NYT CROSSWORD • SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2025

NYT Crossword Answers Sep 27, 2025

Complete answer list for the September 27, 2025 New York Times Crossword. Across and Down, every clue, every answer — plus the full grid below.

By Adrian Johnson and Christina IversonEdited by Will ShortzGrid 15×1568 clues

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Across 34

  1. 1Thin underlayer ↗SLIP
  2. 5Comment often made with an eye roll ↗ASIF
  3. 9African capital whose name translates to "ants" ↗ACCRA
  4. 14Derby, e.g. ↗HORSERACE
  5. 16Commit a library taboo ↗SHOUT
  6. 17Ship-to-ship communication ↗AHOYMATEY
  7. 18Lacks ↗HASNT
  8. 19Parent whose child is taking steps to improve? ↗DANCEMOM
  9. 20Backbiter? ↗FLEA
  10. 21Puts in a protected place ↗ENSHRINES
  11. 23They arose from Ra's tears, according to Egyptian mythology ↗BEES
  12. 24Cries of disappointment ↗OYS
  13. 25Components of some brick buildings ↗LEGOSETS
  14. 28It might be living on the edge ↗SHRUB
  15. 31Showing tough love, say ↗STERN
  16. 32Mash at a luau ↗POI
  17. 33"Please avoid brutal honesty!" ↗LIETOME
  18. 35Wise ↗PRUDENT
  19. 37Certain drug classification, in brief ↗OTC
  20. 38Ally of Athens during the Peloponnesian War ↗ARGOS
  21. 40Fathers ↗SIRES
  22. 41Two-humper ↗BACTRIAN
  23. 43Period that begins on July 23 ↗LEO
  24. 44It's not an option ↗NEED
  25. 45Zest source ↗LEMONRIND
  26. 50Brown alternative ↗PENN
  27. 51Enterprise enterprise ↗RENTACAR
  28. 52WWE star Randy ___ ↗ORTON
  29. 54Part of a high-tech security system ↗LASERMAZE
  30. 55"Lift ___ Voice and Sing" (protest anthem) ↗EVERY
  31. 56They go from season to season ↗STORYARCS
  32. 57Short ↗TERSE
  33. 58Hibernation stations ↗DENS
  34. 59Seven ___ ↗SEAS

Down 34

  1. 1Contempt, in slang ↗SHADE
  2. 2Actress with a dual role in 1998's "The Parent Trap" ↗LOHAN
  3. 3Tends to some pressing matters ↗IRONS
  4. 4Punk ↗PSYCHOUT
  5. 5The first Musketeer, alphabetically ↗ARAMIS
  6. 6Kept hidden, as information ↗SATON
  7. 7Product for winter sidewalk safety ↗ICEMELT
  8. 8"Mean Girls" writer ↗FEY
  9. 9Firewood choice, or its destiny ↗ASH
  10. 10Rubs the wrong way ↗CHAFES
  11. 11Alternative to a crib ↗COSLEEPER
  12. 12Classic rock? ↗RUNESTONE
  13. 13Paratha flour ↗ATTA
  14. 15Digital file? ↗EMERYBOARD
  15. 22Runs slowly ↗SEEPS
  16. 23Kind of contest with multiple chances to participate ↗BONUSENTRY
  17. 26[This makes me mad!] ↗GRR
  18. 27Is on the bottom? ↗SITS
  19. 28One who's slow to pick things up ↗SLOB
  20. 29What an insensitive joke might do ↗HITANERVE
  21. 30Locale for many community courts ↗RECCENTER
  22. 31"Love Story" author Erich ↗SEGAL
  23. 34Diagnostic tool, in brief ↗MRI
  24. 36Natural history museum collection ↗DIORAMAS
  25. 39Simplest possible phone plan ↗ONERATE
  26. 42Sam Cooke and Marvin Gaye, among others ↗TENORS
  27. 43Solo sorts ↗LONERS
  28. 46Particle accelerator byproduct ↗MESON
  29. 47Statement that might follow a hug ↗ICARE
  30. 48___ Lines (ancient Peruvian geoglyphs) ↗NAZCA
  31. 49Bandage ↗DRESS
  32. 50Burns, e.g. ↗POET
  33. 53What comes before 1/1 ↗NYE
  34. 54Drug discussed in Aldous Huxley's "Heaven and Hell" ↗LSD