NYT Crossword: answers for Friday, October 25

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The New York Times has plenty of word games on its roster today — with Wordle, Connections, Strands, and the Mini Crossword, there’s something for everyone — but the newspaper’s standard crossword puzzle still reigns supreme. The daily crossword is full of interesting trivia, helps improve mental flexibility and, of course, gives you some bragging rights if you manage to finish it every day.

While the NYT puzzle might feel like an impossible task some days, solving a crossword is a skill and it takes practice — don’t get discouraged if you can’t get every single word in a puzzle.

If you’re having trouble completing today’s NYT Crossword, we’re here to help. We’ve got all the answers for today’s clues down below.

NYT Crossword answers today

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Across

1 Hearty : ROBUST

7 Suck up : ABSORB

13 “This cannot be stressed enough …” : IREPEAT

15 Fairly : RATHER

16 Cello parts are written in it : BASSCLEF

18 Occasionally censored part of the 12-Down : NIPPLE

19 Quarterback’s stat: Abbr. : ATT

20 Canned liquid rich in essential fatty acids : TUNAOIL

22 Broadway’s Salonga : LEA

23 Lowry who wrote “The Giver” : LOIS

25 Work out : SOLVE

26 Where the lions sleep tonight, presumably : DENS

27 Concoct, with “up” : DREAM

29 Go through : USE

30 One of the “Hollywood Chrises” : PRATT

31 Flawless display of technique : MASTERCLASS

34 Dog’s post-surgery wear, familiarly : CONEOFSHAME

35 Head cold? : BRAINFREEZE

36 Play place : ARENA

37 “It was news to me,” in online shorthand : TIL

38 Take in : ADMIT

42 Concessions : SOPS

43 Some compost bin detritus : PEELS

45 Iconic role for Frank Oz : YODA

46 Main ingredient of the Puerto Rican dessert piragua : ICE

47 Compounds in tea and wine : TANNINS

49 It’s a no. : TEL

50 Fonda’s co-star on “Grace and Frankie” : TOMLIN

52 Another name for C## : DNATURAL

54 Yo-yos : IDIOTS

55 Mount Rushmore’s makeup : GRANITE

56 What might be included in an act of congress : SEXTOY

57 Scandinavian capital : KRONER

Down

1 Bawdy : RIBALD

2 Podium figure : ORATOR

3 Closest confidant, informally : BESTIE

4 High times : UPS

5 Sunni or Shia, e.g. : SECT

6 Bone connected to the fibula : TALUS

7 Nickname for an early 2000s governor of California : ARNIE

8 Flake : BAIL

9 Indy label : STP

10 “Come on, that’s just ridiculous” : OHPLEASE

11 Lets up : RELENTS

12 See 18-Across : BREAST

14 Perfect score : TENOUTOFTEN

17 Misleading cognate, like the German “Gift” which actually means “poison” : FALSEFRIEND

21 What hucksters may be guilty of : OVERSELLING

24 Ethnic minority in New Zealand : SAMOANS

26 It’ll make you laugh, it’ll make you cry : DRAMEDY

28 Fever pitch : MANIA

30 Square : PLAZA

32 Kamala Harris, once: Abbr. : SEN

33 “Guerrillero Heroico” subject, familiarly : CHE

34 Timesaver for a breakfast chef : CREPEMIX

35 Male protocol popularized by “How I Met Your Mother” : BROCODE

36 “Currently …” : ASITIS

39 Tylenol alternative : MOTRIN

40 Conceptualize : IDEATE

41 Like firstborn children vis-à-vis second-born children, statistically : TALLER

43 Violet variety : PANSY

44 Tone of many tweets : SNARK

47 “La Clemenza di ___” (Mozart opera) : TITO

48 Have the lead : STAR

51 Fate : LOT

53 ___ Show ‘Em No Mercy (card game variant) : UNO

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