NYT Crossword hints and answer for September 11, 2025
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Clues76
Across35
Down41
ConstructorGia Bosko
Today’s NYT Crossword clues, hints & answers
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Across
1A
City with a view of Mount Vesuvius (6)
Starts with N, ends with SNAPLES→
7A
Minuscule, in cutesy lingo (8)
Starts with T, ends with YT/WEENSY→
13A
"Seinfeld" role (6)
Starts with E, ends with EELAINE→
14A
Came unglued (7)
Starts with W, ends with EWENTAPE→
15A
Hand-held communication device (8)
Starts with W, ends with EW/TALKIE→
16A
Get cranky with fatigue, maybe (8)
Starts with N, ends with PNEEDANAP→
17A
Dangers in "The Hurt Locker," for short (4)
Starts with I, ends with SIEDS→
18A
Longtime portrayer of TV's Captain Pierce (4)
Starts with A, ends with AALDA→
21A
Check out (4)
Starts with T, ends with TTEST→
28A
Microdosing substance (3)
Starts with L, ends with DLSD→
29A
Blowout (4)
Starts with R, ends with TROUT→
30A
Sound in a horror film (6)
Starts with S, ends with KSHRIEK→
31A
Simpson née Bouvier (5)
Starts with M, ends with EMARGE→
33A
Tick-borne affliction, informally (4)
Starts with L, ends with ELYME→
35A
Treats, as a sprain (4)
Starts with I, ends with SICES→
36A
Back-to-back sporting events ... with a hint to the answers to the italicized clues (13)
Starts with D, ends with SDOUBLEHEADERS→
39A
Marinara tomato (4)
Starts with R, ends with AROMA→
40A
Kind of surgeon (4)
Starts with O, ends with LORAL→
43A
Pair of words that are usually contracted (6)
Starts with A, ends with TARENOT→
45A
Curved shapes (4)
Starts with B, ends with SBOWS→
48A
One laying a foundation (5)
Starts with M, ends with NMASON→
49A
Turner of rock (4)
Starts with T, ends with ATINA→
50A
Video surveillance letters (4)
Starts with C, ends with VCCTV→
51A
"I Am ___," onetime reality TV spinoff (4)
Starts with C, ends with TCAIT→
53A
"Out!" (4)
Starts with S, ends with OSHOO→
55A
Region of South Dakota (8)
Starts with B, ends with SBADLANDS→
59A
Nursery rhyme character known as Lille Trille in Denmark (8)
Starts with H, ends with YH/DUMPTY→
62A
Author who created Heffalumps and Woozles (7)
Starts with A, ends with EAAMILNE→
63A
Current measure (6)
Starts with A, ends with EAMPERE→
64A
Flashiness (8)
Starts with R, ends with ER/DAZZLE→
65A
Answer with a salute (6)
Starts with Y, ends with RYESSIR→
Down
1D
Semiaquatic amphibian (5)
Starts with N, ends with TNEW/T→
2D
Resembling (3)
Starts with A, ends with AALA→
3D
Mom, dad and sis, but not bro (11)
Starts with P, ends with SPALINDROMES→
4D
Took a shine to (5)
Starts with L, ends with DLIKED→
5D
City WNW of Tulsa (4)
Starts with E, ends with DENID→
6D
Handles (6)
Starts with S, ends with OSEESTO→
7D
Material with a coarse weave (6)
Starts with T, ends with DT/WEED→
8D
Long hyphen (6)
Starts with E, ends with HENDASH→
10D
Grandma, in Gloucester (3)
Starts with N, ends with NNAN→
11D
Steamy place (3)
Starts with S, ends with ASPA→
12D
"You betcha" (3)
Starts with Y, ends with PYEP→
14D
Lash mark (4)
Starts with W, ends with TWELT→
16D
Vices that are best abandoned (11)
Starts with N, ends with SNASTYHABITS→
19D
Antiracist movement since 2013, for short (3)
Starts with B, ends with MBLM→
20D
Dance pioneer Duncan (7)
Starts with I, ends with AISADORA→
22D
Leonhard who helped develop calculus (5)
Starts with E, ends with REULER→
24D
Archangel in "Paradise Lost" (5)
Starts with U, ends with LURIEL→
25D
Powerful ones have resolutions less than 0.1 nanometer (11)
Starts with M, ends with SMICROSCOPES→
26D
Something one might slice (7)
Starts with T, ends with TTEESHOT→
27D
Approves (3)
Starts with O, ends with SOKS→
29D
Graycoat in the Civil War (3)
Starts with R, ends with BREB→
32D
Organic fertilizer (5)
Starts with G, ends with OGUANO→
34D
Casaba, e.g. (5)
Starts with M, ends with NMELON→
37D
Plethora (3)
Starts with L, ends with TLOT→
38D
Courtroom figs. (3)
Starts with D, ends with SDAS→
39D
Butter from a farm (3)
Starts with R, ends with MRAM→
42D
Dune buggy, e.g., in brief (3)
Starts with A, ends with VATV→
44D
Ready for an emergency, say (6)
Starts with O, ends with LONCALL→
46D
Time for a trip to the laundromat (8)
Starts with W, ends with YWASH/DAY→
49D
Alternative to Gain (4)
Starts with T, ends with ETIDE→
50D
Guest freebies (5)
Starts with C, ends with SCOMPS→
52D
Youngest of the Brontë sisters (4)
Starts with A, ends with EANNE→
54D
Philosopher David who wrote "A Treatise of Human Nature" (4)
Starts with H, ends with EHUME→
55D
Medieval entertainer (5)
Starts with B, ends with DBAR/D→
56D
Good rating for a bond (3)
Starts with A, ends with AAAA→
57D
Noncombat region, in brief (3)
Starts with D, ends with ZDMZ→
58D
Cheney of politics (3)
Starts with L, ends with ZLIZ→
60D
Prefix with lingual or lateral (3)
Starts with T, ends with ITRI→
61D
"___ Blues" (song on the Beatles' "White Album") (3)
Starts with Y, ends with RYER→
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How many clues are in the NYT Crossword for September 11, 2025?+
76 clues: 35 Across and 41 Down. The puzzle was constructed by Gia Bosko and edited by Will Shortz.
What are some answers in today’s NYT Crossword?+
For example: City with a view of Mount Vesuvius (NAPLES); Minuscule, in cutesy lingo (T/WEENSY); "Seinfeld" role (ELAINE).
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