NYT CROSSWORD • SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2025

NYT Crossword Answers Sep 13, 2025

Complete answer list for the September 13, 2025 New York Times Crossword. Across and Down, every clue, every answer — plus the full grid below.

By Alex JiangEdited by Will ShortzGrid 15×1568 clues

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The Grid

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Across 30

  1. 1Student's plan ↗ACADEMICPROGRAM
  2. 16Italian pianist who composed the scores for "Nomadland" and "The Father" ↗LUDOVICOEINAUDI
  3. 17Sort of habitat in a bottle garden ↗CLOSEDECOSYSTEM
  4. 18Gumbo ingredients ↗OKRAS
  5. 19Top ↗APEX
  6. 20California's ___ Nuevo State Park ↗ANO
  7. 21Contests ↗VIES
  8. 22Contents of Pandora's box ↗EVILS
  9. 24Some baseball stats ↗RBIS
  10. 25The 21,728th page of 1989's 20-volume Oxford English Dictionary ↗END
  11. 26Bad way to make a group decision ↗ALONE
  12. 27Batman : Bruce :: Wonder Woman : ___ ↗DIANA
  13. 28Stray ↗ROGUE
  14. 29Place for driving ↗RANGE
  15. 30Rolled chip brand from Mexico ↗TAKIS
  16. 31MX-5 and CX-50 maker ↗MAZDA
  17. 32Province in the names of many Chinese restaurants ↗HUNAN
  18. 33Great volumes ↗TOMES
  19. 34Petunia's partner, in cartoons ↗PORKY
  20. 35Rounded, in a way ↗DOMED
  21. 36Jazz form ↗BOP
  22. 39Botanical bristles ↗AWNS
  23. 40Origin of "The Tale of Genji," considered by many to be the world's first novel ↗JAPAN
  24. 41Mountain West campus city ↗RENO
  25. 42Network ↗WEB
  26. 43Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious ↗AONE
  27. 44Beer alternative to a 38-Down ↗LAGER
  28. 45Pooped ↗PLUMTUCKEREDOUT
  29. 49Completely at ease ↗ASLOOSEASAGOOSE
  30. 50"I mean, duh!" ↗WELLITSNOWONDER

Down 38

  1. 1Hollow, of a sort ↗ALCOVE
  2. 2Actor Kieran of "Succession" ↗CULKIN
  3. 3Found darling ↗ADORED
  4. 4South Asian crepes ↗DOSAS
  5. 5What are ahead of their times? ↗EVES
  6. 6Prefix with point ↗MID
  7. 7Much of a comet, typically ↗ICE
  8. 8The solution referred to in Sherlock Holmes's "seven-per-cent solution" ↗COCAINE
  9. 9You and me both! ↗PEOPLE
  10. 10Stops lying, say ↗RISES
  11. 11Jet-black stone ↗ONYX
  12. 12Much of Jupiter ↗GAS
  13. 13Vegetable also called a Swedish turnip ↗RUTABAGA
  14. 14DNA compound whose name includes the letters D, N and A ↗ADENINE
  15. 15Pink-flowered tree ↗MIMOSA
  16. 22Basketball Hall-of-Famer Baylor ↗ELGIN
  17. 23Who you would be in France? ↗VOUS
  18. 24Watermelon detritus ↗RINDS
  19. 26Fine ↗AOKAY
  20. 27Out of it ↗DAZED
  21. 28Octet on a chessboard ↗RANKS
  22. 29Instant ___ ↗RAMEN
  23. 30Former Australian prime minister Malcolm ↗TURNBULL
  24. 31Home to the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden, in brief ↗MOMA
  25. 32"What's the alternative?" ↗HOWELSE
  26. 33Like about 4% of the citizens of Kansas ↗TOPEKAN
  27. 34Soft, yellow fruit ↗PAWPAW
  28. 35Salsas, e.g. ↗DANCES
  29. 36"No acting up!" ↗BEGOOD
  30. 37Like paper napkins ↗ONEUSE
  31. 38Beer alternative to a 44-Across ↗PORTER
  32. 40Tilt ↗JOUST
  33. 41___ test (home inspection component) ↗RADON
  34. 43Yours, in Tours ↗ATOI
  35. 44Whose business is just around the block? ↗LEGO
  36. 46Chemistry class unit: Abbr. ↗MOL
  37. 47"___ Beso" ↗ESO
  38. 48Unprocessed ↗RAW