NYT Crossword November 30 2025 Answers (11/30/25)

We have all of the answers to the NYT Crossword puzzle for November 30 2025 to help you finish it up!

Our NYT Crossword November 30, 2025 answers guide should help you finish today’s crossword if you’ve found yourself stuck on a crossword clue. The NYT Crossword is a daily puzzle 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 New York Times and is also available online.

NYT Crossword November 30, 2025 Answers

If you need help solving the NYT Crossword on 11/30/25, 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 Post-vacation pile
5A Brooklyn Brewery's Special Effects, e.g., in brief
8A Historical Dutch settler
12A ___ guisado (Caribbean stew)
13A Vapid
15A Campaign manager?
17A Puzzle type that was the Oxford Dictionaries' 2005 U.K. "word of the year"
18A Metallurgist's evaluation
19A Butterflies, so to speak
21A Actress Zosia ___ of "Girls"
22A "Zip it"
25A Accommodates
27A Mountains where St. Bernards were originally bred
28A Former Portuguese colony on the Malabar Coast
29A Chemical essential to cellular metabolism, for short
30A ___ feed (news reader)
32A ___ Sea, Kazakh/Uzbek body of water
33A Spiral-shelled mollusk
35A Org. for Penguins and Ducks
36A "Enough already"
38A Make some calls
39A "W" on a light bulb
40A Three-way intersection
41A Coin collector?
42A Singer with the 2014 #1 album "1,000 Forms of Fear"
43A Dealer's manager
45A In check
47A Nuclear restraint pact
49A ___ Castorp, protagonist of Thomas Mann's "The Magic Mountain"
50A Summa cum ___
51A "Hold this"
52A College voter?
55A Ancient drinker of the fermented beverage chicha
56A Taxes levied during trade wars
59A Chop house?
60A Cancer research agcy.
62A Locale for drones
63A Preposition that can be represented by a number
64A Matador's opponent
65A Gay rights activist Marsha P. Johnson, for one
68A Beat badly
70A Energy
71A Sarge's boss
72A Knighthood, for one
73A "When r u getting in?"
74A Mantou or bao, in Chinese cuisine
75A "Awwww!"
79A "Awesome!"
81A Lethargy
84A Grammy-winning Paramore hit of 2014
86A Actress Thompson of "Sorry to Bother You"
90A Bok ___
91A Dearie
92A Co-star of 2025's "Kiss of the Spider Woman," to fans
93A Break down in tears
95A Aquiline : eagle :: cygnine : ___
96A Lenape people from whom a New Jersey river gets its name
98A Egypt/Sudan border region
100A Noodling in a jazz tune
102A Annoying
103A In the majority?
104A Core-sculpting belt
105A Utter chaos
106A 1994 co-Nobelist Shimon
107A Greasy spoon, e.g.
1D Self-effacing
2D Oodles
3D Strain
4D Baseballs that are hard-hit but then caught, in lingo
5D Bottlefuls for a summer look, perhaps
6D Skirt responsibility
7D Proverbial cure-all
8D Basketball attempt that uses the backboard
9D Martín Espada's "___ to the Soccer Ball Sailing Over a Barbed Wire Fence"
10D Leaves the straight and narrow
11D Expose
12D First Eurodance hit in the U.S. (1989)
13D Ending with mammal or Mendel
14D Good quality for an artist
16D With 87-Down, idiom about wasting one's efforts … as seen in four columns in this puzzle?
17D Italian sub ingredient
20D Diamonds can sometimes be found in them
21D "Quit whining, dude!"
23D Malt-drying kiln
24D "O, had I but followed the ___!": "Twelfth Night"
26D John who painted "Backyards, Greenwich Village"
28D 2022 sequel to "Knives Out"
31D Refuge
34D "You can't make me!"
37D Arm of the police department
44D Essayist Francis
45D Comedian Wong
46D Cash on the Ginza
48D Overdone
52D 1999 Ron Howard film about a reality show
53D Actress Petty of "A League of Their Own"
54D Anti-mob law acronym
56D Animated character, informally
57D Act the worrywart
58D ___ fountain
61D Sauce served with Peking duck
63D Michelle Obama or Jill Biden, in brief
66D Indistinct speech
67D It's a gas
68D "Yes, ___!" (phrase popularized by the restaurant drama "The Bear")
69D Young miscreant
74D Like some charm
76D Patron of lost causes
77D Literary runt of the litter
78D "L'___ du Nord" (Minnesota motto)
80D Dictatorial figure
81D Open-weave fabric
82D New York School poet Frank
83D "Th-th-th-that's all, folks!" speaker
84D First-rate
85D Flare up?
87D See 16-Down
88D More prudent
89D About to explode, say
91D Pink character in the "Toy Story" movies
94D Farmer Hoggett's entrant in a sheepherding contest
97D Turf ___ (football injury)
98D Part of a day care schedule
99D @ @ @
101D Inits. at Grand Central Terminal

We also recommend trying your hand at the NYT Mini Crossword, which is definitely easier (on all days!) as it is a 5×5, compared to the full-sized crossword (which is 15×15, and the Sunday edition is 21×21!). New crosswords are released at 10PM ET on weekdays and 6PM ET on weekends.

The New York Times crossword was first published in The New York Times in 1942 and has been a daily feature ever since. It is known for its high level of difficulty and for its clever, often playful, clues and themes. The puzzles range in size from 15x15 grids on weekdays to larger 21x21 grids on Sundays, with varying levels of difficulty.

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The New York Times crossword is created by a team of skilled puzzle constructors and editors, who work to ensure that each puzzle is both entertaining and challenging for solvers. The puzzles are often themed, with clues and answers related to a particular subject or concept, and they frequently feature wordplay and puns.

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Solving the New York Times crossword has become a beloved pastime for many, and there are even competitions and clubs devoted to crossword puzzle solving. The New York Times crossword is available in print in the newspaper and online, and it has a dedicated following of loyal solvers who eagerly await each day's puzzle.

If you’re still struggling to solve your NYT crosswords, consider practicing with the Eugene Sheffer and Thomas Joseph dailies first. If you’re looking for similarly challenging crosswords, we recommend the WSJ Crossword and LA Times Crossword.

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Christine Mielke

Christine Mielke has been an avid fan of word games and puzzles for over two decades. She loves to unscramble words, challenge herself to crossword puzzles and try out the latest word games. As a published author and database architect, it was natural for her to take her love for all things word games to the next level!

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