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New York Times, Thursday, October 30, 2025

October 30, 2025

By Howard Neuthaler • 80 Clues

Across Clues

1. Place for a pencil sharpener → DESK
5. Argentine plain → PAMPA
10. Prayer leader → IMAM
14. Droves → ATON
15. Disney princess who longs to be "part of that world" → ARIEL
16. Come to → WAKE
17. Either acting sibling Andrew or Elisabeth → SHUE
18. What pulls out all the stops? → DRANO
19. Food generally known outside the U.S. as "lady's fingers" → OKRA
20. Start illegally, say → HOTWIRE
22. What every baseball inning starts with → NOONEON
24. "Kind of" suffix → ISH
25. Shore up the ranks → RESTAFF
27. Little pest → ANT
28. Animal with a white rump → ELK
30. Highlands hat → TAM
31. Epitome of simplicity → ABC
33. Binge → SPREE
35. "I'll ___ you!" → SUE
36. Pop-pop → GRAMP
39. Country sharing the world's longest international border → CANADA
41. Showed great pride, in a way → BEAMED
42. Desirable Vegas couple? → ACES
43. Lake in the homeland of the Washoe people → TAHOE
47. ___ Blaster (toy) → NERF
48. Inconsequential → MERE
49. Journeys by foot → TREKS
50. Ones eliciting knee-jerk reactions, informally? → DOCS
51. Exemplar → PARAGON
53. Having a strong sense of direction? → BOSSY
57. Likely oriented toward platonic relationships, in brief → ARO
58. Members of the dolphin family that prey on dolphins → ORCAS
63. Like a revving engine → AROAR
64. Skater Midori → ITO
65. Words after "ding, ding, ding" → TOAST
66. With 68-Across, "Wicked" song suggested by the answers to the seven starred clues (and whose singer is spelled by the circled letters reading from left to right) → DEFYING
68. See 66-Across → GRAVITY
70. Bronzed → GOTATAN
71. Not just yet → LATERON
72. Abjures → ESCHEWS
73. Target of urban renewal, say → EYESORE

Down Clues

1. Soup stock in Japanese cuisine → DASHI
2. *The ones over there → ETHOS
3. Washington, Jefferson or Madison → SOUTHERNER
4. Already heard, say → KNEW
5. *One selling commercial time, informally → PADRE
6. Takes in → ARRESTS
7. The Marlins, on scoreboards → MIA
8. Lewis Carroll or George Orwell → PENNAME
9. *It's used to scrub in the tub → ALOOF
10. Jubilant postgame report → IWON
11. Show up unannounced? → MAKEACAMEO
12. *Some Scandinavian money → AKRON
13. Indicated → MEANT
21. Irritated → IRKED
23. Old enough → OFAGE
26. Symbol for the ratio of a circle's circumference to its radius → TAU
29. *Stand before a meeting → LEASE
32. *Genre for Aretha Franklin or Usher → BRAND
33. One might start "Your Social Security number has been compromised" → SCAM
34. Rate → PACE
37. Chicago exchange, for short → MERC
38. Certain attachments → PDFS
40. Flour used in Indian flatbreads → ATTA
41. Kiss in a telenovela → BESO
44. Calls to court → ARRAIGNS
45. *Your home → HEART
46. Voice command to an Android device → OKGOOGLE
51. Fool's gold → PYRITE
52. Write, as music → NOTATE
53. Symbol of authority → BADGE
54. Small dessert sandwiches → OREOS
55. Left of center? → SOFTC
56. Get ready to have one's tonsils checked, perhaps → SAYAH
59. Wanders → ROVES
60. World capital on the world's longest river → CAIRO
61. Family name with an eponymous Row, Court, Place and Avenue in New York City → ASTOR
62. Composer Jule → STYNE
67. Slangy refusal → NAW
69. Fish also known as a batomorph → RAY