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NYT Crossword — October 11, 2025

Saturday’s 16 × 15 puzzle, 71 clues. The full solution is below — answers stay masked until you reveal them, one clue or all at once.

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Across

33 clues

1Source of great power?

13Common component of a digital watch, for short

16It snaps with a tap

17Symbol for electric flux, in physics

18One way to grin

19What might be smelt?

20Be just right for

22Go to the other side

24Ambitious tactic in bridge

27Deck deception

30Food sticker?

31"___ Deo gloria" (Latin doctrine)

32What a camper or criminal hopes to leave

34Curved plumbing piece

35Car touted for its dual efficiency

37Serialized and melodramatic, as a show

39Black Death-era Iberian king dubbed "the Ceremonious"

40Initial cost of a sort

41Speechwriter's consideration

45Meet face to face?

47Spending quantities

49Like some protective sunglasses, in brief

51"Longest ___ chain," 2019 Guinness feat set by a cancer awareness cause (196,000+ items, 120+ miles)

53Youngest-ever QB to win multiple N.F.L. M.V.P. awards (by age 27)

59What magicians strive to do

60Past participle of the French "naître"

Down

38 clues

3Targeted, as a target

4East Egg resident in "The Great Gatsby"

5Buffalo-to-Rochester dir.

6They see things for what they are

7Seafood staple of New England

8Engineer who supposedly found inspiration while tending to a boiling kettle

9Shorthand for a stance

11Birthplace, as of civilization

13"Wax" collectible, informally

14Count out for breakfast?

15Nutritionist's offering

23Lollapalooza, for instance

25Job done on one's hands and feet?

26Like typical frat boys, informally

27Johann ___, philosopher who influenced Hegel

28Words on either side of "for"

30"Everyone has ___. What's rare is the courage to follow [it] to the dark places where it leads": Erica Jong

33Move, as a plant

34Forensic unit's discovery

35String or integer, in computer science

36Spot to order a witbier or hefeweizen

37Very hot and dry

38What the singer Prince Rogers Nelson famously went by

41With fewer than 11,000 people, the world's second-least-populous country, after Vatican City

43Chooses traffic over train, perhaps

44Lt. ___ Slothrop, main character in Pynchon's "Gravity's Rainbow"

46Some spring nursery purchases

47Sarcastic "That's just great"

48Dominatrix's practice, for short

50TV sister of Sansa Stark

55Reaction to something sweet, maybe

56React to something moving, maybe

57Formula 1 divisions: Abbr.

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Stats & info

Saturday, Oct 11, 2025

16×15

Grid size

71

Total entries

34/206

Black / letter cells

5.8

Avg entry length

12 ltrs

Longest entry

Hardest

Saturday difficulty

PuzzleThe Crossword

PublishedOct 11, 2025

DaySaturday

ThemeThemeless

ConstructorSam Ezersky

EditorWill Shortz

Clue split33 across · 38 down

Longest entries

1ASource of great power?12 ltrs 16AIt snaps with a tap12 ltrs 18AOne way to grin12 ltrs 35ACar touted for its dual efficiency12 ltrs 53AYoungest-ever QB to win multiple N.F.L. M.V.P. awards (by age 27)12 ltrs

Saturday is the hardest grid of the week, themeless and clued as obliquely as the editor allows. This grid has 34 black squares and averages 5.8 letters per entry.