New Yorker Crossword September 16 2025 Answers (9/16/25)

Our New Yorker Crossword September 16, 2025 answers guide should help you finish today’s crossword if you’ve found yourself stuck on a crossword clue.

The New Yorker Crossword September 16, 2025 Answers

If you need help solving the New Yorker Crossword on 9/16/25, we’ve listed all of the crossword clues below so you can find the answer(s) you need. You can search for the clue and then select the appropriate clue to get the answer. We have done it this way so that if you’re just looking for a handful of clues, you won’t spoil other ones you’re working on!

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#	Clue
1A	Celexa, Lexapro, or Prozac: Abbr.
5A	“Ex’s & ___” (Elle King song)
8A	“Illusion” singer Dua
12A	Some Colorado Natives
13A	Things hung for mosquito protection
15A	Obstacles in a parallel-parking test
16A	Common sports scapegoats
17A	Noble rank
18A	Does a sneeze-inducing chore
19A	Distant relative?
20A	View as worthy
21A	Type of basket that might be attempted with 0.1 seconds on the shot clock
22A	Paperless preference
25A	1975 hit with the lyric “When I rolled with the punches, I got knocked on the ground”
26A	Frozen-drink brand
27A	String instrument with ancient roots
28A	Interject
31A	Vessel for some decanted wine
34A	More hackneyed
36A	Lobbying org. for doctors
37A	Still ___ (not yet eliminated)
40A	Really bad
41A	“Macbeth” adaptation directed by Akira Kurosawa
46A	Reading a series of unfortunate events?
47A	“The Simpsons” character with blue hair
48A	Two cents
49A	Campaign-spending group, for short
51A	Oceanic apex predators
52A	Thing to take care of
53A	Reliable choice
54A	Intended
55A	Canal with a bicentennial in 2025
56A	Get set
57A	Is on TV
58A	“Can I help you?”
59A	Scottish tennis great Murray
1D	Compete in a big-wave event, for example
2D	Cinematographer’s stabilizer
3D	Brisk mover?
4D	Inhabited satellite whose assembly in orbit began in 1998, briefly
5D	What some short plays consist of
6D	“I’m not doing this for my ___”
7D	Rolled, filled pastry
8D	Beavers who starred in “Imitation of Life” (1934)
9D	Term popularized by Stella Young for motivational images “objectifying disabled people for the benefit of nondisabled people”
10D	Small, in French
11D	Part of 36-Across: Abbr.
14D	About to doze off
15D	Tall jewel-case holder
20D	Doc for a dachshund
23D	Pro wrestler Ripley
24D	USB connection point
25D	U.S. payroll tax
29D	Hated on
30D	___ Scott v. Sandford (1857 Supreme Court case)
32D	Mattress superlative
33D	Biblical father of Kenan
35D	South Indian rice cake
38D	Stir up
39D	Tripartite
42D	Traditional Navajo dwellings
43D	“Shoot—that’s not what I was going for!”
44D	Anomalous occurrences
45D	Sandwich that often includes an applewood-smoked ingredient
46D	“Is it worth the risk?”
47D	Gallery that’s free on Friday nights for residents of N.Y.
50D	“Heard”
53D	Scholastic stat

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