NYT CROSSWORD • SUNDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2025

NYT Crossword Answers Oct 19, 2025

Complete answer list for the October 19, 2025 New York Times Crossword. Across and Down, every clue, every answer — plus the full grid below.

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Across 67

  1. 1Huge success ↗SMASH
  2. 6Seal, say ↗CLOSE
  3. 11From the beginning ↗ANEW
  4. 15___ sequencing (lab technique) ↗DNA
  5. 18Lively Bohemian dances ↗POLKAS
  6. 20Alternative to a tissue, informally ↗HANKY
  7. 21Bit in a hippie's necklace ↗LOVEBEAD
  8. 23Poker declaration ↗IRAISE
  9. 24Remove, as a ribbon ↗UNTIE
  10. 25Share confidences with ↗OPENUPTO
  11. 26Business traveler's convenience ↗COMPANYCARD
  12. 28Divisions on a map ↗COUNTRIES
  13. 29Brian ___, songwriter who popularized the term "generative music" ↗ENO
  14. 30Second volume ↗BOOKII
  15. 31"hahaha im DEAD!" ↗ROFL
  16. 32Broadband inits. ↗DSL
  17. 33Fights back tears? ↗DARNS
  18. 34Michelle Obama, to Princeton ↗ALUM
  19. 36Indulge (in) ↗PARTAKE
  20. 40National Arab American Heritage Month ↗APRIL
  21. 43Place to hang at home? ↗CLOSET
  22. 45Oppressive political regime, so to speak, with "the" ↗SYSTEM
  23. 46Have an ominous presence ↗LOOMLARGE
  24. 50Sound of a joke going over one's head ↗WHOOSH
  25. 52Giant Middle-earth creature ↗ENT
  26. 53Arched recess ↗APSE
  27. 54Person I truly am ↗REALME
  28. 56"Hey!" from on high ↗UPHERE
  29. 59Word with pack or rug ↗RAT
  30. 60Senior, informally ↗OLDSTER
  31. 61Org. that confiscates liquids ↗TSA
  32. 62Knocked out of the park ↗ACED
  33. 65Pop culture hit about dystopian technology ↗MRROBOTO
  34. 67Former parent of NBC ↗RCA
  35. 69Eliminators of some teams ↗PLAYOFFS
  36. 72Corn chip with a "Fuego" flavor ↗TAKI
  37. 73In the vein of ↗ALA
  38. 75Smallish batteries ↗AACELLS
  39. 77Rapper ___ Milli ↗FLO
  40. 78Get involved ↗STEPIN
  41. 80Perceptive ↗SHREWD
  42. 81Hawaiian shindig ↗LUAU
  43. 82Clothes for a doze, in brief ↗PJS
  44. 85Native of the Delaware Valley ↗LENAPE
  45. 87Pursuers of utopian goals ↗IDEALISTS
  46. 89Coffees that aren't single-origin ↗BLENDS
  47. 92Self-admiring sort ↗EGOIST
  48. 94Major Ukrainian seaport ↗ODESA
  49. 95Sisterly ↗SORORAL
  50. 97Sneaky plot ↗RUSE
  51. 98Pilgrims in Saudi Arabia ↗HAJIS
  52. 101Ear-related prefix ↗OTO
  53. 102Not fully open ↗AJAR
  54. 104Hybrid pastry ↗CRONUT
  55. 106P, to Pericles ↗RHO
  56. 109Injection associated with a certain toxin ↗ANTIVENOM
  57. 112Annoyances for ticket holders ↗TRAINDELAYS
  58. 114Palm Springs or Puerto Vallarta, notably ↗GAYMECCA
  59. 115Brown songbirds ↗WRENS
  60. 116Tale-telling brothers ↗GRIMMS
  61. 117Turned up ↗APPEARED
  62. 118"Strike up the band!" ↗HITIT
  63. 119Neighbor of a Saudi ↗YEMENI
  64. 120Nickname for Rachel ↗RAE
  65. 121Verbally expresses disdain ↗TUTS
  66. 122Warning signs ↗OMENS
  67. 123Tightly packed ↗DENSE

