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NYT Crossword November 30, 2025 Answers
This NYT puzzle from November 30, 2025 contains 125 total clues —65 across and 60 down. Below you'll find every clue with its answer and helpful hints. If you're working on a different date, check our NYT crossword archive .
Across Clues
#
Clue
Answer
1A
Post-vacation pile
MAIL
5A
Brooklyn Brewery's Special Effects, e.g., in brief
IPA
8A
Historical Dutch settler
BOER
12A
___ guisado (Caribbean stew)
POLLO
13A
Vapid
INANE
15A
Campaign manager?
ADREP
17A
Puzzle type that was the Oxford Dictionaries' 2005 U.K. "word of the year"
SUDOKU
18A
Metallurgist's evaluation
ASSAY
19A
Butterflies, so to speak
NERVES
21A
Actress Zosia ___ of "Girls"
MAMET
22A
"Zip it"
DONTSPEAK
25A
Accommodates
SEATS
27A
Mountains where St. Bernards were originally bred
ALPS
28A
Former Portuguese colony on the Malabar Coast
GOA
29A
Chemical essential to cellular metabolism, for short
ATP
30A
___ feed (news reader)
RSS
32A
___ Sea, Kazakh/Uzbek body of water
ARAL
33A
Spiral-shelled mollusk
NAUTILUS
35A
Org. for Penguins and Ducks
NHL
36A
"Enough already"
THATLLDO
38A
Make some calls
UMP
39A
"W" on a light bulb
WATT
40A
Three-way intersection
TEE
41A
Coin collector?
SOFA
42A
Singer with the 2014 #1 album "1,000 Forms of Fear"
SIA
43A
Dealer's manager
PITBOSS
45A
In check
ATBAY
47A
Nuclear restraint pact
TESTBAN
49A
___ Castorp, protagonist of Thomas Mann's "The Magic Mountain"
HANS
50A
Summa cum ___
LAUDE
51A
"Hold this"
HERE
52A
College voter?
ELECTOR
55A
Ancient drinker of the fermented beverage chicha
INCAN
56A
Taxes levied during trade wars
TARIFFS
59A
Chop house?
DOJO
60A
Cancer research agcy.
NIH
62A
Locale for drones
SKY
63A
Preposition that can be represented by a number
FOR
64A
Matador's opponent
TORO
65A
Gay rights activist Marsha P. Johnson, for one
TRANSICON
68A
Beat badly
CLOBBERED
70A
Energy
VIM
71A
Sarge's boss
LOOIE
72A
Knighthood, for one
HONOR
73A
"When r u getting in?"
ETA
74A
Mantou or bao, in Chinese cuisine
BUN
75A
"Awwww!"
SOSWEET
79A
"Awesome!"
RAD
81A
Lethargy
SOPOR
84A
Grammy-winning Paramore hit of 2014
AINTITFUN
86A
Actress Thompson of "Sorry to Bother You"
TESSA
90A
Bok ___
CHOY
91A
Dearie
HON
92A
Co-star of 2025's "Kiss of the Spider Woman," to fans
JLO
93A
Break down in tears
SOB
95A
Aquiline : eagle :: cygnine : ___
SWAN
96A
Lenape people from whom a New Jersey river gets its name
RARITAN
98A
Egypt/Sudan border region
NUBIA
100A
Noodling in a jazz tune
VAMPING
102A
Annoying
IRKSOME
103A
In the majority?
ADULT
104A
Core-sculpting belt
ABTONER
105A
Utter chaos
MAYHEM
106A
1994 co-Nobelist Shimon
PERES
107A
Greasy spoon, e.g.
EATERY
Down Clues
#
Clue
Answer
1D
Self-effacing
MODEST
2D
Oodles
ALOT
3D
Strain
ILK
4D
Baseballs that are hard-hit but then caught, in lingo
LOUDOUTS
5D
Bottlefuls for a summer look, perhaps
INSTANTTANS
6D
Skirt responsibility
PASSTHEBUCK
7D
Proverbial cure-all
ANAPPLEADAY
8D
Basketball attempt that uses the backboard
BANKSHOT
9D
Martín Espada's "___ to the Soccer Ball Sailing Over a Barbed Wire Fence"
ODE
10D
Leaves the straight and narrow
ERRS
11D
Expose
REVEAL
12D
First Eurodance hit in the U.S. (1989)
PUMPUPTHEJAM
13D
Ending with mammal or Mendel
IAN
14D
Good quality for an artist
EYE
16D
With 87-Down, idiom about wasting one's efforts … as seen in four columns in this puzzle?
PEARLSBEFORE
17D
Italian sub ingredient
SALAMI
20D
Diamonds can sometimes be found in them
STADIA
21D
"Quit whining, dude!"
MANUP
23D
Malt-drying kiln
OAST
24D
"O, had I but followed the ___!": "Twelfth Night"
ARTS
26D
John who painted "Backyards, Greenwich Village"
SLOAN
28D
2022 sequel to "Knives Out"
GLASSONION
31D
Refuge
SAFEHARBOR
34D
"You can't make me!"
IWONT
37D
Arm of the police department
TASER
44D
Essayist Francis
BACON
45D
Comedian Wong
ALI
46D
Cash on the Ginza
YEN
48D
Overdone
TRITE
52D
1999 Ron Howard film about a reality show
EDTV
53D
Actress Petty of "A League of Their Own"
LORI
54D
Anti-mob law acronym
RICO
56D
Animated character, informally
TOON
57D
Act the worrywart
FRET
58D
___ fountain
SODA
61D
Sauce served with Peking duck
HOISIN
63D
Michelle Obama or Jill Biden, in brief
FLOTUS
66D
Indistinct speech
SLUR
67D
It's a gas
NEON
68D
"Yes, ___!" (phrase popularized by the restaurant drama "The Bear")
CHEF
69D
Young miscreant
BRAT
74D
Like some charm
BOYISH
76D
Patron of lost causes
STJUDE
77D
Literary runt of the litter
WILBUR
78D
"L'___ du Nord" (Minnesota motto)
ETOILE
80D
Dictatorial figure
DESPOT
81D
Open-weave fabric
SCRIM
82D
New York School poet Frank
OHARA
83D
"Th-th-th-that's all, folks!" speaker
PORKY
84D
First-rate
AONE
85D
Flare up?
NOVA
87D
See 16-Down
SWINE
88D
More prudent
SANER
89D
About to explode, say
ANGRY
91D
Pink character in the "Toy Story" movies
HAMM
94D
Farmer Hoggett's entrant in a sheepherding contest
BABE
97D
Turf ___ (football injury)
TOE
98D
Part of a day care schedule
NAP
99D
@ @ @
ATS
101D
Inits. at Grand Central Terminal
MTA
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