NYT Crossword Answers 11/30/25

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NYT Across Clues

• 1A Post-vacation pile MAIL
• 5A Brooklyn Brewery’s Special Effects, e.g., in brief IPA
• 8A Historical Dutch settler BOER
• 12A ___ guisado (Caribbean stew) POLLO
• 13A Vapid INANE
• 15A Campaign manager? ADREP
• 17A Puzzle type that was the Oxford Dictionaries’ 2005 U.K. “word of the year” SUDOKU
• 18A Metallurgist’s evaluation ASSAY
• 19A Butterflies, so to speak NERVES
• 21A Actress Zosia ___ of “Girls” MAMET
• 22A “Zip it” DONTSPEAK
• 25A Accommodates SEATS
• 27A Mountains where St. Bernards were originally bred ALPS
• 28A Former Portuguese colony on the Malabar Coast GOA
• 29A Chemical essential to cellular metabolism, for short ATP
• 30A ___ feed (news reader) RSS
• 32A ___ Sea, Kazakh/Uzbek body of water ARAL
• 33A Spiral-shelled mollusk NAUTILUS
• 35A Org. for Penguins and Ducks NHL
• 36A “Enough already” THATLLDO
• 38A Make some calls UMP
• 39A “W” on a light bulb WATT
• 40A Three-way intersection TEE
• 41A Coin collector? SOFA
• 42A Singer with the 2014 #1 album “1,000 Forms of Fear” SIA
• 43A Dealer’s manager PITBOSS
• 45A In check ATBAY
• 47A Nuclear restraint pact TESTBAN
• 49A ___ Castorp, protagonist of Thomas Mann’s “The Magic Mountain” HANS
• 50A Summa cum ___ LAUDE
• 51A “Hold this” HERE
• 52A College voter? ELECTOR
• 55A Ancient drinker of the fermented beverage chicha INCAN
• 56A Taxes levied during trade wars TARIFFS
• 59A Chop house? DOJO
• 60A Cancer research agcy. NIH
• 62A Locale for drones SKY
• 63A Preposition that can be represented by a number FOR
• 64A Matador’s opponent TORO
• 65A Gay rights activist Marsha P. Johnson, for one TRANSICON
• 68A Beat badly CLOBBERED
• 70A Energy VIM
• 71A Sarge’s boss LOOIE
• 72A Knighthood, for one HONOR
• 73A “When r u getting in?” ETA
• 74A Mantou or bao, in Chinese cuisine BUN
• 75A “Awwww!” SOSWEET
• 79A “Awesome!” RAD
• 81A Lethargy SOPOR
• 84A Grammy-winning Paramore hit of 2014 AINTITFUN
• 86A Actress Thompson of “Sorry to Bother You” TESSA
• 90A Bok ___ CHOY
• 91A Dearie HON
• 92A Co-star of 2025’s “Kiss of the Spider Woman,” to fans JLO
• 93A Break down in tears SOB
• 95A Aquiline : eagle :: cygnine : ___ SWAN
• 96A Lenape people from whom a New Jersey river gets its name RARITAN
• 98A Egypt/Sudan border region NUBIA
• 100A Noodling in a jazz tune VAMPING
• 102A Annoying IRKSOME
• 103A In the majority? ADULT
• 104A Core-sculpting belt ABTONER
• 105A Utter chaos MAYHEM
• 106A 1994 co-Nobelist Shimon PERES
• 107A Greasy spoon, e.g. EATERY

NYT Vertical Clues

• 1D Self-effacing MODEST
• 2D Oodles ALOT
• 3D Strain ILK
• 4D Baseballs that are hard-hit but then caught, in lingo LOUDOUTS
• 5D Bottlefuls for a summer look, perhaps INSTANTTANS
• 6D Skirt responsibility PASSTHEBUCK
• 7D Proverbial cure-all ANAPPLEADAY
• 8D Basketball attempt that uses the backboard BANKSHOT
• 9D Martín Espada’s “___ to the Soccer Ball Sailing Over a Barbed Wire Fence” ODE
• 10D Leaves the straight and narrow ERRS
• 11D Expose REVEAL
• 12D First Eurodance hit in the U.S. (1989) PUMPUPTHEJAM
• 13D Ending with mammal or Mendel IAN
• 14D Good quality for an artist EYE
• 16D With 87-Down, idiom about wasting one’s efforts ? as seen in four columns in this puzzle? PEARLSBEFORE
• 17D Italian sub ingredient SALAMI
• 20D Diamonds can sometimes be found in them STADIA
• 21D “Quit whining, dude!” MANUP
• 23D Malt-drying kiln OAST
• 24D “O, had I but followed the ___!”: “Twelfth Night” ARTS
• 26D John who painted “Backyards, Greenwich Village” SLOAN
• 28D 2022 sequel to “Knives Out” GLASSONION
• 31D Refuge SAFEHARBOR
• 34D “You can’t make me!” IWONT
• 37D Arm of the police department TASER
• 44D Essayist Francis BACON
• 45D Comedian Wong ALI
• 46D Cash on the Ginza YEN
• 48D Overdone TRITE
• 52D 1999 Ron Howard film about a reality show EDTV
• 53D Actress Petty of “A League of Their Own” LORI
• 54D Anti-mob law acronym RICO
• 56D Animated character, informally TOON
• 57D Act the worrywart FRET
• 58D ___ fountain SODA
• 61D Sauce served with Peking duck HOISIN
• 63D Michelle Obama or Jill Biden, in brief FLOTUS
• 66D Indistinct speech SLUR
• 67D It’s a gas NEON
• 68D “Yes, ___!” (phrase popularized by the restaurant drama “The Bear”) CHEF
• 69D Young miscreant BRAT
• 74D Like some charm BOYISH
• 76D Patron of lost causes STJUDE
• 77D Literary runt of the litter WILBUR
• 78D “L’___ du Nord” (Minnesota motto) ETOILE
• 80D Dictatorial figure DESPOT
• 81D Open-weave fabric SCRIM
• 82D New York School poet Frank OHARA
• 83D “Th-th-th-that’s all, folks!” speaker PORKY
• 84D First-rate AONE
• 85D Flare up? NOVA
• 87D See 16-Down SWINE
• 88D More prudent SANER
• 89D About to explode, say ANGRY
• 91D Pink character in the “Toy Story” movies HAMM
• 94D Farmer Hoggett’s entrant in a sheepherding contest BABE
• 97D Turf ___ (football injury) TOE
• 98D Part of a day care schedule NAP
• 99D @ @ @ ATS
• 101D Inits. at Grand Central Terminal MTA