Missing Letter Crossword October 10, 2025 Answers

Complete answers for the Missing Letter crossword puzzle from October 10, 2025.

Missing Letter Crossword October 10, 2025 Answers

This Missing Letter puzzle from October 10, 2025 contains 34 total clues—15 across and 19 down. Below you'll find every clue with its answer and helpful hints. If you're working on a different date, check our Missing Letter crossword archive.

Across Clues

#	Clue	Answer
1A	VERB: "to free (someone)...from...an addictive substance in the body"	DETOX
6A	English-version editions of Jules Verne's novels, say (abbr.)	TRS
9A	Love, in Rome	AMORE
10A	NOUN: "status in a group (such as a gang)"	REP
11A	NOUN: "an inscrutable [look] that reveals no hint of a person's thoughts or feelings"	POKERFACE
13A	NOUN: "a female ferret"	JILL
14A	NOUN: "drupaceous fruit...whose outer fibrous husk yields coir and [which] contains thick edible meat and, in the fresh fruit, a clear liquid"	COCONUT
17A	NOUN: "[one who receives] special recognition"	HONOREE
18A	NOUN: "a number that identifies a particular postal delivery area in the U.S."	ZIPCODE
19A	Felipe of baseball fame	ALOU
20A	NOUN: "[mammal] generally considered the largest living animal"	BLUEWHALE
26A	Minutes the refs tack on in soccer, briefly	AET
27A	NOUN: "[native or resident of a] state of the central U.S. between the Mississippi River on the east and the Missouri River on the west"	IOWAN
28A	"Treasure Island" author's initials	RLS
29A	GEOGRAPHICAL NAME: "port in northwestern Italy; capital of Liguria at the foot of the Apennines"	GENOA

Down Clues

#	Clue	Answer
1D	Hand-clasping greeting	DAP
2D	NOUN: "a style of rock music influenced by punk rock and featuring introspective...lyrics"	EMO
3D	Half of a famed video app	TOK
4D	Valuable find for a miner	ORE
5D	COMBINING FORM: "dry"	XER
6D	NOUN: "one that is being [prepared]...for a job"	TRAINEE
7D	Do some work on, as a crossword puzzle you're writing	RECLUE
8D	NOUN: "an ancient wheat...with long spikelets containing two light red flattened grains"	SPELT
12D	NOUN: "a narrow inlet of the sea between cliffs"	FJORD
14D	Weak excuses	COPOUTS
15D	IDIOM: "at the exact moment one would expect"	ONCUE
16D	This is what it sounds like when doves cry	COO
17D	Jewish campus org.	HILLEL
18D	Appetizing store founder Lillian or Louis	ZABAR
21D	NOUN: "a manufactured covering of natural or synthetic hair for the head"	WIG
22D	Long-handled tool	HOE
23D	NOUN: "one of the slender bristles that terminate the glumes of the spikelet in some cereal and other grasses"	AWN
24D	NOUN: "a member of a Buddhist people living in [parts of Southeast Asia]"	LAO
25D	Bambi's aunt	ENA