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New York Times, Thursday, October 16, 2025

October 16, 2025

By Kareem Ayas • 78 Clues

Across Clues

1. "___ Talkin' 'bout Love" (Van Halen song) → AINT

5. *Treat with kindness → BENTO

10. Noted works of the Roman poet Horace → ODES

14. Brute → BOOR

15. Statuette modeled after a knight holding a crusader's sword → OSCAR

16. Feeling associated with skipping a party, perhaps → FOMO

17. Unchangeable → SETINSTONE

19. Horned creature in "Pan's Labyrinth" → FAUN

20. Hungers for → CRAVES

21. Early Germanic people → GOTHS

23. Move around the world → ORBIT

24. *Expensive → PRY

26. Lift → HOIST

29. Mardi Gras locale, informally → NOLA

30. Ovarian sac contents → ROE

31. Fuddy-duddies → PRUDES

32. "Still ___" (2022 rap hit) → DRE

33. Meander → WEND

34. High lights? → AURORA

35. Practice chiromancy → READPALMS

37. Disappear, as a trail → GOCOLD

40. "Central Park in the Dark" composer → IVES

41. Music box? → AMP

44. Diviner → ORACLE

45. Jerry's uncle on "Seinfeld" → LEO

46. Box a bit → SPAR

47. Tonkatsu coating → PANKO

48. *Deli device → SLR

49. Bug expert, for short → ITPRO

50. Invite at the door → ASKIN

52. Extreme pressure → DURESS

53. El ___ → PASO

55. Felt tired during the day, say → NEEDEDANAP

58. Words to a betrayer → ETTU

59. "The Philosophy of Right" author → HEGEL

60. Like a computer with a running screensaver → IDLE

61. How whiskey might be served … with a hint to the answers to the seven starred clues → NEAT

62. *Risky endeavor, idiomatically → DROLL

63. Onetime resident of the Winter Palace → TSAR

Down Clues

1. Bolt → ABSCOND

2. Certain Windows hard drive malfunction → IOERROR

3. *Conspicuous → NOTABLE

4. Stupid stuff it's fun to know → TRIVIA

5. Level-ending foe → BOSS

6. Educated guess: Abbr. → EST

7. Sgt., e.g. → NCO

8. Like lemon curd → TANGY

9. Preceder of "Bites" and "Bars" in commercial names → OREO

10. *Chance to meet one-on-one with a professor → OFFHOURS

11. "Copy me" → DOASIDO

12. Runner Down Under → EMU

13. Certain heir → SON

18. Make in the end → NET

22. Steady humming sounds → THRUMS

24. Locale for catfish or carp → POND

25. What allows Neo to disconnect from the Matrix → REDPILL

27. Spanish 101 verb → SER

28. Whom you might greet with open arms, for short? → TSA

30. Novelist Charles who wrote "The Cloister and the Hearth" → READE

31. Prefix with botanist → PALEO

33. "Sure … if you say so" → WELLOK

35. Enjoys oneself uninhibitedly … or a punny title for this puzzle → ROCKSOUT

36. Profess → AVER

37. Something Lincoln once led, for short → GOP

38. Italian time unit → ORA

39. Card game with a winning score of 5,000 points → CANASTA

41. *Book addenda → APPENDS

42. Chicken ___ → MARSALA

43. Thrive → PROSPER

46. Narrow channel → STRAIT

48. Derisive look → SNEER

49. OB/GYN offering → IUD

51. Crisply shown, as on TV → INHD

52. Wooded valley → DELL

53. Coop → PEN

54. Performed amazingly, in slang → ATE

56. Id's counterpart → EGO

57. The First State: Abbr. → DEL