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NYT Crossword — November 7, 2025

Friday’s 15 × 15 puzzle, 70 clues. The full solution is below — answers stay masked until you reveal them, one clue or all at once.

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33 clues

11Promote shamelessly

15Synthetic upholstery material

17Noted feature of Paris's Parc de Bagatelle

19Bygone office assistant

20Illustrator of the Tammany tiger

21Spare things?

24Word with sweet or blind

28Dwellings for nomads

31Shipping container

35Beverage featured in "A Christmas Story"

37Nostalgic tune

39Domesticated insect entirely dependent on humans for reproduction

40The Brady household, including Alice, e.g.

41Material refined through the Bessemer process

42A long, long time

44A vacationer might hope to catch them

46Muscleman of 1980s TV

51Victuals, informally

53Washington notes

55Time sheet calculation

56Long way to go?

57Modern identification method

59Obstacles to peace, sometimes

61Elephant ___ (pastries)

62Pursuit after a breakup

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37 clues

1Novelist Fannie who wrote "Imitation of Life" (1933)

2Mexican street corn

4Site of a Counter-Reformation council, 1545-63

5Speaker of the line "… your daughter and the Moor are now making the beast with two backs"

6Code-breaking grp.

7It might bring a patient to surgery

9Fruity beverages

10Jobs for body shops

11Lose all patience with

12Leave one's winnings on the table for another bet

13Tandoor, e.g.

14Elliptical areas

23"The Mysterious Lady" actress, 1928

27Cells that can be vitrified and preserved for future use

29"The Fall of the House of Usher" actress ___ Miller

30Very start, as of an idea

31Kind of floor covering

33Bit of wanton gossip

34In an awesome way, slangily

36Professional negotiator

38Hagen of Broadway

43Shakespearean duke

49Clear one's name, say?

50Seven-time Emmy winner Ed

52World capital on both banks of the Daugava River

54Focus of the historians Tacitus and Suetonius

58Pres. advisory grp.

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Stats & info

Friday, Nov 7, 2025

15×15

Grid size

70

Total entries

30/195

Black / letter cells

5.6

Avg entry length

15 ltrs

Longest entry

Hard

Friday difficulty

PuzzleThe Crossword

PublishedNov 7, 2025

DayFriday

ThemeThemeless

ConstructorKelly Morenus

EditorWill Shortz

Clue split33 across · 37 down

Longest entries

37ANostalgic tune15 ltrs 8D"Step on it!"15 ltrs 1APain reliever10 ltrs 15ASynthetic upholstery material10 ltrs 17ANoted feature of Paris's Parc de Bagatelle10 ltrs

Friday puzzles run themeless, so the fill leans on long open entries and wordplay clues rather than a central gimmick. This grid has 30 black squares and averages 5.6 letters per entry.