NYT Crossword Answers 10/23/25

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Across Clues

• 1 Areas of development WOMBS
• 6 Punch-in-the-stomach sounds OOFS
• 10 Genre for Blackpink and Stray Kids KPOP
• 14 Helvetica-like typeface ARIAL
• 15 Button to hit after accidentally deleting an entire manuscript UNDO
• 16 International footwear retailer based in Quebec ALDO
• 17 Stealthiest of stealthy warriors NINJAMASTERS
• 19 Warren Beatty film based on “Ten Days That Shook the World” REDS
• 20 Reporters often carry them NOTEPADS
• 21 Relaxed ATEASE
• 23 “Call Her Daddy” podcast host Cooper ALEX
• 24 Words of denial NOTI
• 26 “___ Just Not That Into You” HES
• 27 Activist Brockovich ERIN
• 29 Case opener ARGUMENT
• 33 Location that requires tickets for checking out, but not checking in COATROOM
• 36 End of a municipal address? GOV
• 37 1887 drama on which a Puccini opera is based LATOSCA
• 40 Things opened before passengers exit an aircraft CABINDOORS
• 42 Composers’ rights org. BMI
• 43 Difference between a B and a C, perhaps HALFSTEP
• 45 Star of NBC’s “The Blacklist” JAMESSPADER
• 47 TV’s warrior princess XENA
• 50 “Done!,” in geometry class QED
• 51 Brief moments, in brief SECS
• 54 ___ Hashana ROSH
• 56 Units equal to roughly a quarter of a calorie JOULES
• 59 Cook outside? SUNBATHE
• 61 River through Kazakhstan URAL
• 62 Sports craze of the 2020s ? as seen three times in this grid? PICKLEBALL
• 64 Little more than MERE
• 65 Ingredient in some mouthwashes ALOE
• 66 Clay being of Jewish folklore GOLEM
• 67 Troubadour, e.g. POET
• 68 Thomas Hardy heroine who’s described as “a pure woman” TESS
• 69 Wheel connectors AXLES

Vertical Clues

• 1 “Should we?,” informally WANNA
• 2 A.L. East athlete ORIOLE
• 3 Money maker MINTER
• 4 Peninsula south of California, colloquially BAJAMEXICO
• 5 It’s an affront SLAP
• 6 One-up OUTDO
• 7 Worst-possible Amazon rating ONESTAR
• 8 Prez on a U.S. coin FDR
• 9 Slugger Sammy SOSA
• 10 Holder of the N.B.A.’s career points record before LeBron passed him in 2023 KAREEM
• 11 “You’ve overstayed your welcome” PLEASEGO
• 12 Figures on DraftKings or FanDuel ODDS
• 13 Put forward POSE
• 18 ___ Nicolas, remotest of California’s Channel Islands SAN
• 22 Set of notches in a dictionary THUMBINDEX
• 25 Classic Camaros IROCS
• 28 “Didn’t mean to offend you” NOSHADE
• 30 Best ever, informally GOAT
• 31 Neither’s partner NOR
• 32 Common fixtures over fireplaces TVS
• 34 Part of U.S.M.A.: Abbr. ACAD
• 35 Accounts TALES
• 37 Prez two decades after 8-Down LBJ
• 38 “I’ll answer all your questions” session, online AMA
• 39 Site of a huge annual crowd TIMESSQUARE
• 41 High place to view a high art OPERABOX
• 44 Paintings on plaster FRESCOS
• 46 Bit of food for a hamster PELLET
• 48 Some NOTALL
• 49 ___ Simpson, musical sister of Jessica ASHLEE
• 52 Certain salad veggies CUKES
• 53 Where Rudolph could first be seen in 2000, for short SNL
• 55 Command posts HELMS
• 56 Checkers move JUMP
• 57 Product with a Cakesters variety OREO
• 58 Said angrily SPAT
• 60 Lou ___, “Mambo No. 5” singer BEGA
• 63 Speck in la Seine ILE