NYT CROSSWORD • SUNDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2026

NYT Crossword Answers Oct 25, 2026

Complete answer list for the October 25, 2026 New York Times Crossword. Across and Down, every clue, every answer — plus the full grid below.

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Across 64

  1. 1"Aladdin" sidekick ↗ABU
  2. 4Sommelier's asset ↗NOSE
  3. 8"Qué ___!" (Spanish "Awesome!") ↗BUENO
  4. 13Locale of the food dishes larb and thum mak hoong ↗LAOS
  5. 17The British throne? ↗LAV
  6. 18Mexican sandwich ↗TORTA
  7. 19Encroach on, as space ↗INVADE
  8. 21Land that poets call Hibernia ↗EIRE
  9. 22Firefly vis-à-vis a fruit fly? ↗LITTERBUG
  10. 24Peridot vis-à-vis jade? ↗OLIVERSTONE
  11. 26N.F.L.'er with horns on his helmet ↗LARAM
  12. 27Notwithstanding ↗DESPITE
  13. 29Low-quality, machine-generated content, in modern lingo ↗AISLOP
  14. 30Implied ↗TACIT
  15. 32Cologne waters ↗RHINE
  16. 33Southern dish made from hominy ↗GRITS
  17. 34Muscle Beach vis-à-vis Venice Beach? ↗BUTCHERBLOCK
  18. 37Dal ___ (musical notation) ↗SEGNO
  19. 40"Right, gotcha" ↗OHOK
  20. 41Stark sister from Winterfell ↗ARYA
  21. 42Goalie's goal ↗SAVE
  22. 43Apt rhyme for crop and chop ↗LOP
  23. 46Music artist on the 2012 album "Yokokimthurston" ↗ONO
  24. 47"Happy Days" actor Scott ↗BAIO
  25. 49Oil vis-à-vis water? ↗LIGHTERFLUID
  26. 54Maximally ritzy ↗POSHEST
  27. 56New hire at a factory ↗TRAINEE
  28. 57Who can see right through you, in brief? ↗TSA
  29. 58Chevy S.U.V. ↗TAHOE
  30. 60Fertile soils ↗LOAMS
  31. 61Showed again, in a way ↗RERAN
  32. 63Zipper up vis-à-vis zipper down? ↗SHUTTERFLY
  33. 67Weight room vis-à-vis the cardio room? ↗BUFFERZONE
  34. 70Sugar amounts ↗LUMPS
  35. 71Things some checkers check ↗FACTS
  36. 73Man's name that means "prosperous" in Arabic ↗YASIR
  37. 74Thurman of "Pulp Fiction" ↗UMA
  38. 75"Lizzie ___," Disney Channel sitcom starring Hilary Duff ↗MCGUIRE
  39. 78"Poker Face" actress Lyonne ↗NATASHA
  40. 82Maui vis-à-vis Oahu? ↗EASTERISLAND
  41. 85Shivering fit ↗AGUE
  42. 86Apple runs on it ↗IOS
  43. 87Intelligence org. ↗NSA
  44. 88Not on solid ground ↗ASEA
  45. 89Sitarist Shankar ↗RAVI
  46. 91Pious offerings ↗ALMS
  47. 92Amphibians taken on at least six different space missions ↗NEWTS
  48. 94Blazer vis-à-vis a windbreaker? ↗BOMBERJACKET
  49. 98Like a bad apple ↗MEALY
  50. 101Name on a museum plaque, maybe ↗DONOR
  51. 102Like ears and brains ↗LOBED
  52. 103Undivided ↗ENTIRE
  53. 105Surfer's navigational aid ↗SITEMAP
  54. 107Orléans river ↗LOIRE
  55. 109Delaware vis-à-vis the other 12 colonies? ↗SOONERSTATE
  56. 111"OMG THIS IS AWESOME!!!!" vis-à-vis "good job i guess"? ↗HYPERTEXT
  57. 114Face covering? ↗ACNE
  58. 115Blues singer Ma ___ ↗RAINEY
  59. 116"___ we all?" ↗ARENT
  60. 117Spring for a fancy hotel? ↗SPA
  61. 118B.B. King's "___ Dynamite" ↗SHES
  62. 119Subject of inflation ↗GRADE
  63. 120Brood ↗MOPE
  64. 121M.L.B.'ers with a red "B" on their caps ↗SOX

