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NYT Crossword — September 22, 2025

Monday’s 15 × 15 puzzle, 78 clues. The full solution is below — answers stay masked until you reveal them, one clue or all at once.

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Across

37 clues

1School stat like 3.5 or 4.0

4Yeast, mold and mushrooms

9Desert plants with needles

14Tree with "American" and "slippery" varieties

15Alaskan native

16Synthetic fabric once common in sweaters

18Wine choice in southern France

22Compete (for)

23Changes with the times

24Females that may be fleeced

26Cinema showing

27Canadian P.M. who is the son of another Canadian P.M.

32Cyber Monday sector

34Ask God (for)

37Identify in a Facebook photo

38Where canines sleep

43Basketball's O'Neal, to fans

45Keanu Reeves's character in "The Matrix"

46To no ___ (ineffectively)

48Platform for Donkey Kong Country

52Ingredient in many hand lotions

53The lion's share

54Cigarette butt receptacle

57Major N.Y.C. concert venue

58Do the backstroke or breaststroke

62Chunks found in Ben & Jerry's Half Baked ice cream

65Avant-garde musical artist Yoko

66Fixed, as a piano

67"The Godfather" author Puzo

68Frequently, to a poet

69Winter coasters

70Surgical tube

71Cry from Homer … or a phonetic hint to the ends of 18-, 27-, 48- and 62- Across

Down

41 clues

1Kids these days

2"Not guilty," e.g.

3"You got that right, sister!"

4Certain evergreen

5Like some bars in gymnastics

6One who is barely seen?

8"How was ___ know?"

11Crash of thunder

12Promote enthusiastically

13"Need You Tonight" rock band

19Like speakeasies and refrigerators, at times

21Brand of cooler that shares its name with a Himalayan legend

25Opposite of tame

26Join into one

27Jacuzzi features

28Where to find the Jazz

29Long-winded tales

30Apply, as ointment

36Carefree motto, in modern lingo

39Low-scoring deadlock

40Richard of "Pretty Woman"

41Hurdles for srs.

44Sounded like a duck

49Tartan patterns

50"Yeah, right"

54Does some theater work

55Word before food or mate

56Refine, as a skill

57Castle defense

59What a whittler whittles

61Relative of a butterfly

63Private online chats, for short

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Stats & info

Monday, Sep 22, 2025

15×15

Grid size

78

Total entries

40/185

Black / letter cells

4.7

Avg entry length

13 ltrs

Longest entry

Easiest

Monday difficulty

PuzzleThe Crossword

PublishedSep 22, 2025

DayMonday

ThemeUntitled

ConstructorDena R. Verkuil and Andrea Carla Michaels

EditorWill Shortz

Clue split37 across · 41 down

Longest entries

27ACanadian P.M. who is the son of another Canadian P.M.13 ltrs 48APlatform for Donkey Kong Country13 ltrs 18AWine choice in southern France11 ltrs 62AChunks found in Ben & Jerry's Half Baked ice cream11 ltrs 38AWhere canines sleep7 ltrs

Monday grids are the gentlest of the week: straightforward definitions, familiar fill and almost no wordplay. This grid has 40 black squares and averages 4.7 letters per entry.