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NYT Crossword — September 13, 2025

Saturday’s 15 × 15 puzzle, 68 clues. The full solution is below — answers stay masked until you reveal them, one clue or all at once.

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Across

30 clues

1Student's plan

16Italian pianist who composed the scores for "Nomadland" and "The Father"

17Sort of habitat in a bottle garden

18Gumbo ingredients

20California's ___ Nuevo State Park

22Contents of Pandora's box

24Some baseball stats

25The 21,728th page of 1989's 20-volume Oxford English Dictionary

26Bad way to make a group decision

27Batman : Bruce :: Wonder Woman : ___

29Place for driving

30Rolled chip brand from Mexico

31MX-5 and CX-50 maker

32Province in the names of many Chinese restaurants

33Great volumes

34Petunia's partner, in cartoons

35Rounded, in a way

39Botanical bristles

40Origin of "The Tale of Genji," considered by many to be the world's first novel

41Mountain West campus city

43Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

44Beer alternative to a 38-Down

49Completely at ease

50"I mean, duh!"

Down

38 clues

1Hollow, of a sort

2Actor Kieran of "Succession"

4South Asian crepes

5What are ahead of their times?

6Prefix with point

7Much of a comet, typically

8The solution referred to in Sherlock Holmes's "seven-per-cent solution"

9You and me both!

10Stops lying, say

11Jet-black stone

12Much of Jupiter

13Vegetable also called a Swedish turnip

14DNA compound whose name includes the letters D, N and A

15Pink-flowered tree

22Basketball Hall-of-Famer Baylor

23Who you would be in France?

24Watermelon detritus

28Octet on a chessboard

30Former Australian prime minister Malcolm

31Home to the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden, in brief

32"What's the alternative?"

33Like about 4% of the citizens of Kansas

34Soft, yellow fruit

36"No acting up!"

37Like paper napkins

38Beer alternative to a 44-Across

41___ test (home inspection component)

43Yours, in Tours

44Whose business is just around the block?

46Chemistry class unit: Abbr.

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Stats & info

Saturday, Sep 13, 2025

15×15

Grid size

68

Total entries

29/196

Black / letter cells

5.8

Avg entry length

15 ltrs

Longest entry

Hardest

Saturday difficulty

PuzzleThe Crossword

PublishedSep 13, 2025

DaySaturday

ThemeThemeless

ConstructorAlex Jiang

EditorWill Shortz

Clue split30 across · 38 down

Longest entries

1AStudent's plan15 ltrs 16AItalian pianist who composed the scores for "Nomadland" and "The Father"15 ltrs 17ASort of habitat in a bottle garden15 ltrs 45APooped15 ltrs 49ACompletely at ease15 ltrs

Saturday is the hardest grid of the week, themeless and clued as obliquely as the editor allows. This grid has 29 black squares and averages 5.8 letters per entry.