NYT Crossword hints and answer for November 19, 2025
Hints that get gradually more specific, then the answer if you need it. Nothing is revealed until you tap.
Clues78
Across38
Down40
ConstructorJeremy Newton
Today’s NYT Crossword clues, hints & answers
Every clue from this puzzle with a hint and the answer behind separate buttons, so you only see what you need. Click a clue for its own page.
Across
1A
Dazzle (5)
Starts with A, ends with EAMAZE→
6A
Unspoken "yes" (3)
Starts with N, ends with DNOD→
9A
Creep into a creek, say (4)
Starts with W, ends with EWADE→
13A
Establishment whose name means "lounge" in French (5)
Starts with S, ends with NSALON→
14A
Gun in an action flick (3)
Starts with U, ends with IUZI→
15A
"We're innocent of wrongdoing" (5)
Starts with N, ends with SNOTUS→
16A
Times noted in Captain Kirk's logs (9)
Starts with S, ends with SSTARDATES→
18A
Foreboding signs (5)
Starts with O, ends with SOMENS→
19A
Poet Pound (4)
Starts with E, ends with AEZRA→
20A
Topaz and turquoise (4)
Starts with G, ends with SGEMS→
21A
Spanish island with a lively club scene (5)
Starts with I, ends with AIBIZA→
22A
Holland in Hollywood (3)
Starts with T, ends with MTOM→
23A
Some loud dogs … or food critics (7)
Starts with Y, ends with SYELPERS→
25A
Fiddle (with) (3)
Starts with T, ends with YTOY→
26A
Fancy spirals in calligraphy (9)
Starts with C, ends with SCURLICUES→
28A
Place to say "I do" (5)
Starts with A, ends with RALTAR→
31A
Does something about it (4)
Starts with A, ends with SACTS→
32A
Crave, with "for" (4)
Starts with A, ends with EACHE→
36A
Straight-shooting … or a punny title for this puzzle? (6)
Starts with N, ends with NNOSPIN→
38A
Sexually excite … or another punny title for this puzzle? (6)
Starts with T, ends with NTURNON→
40A
Harness for oxen (4)
Starts with Y, ends with EYOKE→
41A
Kindergarten basics (4)
Starts with A, ends with SABCS→
45A
Watch an entire season in one day, say (5)
Starts with B, ends with EBINGE→
46A
Increases in pricing (9)
Starts with R, ends with SRATEHIKES→
49A
"Man, I tell ya!" (3)
Starts with B, ends with YBOY→
52A
Set up panels for renewable energy, informally (7)
Starts with G, ends with RGOSOLAR→
53A
Fish for fish sticks (3)
Starts with C, ends with DCOD→
56A
Conductor Seiji of the Boston Symphony (5)
Starts with O, ends with AOZAWA→
58A
Three-point shot, in slang (4)
Starts with T, ends with YTREY→
59A
Rice lookalike (4)
Starts with O, ends with OORZO→
60A
"That makes two of us" (5)
Starts with S, ends with ISODOI→
61A
The Syracuse Mets vis-à-vis the New York Mets (9)
Starts with M, ends with MMINORTEAM→
63A
Food item placed in Egyptian tombs, as its layers symbolized eternity (5)
Starts with O, ends with NONION→
64A
Earliest drug approved to treat H.I.V. (3)
Starts with A, ends with TAZT→
65A
___ Dame (5)
Starts with N, ends with ENOTRE→
66A
Computer memory units, in brief (4)
Starts with M, ends with SMEGS→
67A
"Right this minute!" (3)
Starts with N, ends with WNOW→
68A
Quests for (5)
Starts with S, ends with SSEEKS→
Down
1D
It's a good thing (5)
Starts with A, ends with TASSET→
2D
Flatbread eaten during Passover (5)
Starts with M, ends with OMATZO→
3D
Nap interrupter, maybe (5)
Starts with A, ends with MALARM→
4D
Author ___ Neale Hurston (4)
Starts with Z, ends with AZORA→
5D
Wrap up (3)
Starts with E, ends with DEND→
6D
Chocolaty spread (7)
Starts with N, ends with ANUTELLA→
7D
Antidiabetes drug taken by many for weight loss (7)
Starts with O, ends with COZEMPIC→
8D
Cut up in a lab, perhaps (7)
Starts with D, ends with TDISSECT→
9D
Something shown in a sonogram (4)
Starts with W, ends with BWOMB→
10D
Fell down hard, in slang (5)
Starts with A, ends with TATEIT→
11D
Finito or kaput (5)
Starts with D, ends with ODUNZO→
12D
Lit class assignment (5)
Starts with E, ends with YESSAY→
15D
Squeak or squeal (5)
Starts with N, ends with ENOISE→
17D
Golden ___ (many a retiree) (4)
Starts with A, ends with RAGER→
23D
Space race cosmonaut Gagarin (4)
Starts with Y, ends with IYURI→
24D
Fall into disrepair over time (4)
Starts with R, ends with TRUST→
26D
Playful prank (5)
Starts with C, ends with RCAPER→
27D
Some outfits for Bollywood films (5)
Starts with S, ends with SSARIS→
28D
"___ news?" (3)
Starts with A, ends with YANY→
29D
Potty, to Potter (3)
Starts with L, ends with OLOO→
30D
"Naughty, naughty" (3)
Starts with T, ends with KTSK→
33D
"Inside Politics" channel (3)
Starts with C, ends with NCNN→
34D
Monopolize (3)
Starts with H, ends with GHOG→
35D
Austin-to-Boston dir. (3)
Starts with E, ends with EENE→
37D
Its alphabet starts with Alfa and ends with Zulu (4)
Starts with N, ends with ONATO→
39D
Business that's picking up? (4)
Starts with U, ends with RUBER→
42D
Toast giver at a wedding, often (7)
Starts with B, ends with NBESTMAN→
43D
Spanish sausage (7)
Starts with C, ends with OCHORIZO→
44D
Intro to writing? (7)
Starts with S, ends with WSILENTW→
47D
"Encore!" (5)
Starts with A, ends with NAGAIN→
48D
Big hit in the ring (4)
Starts with K, ends with OKAYO→
49D
___ buddy (5)
Starts with B, ends with MBOSOM→
50D
Layer wrapping Earth (5)
Starts with O, ends with EOZONE→
51D
"Get me?," to beatniks (5)
Starts with Y, ends with GYADIG→
53D
Center of the ancient Minoan civilization (5)
Starts with C, ends with ECRETE→
54D
Netflix crime drama set in rural Missouri (5)
Starts with O, ends with KOZARK→
55D
Some stadium toppers (5)
Starts with D, ends with SDOMES→
57D
Showers with flowers and sweets, say (4)
Starts with W, ends with SWOOS→
59D
Great Plains native (4)
Starts with O, ends with EOTOE→
62D
I.C.U. staffers (3)
Starts with R, ends with SRNS→
How to solve the NYT Crossword
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How many clues are in the NYT Crossword for November 19, 2025?+
78 clues: 38 Across and 40 Down. The puzzle was constructed by Jeremy Newton and edited by Will Shortz.
What are some answers in today’s NYT Crossword?+
For example: Dazzle (AMAZE); Unspoken "yes" (NOD); Creep into a creek, say (WADE).
What time does the NYT Crossword come out?+
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