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New York Times, Tuesday, November 4, 2025

November 05, 2025

By Patrick Hayden • 78 Clues

Across Clues

1. Skill needed for bocce → AIM

4. World's most commonly cultivated coffee species → ARABICA

11. Genre for Jimmy Eat World → EMO

14. Commercial lead-in to Caps or Balls → SNO

15. Like the number "i" → NONREAL

16. ___-top (hairstyle associated with the Beatles) → MOP

17. Folk-rock pair featured in the documentary "Wordplay" → INDIGOGIRLS

19. George Washington bill → ONE

20. Repellent ingredient → DEET

21. Queens ballplayer → MET

22. Spun platters for a party, informally → DJED

23. Isn't perfect → ERRS

24. Half of a standard deck of cards → BLACKSUITS

28. Part of n.b. → NOTA

30. Greeting from Kermit the 47-Across → HIHO

31. 17-syllable poem → HAIKU

33. Like slavery per the 13th Amendment → ABOLISHED

38. Wood-cutting tool → ADZ

39. 1950s entertainment innovation ... or a hint to the first and second halves of 17-, 24-, 48- and 60-Across → COLORTV

41. It can be blonde or brown → ALE

42. Shadow government, according to conspiracy theories → DEEPSTATE

44. Bert's roommate → ERNIE

46. 2010 best-selling Emma Donoghue novel → ROOM

47. See 30-Across → FROG

48. Place for plants to flourish → GREENHOUSE

53. Inquires → ASKS

56. "___ Shaker" (1992 Wreckx-N-Effect hit) → RUMP

57. Diarist Anaïs → NIN

58. What you eat → DIET

59. As easy as ___ → ABC

60. Fast-food chain with the slogan "The Crave is a powerful thing" → WHITECASTLE

64. As easy as ___ → PIE

65. Experienced again → RELIVED

66. The Dream Team → USA

67. Squeeze (by) → EKE

68. People who overuse Caps Lock, so to speak → YELLERS

69. ___ Wonderful, fruit juice brand → POM

Down Clues

1. The half with the hit song, typically → ASIDE

2. Word with city or peace → INNER

3. Update → MODERNIZE

4. "Brokeback Mountain" director Lee → ANG

5. Roving floor cleaner → ROOMBA

6. Perfectly behaved child → ANGEL

7. Water filter brand → BRITA

8. Suffix with front or cash → IER

9. Name seen in cursive on a cap in Berkeley → CAL

10. Singers Green and Jardine → ALS

11. Laughing head or a thumbs up, e.g. → EMOJI

12. French Impressionist Claude → MONET

13. Some newspaper pieces that aren't news → OPEDS

18. Empathetic response to an apology → ITSOK

22. Laurel and Hardy and Abbott and Costello → DUOS

25. Slog, say → CHORE

26. Garb that's typically plaid → KILT

27. [I'm scared!] → SHIVER

29. City situated between the split halves of Saguaro National Park → TUCSON

31. Possessed → HAD

32. Common beverage suffix → ADE

33. Rental car option → ALAMO

34. ChatGPT, for one → BOT

35. Throws in the towel → HANGSITUP

36. QB Manning → ELI

37. Syllable doubled after "fiddle" → DEE

40. However, in a text → OTOH

43. ___ school → PREP

45. "Where we're going we don't need ___" ("Back to the Future" quote) → ROADS

47. Épéeist, e.g. → FENCER

48. One of Jolly Rancher's "Original Flavors" → GRAPE

49. Eponym of a popular puzzle → RUBIK

50. Host → EMCEE

51. Up to → UNTIL

52. Metaphor for a bad goalie → SIEVE

54. Ashton Kutcher's role on "That '70s Show" → KELSO

55. What a hot iron may give off → STEAM

60. Like some humor → WRY

61. Start of a bray → HEE

62. Ailing → ILL

63. Highlights of the Super Bowl, for some → ADS