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New York Times, Tuesday, October 28, 2025

October 28, 2025

By Adrianne Baik • 78 Clues

Across Clues

1. Six years, for a U.S. senator → TERM
5. Portable speaker? → SIRI
9. Is behind → OWES
13. ___ jelly, popular boba tea topping → ALOE
14. Beginning → ONSET
15. Orbit, e.g. → PATH
16. Little guys in striped coats → ZEBRACOLTS
18. What a booth in a recording studio shouldn't have → ECHO
19. Build-your-own breakfast spot → OMELETBAR
20. Tattoo artist → INKER
21. $$$ set aside for old age → IRA
22. Child's living room hideaway → SOFAFORT
24. Leftover piece → REMNANT
28. Santa ___, Calif. → ANA
29. ___ Max, singer with the 2018 hit "Sweet but Psycho" → AVA
30. Vessel with a spout → TEAPOT
33. Hook or Cook: Abbr. → CAPT
37. Alternative cut to a bob → PIXIE
39. Comedian Margaret → CHO
40. Style of a room → DECOR
41. Word before chance or pickings → SLIM
42. Plea before an impulsive act → STOPME
44. Singer Grande, to fans → ARI
45. Plop yourself down → SIT
47. Melodramatic crying → SOBBING
49. Beverage containers for people on the move → TOGOCUPS
54. A/C measure → BTU
55. Adam of "The O.C." → BRODY
56. Reason why → RATIONALE
61. Eight, in Spain → OCHO
62. Personal treasure chest ... or what each of the five groups of shaded letters illustrates? → JEWELRYBOX
63. Tandoori-baked bread → NAAN
64. Businesswoman Lauder → ESTEE
65. German-based international supermarket chain → ALDI
66. "Twilight" vampire Cullen → ESME
67. General ___ shrimp → TSOS
68. Russian denial → NYET

Down Clues

1. Tea brand once owned by Starbucks → TAZO
2. Kind of sch. for grades one to six → ELEM
3. Bit of spa attire → ROBE
4. Magician of Arthurian legend → MERLIN
5. Sort who's too good for everyone else → SNOB
6. Cuba y Puerto Rico → ISLAS
7. Fashionably old-fashioned → RETRO
8. "___ a date!" → ITS
9. Like some sandwiches → OPENFACE
10. Super-silly sort → WACKO
11. Thin air → ETHER
12. Brief → SHORT
14. It may be in the low 90s → OCTANE
17. Make fizzy → AERATE
20. McKellen who played Gandalf → IAN
23. The 2% in 2% milk → FAT
24. Performs like Playboi Carti, say → RAPS
25. The dark side → EVIL
26. Longer than midi → MAXI
27. Diplomat's skill → TACT
31. Vietnamese soup → PHO
32. "That was clumsy of me!" → OOPS
34. Smoothie "superfruit" → ACAI
35. NSFW stuff → PORN
36. Calc prerequisite → TRIG
38. "Get me out of here!" → IMSODONE
40. Person who's in the red → DEBTOR
42. Good name for a chef? → STU
43. Hanging over a baby's crib → MOBILE
46. Very cold and wet → ICY
48. John who wrote "The Pilgrim's Progress" → BUNYAN
49. Certain steak → TBONE
50. Deep-sea predators → ORCAS
51. Give extreme effort, in slang → GOHAM
52. "Any ___ is good ___" (public relations saying) → PRESS
53. Managed → SAWTO
57. Informal shirts → TEES
58. With dexterity → ABLY
59. Ore deposit → LODE
60. Opposite of entrance → EXIT
62. Hot tub nozzle → JET