NYT Crossword hints and answer for October 11, 2025
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Clues71
Across33
Down38
ConstructorSam Ezersky
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
Source of great power? (12)
Starts with M, ends with HMASTERSWITCH→
13A
Common component of a digital watch, for short (3)
Starts with L, ends with DLCD→
16A
It snaps with a tap (12)
Starts with I, ends with AIPHONECAMERA→
17A
Symbol for electric flux, in physics (3)
Starts with P, ends with IPHI→
18A
One way to grin (12)
Starts with F, ends with RFROMEARTOEAR→
19A
What might be smelt? (3)
Starts with R, ends with EROE→
20A
Be just right for (3)
Starts with F, ends with TFIT→
21A
Fortune (3)
Starts with L, ends with TLOT→
22A
Go to the other side (6)
Starts with D, ends with TDEFECT→
24A
Ambitious tactic in bridge (7)
Starts with S, ends with DSLAMBID→
27A
Deck deception (8)
Starts with F, ends with TFALSECUT→
29A
"My ___!" (5)
Starts with S, ends with SSTARS→
30A
Food sticker? (4)
Starts with T, ends with ETINE→
31A
"___ Deo gloria" (Latin doctrine) (4)
Starts with S, ends with ISOLI→
32A
What a camper or criminal hopes to leave (7)
Starts with N, ends with ENOTRACE→
34A
Curved plumbing piece (5)
Starts with P, ends with PPTRAP→
35A
Car touted for its dual efficiency (12)
Starts with D, ends with DDIESELHYBRID→
37A
Serialized and melodramatic, as a show (5)
Starts with S, ends with YSOAPY→
39A
Black Death-era Iberian king dubbed "the Ceremonious" (7)
Starts with P, ends with VPETERIV→
40A
Initial cost of a sort (4)
Starts with A, ends with EANTE→
41A
Speechwriter's consideration (4)
Starts with T, ends with ETONE→
42A
Put on ___ (5)
Starts with A, ends with TANACT→
45A
Meet face to face? (8)
Starts with H, ends with THEADBUTT→
47A
Spending quantities (7)
Starts with O, ends with SOUTLAYS→
49A
Like some protective sunglasses, in brief (6)
Starts with A, ends with VANTIUV→
50A
Relaxed sigh (3)
Starts with A, ends with HAHH→
51A
53A
Youngest-ever QB to win multiple N.F.L. M.V.P. awards (by age 27) (12)
Starts with L, ends with NLAMARJACKSON→
58A
Music box? (3)
Starts with A, ends with PAMP→
59A
What magicians strive to do (12)
Starts with B, ends with DBLOWYOURMIND→
60A
Past participle of the French "naître" (3)
Starts with N, ends with ENEE→
61A
Under lines? (12)
Starts with S, ends with MSUBWAYSYSTEM→
Down
1D
Ticks off (5)
Starts with M, ends with SMIFFS→
2D
Taxing times (6)
Starts with A, ends with SAPRILS→
3D
Targeted, as a target (6)
Starts with S, ends with TSHOTAT→
4D
East Egg resident in "The Great Gatsby" (3)
Starts with T, ends with MTOM→
5D
Buffalo-to-Rochester dir. (3)
Starts with E, ends with EENE→
6D
They see things for what they are (8)
Starts with R, ends with SREALISTS→
7D
Seafood staple of New England (5)
Starts with S, ends with DSCROD→
8D
Engineer who supposedly found inspiration while tending to a boiling kettle (4)
Starts with W, ends with TWATT→
9D
Shorthand for a stance (3)
Starts with I, ends with OIMO→
10D
Top choice? (3)
Starts with T, ends with ETEE→
11D
Birthplace, as of civilization (6)
Starts with C, ends with ECRADLE→
12D
Big hoppers (5)
Starts with H, ends with SHARES→
13D
"Wax" collectible, informally (8)
Starts with L, ends with DLPRECORD→
14D
Count out for breakfast? (7)
Starts with C, ends with ACHOCULA→
15D
Nutritionist's offering (7)
Starts with D, ends with PDIETTIP→
23D
Lollapalooza, for instance (8)
Starts with F, ends with LFESTIVAL→
25D
Job done on one's hands and feet? (8)
Starts with M, ends with IMANIPEDI→
26D
Like typical frat boys, informally (5)
Starts with B, ends with YBROEY→
27D
Johann ___, philosopher who influenced Hegel (6)
Starts with F, ends with EFICHTE→
28D
Words on either side of "for" (5)
Starts with A, ends with EANEYE→
30D
33D
Move, as a plant (5)
Starts with R, ends with TREPOT→
34D
Forensic unit's discovery (5)
Starts with P, ends with TPRINT→
35D
String or integer, in computer science (8)
Starts with D, ends with EDATATYPE→
36D
Spot to order a witbier or hefeweizen (8)
Starts with B, ends with SBRAUHAUS→
37D
Very hot and dry (7)
Starts with S, ends with NSAHARAN→
38D
What the singer Prince Rogers Nelson famously went by (7)
Starts with O, ends with EONENAME→
41D
With fewer than 11,000 people, the world's second-least-populous country, after Vatican City (6)
Starts with T, ends with UTUVALU→
43D
Chooses traffic over train, perhaps (6)
Starts with C, ends with TCABSIT→
44D
Lt. ___ Slothrop, main character in Pynchon's "Gravity's Rainbow" (6)
Starts with T, ends with ETYRONE→
46D
Some spring nursery purchases (5)
Starts with B, ends with SBULBS→
47D
Sarcastic "That's just great" (5)
Starts with O, ends with YOHJOY→
48D
Dominatrix's practice, for short (5)
Starts with S, ends with MSANDM→
50D
TV sister of Sansa Stark (4)
Starts with A, ends with AARYA→
54D
___ rule (3)
Starts with M, ends with BMOB→
55D
Reaction to something sweet, maybe (3)
Starts with A, ends with WAWW→
56D
React to something moving, maybe (3)
Starts with C, ends with YCRY→
57D
Formula 1 divisions: Abbr. (3)
Starts with K, ends with SKMS→
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How many clues are in the NYT Crossword for October 11, 2025?+
71 clues: 33 Across and 38 Down. The puzzle was constructed by Sam Ezersky and edited by Will Shortz.
What are some answers in today’s NYT Crossword?+
For example: Source of great power? (MASTERSWITCH); Common component of a digital watch, for short (LCD); It snaps with a tap (IPHONECAMERA).
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