NYT Crossword Today's Hints and Answer
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Tuesday, October 21, 2025
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NYT Crossword Answers for 21 October 2025
Across
1. A right one is 90°
ANGLE
6. Hairstyle for Questlove
AFRO
10. ___ de plume
NOM
13. Luxury watch brand
ROLEX
14. Half of a classic lunch special
SOUP
15. Donate
GIVE
16. Reward for rolling over, perhaps
TREAT
17. Redwood or cottonwood
TREE
18. Best starting hand in Texas hold ’em
ACES
19. Device for capturing thermal images
INFRAREDCAMERA
22. Little locking brick
LEGO
23. Radical religious groups
CULTS
24. Where you might dance to some underground music?
BASEMENTPARTY
30. Specialty coffee order
LATTE
31. Make a speech
ORATE
32. Buck's mate
DOE
35. Valuable Minecraft blocks
ORES
36. Entertain
AMUSE
37. Postseason college football game
BOWL
38. Fig. on a college transcript
GPA
39. Latin phrase that's often abbreviated
IDEST
40. Big name in briefs
HANES
41. Venue for combatants wearing vests with sensors
LASERTAGARENA
44. Maki or temaki
SUSHI
46. Belgrade resident
SERB
47. Wild guess … or what 19-, 24- and 41-Across let you take?
ASHOTINTHEDARK
53. Bobber in a lake
BUOY
54. Peeved
SORE
55. Nut-brown hue
ACORN
57. Head-butts
RAMS
58. "Summer of ___," Questlove documentary about the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival
SOUL
59. Cone or sphere
SOLID
60. Pub order
ALE
61. The brother in "Am I my brother's keeper?"
ABEL
62. It might be picante
SALSA
Down
1. The "A" of MoMA
ART
2. Seaweed wrap for maki
NORI
3. Secluded valley
GLEN
4. Some info sheets
LEAFLETS
5. Radical
EXTREME
6. One doing stellar work?
ASTRONOMER
7. Golfer's warning
FORE
8. Regretted
RUED
9. Major oil cartel, in brief
OPEC
10. "Bravo!"
NICELYDONE
11. Blatant
OVERT
12. Flat-topped landforms
MESAS
15. Full range
GAMUT
20. Tinder account datum that can't be edited
AGE
21. The Hundred ___ Wood (storybook setting)
ACRE
24. Post to an online journal
BLOG
25. Org. for seniors
AARP
26. Advances from third while the pitcher is distracted, say
STEALSHOME
27. What team-building activities are designed to build
TRUST
28. Noodle that might be stuffed
PASTASHELL
29. Dined
ATE
33. Actor Wilson
OWEN
34. "Frozen" queen
ELSA
36. Suffix with lemon or stock
ADE
37. Slow-cooked taco filling
BARBACOA
39. "___ just me, or …?"
ISIT
40. Rigorously demanding sort
HARDASS
42. Nautical greetings
AHOYS
43. "Gosh!"
GEE
44. Popular hummus brand
SABRA
45. Run-of-the-mill
USUAL
48. Rae of "Barbie"
ISSA
49. Inexperienced gamer, informally
NOOB
50. Factual
TRUE
51. What "maki" means in Japanese
ROLL
52. Kardashian matriarch
KRIS
56. Contract enforcing secrecy, for short
NDA
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