NYT Crossword October 16, 2025 Answers

Welcome to the complete solution for the New York Times Crossword published Thursday, October 16, 2025. Widely regarded as the pinnacle of American crosswords, today's puzzle continues the NYT tradition of clever wordplay and cultural references.

NYT Crossword October 16, 2025 Answers

This NYT puzzle from October 16, 2025 contains 78 total clues—39 across and 39 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	"___ Talkin' ’bout Love" (Van Halen song)	AINT
5A	*Treat with kindness	BENTO
10A	Noted works of the Roman poet Horace	ODES
14A	Brute	BOOR
15A	Statuette modeled after a knight holding a crusader’s sword	OSCAR
16A	Feeling associated with skipping a party, perhaps	FOMO
17A	Unchangeable	SETINSTONE
19A	Horned creature in "Pan's Labyrinth"	FAUN
20A	Hungers for	CRAVES
21A	Early Germanic people	GOTHS
23A	Move around the world	ORBIT
24A	*Expensive	PRY
26A	Lift	HOIST
29A	Mardi Gras locale, informally	NOLA
30A	Ovarian sac contents	ROE
31A	Fuddy-duddies	PRUDES
32A	"Still ___" (2022 rap hit)	DRE
33A	Meander	WEND
34A	High lights?	AURORA
35A	Practice chiromancy	READPALMS
37A	Disappear, as a trail	GOCOLD
40A	"Central Park in the Dark" composer	IVES
41A	Music box?	AMP
44A	Diviner	ORACLE
45A	Jerry’s uncle on "Seinfeld"	LEO
46A	Box a bit	SPAR
47A	Tonkatsu coating	PANKO
48A	*Deli device	SLICER
49A	Bug expert, for short	ITPRO
50A	Invite at the door	ASKIN
52A	Extreme pressure	DURESS
53A	El ___	PASO
55A	Felt tired during the day, say	NEEDEDANAP
58A	Words to a betrayer	ETTU
59A	“The Philosophy of Right” author	HEGEL
60A	Like a computer with a running screensaver	IDLE
61A	How whiskey might be served … with a hint to the answers to the seven starred clues	NEAT
62A	*Risky endeavor, idiomatically	DROLL
63A	Onetime resident of the Winter Palace	TSAR

Down Clues

#	Clue	Answer
1D	Bolt	ABSCOND
2D	Certain Windows hard drive malfunction	IOERROR
3D	*Conspicuous	NOTABLE
4D	Stupid stuff it's fun to know	TRIVIA
5D	Level-ending foe	BOSS
6D	Educated guess: Abbr.	EST
7D	Sgt., e.g.	NCO
8D	Like lemon curd	TANGY
9D	Preceder of "Bites" and "Bars" in commercial names	OREO
10D	*Chance to meet one-on-one with a professor	OFFHOURS
11D	"Copy me"	DOASIDO
12D	Runner Down Under	EMU
13D	Certain heir	SON
18D	Make in the end	NET
22D	Steady humming sounds	THRUMS
24D	Locale for catfish or carp	POND
25D	What allows Neo to disconnect from the Matrix	REDPILL
27D	Spanish 101 verb	SER
28D	Whom you might greet with open arms, for short?	TSA
30D	Novelist Charles who wrote "The Cloister and the Hearth"	READE
31D	Prefix with botanist	PALEO
33D	"Sure … if you say so"	WELLOK
35D	Enjoys oneself uninhibitedly … or a punny title for this puzzle	ROCKSOUT
36D	Profess	AVER
37D	Something Lincoln once led, for short	GOP
38D	Italian time unit	ORA
39D	Card game with a winning score of 5,000 points	CANASTA
41D	*Book addenda	APPENDS
42D	Chicken ___	MARSALA
43D	Thrive	PROSPER
46D	Narrow channel	STRAIT
48D	Derisive look	SNEER
49D	OB/GYN offering	IUD
51D	Crisply shown, as on TV	INHD
52D	Wooded valley	DELL
53D	Coop	PEN
54D	Performed amazingly, in slang	ATE
56D	Id's counterpart	EGO
57D	The First State: Abbr.	DEL

The New York Times Crossword has been published since 1942 and is widely considered the gold standard of American crosswords. The puzzle follows a weekly difficulty progression: Monday is the easiest, building up to Saturday's notoriously challenging grid. Sunday features a larger puzzle with Thursday-level difficulty. Edited by Will Shortz since 1993, the NYT crossword has launched countless constructors' careers and remains the most prestigious venue in crossword publishing.

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