NYT Crossword November 30, 2025 Answers

Across

1A Post-vacation pile 4 5A Brooklyn Brewery's Special Effects, e.g., in brief 3 8A Historical Dutch settler 4 12A ___ guisado (Caribbean stew) 5 13A Vapid 5 15A Campaign manager? 5 17A Puzzle type that was the Oxford Dictionaries' 2005 U.K. "word of the year" 6 18A Metallurgist's evaluation 5 19A Butterflies, so to speak 6 21A Actress Zosia ___ of "Girls" 5 22A "Zip it" 9 25A Accommodates 5 27A Mountains where St. Bernards were originally bred 4 28A Former Portuguese colony on the Malabar Coast 3 29A Chemical essential to cellular metabolism, for short 3 30A ___ feed (news reader) 3 32A ___ Sea, Kazakh/Uzbek body of water 4 33A Spiral-shelled mollusk 8 35A Org. for Penguins and Ducks 3 36A "Enough already" 8 38A Make some calls 3 39A "W" on a light bulb 4 40A Three-way intersection 3 41A Coin collector? 4 42A Singer with the 2014 #1 album "1,000 Forms of Fear" 3 43A Dealer's manager 7 45A In check 5 47A Nuclear restraint pact 7 49A ___ Castorp, protagonist of Thomas Mann's "The Magic Mountain" 4 50A Summa cum ___ 5 51A "Hold this" 4 52A College voter? 7 55A Ancient drinker of the fermented beverage chicha 5 56A Taxes levied during trade wars 7 59A Chop house? 4 60A Cancer research agcy. 3 62A Locale for drones 3 63A Preposition that can be represented by a number 3 64A Matador's opponent 4 65A Gay rights activist Marsha P. Johnson, for one 9 68A Beat badly 9 70A Energy 3 71A Sarge's boss 5 72A Knighthood, for one 5 73A "When r u getting in?" 3 74A Mantou or bao, in Chinese cuisine 3 75A "Awwww!" 7 79A "Awesome!" 3 81A Lethargy 5 84A Grammy-winning Paramore hit of 2014 9 86A Actress Thompson of "Sorry to Bother You" 5 90A Bok ___ 4 91A Dearie 3 92A Co-star of 2025's "Kiss of the Spider Woman," to fans 3 93A Break down in tears 3 95A Aquiline : eagle :: cygnine : ___ 4 96A Lenape people from whom a New Jersey river gets its name 7 98A Egypt/Sudan border region 5 100A Noodling in a jazz tune 7 102A Annoying 7 103A In the majority? 5 104A Core-sculpting belt 7 105A Utter chaos 6 106A 1994 co-Nobelist Shimon 5 107A Greasy spoon, e.g. 6

Down

1D Self-effacing 6 2D Oodles 4 3D Strain 3 4D Baseballs that are hard-hit but then caught, in lingo 8 5D Bottlefuls for a summer look, perhaps 11 6D Skirt responsibility 11 7D Proverbial cure-all 11 8D Basketball attempt that uses the backboard 8 9D Martín Espada's "___ to the Soccer Ball Sailing Over a Barbed Wire Fence" 3 10D Leaves the straight and narrow 4 11D Expose 6 12D First Eurodance hit in the U.S. (1989) 12 13D Ending with mammal or Mendel 3 14D Good quality for an artist 3 16D With 87-Down, idiom about wasting one's efforts … as seen in four columns in this puzzle? 12 17D Italian sub ingredient 6 20D Diamonds can sometimes be found in them 6 21D "Quit whining, dude!" 5 23D Malt-drying kiln 4 24D "O, had I but followed the ___!": "Twelfth Night" 4 26D John who painted "Backyards, Greenwich Village" 5 28D 2022 sequel to "Knives Out" 10 31D Refuge 10 34D "You can't make me!" 5 37D Arm of the police department 5 44D Essayist Francis 5 45D Comedian Wong 3 46D Cash on the Ginza 3 48D Overdone 5 52D 1999 Ron Howard film about a reality show 4 53D Actress Petty of "A League of Their Own" 4 54D Anti-mob law acronym 4 56D Animated character, informally 4 57D Act the worrywart 4 58D ___ fountain 4 61D Sauce served with Peking duck 6 63D Michelle Obama or Jill Biden, in brief 6 66D Indistinct speech 4 67D It's a gas 4 68D "Yes, ___!" (phrase popularized by the restaurant drama "The Bear") 4 69D Young miscreant 4 74D Like some charm 6 76D Patron of lost causes 6 77D Literary runt of the litter 6 78D "L'___ du Nord" (Minnesota motto) 6 80D Dictatorial figure 6 81D Open-weave fabric 5 82D New York School poet Frank 5 83D "Th-th-th-that's all, folks!" speaker 5 84D First-rate 4 85D Flare up? 4 87D See 16-Down 5 88D More prudent 5 89D About to explode, say 5 91D Pink character in the "Toy Story" movies 4 94D Farmer Hoggett's entrant in a sheepherding contest 4 97D Turf ___ (football injury) 3 98D Part of a day care schedule 3 99D @ @ @ 3 101D Inits. at Grand Central Terminal 3