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NYT Crossword Answers Sep 30, 2025

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

By Justin WerfelEdited by Will ShortzGrid 15×1576 clues

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Across 35

  1. 1Wood turner ↗LATHE
  2. 6Frank who directed "It's a Wonderful Life" ↗CAPRA
  3. 11Yuletide beverage ↗NOG
  4. 14Storyteller of antiquity ↗AESOP
  5. 15How tuna may be packed ↗INOIL
  6. 16Card game that involves shouting its name ↗UNO
  7. 17*What a straw man in a cornfield is for? ↗CROWCONTROL
  8. 19Palindromic woman's name ↗NAN
  9. 20"Already accomplished!" ↗DONEIT
  10. 21Dodge ↗EVADE
  11. 23Product in high demand ↗HOTITEM
  12. 26Material for a pub quiz ↗TRIVIA
  13. 27During a tiebreaker, informally ↗INOT
  14. 28*Ref who makes a ruling against your favored team? ↗GARBAGEUMP
  15. 31Queen Elizabeth II's favored dog breed ↗CORGI
  16. 33Move like the Blob ↗OOZE
  17. 34Informal top ↗TEE
  18. 35*Primate with perfect pitch? ↗ONKEYKONG
  19. 39Puppet alien of TV ↗ALF
  20. 42Greek cheese ↗FETA
  21. 43Underground waterway ↗SEWER
  22. 47*Kelley Blue Book? ↗CARCATALOG
  23. 51"Tootsie" actress Garr ↗TERI
  24. 52"Unfortunately that's wrong" ↗ALASNO
  25. 53Sleazy hotel ↗FLEABAG
  26. 55"Shush!" ↗CANIT
  27. 56"No more for me, thanks" ↗IMFULL
  28. 58Something found in a pen or octopus ↗INK
  29. 59"I love this!" ... or, phonetically, remark about the answer to each of the starred clues ↗ITSADELIGHT
  30. 64Year in Spain ↗ANO
  31. 65Sign between Virgo and Scorpio ↗LIBRA
  32. 66"Unfortunately ..." ↗IFEAR
  33. 67Declares, informally ↗SEZ
  34. 68Teeny-tiny ↗EENSY
  35. 69Run-down ↗SEEDY

Down 41

  1. 1Fond du ___, Wis. ↗LAC
  2. 2___ Lingus ↗AER
  3. 3General on a Chinese menu ↗TSO
  4. 4"Was your performance a success?" ↗HOWDITGO
  5. 5Disney park with Spaceship Earth ↗EPCOT
  6. 6Movie house ↗CINEMA
  7. 7Opposing ↗ANTI
  8. 8Left of a ship ... or what a ship may have left ↗PORT
  9. 9Locale of an annual Carnaval ↗RIO
  10. 10Pollen, cat hair, etc. ↗ALLERGENS
  11. 11Largest and most northern Canadian territory ↗NUNAVUT
  12. 12One way to stop ↗ONADIME
  13. 13Flipped out ↗GONEAPE
  14. 18Earth's pull, in brief ↗ONEG
  15. 22Struggle ↗VIE
  16. 23Sound of a drinker in comics ↗HIC
  17. 24Yoko who sang on "Give Peace a Chance" ↗ONO
  18. 25Crag ↗TOR
  19. 26Big name in tea ↗TAZO
  20. 29Befitting a king or queen ↗ROYAL
  21. 30___ choy ↗BOK
  22. 32Babyish ↗INFANTILE
  23. 36Low-carb kind of diet ↗KETO
  24. 37H, to Homer ↗ETA
  25. 38"Oh. Come. On!" ↗GETALIFE
  26. 39Some pod-bearing trees ↗ACACIAS
  27. 40Fitness guru Jack ↗LALANNE
  28. 41Puppeteer with "Sesame Street" and "The Muppet Show" ↗FRANKOZ
  29. 44Fly catcher ↗WEB
  30. 45Time in history ↗ERA
  31. 46Big truck ↗RIG
  32. 48CBS forensic drama ↗CSI
  33. 49When nothing goes right ↗OFFDAY
  34. 50Sticky stuff ↗GLUE
  35. 54___ Island, locale in New York Harbor ↗ELLIS
  36. 56ID for a library volume ↗ISBN
  37. 57Planet whose name is also a candy company ↗MARS
  38. 60Bit of apparel that often has stripes ↗TIE
  39. 61"Golly!" ↗GEE
  40. 62Owned ↗HAD
  41. 63Attempt ↗TRY