NYT Crossword Answers 10/19/25

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Across Clues

• 1 Huge success SMASH
• 6 Seal, say CLOSE
• 11 From the beginning ANEW
• 15 ___ sequencing (lab technique) DNA
• 18 Lively Bohemian dances POLKAS
• 20 Alternative to a tissue, informally HANKY
• 21 Bit in a hippie’s necklace LOVEBEAD
• 23 Poker declaration IRAISE
• 24 Remove, as a ribbon UNTIE
• 25 Share confidences with OPENUPTO
• 26 Business traveler’s convenience COMPANYCARD
• 28 Divisions on a map COUNTRIES
• 29 Brian ___, songwriter who popularized the term “generative music” ENO
• 30 Second volume BOOKII
• 31 “hahaha im DEAD!” ROFL
• 32 Broadband inits. DSL
• 33 Fights back tears? DARNS
• 34 Michelle Obama, to Princeton ALUM
• 36 Indulge (in) PARTAKE
• 40 National Arab American Heritage Month APRIL
• 43 Place to hang at home? CLOSET
• 45 Oppressive political regime, so to speak, with “the” SYSTEM
• 46 Have an ominous presence LOOMLARGE
• 50 Sound of a joke going over one’s head WHOOSH
• 52 Giant Middle-earth creature ENT
• 53 Arched recess APSE
• 54 Person I truly am REALME
• 56 “Hey!” from on high UPHERE
• 59 Word with pack or rug RAT
• 60 Senior, informally OLDSTER
• 61 Org. that confiscates liquids TSA
• 62 Knocked out of the park ACED
• 65 Pop culture hit about dystopian technology MRROBOTO
• 67 Former parent of NBC RCA
• 69 Eliminators of some teams PLAYOFFS
• 72 Corn chip with a “Fuego” flavor TAKI
• 73 In the vein of ALA
• 75 Smallish batteries AACELLS
• 77 Rapper ___ Milli FLO
• 78 Get involved STEPIN
• 80 Perceptive SHREWD
• 81 Hawaiian shindig LUAU
• 82 Clothes for a doze, in brief PJS
• 85 Native of the Delaware Valley LENAPE
• 87 Pursuers of utopian goals IDEALISTS
• 89 Coffees that aren’t single-origin BLENDS
• 92 Self-admiring sort EGOIST
• 94 Major Ukrainian seaport ODESA
• 95 Sisterly SORORAL
• 97 Sneaky plot RUSE
• 98 Pilgrims in Saudi Arabia HAJIS
• 101 Ear-related prefix OTO
• 102 Not fully open AJAR
• 104 Hybrid pastry CRONUT
• 106 P, to Pericles RHO
• 109 Injection associated with a certain toxin ANTIVENOM
• 112 Annoyances for ticket holders TRAINDELAYS
• 114 Palm Springs or Puerto Vallarta, notably GAYMECCA
• 115 Brown songbirds WRENS
• 116 Tale-telling brothers GRIMMS
• 117 Turned up APPEARED
• 118 “Strike up the band!” HITIT
• 119 Neighbor of a Saudi YEMENI
• 120 Nickname for Rachel RAE
• 121 Verbally expresses disdain TUTS
• 122 Warning signs OMENS
• 123 Tightly packed DENSE

Vertical Clues

• 1 Food enlivener SPICE
• 2 Hardly a genius MORON
• 3 Home to a chapel with the Texas flag flying beside it ALAMO
• 4 Spotify button SKIP
• 5 Loves, loves, loves the occasion HASABALL
• 6 Hurls CHUCKS
• 7 Feature of a Hawaiian house LANAI
• 8 Being prosecuted ONTRIAL
• 9 Go downhill fast, say SKID
• 10 ___ candy EYE
• 11 Chilly ALOOF
• 12 Orange juice preference NOPULP
• 13 With no one ahead or behind EVEN
• 14 Lost all liquid resources WENTDRY
• 15 Remove hair from DEPILATE
• 16 Main antagonist on HBO’s “Euphoria” NATE
• 17 Clamors ADOS
• 19 Mexicali mister SENOR
• 22 Ruptures BURSTS
• 27 Over there, poetically YON
• 28 Openly reveal one’s sexuality COMEOUT
• 31 Process for would-be Greeks RUSH
• 33 It’s over a quarter of a quarter DIME
• 35 Features of the names of many Apple products LOWERCASEIS
• 37 N.Y.C. stadium eponym ASHE
• 38 Doll of a guy? KEN
• 39 Vitals checker, in brief EMT
• 40 Interrupter of dreams, maybe ALARM
• 41 Genre for Keith Haring POPART
• 42 Political platforms? ROSTRA
• 43 Saxon’s foe CELT
• 44 Competitive athlete’s goal, perhaps TOPSPEED
• 47 Guthrie who sang “Alice’s Restaurant” ARLO
• 48 Bureaucratic barriers REDTAPE
• 49 Fuel source GASOLINE
• 51 “Care to dance?” SHALLWE
• 55 Sea, to Seurat MER
• 57 They may be caught in the summer RAYS
• 58 Prefix with sphere ECO
• 60 Tribute in the Tribune, say OBIT
• 63 Flow out EFFUSE
• 64 Keys above C’s DFLATS
• 66 Blesses OKS
• 68 “That feels ama-a-azing!” AAH
• 70 Alan with six Emmys ALDA
• 71 Composer who led the U.S. Marine Band SOUSA
• 74 Canniest, for instance ANAGRAM
• 76 Artist’s feedback session, informally CRIT
• 79 Olaf’s creator in “Frozen” ELSA
• 81 Tops LIDS
• 82 Channel supported by pledge drives PBS
• 83 “Jenny From the Block” singer, to fans JLO
• 84 Immune cell variation SEROTYPE
• 86 Flow (out) POUR
• 88 Hung around idly LOITERED
• 90 “Sorry, I’m unavailable!” NOTIME
• 91 Tried to convey DROVEAT
• 93 Hide SECRETE
• 96 Surgical instrument LANCET
• 98 Lifts with a pulley HOISTS
• 99 “Dear ___” (greeting in an old advice column) ANN
• 100 Overly fault-finding JUDGY
• 103 “The Grapes of Wrath” family JOADS
• 105 Entered quickly RANIN
• 106 Food traditionally eaten with chopsticks RAMEN
• 107 Songs on Sundays HYMNS
• 108 Actor Davis who delivered Malcolm X’s eulogy OSSIE
• 109 Gelatinous thickener AGAR
• 110 ___ Valley NAPA
• 111 Shade lighter than cappuccino ECRU
• 112 Decorative auto upgrade TRIM
• 113 Mojito garnish LIME
• 115 50,000-watt clear-channel radio station in Iowa WHO