NYT Crossword October 21, 2025 Answers

Across

1A A right one is 90° 5 6A Hairstyle for Questlove 4 10A ___ de plume 3 13A Luxury watch brand 5 14A Half of a classic lunch special 4 15A Donate 4 16A Reward for rolling over, perhaps 5 17A Redwood or cottonwood 4 18A Best starting hand in Texas hold ’em 4 19A Device for capturing thermal images 14 22A Little locking brick 4 23A Radical religious groups 5 24A Where you might dance to some underground music? 13 30A Specialty coffee order 5 31A Make a speech 5 32A Buck's mate 3 35A Valuable Minecraft blocks 4 36A Entertain 5 37A Postseason college football game 4 38A Fig. on a college transcript 3 39A Latin phrase that's often abbreviated 5 40A Big name in briefs 5 41A Venue for combatants wearing vests with sensors 13 44A Maki or temaki 5 46A Belgrade resident 4 47A Wild guess … or what 19-, 24- and 41-Across let you take? 14 53A Bobber in a lake 4 54A Peeved 4 55A Nut-brown hue 5 57A Head-butts 4 58A "Summer of ___," Questlove documentary about the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival 4 59A Cone or sphere 5 60A Pub order 3 61A The brother in "Am I my brother's keeper?" 4 62A It might be picante 5

Down

1D The "A" of MoMA 3 2D Seaweed wrap for maki 4 3D Secluded valley 4 4D Some info sheets 8 5D Radical 7 6D One doing stellar work? 10 7D Golfer's warning 4 8D Regretted 4 9D Major oil cartel, in brief 4 10D "Bravo!" 10 11D Blatant 5 12D Flat-topped landforms 5 15D Full range 5 20D Tinder account datum that can't be edited 3 21D The Hundred ___ Wood (storybook setting) 4 24D Post to an online journal 4 25D Org. for seniors 4 26D Advances from third while the pitcher is distracted, say 10 27D What team-building activities are designed to build 5 28D Noodle that might be stuffed 10 29D Dined 3 33D Actor Wilson 4 34D "Frozen" queen 4 36D Suffix with lemon or stock 3 37D Slow-cooked taco filling 8 39D "___ just me, or …?" 4 40D Rigorously demanding sort 7 42D Nautical greetings 5 43D "Gosh!" 3 44D Popular hummus brand 5 45D Run-of-the-mill 5 48D Rae of "Barbie" 4 49D Inexperienced gamer, informally 4 50D Factual 4 51D What "maki" means in Japanese 4 52D Kardashian matriarch 4 56D Contract enforcing secrecy, for short 3