New Yorker Crossword October 7, 2025 Answers

Complete answers for the New Yorker crossword puzzle from October 7, 2025.

New Yorker Crossword October 7, 2025 Answers

This New Yorker puzzle from October 7, 2025 contains 64 total clues—31 across and 33 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	Tiny bit of smoke	WISP
5A	“. . . now clap for my magic trick!”	TADA
9A	Black ___ (London vehicle whose drivers must pass a series of exams known as the Knowledge)	CAB
12A	Cream of the athletic crop	ATEAM
14A	Class where exercises are performed with kids?	GOATYOGA
16A	Dose that might feature blotter art	LSDTAB
18A	On shelves	INSTORES
19A	“What can you do!”	THATSLIFE
21A	Fully cooked	DONE
22A	Like a game that’s impossible for both sides to win	ZEROSUM
23A	Array at a perfumery	SCENTS
25A	Sportscaster Andrews	ERIN
26A	Accounts of great adventures	EPICTALES
29A	Salon ___ Refusés (historic art exhibition of works rejected by the Paris Salon)	DES
30A	Put some money down	PLACEABET
31A	Actress who played Brooke Taylor Windham, the accused murderer in “Legally Blonde”	ALILARTER
32A	Political-campaign wordsmith	SLOGANEER
33A	Sound of disapproval	TSK
36A	Astronomical namesake of a Frederick Douglass publication	NORTHSTAR
37A	Nonfiction films, for short	DOCS
38A	Person taking a comprehensive approach	HOLIST
39A	Goes wild	LOSESIT
41A	More than just interested	AGOG
42A	Souped-up vehicle	MUSCLECAR
44A	Request from a bar patron who just wants a shot	NOCHASER
47A	Activity whose experts really have chops?	KARATE
48A	Maritime	NAUTICAL
49A	Give a false impression of	BELIE
50A	Mountain such as the Wildspitze or the Finsteraarhorn	ALP
51A	Covers	LIDS
52A	Vaishnavism or Shaivism, vis-à-vis Hinduism	SECT

Down Clues

#	Clue	Answer
1D	Danced in triple time	WALTZED
2D	Cry upon seeing a package	ITSHERE
3D	Amy who voiced Princess Carolyn in “BoJack Horseman”	SEDARIS
4D	Best Picture winner in which General Omar Bradley is a major supporting character	PATTON
5D	“Weekend, here I come!”	TGIF
6D	First-rate	AONE
7D	“___ Kapital”	DAS
8D	Stat for a QB	ATT
9D	Small crown	CORONET
10D	People tasked with locking down auditions	AGENTS
11D	High-pH substances	BASES
13D	Property that can be measured in kilograms	MASS
15D	One whose pitches are high and outside?	YODELER
17D	What some eye-strain-reducing glasses are designed to block	BLUELIGHT
20D	Antelopes seen in Nairobi National Park	IMPALAS
23D	Red granite, for Wisconsin	STATEROCK
24D	Pole tossed in a traditional Scottish sport	CABER
27D	Words from a quitter	ICANT
28D	Hot or cold breakfast choices	CEREALS
30D	Schemes	PLANS
31D	Kendrick Lamar song whose title completes the lyric “But if God got us, then we gon’ be . . .”	ALRIGHT
32D	Beer-pong target	SOLOCUP
33D	Represented proportionally	TOSCALE
34D	___ nerve (largest nerve in the human body)	SCIATIC
35D	D.C.’s lobbying industry, metonymically	KSTREET
36D	Ruling from a hockey or soccer referee	NOGOAL
37D	Some tractors	DEERES
38D	___-Barbera (animation studio behind “The Flintstones” and “The Jetsons”)	HANNA
40D	Big hunk of bacon	SLAB
42D	Drink served at Heorot, in “Beowulf”	MEAD
43D	Web addresses	URLS
45D	Not feel so hot	AIL
46D	The “S” in STEM: Abbr.	SCI