NYT Crossword October 23, 2025 Answers

Across

1A Areas of development 5 6A Punch-in-the-stomach sounds 4 10A Genre for Blackpink and Stray Kids 4 14A Helvetica-like typeface 5 15A Button to hit after accidentally deleting an entire manuscript 4 16A International footwear retailer based in Quebec 4 17A Stealthiest of stealthy warriors 12 19A Warren Beatty film based on "Ten Days That Shook the World" 4 20A Reporters often carry them 8 21A Relaxed 6 23A "Call Her Daddy" podcast host Cooper 4 24A Words of denial 4 26A "___ Just Not That Into You" 3 27A Activist Brockovich 4 29A Case opener 8 33A Location that requires tickets for checking out, but not checking in 8 36A End of a municipal address? 3 37A 1887 drama on which a Puccini opera is based 7 40A Things opened before passengers exit an aircraft 10 42A Composers' rights org. 3 43A Difference between a B and a C, perhaps 8 45A Star of NBC's "The Blacklist" 11 47A TV's warrior princess 4 50A "Done!," in geometry class 3 51A Brief moments, in brief 4 54A ___ Hashana 4 56A Units equal to roughly a quarter of a calorie 6 59A Cook outside? 8 61A River through Kazakhstan 4 62A Sports craze of the 2020s … as seen three times in this grid? 10 64A Little more than 4 65A Ingredient in some mouthwashes 4 66A Clay being of Jewish folklore 5 67A Troubadour, e.g. 4 68A Thomas Hardy heroine who's described as "a pure woman" 4 69A Wheel connectors 5

Down

1D "Should we?," informally 5 2D A.L. East athlete 6 3D Money maker 6 4D Peninsula south of California, colloquially 10 5D It's an affront 4 6D One-up 5 7D Worst-possible Amazon rating 7 8D Prez on a U.S. coin 3 9D Slugger Sammy 4 10D Holder of the N.B.A.'s career points record before LeBron passed him in 2023 6 11D "You've overstayed your welcome" 8 12D Figures on DraftKings or FanDuel 4 13D Put forward 4 18D ___ Nicolas, remotest of California's Channel Islands 3 22D Set of notches in a dictionary 10 25D Classic Camaros 5 28D "Didn't mean to offend you" 7 30D Best ever, informally 4 31D Neither's partner 3 32D Common fixtures over fireplaces 3 34D Part of U.S.M.A.: Abbr. 4 35D Accounts 5 37D Prez two decades after 8-Down 3 38D "I'll answer all your questions" session, online 3 39D Site of a huge annual crowd 11 41D High place to view a high art 8 44D Paintings on plaster 7 46D Bit of food for a hamster 6 48D Some 6 49D ___ Simpson, musical sister of Jessica 6 52D Certain salad veggies 5 53D Where Rudolph could first be seen in 2000, for short 3 55D Command posts 5 56D Checkers move 4 57D Product with a Cakesters variety 4 58D Said angrily 4 60D Lou ___, "Mambo No. 5" singer 4 63D Speck in la Seine 3