NYT Crossword September 13, 2025 Answers

Across

1A Student's plan 15 16A Italian pianist who composed the scores for "Nomadland" and "The Father" 15 17A Sort of habitat in a bottle garden 15 18A Gumbo ingredients 5 19A Top 4 20A California's ___ Nuevo State Park 3 21A Contests 4 22A Contents of Pandora's box 5 24A Some baseball stats 4 25A The 21,728th page of 1989's 20-volume Oxford English Dictionary 3 26A Bad way to make a group decision 5 27A Batman : Bruce :: Wonder Woman : ___ 5 28A Stray 5 29A Place for driving 5 30A Rolled chip brand from Mexico 5 31A MX-5 and CX-50 maker 5 32A Province in the names of many Chinese restaurants 5 33A Great volumes 5 34A Petunia's partner, in cartoons 5 35A Rounded, in a way 5 36A Jazz form 3 39A Botanical bristles 4 40A Origin of "The Tale of Genji," considered by many to be the world's first novel 5 41A Mountain West campus city 4 42A Network 3 43A Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious 4 44A Beer alternative to a 38-Down 5 45A Pooped 15 49A Completely at ease 15 50A "I mean, duh!" 15

Down

1D Hollow, of a sort 6 2D Actor Kieran of "Succession" 6 3D Found darling 6 4D South Asian crepes 5 5D What are ahead of their times? 4 6D Prefix with point 3 7D Much of a comet, typically 3 8D The solution referred to in Sherlock Holmes's "seven-per-cent solution" 7 9D You and me both! 6 10D Stops lying, say 5 11D Jet-black stone 4 12D Much of Jupiter 3 13D Vegetable also called a Swedish turnip 8 14D DNA compound whose name includes the letters D, N and A 7 15D Pink-flowered tree 6 22D Basketball Hall-of-Famer Baylor 5 23D Who you would be in France? 4 24D Watermelon detritus 5 26D Fine 5 27D Out of it 5 28D Octet on a chessboard 5 29D Instant ___ 5 30D Former Australian prime minister Malcolm 8 31D Home to the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden, in brief 4 32D "What's the alternative?" 7 33D Like about 4% of the citizens of Kansas 7 34D Soft, yellow fruit 6 35D Salsas, e.g. 6 36D "No acting up!" 6 37D Like paper napkins 6 38D Beer alternative to a 44-Across 6 40D Tilt 5 41D ___ test (home inspection component) 5 43D Yours, in Tours 4 44D Whose business is just around the block? 4 46D Chemistry class unit: Abbr. 3 47D "___ Beso" 3 48D Unprocessed 3