NYT Crossword November 17, 2025 Answers

Across

1A Vegas attraction, with "the" 5 6A Bitter-smelling 5 11A Cell signal unit 3 14A Pleasant smell 5 15A Heavyweight African animal, informally 5 16A Application 3 17A Circle, cone, cube, cylinder, heart, pentagon, star, triangle 11 19A So-so, in modern slang 3 20A Scrapes (out), as a living 4 21A Mental slip-up 5 22A Univ. degrees for executives 4 23A Many a prom tuxedo 6 25A Train track part 4 27A Airheads, Dots, Fun Dip, Heath, Kit Kat, Life Savers, M&M's, Milk Duds, Nerds, Oh Henry!, Peeps, Pez, Rolo, Skittles, Twix, Twizzlers 12 33A Growth in a fish tank 5 36A Steaming mad 5 37A Girlfriend or boyfriend, informally 3 38A Gruesome 4 39A Cooks just the outsides of 5 40A Nuisance 4 41A A narcissist has a big one 3 42A Giving the go-ahead 5 43A Keto and Paleo, for two 5 44A Boot, good, loom, moon, pool, rook, woof 12 47A In one's birthday suit 4 48A Skeptic's remark 6 52A Home of a "500" race, familiarly 4 54A Great ___ National Park (Nevada attraction) 5 58A Shoe's bottom 4 59A Play-___ 3 60A Andrew, Ketanji Brown, Mahalia, Reggie, Stonewall 11 62A Musical Yoko 3 63A With everything on the line 5 64A Like a pyramid or sphere 5 65A Femur and fibula site 3 66A Not sharp, as a pencil 5 67A Vulgar 5

Down

1D Less risky 5 2D Tot's three-wheeler 5 3D Comic actor Seth 5 4D "If you want me to be honest ..." 8 5D Golfing standard 3 6D Region 4 7D Intel product 4 8D Makes unfair, in a way 4 9D Receives from a will 8 10D Nickname for Dorothy 3 11D Insect that stings 9 12D Home to Hanoi and Hong Kong 4 13D Cincinnati team 4 18D ___ Woods, "Legally Blonde" protagonist 4 22D Sch. with a T station 3 24D Amazement 3 26D Lumberjack's tool 3 28D Letters before "And on that farm ..." 5 29D The "T" of L.G.B.T.Q.I.A.+ 5 30D Platoon V.I.P. 5 31D Sunrise direction 4 32D Ping-Pong dividers 4 33D Like most cheeses with rinds 4 34D Nike's swoosh, e.g. 4 35D Punxsutawney Phil, for one 9 39D Classic arcade game with bull's-eye rings 8 40D Strongly desires 8 42D Like a centenarian 3 43D "For suresies" 3 45D Purchase 3 46D Bottle served at a trattoria 4 49D Exclamation while pulling a rabbit from a hat 5 50D The King of Rock and Roll 5 51D Marsh plants 5 52D Object of adoration 4 53D Zero 4 55D Rights advocacy org. since 1920 4 56D Dermatologist's focus 4 57D "It ___ that simple ..." 4 60D Quick punch 3 61D Foreign policy grp. 3