NYT Crossword Answers 09/27/25

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Across Clues

• 1 Thin underlayer SLIP
• 5 Comment often made with an eye roll ASIF
• 9 African capital whose name translates to “ants” ACCRA
• 14 Derby, e.g. HORSERACE
• 16 Commit a library taboo SHOUT
• 17 Ship-to-ship communication AHOYMATEY
• 18 Lacks HASNT
• 19 Parent whose child is taking steps to improve? DANCEMOM
• 20 Backbiter? FLEA
• 21 Puts in a protected place ENSHRINES
• 23 They arose from Ra’s tears, according to Egyptian mythology BEES
• 24 Cries of disappointment OYS
• 25 Components of some brick buildings LEGOSETS
• 28 It might be living on the edge SHRUB
• 31 Showing tough love, say STERN
• 32 Mash at a luau POI
• 33 “Please avoid brutal honesty!” LIETOME
• 35 Wise PRUDENT
• 37 Certain drug classification, in brief OTC
• 38 Ally of Athens during the Peloponnesian War ARGOS
• 40 Fathers SIRES
• 41 Two-humper BACTRIAN
• 43 Period that begins on July 23 LEO
• 44 It’s not an option NEED
• 45 Zest source LEMONRIND
• 50 Brown alternative PENN
• 51 Enterprise enterprise RENTACAR
• 52 WWE star Randy ___ ORTON
• 54 Part of a high-tech security system LASERMAZE
• 55 “Lift ___ Voice and Sing” (protest anthem) EVERY
• 56 They go from season to season STORYARCS
• 57 Short TERSE
• 58 Hibernation stations DENS
• 59 Seven ___ SEAS

Vertical Clues

• 1 Contempt, in slang SHADE
• 2 Actress with a dual role in 1998’s “The Parent Trap” LOHAN
• 3 Tends to some pressing matters IRONS
• 4 Punk PSYCHOUT
• 5 The first Musketeer, alphabetically ARAMIS
• 6 Kept hidden, as information SATON
• 7 Product for winter sidewalk safety ICEMELT
• 8 “Mean Girls” writer FEY
• 9 Firewood choice, or its destiny ASH
• 10 Rubs the wrong way CHAFES
• 11 Alternative to a crib COSLEEPER
• 12 Classic rock? RUNESTONE
• 13 Paratha flour ATTA
• 15 Digital file? EMERYBOARD
• 22 Runs slowly SEEPS
• 23 Kind of contest with multiple chances to participate BONUSENTRY
• 26 [This makes me mad!] GRR
• 27 Is on the bottom? SITS
• 28 One who’s slow to pick things up SLOB
• 29 What an insensitive joke might do HITANERVE
• 30 Locale for many community courts RECCENTER
• 31 “Love Story” author Erich SEGAL
• 34 Diagnostic tool, in brief MRI
• 36 Natural history museum collection DIORAMAS
• 39 Simplest possible phone plan ONERATE
• 42 Sam Cooke and Marvin Gaye, among others TENORS
• 43 Solo sorts LONERS
• 46 Particle accelerator byproduct MESON
• 47 Statement that might follow a hug ICARE
• 48 ___ Lines (ancient Peruvian geoglyphs) NAZCA
• 49 Bandage DRESS
• 50 Burns, e.g. POET
• 53 What comes before 1/1 NYE
• 54 Drug discussed in Aldous Huxley’s “Heaven and Hell” LSD