Down 73

  1. 1Food enlivener ↗SPICE
  2. 2Hardly a genius ↗MORON
  3. 3Home to a chapel with the Texas flag flying beside it ↗ALAMO
  4. 4Spotify button ↗SKIP
  5. 5Loves, loves, loves the occasion ↗HASABALL
  6. 6Hurls ↗CHUCKS
  7. 7Feature of a Hawaiian house ↗LANAI
  8. 8Being prosecuted ↗ONTRIAL
  9. 9Go downhill fast, say ↗SKID
  10. 10___ candy ↗EYE
  11. 11Chilly ↗ALOOF
  12. 12Orange juice preference ↗NOPULP
  13. 13With no one ahead or behind ↗EVEN
  14. 14Lost all liquid resources ↗WENTDRY
  15. 15Remove hair from ↗DEPILATE
  16. 16Main antagonist on HBO's "Euphoria" ↗NATE
  17. 17Clamors ↗ADOS
  18. 19Mexicali mister ↗SENOR
  19. 22Ruptures ↗BURSTS
  20. 27Over there, poetically ↗YON
  21. 28Openly reveal one's sexuality ↗COMEOUT
  22. 31Process for would-be Greeks ↗RUSH
  23. 33It's over a quarter of a quarter ↗DIME
  24. 35Features of the names of many Apple products ↗LOWERCASEIS
  25. 37N.Y.C. stadium eponym ↗ASHE
  26. 38Doll of a guy? ↗KEN
  27. 39Vitals checker, in brief ↗EMT
  28. 40Interrupter of dreams, maybe ↗ALARM
  29. 41Genre for Keith Haring ↗POPART
  30. 42Political platforms? ↗ROSTRA
  31. 43Saxon's foe ↗CELT
  32. 44Competitive athlete's goal, perhaps ↗TOPSPEED
  33. 47Guthrie who sang "Alice's Restaurant" ↗ARLO
  34. 48Bureaucratic barriers ↗REDTAPE
  35. 49Fuel source ↗GASOLINE
  36. 51"Care to dance?" ↗SHALLWE
  37. 55Sea, to Seurat ↗MER
  38. 57They may be caught in the summer ↗RAYS
  39. 58Prefix with sphere ↗ECO
  40. 60Tribute in the Tribune, say ↗OBIT
  41. 63Flow out ↗EFFUSE
  42. 64Keys above C's ↗DFLATS
  43. 66Blesses ↗OKS
  44. 68"That feels ama-a-azing!" ↗AAH
  45. 70Alan with six Emmys ↗ALDA
  46. 71Composer who led the U.S. Marine Band ↗SOUSA
  47. 74Canniest, for instance ↗ANAGRAM
  48. 76Artist's feedback session, informally ↗CRIT
  49. 79Olaf's creator in "Frozen" ↗ELSA
  50. 81Tops ↗LIDS
  51. 82Channel supported by pledge drives ↗PBS
  52. 83"Jenny From the Block" singer, to fans ↗JLO
  53. 84Immune cell variation ↗SEROTYPE
  54. 86Flow (out) ↗POUR
  55. 88Hung around idly ↗LOITERED
  56. 90"Sorry, I'm unavailable!" ↗NOTIME
  57. 91Tried to convey ↗DROVEAT
  58. 93Hide ↗SECRETE
  59. 96Surgical instrument ↗LANCET
  60. 98Lifts with a pulley ↗HOISTS
  61. 99"Dear ___" (greeting in an old advice column) ↗ANN
  62. 100Overly fault-finding ↗JUDGY
  63. 103"The Grapes of Wrath" family ↗JOADS
  64. 105Entered quickly ↗RANIN
  65. 106Food traditionally eaten with chopsticks ↗RAMEN
  66. 107Songs on Sundays ↗HYMNS
  67. 108Actor Davis who delivered Malcolm X's eulogy ↗OSSIE
  68. 109Gelatinous thickener ↗AGAR
  69. 110___ Valley ↗NAPA
  70. 111Shade lighter than cappuccino ↗ECRU
  71. 112Decorative auto upgrade ↗TRIM
  72. 113Mojito garnish ↗LIME
  73. 11550,000-watt clear-channel radio station in Iowa ↗WHO