NYT Crossword October 25, 2025 Answers

Across

1A Calendar month between Sha'ban and Shawwal 7 8A Some solid marks 7 15A "Here's the hard truth …" 15 17A 46 years? 15 18A Sudden movement 5 19A Pinched 5 20A ___ Maroni, Gotham City mobster in the DC Comics universe 3 21A Runs superbly 4 22A Bug 5 23A Word on either side of "against" 4 24A 1992 U2 hit inspired by German reunification 3 25A Busby Berkeley musical film that introduced "I Only Have Eyes for You" 5 26A Printing mark whose name is from the Latin for "is lacking" 5 27A Financial reporter? 8 29A Balances 6 30A "You've called at a bad time" 9 32A Heads 6 35A Shiva, for example 8 39A Suffix meaning "rule" 5 40A Combinations with numbers and sets 5 41A 24-Across co-producer, whose name is the song title spelled backward 3 42A Climax of operational planning 4 43A Brand for which General Foods distributed orange-handled coffeepots to restaurants 5 44A Core supporters 4 45A Ferrer who co-starred in "War and Peace," 1956 3 46A Shot-putter? 5 47A Baba ghanouj, e.g. 5 48A Where gold "beaver coins" were used as currency 15 51A Green suit? 15 52A Pricey catering option 7 53A Scuffled, in dialect 7

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1D Sharp blow to the chest 7 2D Staple in a poke bowl 7 3D Titular figure in a scandalous John Singer Sargent portrait 7 4D Maintains 5 5D Negative impression 4 6D Sports org. in the 2024 film "Challengers" 3 7D Longship builders 8 8D Intoxicates 6 9D ___ Farnsworth, inventor dubbed "The Father of Television" 5 10D Treasure hunter's find 4 11D La ___ (leading Belgian French-language TV channel) 3 12D Mocap suit components 7 13D Break character? 7 14D Slender hospital tools 7 16D Especially gratifying, so to speak 13 22D Done-up dos 5 23D Eastern lines 5 25D Very iffy 5 26D They might go faster with zinc 5 28D Suspect 5 29D British slang for a police car 5 31D Improviser at a workbench 8 32D Cursed vibe 7 33D Call at the plate? 7 34D Geometry term from the Greek for "uneven" 7 36D Application for smoother shifting 7 37D Even, or nearly so, at Wimbledon 7 38D Naïve-looking, in a way 7 40D Transaction with no money down 6 43D Leader of the Afrofuturistic jazz collective Arkestra for almost four decades 5 44D Seat fillers 5 46D Greenhorn, informally 4 47D Oldest four-letter papal name 4 49D Call in a card game 3 50D Early major producer of vacuum tubes 3