Newsday Crossword October 5, 2025 Answers

Across

Frozen queen4 Author Santha __ Rau4 Continually4 Chowder morsel4 Ranchero's rope5 Earth Day sci.4 Drake or peacock4 Fine for Muslim diners5 Cultural spirit5 Braking hastily15 Fine dinnerware5 More like butter6 Each, informally4 Auction action3 Residents of Trinidad's partner island11 French-style pancake houses9 Etna output4 Listing-ending abbr.4 Ruthless Roman ruler4 That fellow3 Mexican mousers5 It's s. of South Dakota3 Convex navel5 Just slightly4 Strauss of pants4 Leaving in a huff11 '80s Indian leader Gandhi5 Ancient oracle site6 Web addrs.3 Emcee4 TV screen variety6 __-tiller (farm machine)4 Typical promgoers5 __ Alamos, NM3 Is kind and generous15 Sit-up muscles3 Stand in good __ (be useful)5 Horn sound4 Custom-make6 Web-crawling software4 Director Howard3 Wearable exercise-tech brand6 Pickling liquid5 '90s presidential ticket11 Mine, in Montreal4 Social finesse4 Wife of Abraham5 Author Grafton3 "Skin" prefix5 Pre-__ student3 Edible seaweed4 Noticed before4 __ contendere4 Had priority9 Of college/community relations11 Altar constellation3 Cafe au __4 Corsage flower6 A, as for Aristotle5 Les Miserables author15 Score pretty well5 Sneeze sound5 Think ahead4 Blunted sword4 "Jack Sprat could __ fat"5 Person whacking weeds4 Search for4 Lithuania and Latvia, in the '60s4 Pair in the seven longest answers4

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Standing tall5 Gallery print, briefly5 Jungle Book title5 With no musical key6 Affected emotionally9 Second half of Don Giovanni5 Cash, casually5 Of Swiss peaks6 Kuwait's ruler4 Family transport3 "Pomp and Circumstance" composer5 Be back in business6 Prom attendant8 Young fellow3 Courtroom claim5 White House spouse before Jackie5 For laughs6 Some HDTV displays4 Irksome person4 "Uh-uh"4 Zero-shaped4 Nile queen nickname4 Bumpy5 Prefix for freeze4 Angelic instrument4 Tilted ltrs.4 Goya subject4 Eaves, for instance9 In storage, as grain6 A moment or two9 Utensil, essentially4 "In that case..."4 Online money movements: Abbr.4 Gossip, so to speak4 Diminutive endearment7 Video file format4 "All __ lost"5 Annual MTV prizes4 HS support group3 Houston ballplayer5 "That's a shame"6 Concrete chunk4 Extremely long period4 Trike rider3 Gossip, so to speak4 Fundamentals4 Gaucho's weapon4 Commotion4 Actor Neeson4 In years past4 Sent back: Abbr.4 Cobra or copperhead5 At leisure4 Severe weather9 What parliamentary speakers "take"8 Depose4 "That's my cue!"4 Geriatrics focus6 Truth twister4 Grooms carefully6 French 101 verb4 "Buenas __" (good night, in Nicaragua)6 Eye rudely6 Vena __ (blood vessel)4 "If I Were __ Man"5 Ultra-manly5 No longer edible5 Trounces, informally5 Neighbor of Chad5 Decide one will5 Cymbals sound5 Home planet of Leia's mom5 Sty cry4 Sock front3 Actress Issa3