NYT CROSSWORD • THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2025

NYT Crossword Answers Oct 23, 2025

Complete answer list for the October 23, 2025 New York Times Crossword. Across and Down, every clue, every answer — plus the full grid below.

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Across 36

  1. 1Areas of development ↗WOMBS
  2. 6Punch-in-the-stomach sounds ↗OOFS
  3. 10Genre for Blackpink and Stray Kids ↗KPOP
  4. 14Helvetica-like typeface ↗ARIAL
  5. 15Button to hit after accidentally deleting an entire manuscript ↗UNDO
  6. 16International footwear retailer based in Quebec ↗ALDO
  7. 17Stealthiest of stealthy warriors ↗NINJAMASTERS
  8. 19Warren Beatty film based on "Ten Days That Shook the World" ↗REDS
  9. 20Reporters often carry them ↗NOTEPADS
  10. 21Relaxed ↗ATEASE
  11. 23"Call Her Daddy" podcast host Cooper ↗ALEX
  12. 24Words of denial ↗NOTI
  13. 26"___ Just Not That Into You" ↗HES
  14. 27Activist Brockovich ↗ERIN
  15. 29Case opener ↗ARGUMENT
  16. 33Location that requires tickets for checking out, but not checking in ↗COATROOM
  17. 36End of a municipal address? ↗GOV
  18. 371887 drama on which a Puccini opera is based ↗LATOSCA
  19. 40Things opened before passengers exit an aircraft ↗CABINDOORS
  20. 42Composers' rights org. ↗BMI
  21. 43Difference between a B and a C, perhaps ↗HALFSTEP
  22. 45Star of NBC's "The Blacklist" ↗JAMESSPADER
  23. 47TV's warrior princess ↗XENA
  24. 50"Done!," in geometry class ↗QED
  25. 51Brief moments, in brief ↗SECS
  26. 54___ Hashana ↗ROSH
  27. 56Units equal to roughly a quarter of a calorie ↗JOULES
  28. 59Cook outside? ↗SUNBATHE
  29. 61River through Kazakhstan ↗URAL
  30. 62Sports craze of the 2020s … as seen three times in this grid? ↗PICKLEBALL
  31. 64Little more than ↗MERE
  32. 65Ingredient in some mouthwashes ↗ALOE
  33. 66Clay being of Jewish folklore ↗GOLEM
  34. 67Troubadour, e.g. ↗POET
  35. 68Thomas Hardy heroine who's described as "a pure woman" ↗TESS
  36. 69Wheel connectors ↗AXLES

Down 38

  1. 1"Should we?," informally ↗WANNA
  2. 2A.L. East athlete ↗ORIOLE
  3. 3Money maker ↗MINTER
  4. 4Peninsula south of California, colloquially ↗BAJAMEXICO
  5. 5It's an affront ↗SLAP
  6. 6One-up ↗OUTDO
  7. 7Worst-possible Amazon rating ↗ONESTAR
  8. 8Prez on a U.S. coin ↗FDR
  9. 9Slugger Sammy ↗SOSA
  10. 10Holder of the N.B.A.'s career points record before LeBron passed him in 2023 ↗KAREEM
  11. 11"You've overstayed your welcome" ↗PLEASEGO
  12. 12Figures on DraftKings or FanDuel ↗ODDS
  13. 13Put forward ↗POSE
  14. 18___ Nicolas, remotest of California's Channel Islands ↗SAN
  15. 22Set of notches in a dictionary ↗THUMBINDEX
  16. 25Classic Camaros ↗IROCS
  17. 28"Didn't mean to offend you" ↗NOSHADE
  18. 30Best ever, informally ↗GOAT
  19. 31Neither's partner ↗NOR
  20. 32Common fixtures over fireplaces ↗TVS
  21. 34Part of U.S.M.A.: Abbr. ↗ACAD
  22. 35Accounts ↗TALES
  23. 37Prez two decades after 8-Down ↗LBJ
  24. 38"I'll answer all your questions" session, online ↗AMA
  25. 39Site of a huge annual crowd ↗TIMESSQUARE
  26. 41High place to view a high art ↗OPERABOX
  27. 44Paintings on plaster ↗FRESCOS
  28. 46Bit of food for a hamster ↗PELLET
  29. 48Some ↗NOTALL
  30. 49___ Simpson, musical sister of Jessica ↗ASHLEE
  31. 52Certain salad veggies ↗CUKES
  32. 53Where Rudolph could first be seen in 2000, for short ↗SNL
  33. 55Command posts ↗HELMS
  34. 56Checkers move ↗JUMP
  35. 57Product with a Cakesters variety ↗OREO
  36. 58Said angrily ↗SPAT
  37. 60Lou ___, "Mambo No. 5" singer ↗BEGA
  38. 63Speck in la Seine ↗ILE