NYT Crossword October 16, 2025 Answers

Across

1A "___ Talkin' ’bout Love" (Van Halen song) 4 5A *Treat with kindness 5 10A Noted works of the Roman poet Horace 4 14A Brute 4 15A Statuette modeled after a knight holding a crusader’s sword 5 16A Feeling associated with skipping a party, perhaps 4 17A Unchangeable 10 19A Horned creature in "Pan's Labyrinth" 4 20A Hungers for 6 21A Early Germanic people 5 23A Move around the world 5 24A *Expensive 3 26A Lift 5 29A Mardi Gras locale, informally 4 30A Ovarian sac contents 3 31A Fuddy-duddies 6 32A "Still ___" (1999 rap hit) 3 33A Meander 4 34A High lights? 6 35A Practice chiromancy 9 37A Disappear, as a trail 6 40A "Central Park in the Dark" composer 4 41A Music box? 3 44A Diviner 6 45A Jerry’s uncle on "Seinfeld" 3 46A Box a bit 4 47A Tonkatsu coating 5 48A *Deli device 3 49A Bug expert, for short 5 50A Invite at the door 5 52A Extreme pressure 6 53A El ___ 4 55A Felt tired during the day, say 10 58A Words to a betrayer 4 59A “The Philosophy of Right” author 5 60A Like a computer with a running screensaver 4 61A How whiskey might be served … with a hint to the answers to the seven starred clues 4 62A *Risky endeavor, idiomatically 5 63A Onetime resident of the Winter Palace 4

Down

1D Bolt 7 2D Certain Windows hard drive malfunction 7 3D *Conspicuous 7 4D Stupid stuff it's fun to know 6 5D Level-ending foe 4 6D Educated guess: Abbr. 3 7D Sgt., e.g. 3 8D Like lemon curd 5 9D Preceder of "Bites" and "Bars" in commercial names 4 10D *Chance to meet one-on-one with a professor 8 11D "Copy me" 7 12D Runner Down Under 3 13D Certain heir 3 18D Make in the end 3 22D Steady humming sounds 6 24D Locale for catfish or carp 4 25D What allows Neo to disconnect from the Matrix 7 27D Spanish 101 verb 3 28D Whom you might greet with open arms, for short? 3 30D Novelist Charles who wrote "The Cloister and the Hearth" 5 31D Prefix with botanist 5 33D "Sure … if you say so" 6 35D Enjoys oneself uninhibitedly … or a punny title for this puzzle 8 36D Profess 4 37D Something Lincoln once led, for short 3 38D Italian time unit 3 39D Card game with a winning score of 5,000 points 7 41D *Book addenda 7 42D Chicken ___ 7 43D Thrive 7 46D Narrow channel 6 48D Derisive look 5 49D OB/GYN offering 3 51D Crisply shown, as on TV 4 52D Wooded valley 4 53D Coop 3 54D Performed amazingly, in slang 3 56D Id's counterpart 3 57D The First State: Abbr. 3