NYT Crossword Answers 10/21/25

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Across Clues

• 1 A right one is 90° ANGLE
• 6 Hairstyle for Questlove AFRO
• 10 ___ de plume NOM
• 13 Luxury watch brand ROLEX
• 14 Half of a classic lunch special SOUP
• 15 Donate GIVE
• 16 Reward for rolling over, perhaps TREAT
• 17 Redwood or cottonwood TREE
• 18 Best starting hand in Texas hold ?em ACES
• 19 Device for capturing thermal images INFRAREDCAMERA
• 22 Little locking brick LEGO
• 23 Radical religious groups CULTS
• 24 Where you might dance to some underground music? BASEMENTPARTY
• 30 Specialty coffee order LATTE
• 31 Make a speech ORATE
• 32 Buck’s mate DOE
• 35 Valuable Minecraft blocks ORES
• 36 Entertain AMUSE
• 37 Postseason college football game BOWL
• 38 Fig. on a college transcript GPA
• 39 Latin phrase that’s often abbreviated IDEST
• 40 Big name in briefs HANES
• 41 Venue for combatants wearing vests with sensors LASERTAGARENA
• 44 Maki or temaki SUSHI
• 46 Belgrade resident SERB
• 47 Wild guess ? or what 19-, 24- and 41-Across let you take? ASHOTINTHEDARK
• 53 Bobber in a lake BUOY
• 54 Peeved SORE
• 55 Nut-brown hue ACORN
• 57 Head-butts RAMS
• 58 “Summer of ___,” Questlove documentary about the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival SOUL
• 59 Cone or sphere SOLID
• 60 Pub order ALE
• 61 The brother in “Am I my brother’s keeper?” ABEL
• 62 It might be picante SALSA

Vertical Clues

• 1 The “A” of MoMA ART
• 2 Seaweed wrap for maki NORI
• 3 Secluded valley GLEN
• 4 Some info sheets LEAFLETS
• 5 Radical EXTREME
• 6 One doing stellar work? ASTRONOMER
• 7 Golfer’s warning FORE
• 8 Regretted RUED
• 9 Major oil cartel, in brief OPEC
• 10 “Bravo!” NICELYDONE
• 11 Blatant OVERT
• 12 Flat-topped landforms MESAS
• 15 Full range GAMUT
• 20 Tinder account datum that can’t be edited AGE
• 21 The Hundred ___ Wood (storybook setting) ACRE
• 24 Post to an online journal BLOG
• 25 Org. for seniors AARP
• 26 Advances from third while the pitcher is distracted, say STEALSHOME
• 27 What team-building activities are designed to build TRUST
• 28 Noodle that might be stuffed PASTASHELL
• 29 Dined ATE
• 33 Actor Wilson OWEN
• 34 “Frozen” queen ELSA
• 36 Suffix with lemon or stock ADE
• 37 Slow-cooked taco filling BARBACOA
• 39 “___ just me, or ??” ISIT
• 40 Rigorously demanding sort HARDASS
• 42 Nautical greetings AHOYS
• 43 “Gosh!” GEE
• 44 Popular hummus brand SABRA
• 45 Run-of-the-mill USUAL
• 48 Rae of “Barbie” ISSA
• 49 Inexperienced gamer, informally NOOB
• 50 Factual TRUE
• 51 What “maki” means in Japanese ROLL
• 52 Kardashian matriarch KRIS
• 56 Contract enforcing secrecy, for short NDA