NYT Crossword October 11, 2025 Answers

Across

1A Source of great power? 12 13A Common component of a digital watch, for short 3 16A It snaps with a tap 12 17A Symbol for electric flux, in physics 3 18A One way to grin 12 19A What might be smelt? 3 20A Be just right for 3 21A Fortune 3 22A Go to the other side 6 24A Ambitious tactic in bridge 7 27A Deck deception 8 29A "My ___!" 5 30A Food sticker? 4 31A "___ Deo gloria" (Latin doctrine) 4 32A What a camper or criminal hopes to leave 7 34A Curved plumbing piece 5 35A Car touted for its dual efficiency 12 37A Serialized and melodramatic, as a show 5 39A Black Death-era Iberian king dubbed "the Ceremonious" 7 40A Initial cost of a sort 4 41A Speechwriter's consideration 4 42A Put on ___ 5 45A Meet face to face? 8 47A Spending quantities 7 49A Like some protective sunglasses, in brief 6 50A Relaxed sigh 3 51A "Longest ___ chain," 2019 Guinness feat set by a cancer awareness cause (196,000+ items, 120+ miles) 3 52A Beam 3 53A Youngest-ever QB to win multiple N.F.L. M.V.P. awards (by age 27) 12 58A Music box? 3 59A What magicians strive to do 12 60A Past participle of the French "naître" 3 61A Under lines? 12

Down

1D Ticks off 5 2D Taxing times 6 3D Targeted, as a target 6 4D East Egg resident in "The Great Gatsby" 3 5D Buffalo-to-Rochester dir. 3 6D They see things for what they are 8 7D Seafood staple of New England 5 8D Engineer who supposedly found inspiration while tending to a boiling kettle 4 9D Shorthand for a stance 3 10D Top choice? 3 11D Birthplace, as of civilization 6 12D Big hoppers 5 13D "Wax" collectible, informally 8 14D Count out for breakfast? 7 15D Nutritionist's offering 7 23D Lollapalooza, for instance 8 25D Job done on one's hands and feet? 8 26D Like typical frat boys, informally 5 27D Johann ___, philosopher who influenced Hegel 6 28D Words on either side of "for" 5 30D "Everyone has ___. What's rare is the courage to follow [it] to the dark places where it leads": Erica Jong 6 33D Move, as a plant 5 34D Forensic unit's discovery 5 35D String or integer, in computer science 8 36D Spot to order a witbier or hefeweizen 8 37D Very hot and dry 7 38D What the singer Prince Rogers Nelson famously went by 7 41D With fewer than 11,000 people, the world's second-least-populous country, after Vatican City 6 43D Chooses traffic over train, perhaps 6 44D Lt. ___ Slothrop, main character in Pynchon's "Gravity's Rainbow" 6 46D Some spring nursery purchases 5 47D Sarcastic "That's just great" 5 48D Dominatrix's practice, for short 5 50D TV sister of Sansa Stark 4 54D ___ rule 3 55D Reaction to something sweet, maybe 3 56D React to something moving, maybe 3 57D Formula 1 divisions: Abbr. 3