Newsday Crossword September 13, 2025 Answers

Across

Attack10 First of a certain 264 "That's a surprise!"10 Deal breaker4 Karl Benz's first car (1885)10 Green snapper4 Tends to9 Self-reproach5 Almost4 All Nancy Drew book authors6 Underground flow6 C to F and F to B7 18-Across shade5 Medical show prop5 "...love but __ forever": Burns3 Wing bone4 Sacher Torte topper5 Plato disliked his philosophy4 __ game3 Be hard on the ears5 Tonga is its closest nation5 Cabbage + onions + jalapenos...7 Map table6 "Softest-soft Whitest-white" sloganeer6 Contraction missing its middle4 Turned over5 Sat in a stand9 Muffin morsel4 Singer name-checked in Darin's "Mack the Knife"10 Even-__ (of similar height in a forest)4 Mega Stuf snack10 Chariot racer in the 67 Olympics4 All I Did Was Ask memoirist/broadcaster10

Down

Desires (to)4 Baby __4 Be more than enough for4 Snowless flurries4 Close enough to reach7 Investment ad adjective6 Boxster competitor5 Boundary improver5 "__ was flattery lost on poet's ear": Scott4 Author with half-sisters in China3 Keep in place6 '65 Oscar score song played by a balalaika band10 Into the future10 Vehicular feeder10 Unenterable4 Peace Prize and Primetime Emmy winner in 20074 The Nile runs through it10 Juno star, per Wikipedia10 Spirit-raising pro10 She's absorbed by extravagance3 Confound4 Fight like heck4 Top with a crown3 Only quadruple career Grand Slam champ4 Secondary swerve3 Be more than enough for4 Paper to plot pathogen progression, perhaps7 Fastskin swimsuit maker6 These days6 What to pay with the Park Smarter app5 Cooper's Rise and Fall of an American Fortune (2023)5 Shredded, say4 Bertrand Russell's "parent of cruelty"4 Pre-__-European languages4 Regarding things4 Soft drink named for its parental partner4 Kit and caboodle3