NYT CROSSWORD • SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2025

NYT Crossword Answers Sep 28, 2025

Complete answer list for the September 28, 2025 New York Times Crossword. Across and Down, every clue, every answer — plus the full grid below.

By Rich KatzEdited by Will ShortzGrid 21×21140 clues

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Across 71

  1. 1Caveat ___ ("Buyer beware") ↗EMPTOR
  2. 7Spice that's characteristic of Hungarian cooking ↗PAPRIKA
  3. 14Marvel Comics mutant who can freeze his own body ↗ICEMAN
  4. 20Arizona county or Indigenous people ↗MOHAVE
  5. 21Tries some water, say ↗HASASIP
  6. 22Like a win-win situation ↗NOLOSE
  7. 23___ law, concept in computing technology ↗MOORES
  8. 24Alternative to a nanny ↗DAYCARE
  9. 25Fire starters ↗FLINTS
  10. 26Contents of a flagon ↗ALE
  11. 27Ole Miss athletes, to fans ↗REBS
  12. 29X ↗CHI
  13. 30___ Scott, who the Supreme Court said was not free to sue for his freedom ↗DRED
  14. 32Org. not getting many happy returns? ↗IRS
  15. 33Remove surgically, as tissue ↗ABLATE
  16. 35"They tell me …" ↗IHEAR
  17. 37Beethoven symphony originally intended to honor Napoleon ↗EROICA
  18. 39Class that might cause some high schoolers to blush ↗HEALTH
  19. 40Sprawling Indian metropolis ↗DELHI
  20. 41Like some bridges ↗DENTAL
  21. 42"Let me check on that" ↗ILLASK
  22. 44Expiates, with "for" ↗ATONES
  23. 46Man's name that's 49-Across plus a letter ↗EVAN
  24. 49Woman's name that's the first three letters of 46-Across ↗EVA
  25. 50Rap battle participants ↗MCS
  26. 53Tampa Bay athlete, in brief ↗BUC
  27. 54Twists off course, as a ship ↗YAWS
  28. 58Witch ↗HAG
  29. 59Exploited ↗USED
  30. 60"Weekend Update" co-host Michael ↗CHE
  31. 61All over again ↗ANEW
  32. 63___Guessr, hit online game whose players deduce locations from Google Street View images ↗GEO
  33. 64Where a hurricane forms ↗OCEAN
  34. 66Wish someone "Happy Birthday," perhaps ↗SENDACARD
  35. 69At dawn, say ↗EARLY
  36. 71Mammal with long whiskers ↗WALRUS
  37. 73Extra ↗BONUS
  38. 74They stand for art ↗EASELS
  39. 75Called ↗TERMED
  40. 77___ Day, Billie Holiday's portrayer in "The United States vs. Billie Holiday" ↗ANDRA
  41. 78Celebrity chef Ina ↗GARTEN
  42. 79Demanding entertainer ↗DIVA
  43. 80X ↗TEN
  44. 82He was né Clay ↗ALI
  45. 83Watchdog's warning ↗GRR
  46. 84Words of understanding ↗ISEE
  47. 86Outback baby ↗JOEY
  48. 87Familiar initialism coined by a U.S. Air Force captain ↗UFO
  49. 88Do-over at Wimbledon ↗LET
  50. 89Kind of sauce at a sushi bar ↗EEL
  51. 90Sewer in American history ↗ROSS
  52. 91"Weekend Update" show, for short ↗SNL
  53. 92Zipped ↗SPED
  54. 93Like some alcohol … or places that prohibit alcohol ↗DRY
  55. 94Not present and not excused, for short ↗AWOL
  56. 96Foreign policy grp. ↗NSC
  57. 97Brezhnev of the Soviet Union ↗LEONID
  58. 99Cherokee and Cheyenne ↗TRIBES
  59. 101Relationship featuring casual intimacy … or a hint to six pairs of intersecting answers in this puzzle ↗FRIENDSWITHBENEFITS
  60. 108Starbucks competitor ↗PEETS
  61. 109Spot for an ornament ↗CARHOOD
  62. 110Giants in California and New York ↗TEAMS
  63. 112"Beat it!" ↗AMSCRAY
  64. 115Actor Wilson of "The Office" ↗RAINN
  65. 116Rye, e.g. ↗WHISKEY
  66. 118"Wouldn't miss it for the world!" ↗IMTHERE
  67. 119Like slow filers and fast drivers, at times ↗FINED
  68. 120Furniture retailer owned by Williams-Sonoma ↗WESTELM
  69. 121Lives (in) ↗RESIDES
  70. 122Iditarod transports ↗SLEDS
  71. 123Involves ↗ENTAILS

