its name3 lettersSee answer ›17*What a straw man in a cornfield is for?11 lettersSee answer ›19Palindromic woman's name3 lettersSee answer ›20"Already accomplished!"6 lettersSee answer ›21Dodge5 lettersSee answer ›23Product in high demand7 lettersSee answer ›26Material for a pub quiz6 lettersSee answer ›27During a tiebreaker, informally4 lettersSee answer ›28*Ref who makes a ruling against your favored team?10 lettersSee answer ›31Queen Elizabeth II's favored dog breed5 lettersSee answer ›33Move like the Blob4 lettersSee answer ›34Informal top3 lettersSee answer ›35*Primate with perfect pitch?9 lettersSee answer ›39Puppet alien of TV3 lettersSee answer ›42Greek cheese4 lettersSee answer ›43Underground waterway5 lettersSee answer ›47*Kelley Blue Book?10 lettersSee answer ›51"Tootsie" actress Garr4 lettersSee answer ›52"Unfortunately that's wrong"6 lettersSee answer ›53Sleazy hotel7 lettersSee answer ›55"Shush!"5 lettersSee answer ›56"No more for me, thanks"6 lettersSee answer ›58Something found in a pen or octopus3 lettersSee answer ›59"I love this!" ... or, phonetically, remark about the answer to each of the starred clues11 lettersSee answer ›64Year in Spain3 lettersSee answer ›65Sign between Virgo and Scorpio5 lettersSee answer ›66"Unfortunately ..."5 lettersSee answer ›67Declares, informally3 lettersSee answer ›68Teeny-tiny5 lettersSee answer ›69Run-down5 lettersSee answer ›

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1Fond du ___, Wis.3 lettersSee answer ›2___ Lingus3 lettersSee answer ›3General on a Chinese menu3 lettersSee answer ›4"Was your performance a success?"8 lettersSee answer ›5Disney park with Spaceship Earth5 lettersSee answer ›6Movie house6 lettersSee answer ›7Opposing4 lettersSee answer ›8Left of a ship ... or what a ship may have left4 lettersSee answer ›9Locale of an annual Carnaval3 lettersSee answer ›10Pollen, cat hair, etc.9 lettersSee answer ›11Largest and most northern Canadian territory7 lettersSee answer ›12One way to stop7 lettersSee answer ›13Flipped out7 lettersSee answer ›18Earth's pull, in brief4 lettersSee answer ›22Struggle3 lettersSee answer ›23Sound of a drinker in comics3 lettersSee answer ›24Yoko who sang on "Give Peace a Chance"3 lettersSee answer ›25Crag3 lettersSee answer ›26Big name in tea4 lettersSee answer ›29Befitting a king or queen5 lettersSee answer ›30___ choy3 lettersSee answer ›32Babyish9 lettersSee answer ›36Low-carb kind of diet4 lettersSee answer ›37H, to Homer3 lettersSee answer ›38"Oh. Come. On!"8 lettersSee answer ›39Some pod-bearing trees7 lettersSee answer ›40Fitness guru Jack7 lettersSee answer ›41Puppeteer with "Sesame Street" and "The Muppet Show"7 lettersSee answer ›44Fly catcher3 lettersSee answer ›45Time in history3 lettersSee answer ›46Big truck3 lettersSee answer ›48CBS forensic drama3 lettersSee answer ›49When nothing goes right6 lettersSee answer ›50Sticky stuff4 lettersSee answer ›54___ Island, locale in New York Harbor5 lettersSee answer ›56ID for a library volume4 lettersSee answer ›57Planet whose name is also a candy company4 lettersSee answer ›60Bit of apparel that often has stripes3 lettersSee answer ›61"Golly!"3 lettersSee answer ›62Owned3 lettersSee answer ›63Attempt3 lettersSee answer ›