NYT CROSSWORD • THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 2025

NYT Crossword Answers Sep 25, 2025

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

By Jesse GoldbergEdited by Will ShortzGrid 15×1574 clues

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Across 37

  1. 1Onetime capital of the Mughal Empire ↗AGRA
  2. 5Dad on "Family Guy" ↗PETER
  3. 10Word after long or before paper ↗TERM
  4. 14Film unit ↗REEL
  5. 15"Pardon me," in Padua ↗SCUSI
  6. 16Home of Minor League Baseball's SeaWolves (more than 350 miles from the ocean!) ↗ERIE
  7. 17Airline known for tight security ↗ELAL
  8. 18Continental products ↗TIRES
  9. 19Disney character who asks "Have you ever met a shark?" ↗NEMO
  10. 20Illegally siphon funds ↗SKIMOFFTHETOP
  11. 23Grand Ole ___ ↗OPRY
  12. 24Subj. studied with the help of telescopes ↗SETI
  13. 25Property owner subject to a legal claim ↗LIENEE
  14. 28Law derived from the Quran ↗SHARIA
  15. 32"Not interested" ↗IPASS
  16. 33Snitch ↗RAT
  17. 36Savanna antelope ↗ELAND
  18. 37Common street name ↗ELM
  19. 38Quivers ↗TREMORS
  20. 41Android alternative ↗IOS
  21. 42Some necklines ↗VEES
  22. 44"I'm here to help" ↗USEME
  23. 45Look greedily ↗OGLE
  24. 46Livestock identifiers ↗EARTAGS
  25. 48Bit of fraternity party headgear ↗BEERHAT
  26. 50Actress Garr ↗TERI
  27. 51Final stroke of most rounds ↗PUTT
  28. 52What each Down answer needs from its clue in order to make sense ↗FIRSTTWOLETTERS
  29. 59Big name in laptops ↗ASUS
  30. 60Only president not born in the continental U.S. ↗OBAMA
  31. 61"I'll handle that!" ↗ONIT
  32. 62Beginning of every Washington State ZIP code ↗NINE
  33. 63Steakhouse choice ↗FILET
  34. 64Like John Lennon on a 1981 Rolling Stone cover ↗NUDE
  35. 65Disapproving sounds ↗TSKS
  36. 66Celebratory events ↗FESTS
  37. 67Tore ↗SPED

Down 37

  1. 1Blast loudly ↗ARE
  2. 2Anaheim ballplayers ↗GELS
  3. 3String of wins or losses ↗REAK
  4. 4Studs ↗ALLIONS
  5. 5Apple shop ↗PSTORE
  6. 6Spell out ↗ECIFY
  7. 7Replace the sod of ↗TURF
  8. 8Programs in advance ↗ESETS
  9. 9Pastors' concerns ↗RISHES
  10. 10Possibility ↗TENTIAL
  11. 11Standard music equipment ↗EREO
  12. 12Scratch and save ↗RIMP
  13. 13Carved part of a piece of jewelry ↗MEO
  14. 21Terrible storm ↗MPEST
  15. 22Sees red ↗ETHES
  16. 25Replace on the mound ↗LIEVE
  17. 26Traveler's aid, familiarly ↗IPLEA
  18. 27Storage item on some ocean voyages ↗EAMERTRUNK
  19. 29Stop slouching ↗RAIGHTENUP
  20. 30Shoe polish brand ↗INOLA
  21. 31Determined ↗ADSET
  22. 33Strain's partner ↗RESS
  23. 34Freeze-___ ↗AME
  24. 35Enter into a plot? ↗TOMB
  25. 39Show that you think something isn't important ↗RUGITOFF
  26. 40The Chicago Bulls had a pair of them in the 1990s ↗REEPEATS
  27. 43Hors d'oeuvre servers, maybe ↗STESSES
  28. 45Shipping weight units ↗ORTTONS
  29. 47Stop's opposite ↗ART
  30. 49Alaska native ↗EUT
  31. 52Incubator occupant in a neonatal unit ↗FANT
  32. 53Crucial difficulty to get through ↗ISIS
  33. 54Neophyte ↗WBIE
  34. 55Shipwreck locales, often ↗OALS
  35. 56Headgear for a bicyclist ↗LMET
  36. 57Step with confidence ↗RIDE
  37. 58Beat in competition ↗STED