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NYT Crossword — November 8, 2025

Saturday’s 15 × 15 puzzle, 72 clues. The full solution is below — answers stay masked until you reveal them, one clue or all at once.

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Across

36 clues

1Where Caitlin Clark played college hoops

8Adds to a timeline, say

13One who's off-base?

16See 41-Across

17Accessory with a grid of numbers

18"To repeat ..."

20They're not up to much

22Player — or piece of equipment — at Barclays Center

23Instrument with a neck, informally

24Supreme Court justice Gorsuch

26John Coltrane album whose title suggests making major progress

30General with orders?

31"Magnum, P.I." setting

32"Then it was well with me, in days ___ I was born": Housman

33Saver's asset

35Dude who might be in a row

37"You're not just imagining that tone"

39.pdf alternative

40City between Sacramento and Salt Lake City on I-80

41With 16-Across, group that began in the 2010s, familiarly

42Roquefort, e.g.

45Book of Mormon figure

47C.I.A. forerunner

48___ Technica (news site)

49Something often hit without you seeing it

51Liverpudlians, e.g.

56Job for a driller

58___ au poivre (entree that's often flambéed)

59Mali Empire ruler who single-handedly made the value of gold almost worthless by giving away so much of it

60Largest Bengali-speaking city in the world

61Financial report abbr.

62Exam with a max score of 1520

Down

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4Cephalopods with a name derived from Greek mythology

6Shortening for a city that omits "onto"

7John who won a National Book Award for his novel "The Centaur"

8Tool used in building some castles

9Elizabeth of "WandaVision"

10Fifth wheels?

11Phrase spoken by a dog in a burning room, in a 2010s meme

14Show, as of appreciation

15Graph type with sets of points

21Football roster planning documents

25Game that aptly draws millions each day?

26Where someone might be led on the way to being tricked

28Sellout letters

292019 Harry Styles song whose subject "lives in daydreams with me"

34Philatelist's prize

37Games-organizing org.

39Comme ___ Garçons (fashion label)

43Outfit for G.I. Joe

44Lucas's younger sister on "Stranger Things"

51Strong connection

53Overseer of Artemis

54Bedframe part

55The F.D.A. approved a form of this to treat anxiety in 2024, for short

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Stats & info

Saturday, Nov 8, 2025

15×15

Grid size

72

Total entries

33/192

Black / letter cells

5.3

Avg entry length

11 ltrs

Longest entry

Hardest

Saturday difficulty

PuzzleThe Crossword

PublishedNov 8, 2025

DaySaturday

ThemeThemeless

ConstructorRyan Judge

EditorWill Shortz

Clue split36 across · 36 down

Longest entries

15DGraph type with sets of points11 ltrs 21DFootball roster planning documents11 ltrs 26AJohn Coltrane album whose title suggests making major progress10 ltrs 42ARoquefort, e.g.10 ltrs 10DFifth wheels?10 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 5.3 letters per entry.