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New York Times, Tuesday, October 21, 2025

October 21, 2025

By Spencer Leach • 72 Clues

Across Clues

1. A right one is 90° → ANGLE

6. Hairstyle for Questlove → AFRO

10. ___ de plume → NOM

13. Luxury watch brand → ROLEX

14. Half of a classic lunch special → SOUP

15. Donate → GIVE

16. Reward for rolling over, perhaps → TREAT

17. Redwood or cottonwood → TREE

18. Best starting hand in Texas hold 'em → ACES

19. Device for capturing thermal images → INFRAREDCAMERA

22. Little locking brick → LEGO

23. Radical religious groups → CULTS

24. Where you might dance to some underground music? → BASEMENTPARTY

30. Specialty coffee order → LATTE

31. Make a speech → ORATE

32. Buck's mate → DOE

35. Valuable Minecraft blocks → ORES

36. Entertain → AMUSE

37. Postseason college football game → BOWL

38. Fig. on a college transcript → GPA

39. Latin phrase that's often abbreviated → IDEST

40. Big name in briefs → HANES

41. Venue for combatants wearing vests with sensors → LASERTAGARENA

44. Maki or temaki → SUSHI

46. Belgrade resident → SERB

47. Wild guess … or what 19-, 24- and 41-Across let you take? → ASHOTINTHEDARK

53. Bobber in a lake → BUOY

54. Peeved → SORE

55. Nut-brown hue → ACORN

57. Head-butts → RAMS

58. "Summer of ___," Questlove documentary about the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival → SOUL

59. Cone or sphere → SOLID

60. Pub order → ALE

61. The brother in "Am I my brother's keeper?" → ABEL

62. It might be picante → SALSA

Down Clues

1. The "A" of MoMA → ART

2. Seaweed wrap for maki → NORI

3. Secluded valley → GLEN

4. Some info sheets → LEAFLETS

5. Radical → EXTREME

6. One doing stellar work? → ASTRONOMER

7. Golfer's warning → FORE

8. Regretted → RUED

9. Major oil cartel, in brief → OPEC

10. "Bravo!" → NICELYDONE

11. Blatant → OVERT

12. Flat-topped landforms → MESAS

15. Full range → GAMUT

20. Tinder account datum that can't be edited → AGE

21. The Hundred ___ Wood (storybook setting) → ACRE

24. Post to an online journal → BLOG

25. Org. for seniors → AARP

26. Advances from third while the pitcher is distracted, say → STEALSHOME

27. What team-building activities are designed to build → TRUST

28. Noodle that might be stuffed → PASTASHELL

29. Dined → ATE

33. Actor Wilson → OWEN

34. "Frozen" queen → ELSA

36. Suffix with lemon or stock → ADE

37. Slow-cooked taco filling → BARBACOA

39. "___ just me, or …?" → ISIT

40. Rigorously demanding sort → HARDASS

42. Nautical greetings → AHOYS

43. "Gosh!" → GEE

44. Popular hummus brand → SABRA

45. Run-of-the-mill → USUAL

48. Rae of "Barbie" → ISSA

49. Inexperienced gamer, informally → NOOB

50. Factual → TRUE

51. What "maki" means in Japanese → ROLL

52. Kardashian matriarch → KRIS

56. Contract enforcing secrecy, for short → NDA