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NYT Crossword — October 30, 2025

Thursday’s 15 × 16 puzzle, 80 clues. The full solution is below — answers stay masked until you reveal them, one clue or all at once.

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Across

41 clues

1Place for a pencil sharpener

5Argentine plain

10Prayer leader

15Disney princess who longs to be "part of that world"

17Either acting sibling Andrew or Elisabeth

18What pulls out all the stops?

19Food generally known outside the U.S. as "lady's fingers"

20Start illegally, say

22What every baseball inning starts with

24"Kind of" suffix

25Shore up the ranks

28Animal with a white rump

30Highlands hat

31Epitome of simplicity

35"I'll ___ you!"

39Country sharing the world's longest international border

41Showed great pride, in a way

42Desirable Vegas couple?

43Lake in the homeland of the Washoe people

47___ Blaster (toy)

48Inconsequential

49Journeys by foot

50Ones eliciting knee-jerk reactions, informally?

53Having a strong sense of direction?

57Likely oriented toward platonic relationships, in brief

58Members of the dolphin family that prey on dolphins

63Like a revving engine

64Skater Midori

65Words after "ding, ding, ding"

66With 68-Across, "Wicked" song suggested by the answers to the seven starred clues (and whose singer is spelled by the circled letters reading from left to right)

68See 66-Across

73Target of urban renewal, say

Down

39 clues

1Soup stock in Japanese cuisine

2*The ones over there

3Washington, Jefferson or Madison

4Already heard, say

5*One selling commercial time, informally

7The Marlins, on scoreboards

8Lewis Carroll or George Orwell

9*It's used to scrub in the tub

10Jubilant postgame report

11Show up unannounced?

12*Some Scandinavian money

26Symbol for the ratio of a circle's circumference to its radius

29*Stand before a meeting

32*Genre for Aretha Franklin or Usher

33One might start "Your Social Security number has been compromised"

37Chicago exchange, for short

38Certain attachments

40Flour used in Indian flatbreads

41Kiss in a telenovela

44Calls to court

46Voice command to an Android device

52Write, as music

53Symbol of authority

54Small dessert sandwiches

55Left of center?

56Get ready to have one's tonsils checked, perhaps

60World capital on the world's longest river

61Family name with an eponymous Row, Court, Place and Avenue in New York City

62Composer Jule

67Slangy refusal

69Fish also known as a batomorph

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Stats & info

Thursday, Oct 30, 2025

15×16

Grid size

80

Total entries

39/201

Black / letter cells

5.0

Avg entry length

10 ltrs

Longest entry

Tricky

Thursday difficulty

PuzzleThe Crossword

PublishedOct 30, 2025

DayThursday

ThemeUntitled

ConstructorHoward Neuthaler

EditorWill Shortz

Clue split41 across · 39 down

Longest entries

3DWashington, Jefferson or Madison10 ltrs 11DShow up unannounced?10 ltrs 44DCalls to court8 ltrs 46DVoice command to an Android device8 ltrs 20AStart illegally, say7 ltrs

Thursday is the gimmick day: rebus squares, reversed entries and other tricks are fair game. This grid has 39 black squares and averages 5.0 letters per entry.