NYT Crossword hints and answer for November 30, 2025
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Clues125
Across65
Down60
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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
Post-vacation pile (4)
Starts with M, ends with LMAIL→
5A
Brooklyn Brewery's Special Effects, e.g., in brief (3)
Starts with I, ends with AIPA→
8A
Historical Dutch settler (4)
Starts with B, ends with RBOER→
12A
___ guisado (Caribbean stew) (5)
Starts with P, ends with OPOLLO→
15A
Campaign manager? (5)
Starts with A, ends with PADREP→
17A
Puzzle type that was the Oxford Dictionaries' 2005 U.K. "word of the year" (6)
Starts with S, ends with USUDOKU→
18A
Metallurgist's evaluation (5)
Starts with A, ends with YASSAY→
19A
Butterflies, so to speak (6)
Starts with N, ends with SNERVES→
21A
Actress Zosia ___ of "Girls" (5)
Starts with M, ends with TMAMET→
22A
"Zip it" (9)
Starts with D, ends with KDONTSPEAK→
25A
Accommodates (5)
Starts with S, ends with SSEATS→
27A
Mountains where St. Bernards were originally bred (4)
Starts with A, ends with SALPS→
28A
Former Portuguese colony on the Malabar Coast (3)
Starts with G, ends with AGOA→
29A
Chemical essential to cellular metabolism, for short (3)
Starts with A, ends with PATP→
30A
___ feed (news reader) (3)
Starts with R, ends with SRSS→
32A
___ Sea, Kazakh/Uzbek body of water (4)
Starts with A, ends with LARAL→
33A
Spiral-shelled mollusk (8)
Starts with N, ends with SNAUTILUS→
35A
Org. for Penguins and Ducks (3)
Starts with N, ends with LNHL→
36A
"Enough already" (8)
Starts with T, ends with OTHATLLDO→
38A
Make some calls (3)
Starts with U, ends with PUMP→
39A
"W" on a light bulb (4)
Starts with W, ends with TWATT→
40A
Three-way intersection (3)
Starts with T, ends with ETEE→
41A
Coin collector? (4)
Starts with S, ends with ASOFA→
42A
Singer with the 2014 #1 album "1,000 Forms of Fear" (3)
Starts with S, ends with ASIA→
43A
Dealer's manager (7)
Starts with P, ends with SPITBOSS→
45A
In check (5)
Starts with A, ends with YATBAY→
47A
Nuclear restraint pact (7)
Starts with T, ends with NTESTBAN→
49A
___ Castorp, protagonist of Thomas Mann's "The Magic Mountain" (4)
Starts with H, ends with SHANS→
50A
Summa cum ___ (5)
Starts with L, ends with ELAUDE→
51A
"Hold this" (4)
Starts with H, ends with EHERE→
52A
College voter? (7)
Starts with E, ends with RELECTOR→
55A
Ancient drinker of the fermented beverage chicha (5)
Starts with I, ends with NINCAN→
56A
Taxes levied during trade wars (7)
Starts with T, ends with STARIFFS→
59A
Chop house? (4)
Starts with D, ends with ODOJO→
60A
Cancer research agcy. (3)
Starts with N, ends with HNIH→
62A
Locale for drones (3)
Starts with S, ends with YSKY→
63A
Preposition that can be represented by a number (3)
Starts with F, ends with RFOR→
64A
Matador's opponent (4)
Starts with T, ends with OTORO→
65A
Gay rights activist Marsha P. Johnson, for one (9)
Starts with T, ends with NTRANSICON→
68A
Beat badly (9)
Starts with C, ends with DCLOBBERED→
70A
Energy (3)
Starts with V, ends with MVIM→
71A
Sarge's boss (5)
Starts with L, ends with ELOOIE→
72A
Knighthood, for one (5)
Starts with H, ends with RHONOR→
73A
"When r u getting in?" (3)
Starts with E, ends with AETA→
74A
Mantou or bao, in Chinese cuisine (3)
Starts with B, ends with NBUN→
75A
"Awwww!" (7)
Starts with S, ends with TSOSWEET→
79A
"Awesome!" (3)
Starts with R, ends with DRAD→
81A
Lethargy (5)
Starts with S, ends with RSOPOR→
84A
Grammy-winning Paramore hit of 2014 (9)
Starts with A, ends with NAINTITFUN→
86A
Actress Thompson of "Sorry to Bother You" (5)
Starts with T, ends with ATESSA→
90A
Bok ___ (4)
Starts with C, ends with YCHOY→
91A
Dearie (3)
Starts with H, ends with NHON→
92A
Co-star of 2025's "Kiss of the Spider Woman," to fans (3)
Starts with J, ends with OJLO→
93A
Break down in tears (3)
Starts with S, ends with BSOB→
95A
Aquiline : eagle :: cygnine : ___ (4)
Starts with S, ends with NSWAN→
96A
Lenape people from whom a New Jersey river gets its name (7)
Starts with R, ends with NRARITAN→
98A
Egypt/Sudan border region (5)
Starts with N, ends with ANUBIA→
100A
Noodling in a jazz tune (7)
Starts with V, ends with GVAMPING→
102A
Annoying (7)
Starts with I, ends with EIRKSOME→
103A
In the majority? (5)
Starts with A, ends with TADULT→
104A
Core-sculpting belt (7)
Starts with A, ends with RABTONER→
105A
Utter chaos (6)
Starts with M, ends with MMAYHEM→
106A
1994 co-Nobelist Shimon (5)
Starts with P, ends with SPERES→