Down 69

  1. 1Title heroine described as "handsome, clever and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition" ↗EMMA
  2. 2Dough ↗MOOLAH
  3. 3Fly-catching bird with a name derived from Greek ↗PHOEBE
  4. 4Driveway goo ↗TAR
  5. 5As a whole ↗OVERALL
  6. 6Moves elsewhere ↗RESETTLES
  7. 7Tenured profs, often ↗PHDS
  8. 8Small battery … or an org. that might help with a battery ↗AAA
  9. 9It's all in your head ↗PSYCHE
  10. 10Mother of Joseph and Benjamin, in the Bible ↗RACHEL
  11. 11Book after Song of Solomon ↗ISAIAH
  12. 12French cocktail made with crème de cassis ↗KIR
  13. 13Mirrored ↗APED
  14. 14Reasoned conclusion ↗INFERENCE
  15. 15Brewski ↗COLDONE
  16. 16Bulldog fan in Connecticut ↗ELI
  17. 17Santa ___ ↗MONICA
  18. 18Stellar ↗ASTRAL
  19. 19Van ___ Avenue, thoroughfare in San Francisco ↗NESS
  20. 28Minds one's P's and Q's ↗BEHAVES
  21. 31Contribute (to), as one's reputation ↗REDOUND
  22. 34Been asleep, say ↗LAIN
  23. 35Texter's "Beats me" ↗IDK
  24. 36Small inlet ↗RIA
  25. 38Li'l ↗ITSY
  26. 43One-named singer born in Nigeria ↗SADE
  27. 45Skier's conveyance ↗TBAR
  28. 46Online site for D.I.Y.ers ↗EHOW
  29. 47Time out, perhaps ↗VACATION
  30. 48Info commonly shown on a board game box ↗AGELEVEL
  31. 50Clown around with food? ↗MCDONALD
  32. 51City SE of Phoenix ↗CHANDLER
  33. 52Purpose of some cameras ↗SECURITY
  34. 55Reaches a shared opinion about ↗AGREESON
  35. 56Holistic contentment ↗WELLNESS
  36. 57Some beans or sauces ↗SOYS
  37. 59"E pluribus ___" ↗UNUM
  38. 62Sport ↗WEAR
  39. 65Matrix ↗ARRAY
  40. 67Sun bloc? ↗NBA
  41. 68Pretty ___ picture ↗ASA
  42. 70Moving around ↗ASTIR
  43. 72Attack ↗SETUPON
  44. 74You can put a ring on it ↗EARLOBE
  45. 76Back ↗DEFEND
  46. 78Came back, as hair ↗GREWIN
  47. 79Music's Fatboy Slim and David Guetta, informally ↗DJS
  48. 81Error message on a Blu-ray device ↗NODISC
  49. 83Targeted (to) ↗GEARED
  50. 85Key for a quick exit ↗ESC
  51. 92Boils with rage ↗SEESRED
  52. 95Liberal-leaning ↗LEFTIST
  53. 97Chinese "nut" that's really a fruit ↗LITCHI
  54. 98Makes small in comparison ↗DWARFS
  55. 99Government debt obligations, familiarly ↗TBONDS
  56. 10040 winks ↗SIESTA
  57. 101___ fatale ↗FEMME
  58. 102Gets 40 winks ↗RESTS
  59. 103Letter-shaped train track piece ↗IRAIL
  60. 104"To ___ own self be true" ↗THINE
  61. 105Sharpened ↗HONED
  62. 106George of "Star Trek" ↗TAKEI
  63. 107Bad thing to discover in the pantry ↗SMELL
  64. 108AA or JJ, e.g. ↗PAIR
  65. 111Jazz singer Sylvia ___ ↗SYMS
  66. 113Come to ↗ARE
  67. 114"For sure" ↗YES
  68. 116Org. that merged with the U.F.C. in 2023 ↗WWE
  69. 117Kind of party ↗HEN