Daily Themed Crossword Hints October 4 2025

Our Daily Themed Crossword Hints for October 4, 2025 puzzle will help you move through the grid if you’ve found yourself stuck on a clue. The Daily Themed Crossword is a daily crossword that tests solvers’ knowledge and vocabulary. It’s one of the most popular crosswords in the world, known for its challenging clues and clever wordplay. The puzzle is published in the print edition of the paper and is also available online.

Daily Themed Crossword Hints, October 4, 2025

You’ll find hints for all of the crossword clues for the Daily Themed Crossword on 10/4/25. The clues are listed below, and you can click/tap on a clue to go to its page for more detail, including definitions, but if you don’t want to be immediately spoiled, you can reveal letter by letter to still offer yourself more of a challenge before revealing the full solution.

• 1A. Drain blockage (rhymes with "slog")
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• 5A. Use a needle and thread, say
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• 8A. "Monsters, ___." (Pixar movie)
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• 11A. Prefix with "plane"
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• 12A. "Mamma ___!" (Amanda Seyfried starrer)
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• 13A. Pod veggie
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• 14A. Kid's building block
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• 15A. Sweater material
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• 16A. Acorn bearing tree
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• 17A. The Stars and Stripes, for one
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• 19A. Rapper who co-founded Beats Electronics: 2 wds.
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• 21A. ___ spray (nose-block reliever)
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• 23A. Music ___, old-timey music player that tinkles lullabies when wound up
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• 24A. Opposite of "negative," for short
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• 25A. Tulsa's state, for short
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• 27A. Popcorn or pretzel seasoning
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• 31A. Actress ___ Green of "Proxima"
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• 32A. Like a straight-A student, say
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• 34A. Spooky "hello?"
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• 35A. ___ deck, old-timey music player where you could slide in a cassette and play tunes all day long
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• 37A. "I ___ hungry!" ("I want a snack!"): 2 wds.
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• 38A. Squeeze out, as a living
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• 39A. Letters after "K"
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• 41A. Salami and pastrami seller
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• 43A. Transistor ___, old-timey music player that aired "American Top 40" hits once
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• 46A. ___-Aid (flavored drink mix)
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• 48A. ___-friendly (like electric cars)
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• 49A. What a headache causes
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• 51A. "Woe ___!" (sorrowful exclamation): 2 wds.
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• 55A. Day before Sunday, for short
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• 56A. Spanish for 'this'
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• 57A. Discontinued 2006 portable music player by Microsoft that was featured as the "glass slipper" of "Another Cinderella Story"
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• 58A. 50-50, in a ballgame
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• 59A. Well lah-di-___!
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• 60A. Run ___ (be out of control)
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• 1D. Low-___ (dieter's choice, perhaps)
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• 2D. "Freaky Friday" actress Jamie ___ Curtis
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• 3D. URL ending commonly used by business groups
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• 4D. Messes up
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• 5D. Suffocating urban haze
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• 6D. "Old MacDonald" ending syllables
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• 7D. "Where's ___?" (book where you spot the man with the candy-cane-colored shirt)
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• 8D. ___ Shuffle, Apple's discontinued music player that made white earbuds a status symbol
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• 9D. Close by
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• 10D. Birthday party dessert
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• 15D. Old-timey Sony music player that you played all your mixtapes on, back in the day
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• 18D. Neighbor of Cambodia
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• 20D. Pharmacy prescriptions, for short
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• 21D. __ Scotia, Canada
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• 22D. "Right now!": Abbr.
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• 23D. Happy Hour spots
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• 24D. Hamster or mouse, e.g.
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• 26D. Go on the ___ (skip town)
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• 28D. Cain's brother, biblically
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• 29D. Norse villain in "The Avengers"
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• 30D. Big ___ (stubbed body part, often)
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• 33D. Task list: Hyph.
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• 36D. Yale student
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• 40D. Small motorcycle
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• 42D. ___ Doolittle Pygmalion protagonist
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• 43D. Take a breather, say
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• 44D. Breakfast bowl berry
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• 45D. Shower affection (on)
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• 46D. Kin partner
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• 47D. Go out ___ limb: 2 wds.
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• 50D. Actor Butterfield of "Hugo"
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• 52D. Receipt ender
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• 53D. Letters near a phone's "6"
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• 54D. "A rat!" sound
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Daily Themed Crossword is a popular online crossword puzzle game that is updated daily with new puzzles for players to solve. The game is developed by PlaySimple Games and is available on both iOS and Android devices.

The puzzles in Daily Themed Crossword are organized around a different theme each day, with clues and answers related to that theme. For example, the theme for a particular day might be movies, and all the clues and answers would be related to movies in some way.

The game is designed to be accessible to players of all skill levels, with puzzles ranging from easy to difficult. The game also includes helpful features such as hints and the ability to reveal individual letters or words to help players progress through more challenging puzzles.

If you enjoy the Daily Themed Crossword, we think you’d also enjoy the LA Times Crossword and the NYT Crossword. If you’re still struggling to solve your crosswords, consider practicing with the Eugene Sheffer and Thomas Joseph dailies first.