107A
Greasy spoon, e.g. (6)
Starts with E, ends with YEATERY→
Down
1D
Self-effacing (6)
Starts with M, ends with TMODEST→
2D
Oodles (4)
Starts with A, ends with TALOT→
3D
Strain (3)
Starts with I, ends with KILK→
4D
Baseballs that are hard-hit but then caught, in lingo (8)
Starts with L, ends with SLOUDOUTS→
5D
Bottlefuls for a summer look, perhaps (11)
Starts with I, ends with SINSTANTTANS→
6D
Skirt responsibility (11)
Starts with P, ends with KPASSTHEBUCK→
7D
Proverbial cure-all (11)
Starts with A, ends with YANAPPLEADAY→
8D
Basketball attempt that uses the backboard (8)
Starts with B, ends with TBANKSHOT→
9D
Martín Espada's "___ to the Soccer Ball Sailing Over a Barbed Wire Fence" (3)
Starts with O, ends with EODE→
10D
Leaves the straight and narrow (4)
Starts with E, ends with SERRS→
11D
Expose (6)
Starts with R, ends with LREVEAL→
12D
First Eurodance hit in the U.S. (1989) (12)
Starts with P, ends with MPUMPUPTHEJAM→
13D
Ending with mammal or Mendel (3)
Starts with I, ends with NIAN→
14D
Good quality for an artist (3)
Starts with E, ends with EEYE→
16D
17D
Italian sub ingredient (6)
Starts with S, ends with ISALAMI→
20D
Diamonds can sometimes be found in them (6)
Starts with S, ends with ASTADIA→
21D
"Quit whining, dude!" (5)
Starts with M, ends with PMANUP→
23D
Malt-drying kiln (4)
Starts with O, ends with TOAST→
24D
"O, had I but followed the ___!": "Twelfth Night" (4)
Starts with A, ends with SARTS→
26D
John who painted "Backyards, Greenwich Village" (5)
Starts with S, ends with NSLOAN→
28D
2022 sequel to "Knives Out" (10)
Starts with G, ends with NGLASSONION→
31D
Refuge (10)
Starts with S, ends with RSAFEHARBOR→
34D
"You can't make me!" (5)
Starts with I, ends with TIWONT→
37D
Arm of the police department (5)
Starts with T, ends with RTASER→
44D
Essayist Francis (5)
Starts with B, ends with NBACON→
45D
Comedian Wong (3)
Starts with A, ends with IALI→
46D
Cash on the Ginza (3)
Starts with Y, ends with NYEN→
48D
Overdone (5)
Starts with T, ends with ETRITE→
52D
1999 Ron Howard film about a reality show (4)
Starts with E, ends with VEDTV→
53D
Actress Petty of "A League of Their Own" (4)
Starts with L, ends with ILORI→
54D
Anti-mob law acronym (4)
Starts with R, ends with ORICO→
56D
Animated character, informally (4)
Starts with T, ends with NTOON→
57D
Act the worrywart (4)
Starts with F, ends with TFRET→
58D
___ fountain (4)
Starts with S, ends with ASODA→
61D
Sauce served with Peking duck (6)
Starts with H, ends with NHOISIN→
63D
Michelle Obama or Jill Biden, in brief (6)
Starts with F, ends with SFLOTUS→
66D
Indistinct speech (4)
Starts with S, ends with RSLUR→
67D
It's a gas (4)
Starts with N, ends with NNEON→
68D
"Yes, ___!" (phrase popularized by the restaurant drama "The Bear") (4)
Starts with C, ends with FCHEF→
69D
Young miscreant (4)
Starts with B, ends with TBRAT→
74D
Like some charm (6)
Starts with B, ends with HBOYISH→
76D
Patron of lost causes (6)
Starts with S, ends with ESTJUDE→
77D
Literary runt of the litter (6)
Starts with W, ends with RWILBUR→
78D
"L'___ du Nord" (Minnesota motto) (6)
Starts with E, ends with EETOILE→
80D
Dictatorial figure (6)
Starts with D, ends with TDESPOT→
81D
Open-weave fabric (5)
Starts with S, ends with MSCRIM→
82D
New York School poet Frank (5)
Starts with O, ends with AOHARA→
83D
"Th-th-th-that's all, folks!" speaker (5)
Starts with P, ends with YPORKY→
84D
First-rate (4)
Starts with A, ends with EAONE→
85D
Flare up? (4)
Starts with N, ends with ANOVA→
87D
See 16-Down (5)
Starts with S, ends with ESWINE→
88D
More prudent (5)
Starts with S, ends with RSANER→
89D
About to explode, say (5)
Starts with A, ends with YANGRY→
91D
Pink character in the "Toy Story" movies (4)
Starts with H, ends with MHAMM→
94D
Farmer Hoggett's entrant in a sheepherding contest (4)
Starts with B, ends with EBABE→
97D
Turf ___ (football injury) (3)
Starts with T, ends with ETOE→
98D
Part of a day care schedule (3)
Starts with N, ends with PNAP→
101D
Inits. at Grand Central Terminal (3)
Starts with M, ends with AMTA→
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How many clues are in the NYT Crossword for November 30, 2025?+
125 clues: 65 Across and 60 Down. The puzzle was constructed by Natan Last and edited by Will Shortz.
What are some answers in today’s NYT Crossword?+
For example: Post-vacation pile (MAIL); Brooklyn Brewery's Special Effects, e.g., in brief (IPA); Historical Dutch settler (BOER).
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