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New York Times, Friday, October 24, 2025

October 24, 2025

By Kelvin Zhou • 70 Clues

Across Clues

1. Apple product → PARER
6. Where the monster and Frankenstein cross paths, in "Frankenstein" → ALPS
10. It helps with server loads → TRAY
14. Draw forth → EDUCE
15. Opener for an aerial act → PARACHUTE
17. Fictional sidekick on a donkey → PANZA
18. Synthetic oil producer? → ARTFORGER
19. Settings for a mixer → SPEEDS
21. Silly ones → GEESE
22. Complimentary words? → ITSMYTREAT
24. Key of "Spring" in Vivaldi's "Four Seasons": Abbr. → EMAJ
28. About 9% of the earth's total surface area → ASIA
29. Site once promoted with the slogan "A place for friends" → MYSPACE
31. Track unit → LAP
34. Modern device with no filter, informally → ECIG
36. Sidesteps → SKIRTS
37. Snarky reply to a question that starts "Can I …?" → IDONTKNOWCANYOU
40. Sight you can hardly believe → MIRAGE
41. Thai money → BAHT
42. Returns home? → IRS
43. Spread followers → BETTORS
45. Film director Nicolas → ROEG
47. Bounce → OUST
48. Groups of assistants in some old offices → STENOPOOLS
53. Number discovered in the 1500s → ETHER
55. Makeshift arrangement → LASHUP
56. Flag-waving, say → PATRIOTIC
60. Clarence ___, "The Wire" mayor → ROYCE
61. Bobblehead, e.g. → TCHOTCHKE
62. Ezra who co-founded Vox → KLEIN
63. Made out → SEEN
64. Zen riddle → KOAN
65. "What a shame" → SOSAD

Down Clues

1. One side of a consumer "war" → PEPSI
2. Not put up resistance, say → ADAPT
3. Characters in "The Lord of the Rings" → RUNES
4. Condition formally known as atopic dermatitis → ECZEMA
5. Starting line at a starting line → READYSETGO
6. Mental health org. → APA
7. Word with extra or living → LARGE
8. Spinning ring, informally? → PRTEAM
9. Plan B, for seniors → SAFETYSCHOOL
10. It's on the right in the second row → THREEPIN
11. Throw, maybe → RUG
12. Bolted some nuts down → ATE
13. "___ Blues" (Beatles song) → YER
16. Derivative of sin → COS
20. Dismayed reaction to a tag → STICKERSHOCK
23. Contents of some sheets → RAIN
25. "Bloody" queen → MARYI
26. Job that requires a lot of memorization → ACTOR
27. Figure in Michelangelo's "The Last Judgment" → JESUS
30. Locales with many banks → SKATEPARKS
31. Kind of bar that's hard to pass → LIMBO
32. It comes with a parting of the ways → ADIEU
33. Houston and New Orleans → PORTS
35. Hunk → GOB
38. Ramble away → NATTERON
39. Sound the alarm → WARN
44. Chest: Prefix → STETHO
46. Break from the group, say → GOSOLO
49. Actress Alexander of "Get Out" → ERIKA
50. "No doubt!" → OHYES
51. Saint ___ (Caribbean isle) → LUCIA
52. Lay out → SPEND
54. Small songbird → TIT
56. Scoreboard tally: Abbr. → PTS
57. It's good for tricks → ACE
58. Not just a → THE
59. The 1900s, e.g.: Abbr. → CEN