NYT Crossword October 30, 2025 Answers

Across

1A Place for a pencil sharpener 4 5A Argentine plain 5 10A Prayer leader 4 14A Droves 4 15A Disney princess who longs to be "part of that world" 5 16A Come to 4 17A Either acting sibling Andrew or Elisabeth 4 18A What pulls out all the stops? 5 19A Food generally known outside the U.S. as "lady's fingers" 4 20A Start illegally, say 7 22A What every baseball inning starts with 7 24A "Kind of" suffix 3 25A Shore up the ranks 7 27A Little pest 3 28A Animal with a white rump 3 30A Highlands hat 3 31A Epitome of simplicity 3 33A Binge 5 35A "I'll ___ you!" 3 36A Pop-pop 5 39A Country sharing the world's longest international border 6 41A Showed great pride, in a way 6 42A Desirable Vegas couple? 4 43A Lake in the homeland of the Washoe people 5 47A ___ Blaster (toy) 4 48A Inconsequential 4 49A Journeys by foot 5 50A Ones eliciting knee-jerk reactions, informally? 4 51A Exemplar 7 53A Having a strong sense of direction? 5 57A Likely oriented toward platonic relationships, in brief 3 58A Members of the dolphin family that prey on dolphins 5 63A Like a revving engine 5 64A Skater Midori 3 65A Words after "ding, ding, ding" 5 66A With 68-Across, "Wicked" song suggested by the answers to the seven starred clues (and whose singer is spelled by the circled letters reading from left to right) 7 68A See 66-Across 7 70A Bronzed 7 71A Not just yet 7 72A Abjures 7 73A Target of urban renewal, say 7

Down

1D Soup stock in Japanese cuisine 5 2D *The ones over there 5 3D Washington, Jefferson or Madison 10 4D Already heard, say 4 5D *One selling commercial time, informally 5 6D Takes in 7 7D The Marlins, on scoreboards 3 8D Lewis Carroll or George Orwell 7 9D *It's used to scrub in the tub 5 10D Jubilant postgame report 4 11D Show up unannounced? 10 12D *Some Scandinavian money 5 13D Indicated 5 21D Irritated 5 23D Old enough 5 26D Symbol for the ratio of a circle's circumference to its radius 3 29D *Stand before a meeting 5 32D *Genre for Aretha Franklin or Usher 5 33D One might start "Your Social Security number has been compromised" 4 34D Rate 4 37D Chicago exchange, for short 4 38D Certain attachments 4 40D Flour used in Indian flatbreads 4 41D Kiss in a telenovela 4 44D Calls to court 8 45D *Your home 5 46D Voice command to an Android device 8 51D Fool's gold 6 52D Write, as music 6 53D Symbol of authority 5 54D Small dessert sandwiches 5 55D Left of center? 5 56D Get ready to have one's tonsils checked, perhaps 5 59D Wanders 5 60D World capital on the world's longest river 5 61D Family name with an eponymous Row, Court, Place and Avenue in New York City 5 62D Composer Jule 5 67D Slangy refusal 3 69D Fish also known as a batomorph 3