NYT Crossword hints and answer for October 19, 2025
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Clues140
Across67
Down73
TitleSame Difference
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
Huge success (5)
Starts with S, ends with HSMASH→
6A
Seal, say (5)
Starts with C, ends with ECLOSE→
11A
From the beginning (4)
Starts with A, ends with WANEW→
15A
___ sequencing (lab technique) (3)
Starts with D, ends with ADNA→
18A
Lively Bohemian dances (6)
Starts with P, ends with SPOLKAS→
20A
Alternative to a tissue, informally (5)
Starts with H, ends with YHANKY→
21A
Bit in a hippie's necklace (8)
Starts with L, ends with DLOVEBEAD→
23A
Poker declaration (6)
Starts with I, ends with EIRAISE→
24A
Remove, as a ribbon (5)
Starts with U, ends with EUNTIE→
25A
Share confidences with (8)
Starts with O, ends with OOPENUPTO→
26A
Business traveler's convenience (11)
Starts with C, ends with DCOMPANYCARD→
28A
Divisions on a map (9)
Starts with C, ends with SCOUNTRIES→
29A
Brian ___, songwriter who popularized the term "generative music" (3)
Starts with E, ends with OENO→
30A
Second volume (6)
Starts with B, ends with IBOOKII→
31A
"hahaha im DEAD!" (4)
Starts with R, ends with LROFL→
32A
Broadband inits. (3)
Starts with D, ends with LDSL→
33A
Fights back tears? (5)
Starts with D, ends with SDARNS→
34A
Michelle Obama, to Princeton (4)
Starts with A, ends with MALUM→
36A
Indulge (in) (7)
Starts with P, ends with EPARTAKE→
40A
National Arab American Heritage Month (5)
Starts with A, ends with LAPRIL→
43A
Place to hang at home? (6)
Starts with C, ends with TCLOSET→
45A
Oppressive political regime, so to speak, with "the" (6)
Starts with S, ends with MSYSTEM→
46A
Have an ominous presence (9)
Starts with L, ends with ELOOMLARGE→
50A
Sound of a joke going over one's head (6)
Starts with W, ends with HWHOOSH→
52A
Giant Middle-earth creature (3)
Starts with E, ends with TENT→
53A
Arched recess (4)
Starts with A, ends with EAPSE→
54A
Person I truly am (6)
Starts with R, ends with EREALME→
56A
"Hey!" from on high (6)
Starts with U, ends with EUPHERE→
59A
Word with pack or rug (3)
Starts with R, ends with TRAT→
60A
Senior, informally (7)
Starts with O, ends with ROLDSTER→
61A
Org. that confiscates liquids (3)
Starts with T, ends with ATSA→
62A
Knocked out of the park (4)
Starts with A, ends with DACED→
65A
Pop culture hit about dystopian technology (8)
Starts with M, ends with OMRROBOTO→
67A
Former parent of NBC (3)
Starts with R, ends with ARCA→
69A
Eliminators of some teams (8)
Starts with P, ends with SPLAYOFFS→
72A
Corn chip with a "Fuego" flavor (4)
Starts with T, ends with ITAKI→
73A
In the vein of (3)
Starts with A, ends with AALA→
75A
Smallish batteries (7)
Starts with A, ends with SAACELLS→
77A
Rapper ___ Milli (3)
Starts with F, ends with OFLO→
78A
Get involved (6)
Starts with S, ends with NSTEPIN→
80A
Perceptive (6)
Starts with S, ends with DSHREWD→
81A
Hawaiian shindig (4)
Starts with L, ends with ULUAU→
82A
Clothes for a doze, in brief (3)
Starts with P, ends with SPJS→
85A
Native of the Delaware Valley (6)
Starts with L, ends with ELENAPE→
87A
Pursuers of utopian goals (9)
Starts with I, ends with SIDEALISTS→
89A
