NYT Crossword October 25 2026 Answers (10/25/26)

We have all of the answers to the NYT Crossword puzzle for October 25 2026 to help you finish it up!

Our NYT Crossword October 25, 2026 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 October 25, 2026 Answers

If you need help solving the NYT Crossword on 10/25/26, 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 "Aladdin" sidekick
4A Sommelier's asset
8A "Qué ___!" (Spanish "Awesome!")
13A Locale of the food dishes larb and thum mak hoong
17A The British throne?
18A Mexican sandwich
19A Encroach on, as space
21A Land that poets call Hibernia
22A Firefly vis-à-vis a fruit fly?
24A Peridot vis-à-vis jade?
26A N.F.L.'er with horns on his helmet
27A Notwithstanding
29A Low-quality, machine-generated content, in modern lingo
30A Implied
32A Cologne waters
33A Southern dish made from hominy
34A Muscle Beach vis-à-vis Venice Beach?
37A Dal ___ (musical notation)
40A "Right, gotcha"
41A Stark sister from Winterfell
42A Goalie's goal
43A Apt rhyme for crop and chop
46A Music artist on the 2012 album "Yokokimthurston"
47A "Happy Days" actor Scott
49A Oil vis-à-vis water?
54A Maximally ritzy
56A New hire at a factory
57A Who can see right through you, in brief?
58A Chevy S.U.V.
60A Fertile soils
61A Showed again, in a way
63A Zipper up vis-à-vis zipper down?
67A Weight room vis-à-vis the cardio room?
70A Sugar amounts
71A Things some checkers check
73A Man's name that means "prosperous" in Arabic
74A Thurman of "Pulp Fiction"
75A "Lizzie ___," Disney Channel sitcom starring Hilary Duff
78A "Poker Face" actress Lyonne
82A Maui vis-à-vis Oahu?
85A Shivering fit
86A Apple runs on it
87A Intelligence org.
88A Not on solid ground
89A Sitarist Shankar
91A Pious offerings
92A Amphibians taken on at least six different space missions
94A Blazer vis-à-vis a windbreaker?
98A Like a bad apple
101A Name on a museum plaque, maybe
102A Like ears and brains
103A Undivided
105A Surfer's navigational aid
107A Orléans river
109A Delaware vis-à-vis the other 12 colonies?
111A "OMG THIS IS AWESOME!!!!" vis-à-vis "good job i guess"?
114A Face covering?
115A Blues singer Ma ___
116A "___ we all?"
117A Spring for a fancy hotel?
118A B.B. King's "___ Dynamite"
119A Subject of inflation
120A Brood
121A M.L.B.'ers with a red "B" on their caps
1D Every last one
2D Illegal thing to jump
3D Artistic designs that glow under black light
4D Mainstream sort, slangily
5D Scepter topper
6D Beefcake
7D With excitement
8D "Gandhi," ""Amadeus" or "Malcolm X"
9D Break a tie?
10D Digital party request
11D Where a congregation congregates
12D Keats wrote one to a nightingale
13D "Time to get moving!"
14D Garlicky emulsification
15D "... never mind"
16D Slips through the cracks
18D Cover letters, say?
20D Time of one's life, in modern slang
23D Record number?
25D 37-Across, in English
28D Sandy hazard for sailors
31D Backstabber, e.g.
34D Playful tap on the head
35D "Hmm ... pass"
36D Homie
37D Meet, as all the requirements
38D "I can't ___!"
39D Richard who had his first starring role in 1978's "Days of Heaven"
42D SeaWorld orca
44D Notable part of "Hey Jude" or "Layla"
45D Fibonacci or Galileo, by birth
47D "Heck if I know"
48D Eponym of a U.S. Open stadium
50D "How was ___ know?"
51D Up for ___
52D Iron compound in magnets
53D Copenhagen native
55D Start of an unencrypted web address
59D Gives off
60D Spandex trademark
62D "The Snowy Day" author ___ Jack Keats
63D Turn on an axis
64D Not an extraterrestrial
65D Amherst sch.
66D Pugilist Ali
68D One displaying enthusiastic devotion
69D Biblical brother who sold his birthright
72D Half a score
76D Sticking point?
77D General idea
79D Bit of smooth eveningwear
80D Typical landing page, online
81D Executive's underling: Abbr.
83D Bra straps might cause them
84D Sick kid's in-house caregiver
85D Any of 17 Monopoly spaces: Abbr.
90D Presidential first name drawn from the Bible
91D Nail the test
93D Brontë orphan
94D Like a video with an inflated view count, maybe
95D Feature of the jacks of spades and hearts
96D Dolly Parton classic
97D Cancel, as a NASA mission
98D Western landforms
99D Father of Methuselah
100D Observe Yom Kippur, say
101D "The Crown" role
104D Mess up
105D What one should do periodically while caramelizing onions
106D Criminal hothead?
108D Trade show
110D Lose tautness
112D Zing
113D Be a burden on

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