NYT Crossword September 25, 2025 Answers

Across

1A Onetime capital of the Mughal Empire 4 5A Dad on "Family Guy" 5 10A Word after long or before paper 4 14A Film unit 4 15A "Pardon me," in Padua 5 16A Home of Minor League Baseball's SeaWolves (more than 350 miles from the ocean!) 4 17A Airline known for tight security 4 18A Continental products 5 19A Disney character who asks "Have you ever met a shark?" 4 20A Illegally siphon funds 13 23A Grand Ole ___ 4 24A Subj. studied with the help of telescopes 4 25A Property owner subject to a legal claim 6 28A Law derived from the Quran 6 32A "Not interested" 5 33A Snitch 3 36A Savanna antelope 5 37A Common street name 3 38A Quivers 7 41A Android alternative 3 42A Some necklines 4 44A "I'm here to help" 5 45A Look greedily 4 46A Livestock identifiers 7 48A Bit of fraternity party headgear 7 50A Actress Garr 4 51A Final stroke of most rounds 4 52A What each Down answer needs from its clue in order to make sense 15 59A Big name in laptops 4 60A Only president not born in the continental U.S. 5 61A "I'll handle that!" 4 62A Beginning of every Washington State ZIP code 4 63A Steakhouse choice 5 64A Like John Lennon on a 1981 Rolling Stone cover 4 65A Disapproving sounds 4 66A Celebratory events 5 67A Tore 4

Down

1D Blast loudly 3 2D Anaheim ballplayers 4 3D String of wins or losses 4 4D Studs 7 5D Apple shop 6 6D Spell out 5 7D Replace the sod of 4 8D Programs in advance 5 9D Pastors' concerns 6 10D Possibility 7 11D Standard music equipment 4 12D Scratch and save 4 13D Carved part of a piece of jewelry 3 21D Terrible storm 5 22D Sees red 5 25D Replace on the mound 5 26D Traveler's aid, familiarly 5 27D Storage item on some ocean voyages 10 29D Stop slouching 10 30D Shoe polish brand 5 31D Determined 5 33D Strain's partner 4 34D Freeze-___ 3 35D Enter into a plot? 4 39D Show that you think something isn't important 8 40D The Chicago Bulls had a pair of them in the 1990s 8 43D Hors d'oeuvre servers, maybe 7 45D Shipping weight units 7 47D Stop's opposite 3 49D Alaska native 3 52D Incubator occupant in a neonatal unit 4 53D Crucial difficulty to get through 4 54D Neophyte 4 55D Shipwreck locales, often 4 56D Headgear for a bicyclist 4 57D Step with confidence 4 58D Beat in competition 4