Coffees that aren't single-origin (6)
Starts with B, ends with SBLENDS→
92A
Self-admiring sort (6)
Starts with E, ends with TEGOIST→
94A
Major Ukrainian seaport (5)
Starts with O, ends with AODESA→
95A
Sisterly (7)
Starts with S, ends with LSORORAL→
97A
Sneaky plot (4)
Starts with R, ends with ERUSE→
98A
Pilgrims in Saudi Arabia (5)
Starts with H, ends with SHAJIS→
101A
Ear-related prefix (3)
Starts with O, ends with OOTO→
102A
Not fully open (4)
Starts with A, ends with RAJAR→
104A
Hybrid pastry (6)
Starts with C, ends with TCRONUT→
106A
P, to Pericles (3)
Starts with R, ends with ORHO→
109A
Injection associated with a certain toxin (9)
Starts with A, ends with MANTIVENOM→
112A
Annoyances for ticket holders (11)
Starts with T, ends with STRAINDELAYS→
114A
Palm Springs or Puerto Vallarta, notably (8)
Starts with G, ends with AGAYMECCA→
115A
Brown songbirds (5)
Starts with W, ends with SWRENS→
116A
Tale-telling brothers (6)
Starts with G, ends with SGRIMMS→
117A
Turned up (8)
Starts with A, ends with DAPPEARED→
118A
"Strike up the band!" (5)
Starts with H, ends with THITIT→
119A
Neighbor of a Saudi (6)
Starts with Y, ends with IYEMENI→
120A
Nickname for Rachel (3)
Starts with R, ends with ERAE→
121A
Verbally expresses disdain (4)
Starts with T, ends with STUTS→
122A
Warning signs (5)
Starts with O, ends with SOMENS→
123A
Tightly packed (5)
Starts with D, ends with EDENSE→
Down
1D
Food enlivener (5)
Starts with S, ends with ESPICE→
2D
Hardly a genius (5)
Starts with M, ends with NMORON→
3D
Home to a chapel with the Texas flag flying beside it (5)
Starts with A, ends with OALAMO→
4D
Spotify button (4)
Starts with S, ends with PSKIP→
5D
Loves, loves, loves the occasion (8)
Starts with H, ends with LHASABALL→
7D
Feature of a Hawaiian house (5)
Starts with L, ends with ILANAI→
8D
Being prosecuted (7)
Starts with O, ends with LONTRIAL→
9D
Go downhill fast, say (4)
Starts with S, ends with DSKID→
10D
___ candy (3)
Starts with E, ends with EEYE→
11D
Chilly (5)
Starts with A, ends with FALOOF→
12D
Orange juice preference (6)
Starts with N, ends with PNOPULP→
13D
With no one ahead or behind (4)
Starts with E, ends with NEVEN→
14D
Lost all liquid resources (7)
Starts with W, ends with YWENTDRY→
15D
Remove hair from (8)
Starts with D, ends with EDEPILATE→
16D
Main antagonist on HBO's "Euphoria" (4)
Starts with N, ends with ENATE→
17D
Clamors (4)
Starts with A, ends with SADOS→
19D
Mexicali mister (5)
Starts with S, ends with RSENOR→
22D
Ruptures (6)
Starts with B, ends with SBURSTS→
27D
Over there, poetically (3)
Starts with Y, ends with NYON→
28D
Openly reveal one's sexuality (7)
Starts with C, ends with TCOMEOUT→
31D
Process for would-be Greeks (4)
Starts with R, ends with HRUSH→
33D
It's over a quarter of a quarter (4)
Starts with D, ends with EDIME→
35D
Features of the names of many Apple products (11)
Starts with L, ends with SLOWERCASEIS→
37D
N.Y.C. stadium eponym (4)
Starts with A, ends with EASHE→
38D
Doll of a guy? (3)
Starts with K, ends with NKEN→
39D
Vitals checker, in brief (3)
Starts with E, ends with TEMT→
40D
Interrupter of dreams, maybe (5)
Starts with A, ends with MALARM→
41D
Genre for Keith Haring (6)
Starts with P, ends with TPOPART→
