NYT Crossword Answers 10/28/25

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NYT Across Clues

• 1 Six years, for a U.S. senator TERM
• 5 Portable speaker? SIRI
• 9 Is behind OWES
• 13 ___ jelly, popular boba tea topping ALOE
• 14 Beginning ONSET
• 15 Orbit, e.g. PATH
• 16 Little guys in striped coats ZEBRACOLTS
• 18 What a booth in a recording studio shouldn’t have ECHO
• 19 Build-your-own breakfast spot OMELETBAR
• 20 Tattoo artist INKER
• 21 $$$ set aside for old age IRA
• 22 Child’s living room hideaway SOFAFORT
• 24 Leftover piece REMNANT
• 28 Santa ___, Calif. ANA
• 29 ___ Max, singer with the 2018 hit “Sweet but Psycho” AVA
• 30 Vessel with a spout TEAPOT
• 33 Hook or Cook: Abbr. CAPT
• 37 Alternative cut to a bob PIXIE
• 39 Comedian Margaret CHO
• 40 Style of a room DECOR
• 41 Word before chance or pickings SLIM
• 42 Plea before an impulsive act STOPME
• 44 Singer Grande, to fans ARI
• 45 Plop yourself down SIT
• 47 Melodramatic crying SOBBING
• 49 Beverage containers for people on the move TOGOCUPS
• 54 A/C measure BTU
• 55 Adam of “The O.C.” BRODY
• 56 Reason why RATIONALE
• 61 Eight, in Spain OCHO
• 62 Personal treasure chest … or what each of the five groups of shaded letters illustrates? JEWELRYBOX
• 63 Tandoori-baked bread NAAN
• 64 Businesswoman Lauder ESTEE
• 65 German-based international supermarket chain ALDI
• 66 “Twilight” vampire Cullen ESME
• 67 General ___ shrimp TSOS
• 68 Russian denial NYET

NYT Vertical Clues

• 1 Tea brand once owned by Starbucks TAZO
• 2 Kind of sch. for grades one to six ELEM
• 3 Bit of spa attire ROBE
• 4 Magician of Arthurian legend MERLIN
• 5 Sort who’s too good for everyone else SNOB
• 6 Cuba y Puerto Rico ISLAS
• 7 Fashionably old-fashioned RETRO
• 8 “___ a date!” ITS
• 9 Like some sandwiches OPENFACE
• 10 Super-silly sort WACKO
• 11 Thin air ETHER
• 12 Brief SHORT
• 14 It may be in the low 90s OCTANE
• 17 Make fizzy AERATE
• 20 McKellen who played Gandalf IAN
• 23 The 2% in 2% milk FAT
• 24 Performs like Playboi Carti, say RAPS
• 25 The dark side EVIL
• 26 Longer than midi MAXI
• 27 Diplomat’s skill TACT
• 31 Vietnamese soup PHO
• 32 “That was clumsy of me!” OOPS
• 34 Smoothie “superfruit” ACAI
• 35 NSFW stuff PORN
• 36 Calc prerequisite TRIG
• 38 “Get me out of here!” IMSODONE
• 40 Person who’s in the red DEBTOR
• 42 Good name for a chef? STU
• 43 Hanging over a baby’s crib MOBILE
• 46 Very cold and wet ICY
• 48 John who wrote “The Pilgrim’s Progress” BUNYAN
• 49 Certain steak TBONE
• 50 Deep-sea predators ORCAS
• 51 Give extreme effort, in slang GOHAM
• 52 “Any ___ is good ___” (public relations saying) PRESS
• 53 Managed SAWTO
• 57 Informal shirts TEES
• 58 With dexterity ABLY
• 59 Ore deposit LODE
• 60 Opposite of entrance EXIT
• 62 Hot tub nozzle JET