NYT Crossword hints and answer for September 10, 2025
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Clues74
Across33
Down41
ConstructorCole Vandenberg and Harit Raghunathan
Today’s NYT Crossword clues, hints & answers
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Across
1A
Spiritual principle symbolized by an endless knot (5)
Starts with K, ends with AKARMA→
6A
Rock, for one (5)
Starts with C, ends with CCOMIC→
11A
Bit of cream (3)
Starts with D, ends with BDAB→
14A
Change, as a legislative bill (5)
Starts with A, ends with DAMEND→
15A
Carne ___ (5)
Starts with A, ends with AASADA→
16A
Bird whose males incubate the eggs (3)
Starts with E, ends with UEMU→
17A
Skimpy serving of foie gras, say (11)
Starts with L, ends with RLIVERSLIVER→
19A
San Francisco/Oakland separator (3)
Starts with B, ends with YBAY→
20A
Otis's love interest on Netflix's "Sex Education" (5)
Starts with M, ends with EMAEVE→
21A
Some dressing in an operating room (5)
Starts with G, ends with EGAUZE→
23A
One of Daniel Radcliffe's paparazzi, say (13)
Starts with P, ends with RPOTTERSPOTTER→
26A
Billy Joel's "___ From an Italian Restaurant" (6)
Starts with S, ends with SSCENES→
28A
Glass in a frame (4)
Starts with P, ends with EPANE→
29A
Opening on a stage? (4)
Starts with A, ends with IACTI→
30A
Certain tennis shot (5)
Starts with S, ends with ESLICE→
32A
Ave. crossers (3)
Starts with S, ends with SSTS→
35A
Heinz bottle blueprint, say (15)
Starts with K, ends with PKETCHUPSKETCHUP→
39A
Ice cream maker Joseph (3)
Starts with E, ends with YEDY→
40A
Remark to the audience (5)
Starts with A, ends with EASIDE→
41A
Prefix in aviation (4)
Starts with A, ends with OAERO→
42A
Place to wear a mitt (4)
Starts with O, ends with NOVEN→
43A
With skepticism (6)
Starts with A, ends with TASKANT→
45A
The biggest and most loving of hugs, say (13)
Starts with M, ends with RMOTHERSMOTHER→
50A
Pack animal related to camels (5)
Starts with L, ends with ALLAMA→
51A
Trailing behind (5)
Starts with I, ends with WINTOW→
52A
"After ___ …" (3)
Starts with A, ends with LALL→
53A
Idahoan, say (11)
Starts with T, ends with RTATERSTATER→
59A
God, in Italian (3)
Starts with D, ends with ODIO→
60A
Hallmark of a typical Greek tragedy (5)
Starts with I, ends with YIRONY→
61A
Something gotten by a scapegoat (5)
Starts with B, ends with EBLAME→
62A
Currency whose symbol resembles a "Y" (3)
Starts with Y, ends with NYEN→
63A
Nerve-racking (5)
Starts with T, ends with ETENSE→
64A
"Get what I'm sayin'?" (5)
Starts with Y, ends with WYKNOW→
Down
1D
___-El (Superman's birth name) (3)
Starts with K, ends with LKAL→
2D
Pal in Paris (3)
Starts with A, ends with IAMI→
3D
Intensify, with "up" (3)
Starts with R, ends with VREV→
4D
"Richard of York gave battle in vain," for the colors of the rainbow (8)
Starts with M, ends with CMNEMONIC→
5D
Quote from a magazine rep (6)
Starts with A, ends with EADRATE→
6D
Have a cow? (5)
Starts with C, ends with ECALVE→
7D
Willow whose twigs are used in basketry (5)
Starts with O, ends with ROSIER→
8D
Dallas baller (3)
Starts with M, ends with VMAV→
9D
Suffix with sulf- (3)
Starts with I, ends with EIDE→
10D
Mesh for securing items in transport (8)
Starts with C, ends with TCARGONET→
11D
When a star is first seen (5)
Starts with D, ends with TDEBUT→
12D
Knock over (5)
Starts with A, ends with EAMAZE→
13D
Retailer's counterpart (5)
Starts with B, ends with RBUYER→
18D
Women's professional tennis matches have three of them (4)
Starts with S, ends with SSETS→
22D
Had a nosh (3)
Starts with A, ends with EATE→
23D
Small-minded (5)
Starts with P, ends with YPETTY→
24D
Certain volleyball hit (5)
Starts with S, ends with ESPIKE→
25D
Engage in a bit of back-and-forth? (4)
Starts with P, ends with EPACE→
26D
Purpose (4)
Starts with S, ends with ESAKE→
27D
Included in correspondence, in a way (4)
Starts with C, ends with DCCED→
30D
Feeling of dizziness, with "the" (5)
Starts with S, ends with SSPINS→
31D
Alternative to mushrooms (3)
Starts with L, ends with DLSD→
32D
___ Madness, punny name for a barbershop (5)
Starts with S, ends with RSHEAR→
33D
Bad thing to try to do from the middle lane (4)
Starts with T, ends with NTURN→
34D
Stereotypical name for a Dalmatian (4)
Starts with S, ends with TSPOT→
36D
"You try!" (8)
Starts with H, ends with THAVEATIT→
37D
Password creator (4)
Starts with U, ends with RUSER→
38D
Absurdly easy task (8)
Starts with C, ends with KCAKEWALK→
42D
Physicist who built upon Volta's work (3)
Starts with O, ends with MOHM→
43D
Many characters in "Better Call Saul": Abbr. (4)
Starts with A, ends with SATTS→
44D
Flew past (6)
Starts with S, ends with YSHOTBY→
45D
Quaint term of address for a noblewoman (5)
Starts with M, ends with YMLADY→
46D
Skateboard jump (5)
Starts with O, ends with EOLLIE→
47D
Raven claw (5)
Starts with T, ends with NTALON→
48D
Demeanors (5)
Starts with M, ends with SMIENS→
49D
Like corned beef in a Reuben sandwich (5)
Starts with O, ends with EONRYE→
54D
"There you ___!" (3)
Starts with A, ends with EARE→
55D
Boatload (3)
Starts with T, ends with NTON→
56D
Color akin to caramel (3)
Starts with T, ends with NTAN→
57D
Genre that punk rock paved the way for (3)
Starts with E, ends with OEMO→
58D
FF's opposite (3)
Starts with R, ends with WREW→
How to solve the NYT Crossword
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How many clues are in the NYT Crossword for September 10, 2025?+
74 clues: 33 Across and 41 Down. The puzzle was constructed by Cole Vandenberg and Harit Raghunathan and edited by Will Shortz.
What are some answers in today’s NYT Crossword?+
For example: Spiritual principle symbolized by an endless knot (KARMA); Rock, for one (COMIC); Bit of cream (DAB).
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