NYT CROSSWORD • SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2025

NYT Crossword Answers Oct 11, 2025

Complete answer list for the October 11, 2025 New York Times Crossword. Across and Down, every clue, every answer — plus the full grid below.

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Across 33

  1. 1Source of great power? ↗MASTERSWITCH
  2. 13Common component of a digital watch, for short ↗LCD
  3. 16It snaps with a tap ↗IPHONECAMERA
  4. 17Symbol for electric flux, in physics ↗PHI
  5. 18One way to grin ↗FROMEARTOEAR
  6. 19What might be smelt? ↗ROE
  7. 20Be just right for ↗FIT
  8. 21Fortune ↗LOT
  9. 22Go to the other side ↗DEFECT
  10. 24Ambitious tactic in bridge ↗SLAMBID
  11. 27Deck deception ↗FALSECUT
  12. 29"My ___!" ↗STARS
  13. 30Food sticker? ↗TINE
  14. 31"___ Deo gloria" (Latin doctrine) ↗SOLI
  15. 32What a camper or criminal hopes to leave ↗NOTRACE
  16. 34Curved plumbing piece ↗PTRAP
  17. 35Car touted for its dual efficiency ↗DIESELHYBRID
  18. 37Serialized and melodramatic, as a show ↗SOAPY
  19. 39Black Death-era Iberian king dubbed "the Ceremonious" ↗PETERIV
  20. 40Initial cost of a sort ↗ANTE
  21. 41Speechwriter's consideration ↗TONE
  22. 42Put on ___ ↗ANACT
  23. 45Meet face to face? ↗HEADBUTT
  24. 47Spending quantities ↗OUTLAYS
  25. 49Like some protective sunglasses, in brief ↗ANTIUV
  26. 50Relaxed sigh ↗AHH
  27. 51"Longest ___ chain," 2019 Guinness feat set by a cancer awareness cause (196,000+ items, 120+ miles) ↗BRA
  28. 52Beam ↗RAY
  29. 53Youngest-ever QB to win multiple N.F.L. M.V.P. awards (by age 27) ↗LAMARJACKSON
  30. 58Music box? ↗AMP
  31. 59What magicians strive to do ↗BLOWYOURMIND
  32. 60Past participle of the French "naître" ↗NEE
  33. 61Under lines? ↗SUBWAYSYSTEM

Down 38

  1. 1Ticks off ↗MIFFS
  2. 2Taxing times ↗APRILS
  3. 3Targeted, as a target ↗SHOTAT
  4. 4East Egg resident in "The Great Gatsby" ↗TOM
  5. 5Buffalo-to-Rochester dir. ↗ENE
  6. 6They see things for what they are ↗REALISTS
  7. 7Seafood staple of New England ↗SCROD
  8. 8Engineer who supposedly found inspiration while tending to a boiling kettle ↗WATT
  9. 9Shorthand for a stance ↗IMO
  10. 10Top choice? ↗TEE
  11. 11Birthplace, as of civilization ↗CRADLE
  12. 12Big hoppers ↗HARES
  13. 13"Wax" collectible, informally ↗LPRECORD
  14. 14Count out for breakfast? ↗CHOCULA
  15. 15Nutritionist's offering ↗DIETTIP
  16. 23Lollapalooza, for instance ↗FESTIVAL
  17. 25Job done on one's hands and feet? ↗MANIPEDI
  18. 26Like typical frat boys, informally ↗BROEY
  19. 27Johann ___, philosopher who influenced Hegel ↗FICHTE
  20. 28Words on either side of "for" ↗ANEYE
  21. 30"Everyone has ___. What's rare is the courage to follow [it] to the dark places where it leads": Erica Jong ↗TALENT
  22. 33Move, as a plant ↗REPOT
  23. 34Forensic unit's discovery ↗PRINT
  24. 35String or integer, in computer science ↗DATATYPE
  25. 36Spot to order a witbier or hefeweizen ↗BRAUHAUS
  26. 37Very hot and dry ↗SAHARAN
  27. 38What the singer Prince Rogers Nelson famously went by ↗ONENAME
  28. 41With fewer than 11,000 people, the world's second-least-populous country, after Vatican City ↗TUVALU
  29. 43Chooses traffic over train, perhaps ↗CABSIT
  30. 44Lt. ___ Slothrop, main character in Pynchon's "Gravity's Rainbow" ↗TYRONE
  31. 46Some spring nursery purchases ↗BULBS
  32. 47Sarcastic "That's just great" ↗OHJOY
  33. 48Dominatrix's practice, for short ↗SANDM
  34. 50TV sister of Sansa Stark ↗ARYA
  35. 54___ rule ↗MOB
  36. 55Reaction to something sweet, maybe ↗AWW
  37. 56React to something moving, maybe ↗CRY
  38. 57Formula 1 divisions: Abbr. ↗KMS