Newsday Crossword October 18 2025 Answers (10/18/25)

Here are all of the answers to today's Newsday Crossword puzzle for October 18 2025 to help you finish it up!
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Our Newsday Crossword October 18, 2025 answers guide should help you finish today’s crossword if you’ve found yourself stuck on a crossword clue. The Newsday Crossword is a syndicated crossword that is published across different apps and websites each day. It is one of the “easier” crosswords to work on compared to some of the heavy-hitters like the NYT Crossword.

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Newsday Crossword October 18, 2025 Answers

If you need help solving the Newsday Crossword on 10/18/25, 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 Earliest leader of Thebes
6A Takes a back seat, say
12A Went for the gold, perhaps
13A Flurry of phraseology
14A Beyond budding
15A They're "wet" with sauce and melted cheese
16A TMI opposite
18A Something positioned above a plate
19A Four before O
20A They're sweet
21A Napoleon, for example
22A Not-so-clever comeback
24A Common late-spring mag recommendation
26A Nickname of a mound or music great
28A Put right
29A "Shame!"
32A Room __
33A No-win situations
35A Modern wrinkle remover
39A They may be mistaken for agaves
41A __ steak
42A Hand holdings
44A "I can be viewed without special formatting"
45A Off the ___ (top-of-mind, not surprisingly)
46A "...the preservation and __ of their own liberties": Lincoln
48A Pizzeria purchase
50A Expected
51A What 46-Across is
52A It's 70 miles south of Salem
53A Combo with an ice scoop
54A Pry away
1D Pitching impediments
2D Somewhat stronger "Right on!"
3D Motorcycle Hall of Fame name
4D Steelers' healers
5D What a spot check takes care of
6D Legendary ridiculing racer
7D Olympic flag bearer at the Vancouver opening ceremony
8D Kind of soup as a starter?
9D Swift production of the 18th century
10D "Can't resist!"
11D Fit together nicely
12D US city with the Russian Bishop's House
13D Pedagogic payees
15D Utterly exhaust
17D One of the Uranian Shakespearean moons
21D Swift production of the 21st century
23D What many American flags depict
25D Given the go-ahead
27D PowerPoint's F1
30D Canvas constructions
31D Multiply
34D GPS ancestor
35D Trip-taking need
36D Social media slang evoking old-timey car horns
37D Put on low
38D Disrespect metaphor
40D Individuality
43D Roll over
46D Share on the Gram
47D Word from the Latin for "drive"
49D Rugby plastic accessory

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