42D
Political platforms? (6)
Starts with R, ends with AROSTRA→
43D
Saxon's foe (4)
Starts with C, ends with TCELT→
44D
Competitive athlete's goal, perhaps (8)
Starts with T, ends with DTOPSPEED→
47D
Guthrie who sang "Alice's Restaurant" (4)
Starts with A, ends with OARLO→
48D
Bureaucratic barriers (7)
Starts with R, ends with EREDTAPE→
49D
Fuel source (8)
Starts with G, ends with EGASOLINE→
51D
"Care to dance?" (7)
Starts with S, ends with ESHALLWE→
55D
Sea, to Seurat (3)
Starts with M, ends with RMER→
57D
They may be caught in the summer (4)
Starts with R, ends with SRAYS→
58D
Prefix with sphere (3)
Starts with E, ends with OECO→
60D
Tribute in the Tribune, say (4)
Starts with O, ends with TOBIT→
63D
Flow out (6)
Starts with E, ends with EEFFUSE→
64D
Keys above C's (6)
Starts with D, ends with SDFLATS→
66D
Blesses (3)
Starts with O, ends with SOKS→
68D
"That feels ama-a-azing!" (3)
Starts with A, ends with HAAH→
70D
Alan with six Emmys (4)
Starts with A, ends with AALDA→
71D
Composer who led the U.S. Marine Band (5)
Starts with S, ends with ASOUSA→
74D
Canniest, for instance (7)
Starts with A, ends with MANAGRAM→
76D
Artist's feedback session, informally (4)
Starts with C, ends with TCRIT→
79D
Olaf's creator in "Frozen" (4)
Starts with E, ends with AELSA→
82D
Channel supported by pledge drives (3)
Starts with P, ends with SPBS→
83D
"Jenny From the Block" singer, to fans (3)
Starts with J, ends with OJLO→
84D
Immune cell variation (8)
Starts with S, ends with ESEROTYPE→
86D
Flow (out) (4)
Starts with P, ends with RPOUR→
88D
Hung around idly (8)
Starts with L, ends with DLOITERED→
90D
"Sorry, I'm unavailable!" (6)
Starts with N, ends with ENOTIME→
91D
Tried to convey (7)
Starts with D, ends with TDROVEAT→
96D
Surgical instrument (6)
Starts with L, ends with TLANCET→
98D
Lifts with a pulley (6)
Starts with H, ends with SHOISTS→
99D
"Dear ___" (greeting in an old advice column) (3)
Starts with A, ends with NANN→
100D
Overly fault-finding (5)
Starts with J, ends with YJUDGY→
103D
"The Grapes of Wrath" family (5)
Starts with J, ends with SJOADS→
105D
Entered quickly (5)
Starts with R, ends with NRANIN→
106D
Food traditionally eaten with chopsticks (5)
Starts with R, ends with NRAMEN→
107D
Songs on Sundays (5)
Starts with H, ends with SHYMNS→
108D
Actor Davis who delivered Malcolm X's eulogy (5)
Starts with O, ends with EOSSIE→
109D
Gelatinous thickener (4)
Starts with A, ends with RAGAR→
110D
___ Valley (4)
Starts with N, ends with ANAPA→
111D
Shade lighter than cappuccino (4)
Starts with E, ends with UECRU→
112D
Decorative auto upgrade (4)
Starts with T, ends with MTRIM→
113D
Mojito garnish (4)
Starts with L, ends with ELIME→
115D
50,000-watt clear-channel radio station in Iowa (3)
Starts with W, ends with OWHO→
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How many clues are in the NYT Crossword for October 19, 2025?+
140 clues: 67 Across and 73 Down. The puzzle was constructed by Daniel Grinberg and edited by Will Shortz.
What are some answers in today’s NYT Crossword?+
For example: Huge success (SMASH); Seal, say (CLOSE); From the beginning (ANEW).
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