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New York Times, Saturday, October 18, 2025

October 18, 2025

By Samuel Smalley • 64 Clues

Across Clues

1. Measure of rank in Maori culture, informally → FACETAT

8. Bubbles → FROTH

13. Sauce in Italian-American cuisine → MARINARA

14. Knocked out → INAWE

15. It's in right now → LATESTFAD

16. Was worthy of → RATED

17. Having a single purpose → ADHOC

18. Light that goes up when things are going down? → FLARE

20. Snatch → BAG

21. Crank cases? → UFOLOGY

23. Something pulled in many car chase scenes, for short → EBRAKE

25. Home to the Arco di Constantino → ROMA

26. Present a chance to get ahead → OPENDOORS

29. Spaniards roll them → ARS

30. Was really moving, in slang → HAULEDASS

31. "Uh ... I guess" → WELLSORTA

32. Sources of 24/7 support → HELPLINES

33. Many an attachment → PDF

36. Ones catching waves → RADIOSETS

37. Longtime name in Cuban politics → RAUL

38. Those playing the king of Egypt in "Aïda" → BASSOS

39. Monthly magazine that sponsors a large annual music festival in New Orleans → ESSENCE

41. Easily removed locks → WIG

42. Limited assignment → STINT

45. Smallest member of the eurozone (122 square miles) → MALTA

46. Appropriately change course → ADAPT

48. Spirals out of control? → TORNADOES

50. Panhellenic Games venue → NEMEA

51. Can't cool off → STAYSMAD

52. Gifted → ADEPT

53. Culinary concurrence → YESCHEF

Down Clues

1. Understands → FATHOMS

2. Site of some piercings → AREOLA

3. "There's never been a better time" tech sloganeer → CISCO

4. Fangorn resident → ENT

5. Sweet doings at a county fair → TAFFYPULLS

6. ___ Sea, locale of a 20th-century environmental disaster → ARAL

7. Cry that might be made with a bow → TADA

8. Responders to cruise ship emergencies → FIREBOATS

9. It works in translation → RNA

10. Crunchy snacks → OATBARS

11. Fine-tunes → TWEAKS

12. Divider of lots → HEDGE

13. Really into → MADFOR

15. 21st-century first lady → LAURA

19. Attire for many a flamenco dancer → REDDRESS

22. Upright bar → GOALPOST

24. Bonheur who painted "Ploughing in the Nivernais" → ROSA

27. Woman's name that sounds like two letters of the alphabet → ELSIE

28. Colorful swimmers in the Amazon → NEONTETRAS

30. Energy device that reflects sunlight → HELIOSTAT

31. Rings up? → WEDS

32. Can hold one's own, in modern lingo → HASGAME

33. Bread purchase in the U.K. → PANLOAF

34. Like a building's central air conditioning → DUCTED

35. Dogbane? → FLEAS

36. Like drug dens, sometimes → RAIDED

37. FAQ heading → README

38. East African honorific → BWANA

40. Reduce to a pulp → SMASH

43. Minute → ITSY

44. Pay attention to → NOTE

47. Zip → PEP

49. Home to the U.S.'s first pizzeria, according to the Pizza Hall of Fame, for short → NYC