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  1. 1Every last one ↗ALL
  2. 2Illegal thing to jump ↗BAIL
  3. 3Artistic designs that glow under black light ↗UVTATTOOS
  4. 4Mainstream sort, slangily ↗NORMIE
  5. 5Scepter topper ↗ORB
  6. 6Beefcake ↗STUD
  7. 7With excitement ↗EAGERLY
  8. 8"Gandhi," ""Amadeus" or "Malcolm X" ↗BIOPIC
  9. 9Break a tie? ↗UNLINK
  10. 10Digital party request ↗EVITE
  11. 11Where a congregation congregates ↗NAVE
  12. 12Keats wrote one to a nightingale ↗ODE
  13. 13"Time to get moving!" ↗LETSROLL
  14. 14Garlicky emulsification ↗AIOLI
  15. 15"... never mind" ↗ORNOT
  16. 16Slips through the cracks ↗SEEPS
  17. 18Cover letters, say? ↗TEACH
  18. 20Time of one's life, in modern slang ↗ERA
  19. 23Record number? ↗TRACK
  20. 2537-Across, in English ↗SIGN
  21. 28Sandy hazard for sailors ↗SHOAL
  22. 31Backstabber, e.g. ↗TRAITOR
  23. 34Playful tap on the head ↗BOOP
  24. 35"Hmm ... pass" ↗UHNO
  25. 36Homie ↗BRO
  26. 37Meet, as all the requirements ↗SATISFY
  27. 38"I can't ___!" ↗EVEN
  28. 39Richard who had his first starring role in 1978's "Days of Heaven" ↗GERE
  29. 42SeaWorld orca ↗SHAMU
  30. 44Notable part of "Hey Jude" or "Layla" ↗OUTRO
  31. 45Fibonacci or Galileo, by birth ↗PISAN
  32. 47"Heck if I know" ↗BEATSME
  33. 48Eponym of a U.S. Open stadium ↗ASHE
  34. 50"How was ___ know?" ↗ITO
  35. 51Up for ___ ↗GRABS
  36. 52Iron compound in magnets ↗FERRITE
  37. 53Copenhagen native ↗DANE
  38. 55Start of an unencrypted web address ↗HTTP
  39. 59Gives off ↗EFFUSES
  40. 60Spandex trademark ↗LYCRA
  41. 62"The Snowy Day" author ___ Jack Keats ↗EZRA
  42. 63Turn on an axis ↗SLUE
  43. 64Not an extraterrestrial ↗HUMAN
  44. 65Amherst sch. ↗UMASS
  45. 66Pugilist Ali ↗LAILA
  46. 68One displaying enthusiastic devotion ↗FANGIRL
  47. 69Biblical brother who sold his birthright ↗ESAU
  48. 72Half a score ↗TEN
  49. 76Sticking point? ↗CRAW
  50. 77General idea ↗GIST
  51. 79Bit of smooth eveningwear ↗SILKDRESS
  52. 80Typical landing page, online ↗HOME
  53. 81Executive's underling: Abbr. ↗ASST
  54. 83Bra straps might cause them ↗TANLINES
  55. 84Sick kid's in-house caregiver ↗DRMOM
  56. 85Any of 17 Monopoly spaces: Abbr. ↗AVE
  57. 90Presidential first name drawn from the Bible ↗ABRAHAM
  58. 91Nail the test ↗ACEIT
  59. 93Brontë orphan ↗EYRE
  60. 94Like a video with an inflated view count, maybe ↗BOTTED
  61. 95Feature of the jacks of spades and hearts ↗ONEEYE
  62. 96Dolly Parton classic ↗JOLENE
  63. 97Cancel, as a NASA mission ↗ABORT
  64. 98Western landforms ↗MESAS
  65. 99Father of Methuselah ↗ENOCH
  66. 100Observe Yom Kippur, say ↗ATONE
  67. 101"The Crown" role ↗DIANA
  68. 104Mess up ↗ERR
  69. 105What one should do periodically while caramelizing onions ↗STIR
  70. 106Criminal hothead? ↗PYRO
  71. 108Trade show ↗EXPO
  72. 110Lose tautness ↗SAG
  73. 112Zing ↗PEP
  74. 113Be a burden on ↗TAX