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New York Times, Friday, November 21, 2025

November 22, 2025

By Joyce Keller • 72 Clues

Across Clues

1. Allow → ADMIT
6. Snappy sort, for short? → CROC
10. Tahoe runners → MACS
14. Fanny Brice portrayer on Broadway → LEAMICHELE
16. Governess of Thornfield Hall → EYRE
17. Sits legs akimbo, pejoratively → MANSPREADS
18. Highway attention-getter → TOOT
19. Calculating → SLY
20. Symbol of fertility in ancient Egypt → TOAD
21. Settled down → ATREST
23. Shakespearean "Hush!" → SOFT
24. "Sorry to tell ya" → FRAIDSO
25. What "it's not," they say → ROCKETSCIENCE
29. Eschew → AVOID
30. Parts of some wedding rituals → HORAS
31. Clubs opening, perhaps → BID
34. Prized people → GEMS
35. She was totally taken by Paris → HELEN
36. Popular perfume named after a singing star → RIRI
37. Modern art? → ARE
38. Germs → SEEDS
39. That's a wrap! → SARAN
40. Suspenseful → HEARTSTOPPING
43. Grown-up gummies, e.g. → EDIBLES
45. Touch → ABUT
46. King and queen → TITLES
47. Strength of character → GRIT
48. One in a cage → RIB
51. That's a laugh! → HAHA
52. Insomniac's aid → WHITENOISE
55. Juana ___ de la Cruz, classic Mexican writer known as "The Tenth Muse" → INES
56. Aces → HOLESINONE
57. Schlep → CART
58. Alumni notes datum → YEAR
59. St. ___ (vacation spot) → KITTS

Down Clues

1. Old-time charity → ALMS
2. Word with good or raw → DEAL
3. A host of → MANY
4. Hits up online, in a way → IMS
5. Crept cautiously → TIPTOED
6. Some memory aids → CHEATSHEETS
7. ___-a-thon → READ
8. Senescent → OLD
9. It may bring out the kid in you → CESAREAN
10. Height or width, e.g. → METRIC
11. Sydney Adamu portrayer on "The Bear" → AYOEDEBIRI
12. Peeved → CROSS
13. Brief blowup → SETTO
15. "Tomb Raider" heroine → CROFT
22. Camel and fawn → TANS
23. Lodge rental → SKIS
24. Barbecuer's aid → FIRESTARTER
25. Sitarist's composition → RAGA
26. Totally done with → OVER
27. Flirtatious → COMEHITHER
28. Nose woes → COLDS
32. Azerbaijan neighbor → IRAN
33. Find fault with, informally → DING
35. Lead-in to a clarification → HERESWHY
36. Riveted → RAPT
38. Word often printed in red → SALE
39. "Fellow traveler," in Russian → SPUTNIK
41. Certain marketing deluge → EBLAST
42. Tony's cousins → OBIES
43. Moral virtue → ETHIC
44. Anne's best friend in "Anne of Green Gables" → DIANA
47. ___ monster → GILA
48. Real hoot → RIOT
49. Ain't proper? → ISNT
50. They have five eyes and communicate by dancing → BEES
53. Break ground, in a way → HOE
54. Japanese ogre → ONI