NYT CROSSWORD • THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2025

NYT Crossword Answers Oct 16, 2025

Complete answer list for the October 16, 2025 New York Times Crossword. Across and Down, every clue, every answer — plus the full grid below.

By Kareem AyasEdited by Will ShortzGrid 15×1578 clues

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Across 39

  1. 1"___ Talkin' ’bout Love" (Van Halen song) ↗AINT
  2. 5*Treat with kindness ↗BENTO
  3. 10Noted works of the Roman poet Horace ↗ODES
  4. 14Brute ↗BOOR
  5. 15Statuette modeled after a knight holding a crusader’s sword ↗OSCAR
  6. 16Feeling associated with skipping a party, perhaps ↗FOMO
  7. 17Unchangeable ↗SETINSTONE
  8. 19Horned creature in "Pan's Labyrinth" ↗FAUN
  9. 20Hungers for ↗CRAVES
  10. 21Early Germanic people ↗GOTHS
  11. 23Move around the world ↗ORBIT
  12. 24*Expensive ↗PRY
  13. 26Lift ↗HOIST
  14. 29Mardi Gras locale, informally ↗NOLA
  15. 30Ovarian sac contents ↗ROE
  16. 31Fuddy-duddies ↗PRUDES
  17. 32"Still ___" (1999 rap hit) ↗DRE
  18. 33Meander ↗WEND
  19. 34High lights? ↗AURORA
  20. 35Practice chiromancy ↗READPALMS
  21. 37Disappear, as a trail ↗GOCOLD
  22. 40"Central Park in the Dark" composer ↗IVES
  23. 41Music box? ↗AMP
  24. 44Diviner ↗ORACLE
  25. 45Jerry’s uncle on "Seinfeld" ↗LEO
  26. 46Box a bit ↗SPAR
  27. 47Tonkatsu coating ↗PANKO
  28. 48*Deli device ↗SLR
  29. 49Bug expert, for short ↗ITPRO
  30. 50Invite at the door ↗ASKIN
  31. 52Extreme pressure ↗DURESS
  32. 53El ___ ↗PASO
  33. 55Felt tired during the day, say ↗NEEDEDANAP
  34. 58Words to a betrayer ↗ETTU
  35. 59“The Philosophy of Right” author ↗HEGEL
  36. 60Like a computer with a running screensaver ↗IDLE
  37. 61How whiskey might be served … with a hint to the answers to the seven starred clues ↗NEAT
  38. 62*Risky endeavor, idiomatically ↗DROLL
  39. 63Onetime resident of the Winter Palace ↗TSAR

Down 39

  1. 1Bolt ↗ABSCOND
  2. 2Certain Windows hard drive malfunction ↗IOERROR
  3. 3*Conspicuous ↗NOTABLE
  4. 4Stupid stuff it's fun to know ↗TRIVIA
  5. 5Level-ending foe ↗BOSS
  6. 6Educated guess: Abbr. ↗EST
  7. 7Sgt., e.g. ↗NCO
  8. 8Like lemon curd ↗TANGY
  9. 9Preceder of "Bites" and "Bars" in commercial names ↗OREO
  10. 10*Chance to meet one-on-one with a professor ↗OFFHOURS
  11. 11"Copy me" ↗DOASIDO
  12. 12Runner Down Under ↗EMU
  13. 13Certain heir ↗SON
  14. 18Make in the end ↗NET
  15. 22Steady humming sounds ↗THRUMS
  16. 24Locale for catfish or carp ↗POND
  17. 25What allows Neo to disconnect from the Matrix ↗REDPILL
  18. 27Spanish 101 verb ↗SER
  19. 28Whom you might greet with open arms, for short? ↗TSA
  20. 30Novelist Charles who wrote "The Cloister and the Hearth" ↗READE
  21. 31Prefix with botanist ↗PALEO
  22. 33"Sure … if you say so" ↗WELLOK
  23. 35Enjoys oneself uninhibitedly … or a punny title for this puzzle ↗ROCKSOUT
  24. 36Profess ↗AVER
  25. 37Something Lincoln once led, for short ↗GOP
  26. 38Italian time unit ↗ORA
  27. 39Card game with a winning score of 5,000 points ↗CANASTA
  28. 41*Book addenda ↗APPENDS
  29. 42Chicken ___ ↗MARSALA
  30. 43Thrive ↗PROSPER
  31. 46Narrow channel ↗STRAIT
  32. 48Derisive look ↗SNEER
  33. 49OB/GYN offering ↗IUD
  34. 51Crisply shown, as on TV ↗INHD
  35. 52Wooded valley ↗DELL
  36. 53Coop ↗PEN
  37. 54Performed amazingly, in slang ↗ATE
  38. 56Id's counterpart ↗EGO
  39. 57The First State: Abbr. ↗DEL