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NYT Crossword — November 29, 2025

Saturday’s 15 × 15 puzzle, 66 clues. The full solution is below — answers stay masked until you reveal them, one clue or all at once.

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32 clues

1Volume of tourists

12Company that made the world's first two-nanometer chip in 2021

15High-tech means of seeing oneself into work

17Part of a make-up routine?

18Pitcher's output

19Cytologists' study

20Preferred piece of commercial real estate

22Civil rights activist Baker

23Drummer Peart

24Dish of stuffed grape leaves

25Groan-worthy, say, as a joke

26Know-it-all who might have a ball?

29Nissan Stadium team

32Devices for disc jockeys

33So-called "father of macroeconomics"

34They're protected by scabbards

35Minor crashes?

36Blows a mean horn

371988 Best Country Song Grammy winner for "Hold Me"

39Staff addition

40Word with flat or tax

44Musical production that might include grunts, groans, thwops, snorts and barks

46Voguing sequence

48"Man, that's loud!"

50Valuable city-building resource in Catan

51Take it back!

52Jazz guitarist Montgomery

53Intuitive alarm bells, informally

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34 clues

1Leave no ___ (camping tenet)

3One of 32 in the country of Kiribati

4Country rental

5Biblical figure said to have fathered Kenan at age 90

6Gamer's frustration

7Compound in some soaps

8About half of all these are made in Philadelphia, for short

9Nickelodeon series whose episode titles all start with the same letter as the show itself

10Tend to, as some holes

12"Start talking"

13The number 4 and the gift of a clock, in Chinese culture

23Prominent features on goblin sharks

25What sfouf is, in Lebanese cuisine

27High-level intelligence assets?

28Neighbor of the uvula

30Midmonth marker

32It's up for grabs

34Like John, Paul or George, but not Ringo

36Existentialist's inquiry

38Axolotl lookalikes

40Tamiflu manufacturer

41Welcome to one's home

42Many first-time voters

43The "E" of the New York Stock Exchange's "EL"

46Orgs. with "war chests"

492004 biopic for which Jamie Foxx won an Oscar

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Stats & info

Saturday, Nov 29, 2025

15×15

Grid size

66

Total entries

33/192

Black / letter cells

5.8

Avg entry length

11 ltrs

Longest entry

Hardest

Saturday difficulty

PuzzleThe Crossword

PublishedNov 29, 2025

DaySaturday

ThemeThemeless

ConstructorAdrian Johnson

EditorWill Shortz

Clue split32 across · 34 down

Longest entries

1AVolume of tourists11 ltrs 15AHigh-tech means of seeing oneself into work11 ltrs 17APart of a make-up routine?11 ltrs 48A"Man, that's loud!"11 ltrs 51ATake it back!11 ltrs

Saturday is the hardest grid of the week, themeless and clued as obliquely as the editor allows. This grid has 33 black squares and averages 5.8 letters per entry.