NYT CROSSWORD • THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2025

NYT Crossword Answers Oct 30, 2025

Complete answer list for the October 30, 2025 New York Times Crossword. Across and Down, every clue, every answer — plus the full grid below.

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Across 41

  1. 1Place for a pencil sharpener ↗DESK
  2. 5Argentine plain ↗PAMPA
  3. 10Prayer leader ↗IMAM
  4. 14Droves ↗ATON
  5. 15Disney princess who longs to be "part of that world" ↗ARIEL
  6. 16Come to ↗WAKE
  7. 17Either acting sibling Andrew or Elisabeth ↗SHUE
  8. 18What pulls out all the stops? ↗DRANO
  9. 19Food generally known outside the U.S. as "lady's fingers" ↗OKRA
  10. 20Start illegally, say ↗HOTWIRE
  11. 22What every baseball inning starts with ↗NOONEON
  12. 24"Kind of" suffix ↗ISH
  13. 25Shore up the ranks ↗RESTAFF
  14. 27Little pest ↗ANT
  15. 28Animal with a white rump ↗ELK
  16. 30Highlands hat ↗TAM
  17. 31Epitome of simplicity ↗ABC
  18. 33Binge ↗SPREE
  19. 35"I'll ___ you!" ↗SUE
  20. 36Pop-pop ↗GRAMP
  21. 39Country sharing the world's longest international border ↗CANADA
  22. 41Showed great pride, in a way ↗BEAMED
  23. 42Desirable Vegas couple? ↗ACES
  24. 43Lake in the homeland of the Washoe people ↗TAHOE
  25. 47___ Blaster (toy) ↗NERF
  26. 48Inconsequential ↗MERE
  27. 49Journeys by foot ↗TREKS
  28. 50Ones eliciting knee-jerk reactions, informally? ↗DOCS
  29. 51Exemplar ↗PARAGON
  30. 53Having a strong sense of direction? ↗BOSSY
  31. 57Likely oriented toward platonic relationships, in brief ↗ARO
  32. 58Members of the dolphin family that prey on dolphins ↗ORCAS
  33. 63Like a revving engine ↗AROAR
  34. 64Skater Midori ↗ITO
  35. 65Words after "ding, ding, ding" ↗TOAST
  36. 66With 68-Across, "Wicked" song suggested by the answers to the seven starred clues (and whose singer is spelled by the circled letters reading from left to right) ↗DEFYING
  37. 68See 66-Across ↗GRAVITY
  38. 70Bronzed ↗GOTATAN
  39. 71Not just yet ↗LATERON
  40. 72Abjures ↗ESCHEWS
  41. 73Target of urban renewal, say ↗EYESORE

Down 39

  1. 1Soup stock in Japanese cuisine ↗DASHI
  2. 2*The ones over there ↗ETHOS
  3. 3Washington, Jefferson or Madison ↗SOUTHERNER
  4. 4Already heard, say ↗KNEW
  5. 5*One selling commercial time, informally ↗PADRE
  6. 6Takes in ↗ARRESTS
  7. 7The Marlins, on scoreboards ↗MIA
  8. 8Lewis Carroll or George Orwell ↗PENNAME
  9. 9*It's used to scrub in the tub ↗ALOOF
  10. 10Jubilant postgame report ↗IWON
  11. 11Show up unannounced? ↗MAKEACAMEO
  12. 12*Some Scandinavian money ↗AKRON
  13. 13Indicated ↗MEANT
  14. 21Irritated ↗IRKED
  15. 23Old enough ↗OFAGE
  16. 26Symbol for the ratio of a circle's circumference to its radius ↗TAU
  17. 29*Stand before a meeting ↗LEASE
  18. 32*Genre for Aretha Franklin or Usher ↗BRAND
  19. 33One might start "Your Social Security number has been compromised" ↗SCAM
  20. 34Rate ↗PACE
  21. 37Chicago exchange, for short ↗MERC
  22. 38Certain attachments ↗PDFS
  23. 40Flour used in Indian flatbreads ↗ATTA
  24. 41Kiss in a telenovela ↗BESO
  25. 44Calls to court ↗ARRAIGNS
  26. 45*Your home ↗HEART
  27. 46Voice command to an Android device ↗OKGOOGLE
  28. 51Fool's gold ↗PYRITE
  29. 52Write, as music ↗NOTATE
  30. 53Symbol of authority ↗BADGE
  31. 54Small dessert sandwiches ↗OREOS
  32. 55Left of center? ↗SOFTC
  33. 56Get ready to have one's tonsils checked, perhaps ↗SAYAH
  34. 59Wanders ↗ROVES
  35. 60World capital on the world's longest river ↗CAIRO
  36. 61Family name with an eponymous Row, Court, Place and Avenue in New York City ↗ASTOR
  37. 62Composer Jule ↗STYNE
  38. 67Slangy refusal ↗NAW
  39. 69Fish also known as a batomorph ↗RAY