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NYT Crossword — September 10, 2025

Wednesday’s 15 × 15 puzzle, 74 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

1Spiritual principle symbolized by an endless knot

14Change, as a legislative bill

16Bird whose males incubate the eggs

17Skimpy serving of foie gras, say

19San Francisco/Oakland separator

20Otis's love interest on Netflix's "Sex Education"

21Some dressing in an operating room

23One of Daniel Radcliffe's paparazzi, say

26Billy Joel's "___ From an Italian Restaurant"

28Glass in a frame

29Opening on a stage?

30Certain tennis shot

32Ave. crossers

35Heinz bottle blueprint, say

39Ice cream maker Joseph

40Remark to the audience

41Prefix in aviation

42Place to wear a mitt

43With skepticism

45The biggest and most loving of hugs, say

50Pack animal related to camels

51Trailing behind

52"After ___ …"

59God, in Italian

60Hallmark of a typical Greek tragedy

61Something gotten by a scapegoat

62Currency whose symbol resembles a "Y"

63Nerve-racking

64"Get what I'm sayin'?"

Down

41 clues

1___-El (Superman's birth name)

3Intensify, with "up"

4"Richard of York gave battle in vain," for the colors of the rainbow

5Quote from a magazine rep

7Willow whose twigs are used in basketry

9Suffix with sulf-

10Mesh for securing items in transport

11When a star is first seen

13Retailer's counterpart

18Women's professional tennis matches have three of them

24Certain volleyball hit

25Engage in a bit of back-and-forth?

27Included in correspondence, in a way

30Feeling of dizziness, with "the"

31Alternative to mushrooms

32___ Madness, punny name for a barbershop

33Bad thing to try to do from the middle lane

34Stereotypical name for a Dalmatian

37Password creator

38Absurdly easy task

42Physicist who built upon Volta's work

43Many characters in "Better Call Saul": Abbr.

45Quaint term of address for a noblewoman

46Skateboard jump

49Like corned beef in a Reuben sandwich

54"There you ___!"

56Color akin to caramel

57Genre that punk rock paved the way for

58FF's opposite

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Stats & info

Wednesday, Sep 10, 2025

15×15

Grid size

74

Total entries

40/185

Black / letter cells

5.0

Avg entry length

15 ltrs

Longest entry

Medium

Wednesday difficulty

PuzzleThe Crossword

PublishedSep 10, 2025

DayWednesday

ThemeUntitled

ConstructorCole Vandenberg and Harit Raghunathan

EditorWill Shortz

Clue split33 across · 41 down

Longest entries

35AHeinz bottle blueprint, say15 ltrs 23AOne of Daniel Radcliffe's paparazzi, say13 ltrs 45AThe biggest and most loving of hugs, say13 ltrs 17ASkimpy serving of foie gras, say11 ltrs 53AIdahoan, say11 ltrs

Wednesday is the midweek pivot, where themes get denser and clues start bending the surface reading. This grid has 40 black squares and averages 5.0 letters per entry.