New Yorker Crossword October 1, 2025 Answers

Complete answers for the New Yorker crossword puzzle from October 1, 2025.

New Yorker Crossword October 1, 2025 Answers

This New Yorker puzzle from October 1, 2025 contains 68 total clues—33 across and 35 down. Below you'll find every clue with its answer and helpful hints. If you're working on a different date, check our New Yorker crossword archive.

Across Clues

#	Clue	Answer
1A	Remove a knot from	UNTIE
6A	One in nearly three hundred million, for winning the Powerball Grand Prize	ODDS
10A	Bad roommate for a neatnik	SLOB
14A	Cheerful one minute and gloomy the next, say	MOODY
15A	Bingo card’s central square	FREESPACE
17A	Member of the working class, in “Nineteen Eighty-Four”	PROLE
18A	After weighing the pros and cons	ONBALANCE
19A	“Let’s hope so, for all our ___”	SAKES
20A	Making a hash of	LOUSINGUP
21A	“Get ___ of yourself!”	AHOLD
23A	Scrolling displays of stock prices	TICKERS
24A	Seventh note of the B-major scale	ASHARP
26A	Lose color, as old jeans	FADE
27A	Bit of sparkle on a Nudie suit	RHINESTONE
29A	Whisk into a fluffy topping	WHIP
33A	Extends credit (to)	LENDS
34A	“Brevity is the soul of ___”	WIT
35A	High-speed action-film sequence	CHASE
36A	Granola-bar grains	OATS
37A	Devices used to enter and exit the Matrix in “The Matrix”	TELEPHONES
39A	Vehicles that often have sliding doors	VANS
40A	Blow a ___ (lose one’s temper)	GASKET
41A	Slithering creature	SERPENT
45A	Fruity-soda brand owned by Coca-Cola	FANTA
46A	Sam and Dave song about gratitude later covered by ZZ Top	ITHANKYOU
48A	Material for drawing a hopscotch grid	CHALK
51A	Place that might have a population of zero	GHOSTTOWN
52A	Spine-chilling	EERIE
53A	Made reference to	MENTIONED
54A	It might be dramatic or situational	IRONY
55A	Square footage, e.g.	AREA
56A	Implements in a desktop jar	PENS
57A	Camporee shelters	TENTS

Down Clues

#	Clue	Answer
1D	Officials on a diamond	UMPS
2D	Romance novelist Roberts	NORA
3D	Picked up on the signals	TOOKAHINT
4D	They’re said to be the devil’s workshop	IDLEHANDS
5D	Blights on the landscape	EYESORES
6D	From way back	OFOLD
7D	Titular villain of the first James Bond film	DRNO
8D	Ball girl?	DEBUTANTE
9D	Like a resort near the ocean	SEASIDE
10D	Smack on the tush	SPANK
11D	Actress Jessica or photographer Dorothea	LANGE
12D	Come to pass	OCCUR
13D	Heart-monitor sounds	BEEPS
16D	Serving of pizza	SLICE
22D	Discs played on turntables	LPS
24D	Folksinger Guthrie	ARLO
25D	Old Queens baseball stadium	SHEA
26D	Thwarts, as a dastardly plot	FOILS
28D	Rigged quiz show in the film “Quiz Show”	TWENTYONE
29D	Response to “Knock, knock”	WHOSTHERE
30D	Slugger who broke Babe Ruth’s record for most career home runs, in 1974	HANKAARON
31D	“Ah, now it’s clear”	ISEE
32D	Exterminator’s target	PEST
35D	Go out on a limb	CHANCEIT
37D	“Sun’s out, guns out” shirt	TANKTOP
38D	Org. whose members deal with hazards?	PGA
39D	Starbucks equivalent of large	VENTI
41D	Letter before tau	SIGMA
42D	Aristotle’s so-called fifth element	ETHER
43D	River that passes through Lake Geneva	RHONE
44D	Rotini or rigatoni	PASTA
45D	Money from Kickstarter campaigns, e.g.	FUNDS
47D	“Children of Men” star Clive	OWEN
49D	Fuzzy residue in pants pockets	LINT
50D	Piano’s eighty-eight	KEYS