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New York Times Crossword September 27 2025 Answers

Saturday puzzle · 68 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all the New York Times Crossword September 27 2025 answers. The Saturday puzzle has 68 clues; every answer has been verified. Click any clue to see every answer it has ever had, across every publisher in our database.

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Across

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ClueAnswerLettersDirection#
Thin underlayerSLIP4Across1 Comment often made with an eye rollASIF4Across5 African capital whose name translates to "ants"ACCRA5Across9 Derby, e.g.HORSERACE9Across14 Commit a library tabooSHOUT5Across16 Ship-to-ship communicationAHOYMATEY9Across17 LacksHASNT5Across18 Parent whose child is taking steps to improve?DANCEMOM8Across19 Backbiter?FLEA4Across20 Puts in a protected placeENSHRINES9Across21 They arose from Ra's tears, according to Egyptian mythologyBEES4Across23 Cries of disappointmentOYS3Across24 Components of some brick buildingsLEGOSETS8Across25 It might be living on the edgeSHRUB5Across28 Showing tough love, saySTERN5Across31 Mash at a luauPOI3Across32 "Please avoid brutal honesty!"LIETOME7Across33 WisePRUDENT7Across35 Certain drug classification, in briefOTC3Across37 Ally of Athens during the Peloponnesian WarARGOS5Across38 FathersSIRES5Across40 Two-humperBACTRIAN8Across41 Period that begins on July 23LEO3Across43 It's not an optionNEED4Across44 Zest sourceLEMONRIND9Across45 Brown alternativePENN4Across50 Enterprise enterpriseRENTACAR8Across51 WWE star Randy ___ORTON5Across52 Part of a high-tech security systemLASERMAZE9Across54 "Lift ___ Voice and Sing" (protest anthem)EVERY5Across55 They go from season to seasonSTORYARCS9Across56 ShortTERSE5Across57 Hibernation stationsDENS4Across58 Seven ___SEAS4Across59

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ClueAnswerLettersDirection#
Contempt, in slangSHADE5Down1 Actress with a dual role in 1998's "The Parent Trap"LOHAN5Down2 Tends to some pressing mattersIRONS5Down3 PunkPSYCHOUT8Down4 The first Musketeer, alphabeticallyARAMIS6Down5 Kept hidden, as informationSATON5Down6 Product for winter sidewalk safetyICEMELT7Down7 "Mean Girls" writerFEY3Down8 Firewood choice, or its destinyASH3Down9 Rubs the wrong wayCHAFES6Down10 Alternative to a cribCOSLEEPER9Down11 Classic rock?RUNESTONE9Down12 Paratha flourATTA4Down13 Digital file?EMERYBOARD10Down15 Runs slowlySEEPS5Down22 Kind of contest with multiple chances to participateBONUSENTRY10Down23 [This makes me mad!]GRR3Down26 Is on the bottom?SITS4Down27 One who's slow to pick things upSLOB4Down28 What an insensitive joke might doHITANERVE9Down29 Locale for many community courtsRECCENTER9Down30 "Love Story" author ErichSEGAL5Down31 Diagnostic tool, in briefMRI3Down34 Natural history museum collectionDIORAMAS8Down36 Simplest possible phone planONERATE7Down39 Sam Cooke and Marvin Gaye, among othersTENORS6Down42 Solo sortsLONERS6Down43 Particle accelerator byproductMESON5Down46 Statement that might follow a hugICARE5Down47 ___ Lines (ancient Peruvian geoglyphs)NAZCA5Down48 BandageDRESS5Down49 Burns, e.g.POET4Down50 What comes before 1/1NYE3Down53 Drug discussed in Aldous Huxley's "Heaven and Hell"LSD3Down54

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This page lists every clue and answer from the New York Times crossword published on Saturday, September 27, 2025. Answers are checked against the completed grid before publishing. 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.