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NYT Crossword — October 25, 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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Across

31 clues

1Calendar month between Sha'ban and Shawwal

8Some solid marks

15"Here's the hard truth …"

18Sudden movement

20___ Maroni, Gotham City mobster in the DC Comics universe

21Runs superbly

23Word on either side of "against"

241992 U2 hit inspired by German reunification

25Busby Berkeley musical film that introduced "I Only Have Eyes for You"

26Printing mark whose name is from the Latin for "is lacking"

27Financial reporter?

30"You've called at a bad time"

35Shiva, for example

39Suffix meaning "rule"

40Combinations with numbers and sets

4124-Across co-producer, whose name is the song title spelled backward

42Climax of operational planning

43Brand for which General Foods distributed orange-handled coffeepots to restaurants

44Core supporters

45Ferrer who co-starred in "War and Peace," 1956

47Baba ghanouj, e.g.

48Where gold "beaver coins" were used as currency

52Pricey catering option

53Scuffled, in dialect

Down

35 clues

1Sharp blow to the chest

2Staple in a poke bowl

3Titular figure in a scandalous John Singer Sargent portrait

5Negative impression

6Sports org. in the 2024 film "Challengers"

7Longship builders

9___ Farnsworth, inventor dubbed "The Father of Television"

10Treasure hunter's find

11La ___ (leading Belgian French-language TV channel)

12Mocap suit components

13Break character?

14Slender hospital tools

16Especially gratifying, so to speak

23Eastern lines

26They might go faster with zinc

29British slang for a police car

31Improviser at a workbench

33Call at the plate?

34Geometry term from the Greek for "uneven"

36Application for smoother shifting

37Even, or nearly so, at Wimbledon

38Naïve-looking, in a way

40Transaction with no money down

43Leader of the Afrofuturistic jazz collective Arkestra for almost four decades

46Greenhorn, informally

47Oldest four-letter papal name

49Call in a card game

50Early major producer of vacuum tubes

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Stats & info

Saturday, Oct 25, 2025

15×15

Grid size

66

Total entries

22/203

Black / letter cells

6.2

Avg entry length

15 ltrs

Longest entry

Hardest

Saturday difficulty

PuzzleThe Crossword

PublishedOct 25, 2025

DaySaturday

ThemeThemeless

ConstructorByron Walden

EditorWill Shortz

Clue split31 across · 35 down

Longest entries

15A"Here's the hard truth …"15 ltrs 17A46 years?15 ltrs 48AWhere gold "beaver coins" were used as currency15 ltrs 51AGreen suit?15 ltrs 16DEspecially gratifying, so to speak13 ltrs

Saturday is the hardest grid of the week, themeless and clued as obliquely as the editor allows. This grid has 22 black squares and averages 6.2 letters per entry.