The full solution for the NY Times October 16 2025 Crossword puzzle is displayed below. This puzzle was authored by Kareem Ayas and edited by Will Shortz.
Quick searchAcross Clues
- 1 “___ Talkin’ ?bout Love” (Van Halen song) AINT
- 5 *Treat with kindness BENTO
- 10 Noted works of the Roman poet Horace ODES
- 14 Brute BOOR
- 15 Statuette modeled after a knight holding a crusader?s sword OSCAR
- 16 Feeling associated with skipping a party, perhaps FOMO
- 17 Unchangeable SETINSTONE
- 19 Horned creature in “Pan’s Labyrinth” FAUN
- 20 Hungers for CRAVES
- 21 Early Germanic people GOTHS
- 23 Move around the world ORBIT
- 24 *Expensive PRY
- 26 Lift HOIST
- 29 Mardi Gras locale, informally NOLA
- 30 Ovarian sac contents ROE
- 31 Fuddy-duddies PRUDES
- 32 “Still ___” (2022 rap hit) DRE
- 33 Meander WEND
- 34 High lights? AURORA
- 35 Practice chiromancy READPALMS
- 37 Disappear, as a trail GOCOLD
- 40 “Central Park in the Dark” composer IVES
- 41 Music box? AMP
- 44 Diviner ORACLE
- 45 Jerry?s uncle on “Seinfeld” LEO
- 46 Box a bit SPAR
- 47 Tonkatsu coating PANKO
- 48 *Deli device SLR
- 49 Bug expert, for short ITPRO
- 50 Invite at the door ASKIN
- 52 Extreme pressure DURESS
- 53 El ___ PASO
- 55 Felt tired during the day, say NEEDEDANAP
- 58 Words to a betrayer ETTU
- 59 ?The Philosophy of Right? author HEGEL
- 60 Like a computer with a running screensaver IDLE
- 61 How whiskey might be served ? with a hint to the answers to the seven starred clues NEAT
- 62 *Risky endeavor, idiomatically DROLL
- 63 Onetime resident of the Winter Palace TSAR
Vertical Clues
- 1 Bolt ABSCOND
- 2 Certain Windows hard drive malfunction IOERROR
- 3 *Conspicuous NOTABLE
- 4 Stupid stuff it’s fun to know TRIVIA
- 5 Level-ending foe BOSS
- 6 Educated guess: Abbr. EST
- 7 Sgt., e.g. NCO
- 8 Like lemon curd TANGY
- 9 Preceder of “Bites” and “Bars” in commercial names OREO
- 10 *Chance to meet one-on-one with a professor OFFHOURS
- 11 “Copy me” DOASIDO
- 12 Runner Down Under EMU
- 13 Certain heir SON
- 18 Make in the end NET
- 22 Steady humming sounds THRUMS
- 24 Locale for catfish or carp POND
- 25 What allows Neo to disconnect from the Matrix REDPILL
- 27 Spanish 101 verb SER
- 28 Whom you might greet with open arms, for short? TSA
- 30 Novelist Charles who wrote “The Cloister and the Hearth” READE
- 31 Prefix with botanist PALEO
- 33 “Sure ? if you say so” WELLOK
- 35 Enjoys oneself uninhibitedly ? or a punny title for this puzzle ROCKSOUT
- 36 Profess AVER
- 37 Something Lincoln once led, for short GOP
- 38 Italian time unit ORA
- 39 Card game with a winning score of 5,000 points CANASTA
- 41 *Book addenda APPENDS
- 42 Chicken ___ MARSALA
- 43 Thrive PROSPER
- 46 Narrow channel STRAIT
- 48 Derisive look SNEER
- 49 OB/GYN offering IUD
- 51 Crisply shown, as on TV INHD
- 52 Wooded valley DELL
- 53 Coop PEN
- 54 Performed amazingly, in slang ATE
- 56 Id’s counterpart EGO
- 57 The First State: Abbr. DEL
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