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Friday, 17th October 2025

There are 36 across clues and 32 down clues for the New York Times crossword on Friday, 17th October 2025. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	What a comment might be made in
AAcross 5:	Plant often confused with algae
AAcross 9:	"The Craft"
AAcross 14:	Pulitzer-winning historian and journalist Applebaum
AAcross 15:	Understanding response	ISEE
AAcross 16:	Amazon smart speakers
AAcross 17:	British singer with the top 10 albums "Crash" and "Brat"	CHARLIXCX
AAcross 19:	Some suitors
AAcross 20:	Sets in motion
AAcross 21:	Sake, for one	RICEWINE
AAcross 23:	Not fixed, as a stone
AAcross 24:	Drinking game with projectiles	BEERDARTS
AAcross 25:	Sign of healing
AAcross 26:	New service member
AAcross 27:	Mental image, for short?
AAcross 28:	Fun-size, so to speak
AAcross 29:	Stalk
AAcross 31:	First releases
AAcross 33:	Taking out the trash and others
AAcross 35:	Lab liquids
AAcross 36:	Max ___, boxer nicknamed "Madcap Maxie"	BAER
AAcross 37:	Corn ___ (snack misnomer)
AAcross 39:	Longtime Nestlé candy brand	SNOCAPS
AAcross 41:	Arizona tribe with matrilineal clans
AAcross 42:	1992 Whoopi Goldberg comedy	SISTERACT
AAcross 45:	Survived, so to speak
AAcross 46:	Portmanteau for evidence based solely on personal accounts	ANECDATA
AAcross 47:	Popular name of the 1958 Italian hit "Nel Blu, Dipinto di Blu"	VOLARE
AAcross 48:	___ month
AAcross 49:	Act of writing down whatever comes to mind in order to clear mental clutter	BRAINDUMP
AAcross 51:	Wipe
AAcross 52:	Biblical locale in a Steinbeck title
AAcross 53:	Golfer Aoki	ISAO
AAcross 54:	Rationed (out)
AAcross 55:	Bleak
AAcross 56:	Gravitate
DDown 1:	Historic Émile Zola letter of 1898	JACCUSE
DDown 2:	Improved
DDown 3:	Meaty dog treats "in a blanket"	SNAUSAGES
DDown 4:	Less prolix
DDown 5:	Customizable Nintendo avatars	MIIS
DDown 6:	Mac platform renamed in 2016	OSX
DDown 7:	Condition of discretion
DDown 8:	More seductive
DDown 9:	One managing online content	WEBEDITOR
DDown 10:	Drink that comes with free refills
DDown 11:	Word with easy or high
DDown 12:	Matter
DDown 13:	Insufferable sorts
DDown 18:	Court call
DDown 22:	Handles beautifully, in slang
DDown 24:	Bills worth 100 buckaroos
DDown 26:	British singer with the hits "R.I.P." and "Radioactive"	RITAORA
DDown 28:	Showed embarrassment, say	TURNEDRED
DDown 30:	Event typically occurring in one's late 40s or early 50s
DDown 32:	Hoped-for scenario	BESTCASE
DDown 33:	America, for one: Abbr.	CAPT
DDown 34:	DC figure since 1938
DDown 36:	Brand of rum mentioned in Hemingway novels	BACARDI
DDown 38:	Certain unit of detergent	TIDEPOD
DDown 40:	Pet gear often eschewed in favor of someone's lap	CATBED
DDown 41:	"Stop the presses!"	HOLDIT
DDown 42:	Capital that's home to the oldest university in the Western U.S. (1842)
DDown 43:	Habituate
DDown 44:	Upper house of the French parliament	SENAT
DDown 45:	With, in Spanish
DDown 47:	Plant on a pergola
DDown 50:	___ Lingus	AER

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