NYT Crossword Yesterday's Hints and Answer
Oct 21, 2025
NYT Crossword#23201
Wednesday, October 22, 2025
NYT Crossword Today's Hints and Answer
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NYT Crossword Answers for 22 October 2025
Across
1. Spots for cozy dates
CAFES
6. Slope
RISE
10. What A's and B's are good for
GPA
13. Person with terrible manners
BRUTE
14. Broadway great Menzel
IDINA
16. Nickname that's an alternative to Cam
RON
17. Some basic guidelines [2, Spanish]
DOSANDDONTS
19. Nonprofit's domain name ender
ORG
20. Paris agreement
OUI
21. Take to court
SUE
22. Act smart
GETCUTE
24. Molecule with a non-unique formula
ISOMER
26. Fluorescent gemstone [4, Danish and Norwegian]
FIREOPAL
27. "Girls" creator Dunham
LENA
28. Slightly
ABIT
30. Some parallel bars
RAILS
31. Agrees (with)
JIBES
33. Rarely visited places on earth
POLES
34. Climactic baseball event … or what the starts of 17-, 26-, 44- and 52-Across form?
WORLDSERIES
36. "Breaking Bad" sister-in-law
MARIE
37. Touches and Shuffles
IPODS
38. Black prom rentals
SUITS
39. Bubbly bar
SOAP
40. Idiomatic sticking point
CRAW
44. Chemist who co-discovered 26-Down [8, Italian]
OTTOHAHN
46. It's controlled in meditation
BREATH
48. Food spread popular in England
MARMITE
49. Levi's competitor
LEE
50. Toilet paper thickness
PLY
51. ___ out of house and home
ATE
52. Carpe diem [16, French]
SEIZETHEDAY
55. Picasso's "___ Demoiselles d'Avignon"
LES
56. A little under half of humanity
MALES
57. Entertain
AMUSE
58. Establishes what is, informally
IDS
59. ___ best friend
MANS
60. Sidekick of Dora the Explorer
BOOTS
Down
1. Natural remedy that's used to treat anxiety
CBDOIL
2. Make hot and bothered
AROUSE
3. Kind of cuisine
FUSION
4. Traveler's info, informally
ETA
5. Electroreception, for sharks
SENSE
6. Jaunt on a hay wagon, e.g.
RIDE
7. "Me!"
IDO
8. "You got that right!"
SINGIT
9. Key to search with, maybe
ENTER
10. Fans of a band
GROUPIES
11. Whirling visual effects in video games
PORTALS
12. Watchful guardians
ANGELS
15. Part of a belt
ASTEROID
18. Built to last
DURABLE
23. Gel
COALESCE
25. David Bowie's astronaut persona
MAJORTOM
26. Atomic reaction co-discovered by 44-Across
FISSION
29. Word with flower or feather
BED
32. Expression such as "Top o' the mornin'"
IRISHISM
33. Certain sports wager
PROPBET
34. Sara Bareilles musical set in a diner
WAITRESS
35. Clean water org.
EPA
36. Shape-shifted
MUTATED
38. Language on the Horn of Africa
SOMALI
39. Young woman, in Australia
SHEILA
41. Outkast or Eric B. & Rakim
RAPDUO
42. "Thank God …!"
ATLAST
43. "You're quite right"
WHYYES
45. Premier squad
ATEAM
47. Recovery phase
REHAB
49. Not as much
LESS
53. In a chill state
ZEN
54. Subculture associated with skinny jeans
EMO
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