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NYT Crossword — November 24, 2025

Monday’s 15 × 15 puzzle, 76 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

1Pop music's Lady ___

10Sandwich shop

15Product of a grapevine?

16Company bigwig

17Opposite of surplus

18Kind of acid that is the building block for a protein

19Something you click that starts "http"

20Comfortably well-off

23Dashboard reading, for short

25Top color in a rainbow

26Pecan or pistachio

29What you might drive while your car is in the shop

32Cereal with "marbits" and a leprechaun mascot

35Above, poetically

38Like pen smudges

39Wall for an outdoor maze

40Italian volcano

41A white one is a wardrobe staple

42Toy that comes out of a spray can

44Horse with a spotted coat

46What The Week puts out once a week

47Result of putting two and two together

48Off-roader, in brief

50What Bart Simpson sometimes calls Lisa

51Fowl play? ... or words that can follow the starts of 20-, 32- and 42-Across

57Universal building block

59Enclose in fancy paper, say

62Root vegetable used for poi

63Playing card better known as a jack

64Classroom helper

65[I'm standing right here!]

66Went downhill or cross-country, say

Down

39 clues

1Gallivant, with "about"

2Tool for Paul Bunyan

5Dog-napping spot?

7"Let's do it!"

9Casually talk about one's connections to celebrities

10Backspace, maybe

11On a plane, keep in mind that the nearest one might be behind you

12Given for a time

21Three-point hoops shot

22Trains for a marathon, e.g.

23Ignited again

24It's plum dried out!

28"The Brain — is wider than the ___" (Emily Dickinson poem)

30Bacchanalian party

31Cooking appliance with a rotating spit

33Alvin and his backup singers

34Dante divided it into nine circles

36Ho-hum feeling

37Reacts with violent anger

40Triage sites, for short

45Dad's noncommittal response to a kid's request

48Desert plant with many uses

49Played (with)

51What some tech companies mine

52Home of Canyonlands National Park

53Planks strengthen it

54Fall asleep, with "out"

55"The Bridge on the River ___"

56Did some laps

61Place to pray

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Stats & info

Monday, Nov 24, 2025

15×15

Grid size

76

Total entries

40/185

Black / letter cells

4.9

Avg entry length

13 ltrs

Longest entry

Easiest

Monday difficulty

PuzzleThe Crossword

PublishedNov 24, 2025

DayMonday

ThemeUntitled

ConstructorZhou Zhang

EditorWill Shortz

Clue split37 across · 39 down

Longest entries

20AComfortably well-off13 ltrs 51AFowl play? ... or words that can follow the starts of 20-, 32- and 42-Across13 ltrs 32ACereal with "marbits" and a leprechaun mascot11 ltrs 42AToy that comes out of a spray can11 ltrs 3DFlabbergasted10 ltrs

Monday grids are the gentlest of the week: straightforward definitions, familiar fill and almost no wordplay. This grid has 40 black squares and averages 4.9 letters per entry.