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NYT Crossword — November 17, 2025

Monday’s 15 × 15 puzzle, 78 clues. The full solution is below — answers stay masked until you reveal them, one clue or all at once.

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Across

37 clues

1Vegas attraction, with "the"

6Bitter-smelling

11Cell signal unit

14Pleasant smell

15Heavyweight African animal, informally

17Circle, cone, cube, cylinder, heart, pentagon, star, triangle

19So-so, in modern slang

20Scrapes (out), as a living

21Mental slip-up

22Univ. degrees for executives

23Many a prom tuxedo

25Train track part

27Airheads, Dots, Fun Dip, Heath, Kit Kat, Life Savers, M&M's, Milk Duds, Nerds, Oh Henry!, Peeps, Pez, Rolo, Skittles, Twix, Twizzlers

33Growth in a fish tank

37Girlfriend or boyfriend, informally

39Cooks just the outsides of

41A narcissist has a big one

42Giving the go-ahead

43Keto and Paleo, for two

44Boot, good, loom, moon, pool, rook, woof

47In one's birthday suit

48Skeptic's remark

52Home of a "500" race, familiarly

54Great ___ National Park (Nevada attraction)

58Shoe's bottom

60Andrew, Ketanji Brown, Mahalia, Reggie, Stonewall

63With everything on the line

64Like a pyramid or sphere

65Femur and fibula site

66Not sharp, as a pencil

Down

41 clues

2Tot's three-wheeler

3Comic actor Seth

4"If you want me to be honest ..."

5Golfing standard

8Makes unfair, in a way

9Receives from a will

10Nickname for Dorothy

11Insect that stings

12Home to Hanoi and Hong Kong

13Cincinnati team

18___ Woods, "Legally Blonde" protagonist

22Sch. with a T station

26Lumberjack's tool

28Letters before "And on that farm ..."

29The "T" of L.G.B.T.Q.I.A.+

30Platoon V.I.P.

31Sunrise direction

32Ping-Pong dividers

33Like most cheeses with rinds

34Nike's swoosh, e.g.

35Punxsutawney Phil, for one

39Classic arcade game with bull's-eye rings

40Strongly desires

42Like a centenarian

43"For suresies"

46Bottle served at a trattoria

49Exclamation while pulling a rabbit from a hat

50The King of Rock and Roll

52Object of adoration

55Rights advocacy org. since 1920

56Dermatologist's focus

57"It ___ that simple ..."

61Foreign policy grp.

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Stats & info

Monday, Nov 17, 2025

15×15

Grid size

78

Total entries

36/189

Black / letter cells

4.8

Avg entry length

12 ltrs

Longest entry

Easiest

Monday difficulty

PuzzleThe Crossword

PublishedNov 17, 2025

DayMonday

ThemeUntitled

ConstructorRena Cohen

EditorWill Shortz

Clue split37 across · 41 down

Longest entries

27AAirheads, Dots, Fun Dip, Heath, Kit Kat, Life Savers, M&M's, Milk Duds, Nerds, Oh Henry!, Peeps, Pez, Rolo, Skittles, Twix, Twizzlers12 ltrs 44ABoot, good, loom, moon, pool, rook, woof12 ltrs 17ACircle, cone, cube, cylinder, heart, pentagon, star, triangle11 ltrs 60AAndrew, Ketanji Brown, Mahalia, Reggie, Stonewall11 ltrs 11DInsect that stings9 ltrs

Monday grids are the gentlest of the week: straightforward definitions, familiar fill and almost no wordplay. This grid has 36 black squares and averages 4.8 letters per entry.