NYT CROSSWORD • SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2025

NYT Crossword Answers Oct 25, 2025

Complete answer list for the October 25, 2025 New York Times Crossword. Across and Down, every clue, every answer — plus the full grid below.

By Byron WaldenEdited by Will ShortzGrid 15×1566 clues

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Across 31

  1. 1Calendar month between Sha'ban and Shawwal ↗RAMADAN
  2. 8Some solid marks ↗BPLUSES
  3. 15"Here's the hard truth …" ↗IHAVETOBEHONEST
  4. 1746 years? ↗BIDENPRESIDENCY
  5. 18Sudden movement ↗START
  6. 19Pinched ↗STOLE
  7. 20___ Maroni, Gotham City mobster in the DC Comics universe ↗SAL
  8. 21Runs superbly ↗HUMS
  9. 22Bug ↗GETTO
  10. 23Word on either side of "against" ↗HOPE
  11. 241992 U2 hit inspired by German reunification ↗ONE
  12. 25Busby Berkeley musical film that introduced "I Only Have Eyes for You" ↗DAMES
  13. 26Printing mark whose name is from the Latin for "is lacking" ↗CARET
  14. 27Financial reporter? ↗TAXFILER
  15. 29Balances ↗POISES
  16. 30"You've called at a bad time" ↗ICANTTALK
  17. 32Heads ↗BOSSES
  18. 35Shiva, for example ↗HINDUGOD
  19. 39Suffix meaning "rule" ↗ARCHY
  20. 40Combinations with numbers and sets ↗BANDS
  21. 4124-Across co-producer, whose name is the song title spelled backward ↗ENO
  22. 42Climax of operational planning ↗DDAY
  23. 43Brand for which General Foods distributed orange-handled coffeepots to restaurants ↗SANKA
  24. 44Core supporters ↗BASE
  25. 45Ferrer who co-starred in "War and Peace," 1956 ↗MEL
  26. 46Shot-putter? ↗NURSE
  27. 47Baba ghanouj, e.g. ↗PUREE
  28. 48Where gold "beaver coins" were used as currency ↗OREGONTERRITORY
  29. 51Green suit? ↗JUNIOREXECUTIVE
  30. 52Pricey catering option ↗OPENBAR
  31. 53Scuffled, in dialect ↗RASSLED

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  1. 1Sharp blow to the chest ↗RIBSHOT
  2. 2Staple in a poke bowl ↗AHITUNA
  3. 3Titular figure in a scandalous John Singer Sargent portrait ↗MADAMEX
  4. 4Maintains ↗AVERS
  5. 5Negative impression ↗DENT
  6. 6Sports org. in the 2024 film "Challengers" ↗ATP
  7. 7Longship builders ↗NORSEMEN
  8. 8Intoxicates ↗BESOTS
  9. 9___ Farnsworth, inventor dubbed "The Father of Television" ↗PHILO
  10. 10Treasure hunter's find ↗LODE
  11. 11La ___ (leading Belgian French-language TV channel) ↗UNE
  12. 12Mocap suit components ↗SENSORS
  13. 13Break character? ↗ESCAPEE
  14. 14Slender hospital tools ↗STYLETS
  15. 16Especially gratifying, so to speak ↗BETTERTHANSEX
  16. 22Done-up dos ↗GALAS
  17. 23Eastern lines ↗HAIKU
  18. 25Very iffy ↗DICEY
  19. 26They might go faster with zinc ↗COLDS
  20. 28Suspect ↗FISHY
  21. 29British slang for a police car ↗PANDA
  22. 31Improviser at a workbench ↗TINKERER
  23. 32Cursed vibe ↗BADMOJO
  24. 33Call at the plate? ↗ORDERUP
  25. 34Geometry term from the Greek for "uneven" ↗SCALENE
  26. 36Application for smoother shifting ↗GEAROIL
  27. 37Even, or nearly so, at Wimbledon ↗ONSERVE
  28. 38Naïve-looking, in a way ↗DOEEYED
  29. 40Transaction with no money down ↗BARTER
  30. 43Leader of the Afrofuturistic jazz collective Arkestra for almost four decades ↗SUNRA
  31. 44Seat fillers ↗BUTTS
  32. 46Greenhorn, informally ↗NOOB
  33. 47Oldest four-letter papal name ↗PIUS
  34. 49Call in a card game ↗GIN
  35. 50Early major producer of vacuum tubes ↗RCA