NYT Crossword Answers 09/20/25

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Across Clues

• 1 “Hell no!” SCREWTHAT
• 10 Group that believes in Gelassenheit (submission to God’s will) AMISH
• 15 New customs might incite them TRADEWARS
• 16 Verso’s counterpart RECTO
• 17 Spare no indulgence LIVELARGE
• 18 Prime IDEAL
• 19 Free of typos, say EMEND
• 20 Hill folk, informally POLS
• 22 Lay off IDLE
• 23 Special ___ OPS
• 24 Secure over RETIE
• 25 M.L.B. third baseman ___ Bohm ALEC
• 26 Chilling FEARSOME
• 29 Sports org. in a 1976 merger ABA
• 30 Loose sheets in a program, e.g. INSERTS
• 33 More constricting TIGHTER
• 35 Sullen sorts MOPERS
• 36 Hit the horn TOOTED
• 37 “Need anything else from me?” AMIDONE
• 39 Kate and Allie of 1980s TV, e.g. MOTHERS
• 40 Conference acronym TED
• 41 “Seems like it” RECKONSO
• 43 Typically exaggerated length of time AGES
• 45 Have a standout performance SHINE
• 46 Keep to oneself HOG
• 49 Watch unseen LURK
• 50 Typically exaggerated quantity TONS
• 51 Strip of wood from which a bow is carved STAVE
• 53 ___ acid (staining agent used in electron microscopy) OSMIC
• 55 “Later!” IGOTTAJET
• 57 Big names STARS
• 58 Blow it! SMOKERING
• 59 Famous around-the-world traveler SANTA
• 60 Slower, musically MENOMOSSO

Vertical Clues

• 1 Catholic university in Florida or its home town STLEO
• 2 Kink CRIMP
• 3 “Love, love, love!” and the like RAVES
• 4 Original plot EDEN
• 5 Connect with a flame WELD
• 6 Carrier that offered pioneering coast-to-coast service beginning in the 1930s TWA
• 7 Monthly magazine of politics and culture since 1850 HARPERS
• 8 Specialized languages ARGOTS
• 9 Who wrote “Humankind cannot bear very much reality” TSELIOT
• 10 Actor Millen of BBC America’s “Orphan Black” ARI
• 11 Charcoal and wood, for two MEDIA
• 12 Beverage sometimes topped with whipped cream ICEDLATTE
• 13 Drink drunk the morning after, maybe STALEBEER
• 14 Hidden assets HOLECARDS
• 21 B to C, but not A to B SEMITONE
• 24 Big mess RATSNEST
• 26 Word after chicken or breast FEED
• 27 What’s wrong? ERROR
• 28 Rare showbiz collections EGOTS
• 30 “Hmm, no idea” IMATALOSS
• 31 “I don’t like it,” in Spanish NOMEGUSTA
• 32 Web master? SPIDERMAN
• 34 Sounds from 59-Across HOHO
• 38 Self-effacing personality trait ECHOISM
• 39 Phenomenon brought about by seasonal wind shifts MONSOON
• 42 Demand upon reaching an “enemy border” KINGME
• 44 Bottom of many an ensemble SKIRT
• 46 Some pilgrims HAJIS
• 47 Sheets might be placed in them OVENS
• 48 Commencement GETGO
• 51 Apple attachment STEM
• 52 Powdered ingredient in sweet teas and smoothies TARO
• 54 Farmer’s market alternative, in brief CSA
• 56 Result of the ?64 Clay/Liston fight TKO