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New York Times, Saturday, October 25, 2025

October 25, 2025

By Byron Walden • 66 Clues

Across Clues

1. Calendar month between Sha'ban and Shawwal → RAMADAN

8. Some solid marks → BPLUSES

15. "Here's the hard truth …" → IHAVETOBEHONEST

17. 46 years? → BIDENPRESIDENCY

18. Sudden movement → START

19. Pinched → STOLE

20. ___ Maroni, Gotham City mobster in the DC Comics universe → SAL

21. Runs superbly → HUMS

22. Bug → GETTO

23. Word on either side of "against" → HOPE

24. 1992 U2 hit inspired by German reunification → ONE

25. Busby Berkeley musical film that introduced "I Only Have Eyes for You" → DAMES

26. Printing mark whose name is from the Latin for "is lacking" → CARET

27. Financial reporter? → TAXFILER

29. Balances → POISES

30. "You've called at a bad time" → ICANTTALK

32. Heads → BOSSES

35. Shiva, for example → HINDUGOD

39. Suffix meaning "rule" → ARCHY

40. Combinations with numbers and sets → BANDS

41. 24-Across co-producer, whose name is the song title spelled backward → ENO

42. Climax of operational planning → DDAY

43. Brand for which General Foods distributed orange-handled coffeepots to restaurants → SANKA

44. Core supporters → BASE

45. Ferrer who co-starred in "War and Peace," 1956 → MEL

46. Shot-putter? → NURSE

47. Baba ghanouj, e.g. → PUREE

48. Where gold "beaver coins" were used as currency → OREGONTERRITORY

51. Green suit? → JUNIOREXECUTIVE

52. Pricey catering option → OPENBAR

53. Scuffled, in dialect → RASSLED

Down Clues

1. Sharp blow to the chest → RIBSHOT

2. Staple in a poke bowl → AHITUNA

3. Titular figure in a scandalous John Singer Sargent portrait → MADAMEX

4. Maintains → AVERS

5. Negative impression → DENT

6. Sports org. in the 2024 film "Challengers" → ATP

7. Longship builders → NORSEMEN

8. Intoxicates → BESOTS

9. ___ Farnsworth, inventor dubbed "The Father of Television" → PHILO

10. Treasure hunter's find → LODE

11. La ___ (leading Belgian French-language TV channel) → UNE

12. Mocap suit components → SENSORS

13. Break character? → ESCAPEE

14. Slender hospital tools → STYLETS

16. Especially gratifying, so to speak → BETTERTHANSEX

22. Done-up dos → GALAS

23. Eastern lines → HAIKU

25. Very iffy → DICEY

26. They might go faster with zinc → COLDS

28. Suspect → FISHY

29. British slang for a police car → PANDA

31. Improviser at a workbench → TINKERER

32. Cursed vibe → BADMOJO

33. Call at the plate? → ORDERUP

34. Geometry term from the Greek for "uneven" → SCALENE

36. Application for smoother shifting → GEAROIL

37. Even, or nearly so, at Wimbledon → ONSERVE

38. Naïve-looking, in a way → DOEEYED

40. Transaction with no money down → BARTER

43. Leader of the Afrofuturistic jazz collective Arkestra for almost four decades → SUNRA

44. Seat fillers → BUTTS

46. Greenhorn, informally → NOOB

47. Oldest four-letter papal name → PIUS

49. Call in a card game → GIN

50. Early major producer of vacuum tubes → RCA