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New York Times, Thursday, October 23, 2025

October 23, 2025

By Aimee Lucido • 74 Clues

Across Clues

1. Areas of development → WOMBS
6. Punch-in-the-stomach sounds → OOFS
10. Genre for Blackpink and Stray Kids → KPOP
14. Helvetica-like typeface → ARIAL
15. Button to hit after accidentally deleting an entire manuscript → UNDO
16. International footwear retailer based in Quebec → ALDO
17. Stealthiest of stealthy warriors → NINJAMASTERS
19. Warren Beatty film based on "Ten Days That Shook the World" → REDS
20. Reporters often carry them → NOTEPADS
21. Relaxed → ATEASE
23. "Call Her Daddy" podcast host Cooper → ALEX
24. Words of denial → NOTI
26. "___ Just Not That Into You" → HES
27. Activist Brockovich → ERIN
29. Case opener → ARGUMENT
33. Location that requires tickets for checking out, but not checking in → COATROOM
36. End of a municipal address? → GOV
37. 1887 drama on which a Puccini opera is based → LATOSCA
40. Things opened before passengers exit an aircraft → CABINDOORS
42. Composers' rights org. → BMI
43. Difference between a B and a C, perhaps → HALFSTEP
45. Star of NBC's "The Blacklist" → JAMESSPADER
47. TV's warrior princess → XENA
50. "Done!," in geometry class → QED
51. Brief moments, in brief → SECS
54. ___ Hashana → ROSH
56. Units equal to roughly a quarter of a calorie → JOULES
59. Cook outside? → SUNBATHE
61. River through Kazakhstan → URAL
62. Sports craze of the 2020s … as seen three times in this grid? → PICKLEBALL
64. Little more than → MERE
65. Ingredient in some mouthwashes → ALOE
66. Clay being of Jewish folklore → GOLEM
67. Troubadour, e.g. → POET
68. Thomas Hardy heroine who's described as "a pure woman" → TESS
69. Wheel connectors → AXLES

Down Clues

1. "Should we?," informally → WANNA
2. A.L. East athlete → ORIOLE
3. Money maker → MINTER
4. Peninsula south of California, colloquially → BAJAMEXICO
5. It's an affront → SLAP
6. One-up → OUTDO
7. Worst-possible Amazon rating → ONESTAR
8. Prez on a U.S. coin → FDR
9. Slugger Sammy → SOSA
10. Holder of the N.B.A.'s career points record before LeBron passed him in 2023 → KAREEM
11. "You've overstayed your welcome" → PLEASEGO
12. Figures on DraftKings or FanDuel → ODDS
13. Put forward → POSE
18. ___ Nicolas, remotest of California's Channel Islands → SAN
22. Set of notches in a dictionary → THUMBINDEX
25. Classic Camaros → IROCS
28. "Didn't mean to offend you" → NOSHADE
30. Best ever, informally → GOAT
31. Neither's partner → NOR
32. Common fixtures over fireplaces → TVS
34. Part of U.S.M.A.: Abbr. → ACAD
35. Accounts → TALES
37. Prez two decades after 8-Down → LBJ
38. "I'll answer all your questions" session, online → AMA
39. Site of a huge annual crowd → TIMESSQUARE
41. High place to view a high art → OPERABOX
44. Paintings on plaster → FRESCOS
46. Bit of food for a hamster → PELLET
48. Some → NOTALL
49. ___ Simpson, musical sister of Jessica → ASHLEE
52. Certain salad veggies → CUKES
53. Where Rudolph could first be seen in 2000, for short → SNL
55. Command posts → HELMS
56. Checkers move → JUMP
57. Product with a Cakesters variety → OREO
58. Said angrily → SPAT
60. Lou ___, "Mambo No. 5" singer → BEGA
63. Speck in la Seine → ILE