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New York Times Crossword October 16 2025 Answers

Thursday puzzle · 78 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 78 clues from the New York Times Crossword for October 16 2025. Stuck on one? Click the clue to reveal its verified answer, plus every other answer that clue has had across every publisher in our database.

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ClueLetters#Answer
"___ Talkin' ’bout Love" (Van Halen song)41 AcrossReveal answer → *Treat with kindness55 AcrossReveal answer → Noted works of the Roman poet Horace410 AcrossReveal answer → Brute414 AcrossReveal answer → Statuette modeled after a knight holding a crusader’s sword515 AcrossReveal answer → Feeling associated with skipping a party, perhaps416 AcrossReveal answer → Unchangeable1017 AcrossReveal answer → Horned creature in "Pan's Labyrinth"419 AcrossReveal answer → Hungers for620 AcrossReveal answer → Early Germanic people521 AcrossReveal answer → Move around the world523 AcrossReveal answer → *Expensive324 AcrossReveal answer → Lift526 AcrossReveal answer → Mardi Gras locale, informally429 AcrossReveal answer → Ovarian sac contents330 AcrossReveal answer → Fuddy-duddies631 AcrossReveal answer → "Still ___" (1999 rap hit)332 AcrossReveal answer → Meander433 AcrossReveal answer → High lights?634 AcrossReveal answer → Practice chiromancy935 AcrossReveal answer → Disappear, as a trail637 AcrossReveal answer → "Central Park in the Dark" composer440 AcrossReveal answer → Music box?341 AcrossReveal answer → Diviner644 AcrossReveal answer → Jerry’s uncle on "Seinfeld"345 AcrossReveal answer → Box a bit446 AcrossReveal answer → Tonkatsu coating547 AcrossReveal answer → *Deli device348 AcrossReveal answer → Bug expert, for short549 AcrossReveal answer → Invite at the door550 AcrossReveal answer → Extreme pressure652 AcrossReveal answer → El ___453 AcrossReveal answer → Felt tired during the day, say1055 AcrossReveal answer → Words to a betrayer458 AcrossReveal answer → “The Philosophy of Right” author559 AcrossReveal answer → Like a computer with a running screensaver460 AcrossReveal answer → How whiskey might be served … with a hint to the answers to the seven starred clues461 AcrossReveal answer → *Risky endeavor, idiomatically562 AcrossReveal answer → Onetime resident of the Winter Palace463 AcrossReveal answer →

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Bolt71 DownReveal answer → Certain Windows hard drive malfunction72 DownReveal answer → *Conspicuous73 DownReveal answer → Stupid stuff it's fun to know64 DownReveal answer → Level-ending foe45 DownReveal answer → Educated guess: Abbr.36 DownReveal answer → Sgt., e.g.37 DownReveal answer → Like lemon curd58 DownReveal answer → Preceder of "Bites" and "Bars" in commercial names49 DownReveal answer → *Chance to meet one-on-one with a professor810 DownReveal answer → "Copy me"711 DownReveal answer → Runner Down Under312 DownReveal answer → Certain heir313 DownReveal answer → Make in the end318 DownReveal answer → Steady humming sounds622 DownReveal answer → Locale for catfish or carp424 DownReveal answer → What allows Neo to disconnect from the Matrix725 DownReveal answer → Spanish 101 verb327 DownReveal answer → Whom you might greet with open arms, for short?328 DownReveal answer → Novelist Charles who wrote "The Cloister and the Hearth"530 DownReveal answer → Prefix with botanist531 DownReveal answer → "Sure … if you say so"633 DownReveal answer → Enjoys oneself uninhibitedly … or a punny title for this puzzle835 DownReveal answer → Profess436 DownReveal answer → Something Lincoln once led, for short337 DownReveal answer → Italian time unit338 DownReveal answer → Card game with a winning score of 5,000 points739 DownReveal answer → *Book addenda741 DownReveal answer → Chicken ___742 DownReveal answer → Thrive743 DownReveal answer → Narrow channel646 DownReveal answer → Derisive look548 DownReveal answer → OB/GYN offering349 DownReveal answer → Crisply shown, as on TV451 DownReveal answer → Wooded valley452 DownReveal answer → Coop353 DownReveal answer → Performed amazingly, in slang354 DownReveal answer → Id's counterpart356 DownReveal answer → The First State: Abbr.357 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the New York Times crossword published on Thursday, October 16, 2025. Answers are checked against the completed grid before publishing and live on each clue's own page, so you only see the solutions you ask for. If a clue looks familiar, open it — the same wording often runs in other puzzles with a different answer, and the clue page shows every version we have on record.