NYT Crossword hints and answer for October 23, 2025
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Clues74
Across36
Down38
ConstructorAimee Lucido
Today’s NYT Crossword clues, hints & answers
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Across
1A
Areas of development (5)
Starts with W, ends with SWOMBS→
6A
Punch-in-the-stomach sounds (4)
Starts with O, ends with SOOFS→
10A
Genre for Blackpink and Stray Kids (4)
Starts with K, ends with PKPOP→
14A
Helvetica-like typeface (5)
Starts with A, ends with LARIAL→
15A
Button to hit after accidentally deleting an entire manuscript (4)
Starts with U, ends with OUNDO→
16A
International footwear retailer based in Quebec (4)
Starts with A, ends with OALDO→
17A
Stealthiest of stealthy warriors (12)
Starts with N, ends with SNINJAMASTERS→
19A
Warren Beatty film based on "Ten Days That Shook the World" (4)
Starts with R, ends with SREDS→
20A
Reporters often carry them (8)
Starts with N, ends with SNOTEPADS→
21A
Relaxed (6)
Starts with A, ends with EATEASE→
23A
"Call Her Daddy" podcast host Cooper (4)
Starts with A, ends with XALEX→
24A
Words of denial (4)
Starts with N, ends with INOTI→
26A
"___ Just Not That Into You" (3)
Starts with H, ends with SHES→
27A
Activist Brockovich (4)
Starts with E, ends with NERIN→
29A
Case opener (8)
Starts with A, ends with TARGUMENT→
33A
Location that requires tickets for checking out, but not checking in (8)
Starts with C, ends with MCOATROOM→
36A
End of a municipal address? (3)
Starts with G, ends with VGOV→
37A
1887 drama on which a Puccini opera is based (7)
Starts with L, ends with ALATOSCA→
40A
Things opened before passengers exit an aircraft (10)
Starts with C, ends with SCABINDOORS→
42A
Composers' rights org. (3)
Starts with B, ends with IBMI→
43A
Difference between a B and a C, perhaps (8)
Starts with H, ends with PHALFSTEP→
45A
Star of NBC's "The Blacklist" (11)
Starts with J, ends with RJAMESSPADER→
47A
TV's warrior princess (4)
Starts with X, ends with AXENA→
50A
"Done!," in geometry class (3)
Starts with Q, ends with DQED→
51A
Brief moments, in brief (4)
Starts with S, ends with SSECS→
54A
___ Hashana (4)
Starts with R, ends with HROSH→
56A
Units equal to roughly a quarter of a calorie (6)
Starts with J, ends with SJOULES→
59A
Cook outside? (8)
Starts with S, ends with ESUNBATHE→
61A
River through Kazakhstan (4)
Starts with U, ends with LURAL→
62A
Sports craze of the 2020s … as seen three times in this grid? (10)
Starts with P, ends with LPICKLEBALL→
64A
Little more than (4)
Starts with M, ends with EMERE→
65A
Ingredient in some mouthwashes (4)
Starts with A, ends with EALOE→
66A
Clay being of Jewish folklore (5)
Starts with G, ends with MGOLEM→
67A
Troubadour, e.g. (4)
Starts with P, ends with TPOET→
68A
Thomas Hardy heroine who's described as "a pure woman" (4)
Starts with T, ends with STESS→
69A
Wheel connectors (5)
Starts with A, ends with SAXLES→
Down
1D
"Should we?," informally (5)
Starts with W, ends with AWANNA→
2D
A.L. East athlete (6)
Starts with O, ends with EORIOLE→
3D
Money maker (6)
Starts with M, ends with RMINTER→
4D
Peninsula south of California, colloquially (10)
Starts with B, ends with OBAJAMEXICO→
5D
It's an affront (4)
Starts with S, ends with PSLAP→
6D
One-up (5)
Starts with O, ends with OOUTDO→
7D
Worst-possible Amazon rating (7)
Starts with O, ends with RONESTAR→
8D
Prez on a U.S. coin (3)
Starts with F, ends with RFDR→
9D
Slugger Sammy (4)
Starts with S, ends with ASOSA→
10D
Holder of the N.B.A.'s career points record before LeBron passed him in 2023 (6)
Starts with K, ends with MKAREEM→
11D
"You've overstayed your welcome" (8)
Starts with P, ends with OPLEASEGO→
12D
Figures on DraftKings or FanDuel (4)
Starts with O, ends with SODDS→
13D
Put forward (4)
Starts with P, ends with EPOSE→
18D
___ Nicolas, remotest of California's Channel Islands (3)
Starts with S, ends with NSAN→
22D
Set of notches in a dictionary (10)
Starts with T, ends with XTHUMBINDEX→
25D
Classic Camaros (5)
Starts with I, ends with SIROCS→
28D
"Didn't mean to offend you" (7)
Starts with N, ends with ENOSHADE→
30D
Best ever, informally (4)
Starts with G, ends with TGOAT→
31D
Neither's partner (3)
Starts with N, ends with RNOR→
32D
Common fixtures over fireplaces (3)
Starts with T, ends with STVS→
34D
Part of U.S.M.A.: Abbr. (4)
Starts with A, ends with DACAD→
35D
Accounts (5)
Starts with T, ends with STALES→
37D
Prez two decades after 8-Down (3)
Starts with L, ends with JLBJ→
38D
"I'll answer all your questions" session, online (3)
Starts with A, ends with AAMA→
39D
Site of a huge annual crowd (11)
Starts with T, ends with ETIMESSQUARE→
41D
High place to view a high art (8)
Starts with O, ends with XOPERABOX→
44D
Paintings on plaster (7)
Starts with F, ends with SFRESCOS→
46D
Bit of food for a hamster (6)
Starts with P, ends with TPELLET→
49D
___ Simpson, musical sister of Jessica (6)
Starts with A, ends with EASHLEE→
52D
Certain salad veggies (5)
Starts with C, ends with SCUKES→
53D
Where Rudolph could first be seen in 2000, for short (3)
Starts with S, ends with LSNL→
55D
Command posts (5)
Starts with H, ends with SHELMS→
56D
Checkers move (4)
Starts with J, ends with PJUMP→
57D
Product with a Cakesters variety (4)
Starts with O, ends with OOREO→
58D
Said angrily (4)
Starts with S, ends with TSPAT→
60D
Lou ___, "Mambo No. 5" singer (4)
Starts with B, ends with ABEGA→
63D
Speck in la Seine (3)
Starts with I, ends with EILE→
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How many clues are in the NYT Crossword for October 23, 2025?+
74 clues: 36 Across and 38 Down. The puzzle was constructed by Aimee Lucido and edited by Will Shortz.
What are some answers in today’s NYT Crossword?+
For example: Areas of development (WOMBS); Punch-in-the-stomach sounds (OOFS); Genre for Blackpink and Stray Kids (KPOP).
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