**The New Yorker Crossword October 21, 2025 – Answers Guide**
If you’ve found yourself stuck on today’s New Yorker Crossword, our answers guide for October 21, 2025, is here to help. Whether you’re tackling the entire puzzle or just need a nudge on a few tricky clues, you can find all the answers below.
To avoid spoiling other parts of your puzzle, we’ve listed clues individually so you can easily search and select the specific clue you’re working on.
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### Across Clues
– **1A:** Sweet pea and sugarplum, e.g.
– **9A:** Trampled (on)
– **13A:** Stunt performer
– **15A:** “___ Man” (1984 cult classic)
– **16A:** Meeting point?
– **18A:** Like this clue’s number
– **19A:** Picked up, in Britain
– **20A:** Taking home
– **22A:** Rapper ___ the Funky Homosapien
– **23A:** Somme summers
– **25A:** “That offer is laughable”
– **26A:** Arteries’ counterparts
– **28A:** Region home to Manhattan Beach and Newport Beach but not Manhattan or Newport, familiarly
– **30A:** Michelle ___ West (winner of five L.P.G.A. events)
– **31A:** Potentate
– **33A:** Sound of the Northwest
– **35A:** Citation phrase
– **37A:** Detective Jake played by Andy Samberg, on “Brooklyn Nine-Nine”
– **41A:** Birth-related
– **43A:** Settled, as a debt
– **44A:** However, in a text
– **47A:** Fictional journalist from the “glorious nation of Kazakhstan”
– **49A:** Money-transfer app often used as a verb
– **50A:** Over there, quaintly
– **52A:** Either of the title boys in a nineties Nickelodeon show
– **54A:** Hoped-for response to a request
– **55A:** Family-friendly features
– **57A:** Cosmetics powerhouse
– **59A:** Terse confirmation
– **60A:** Twisted sucker
– **63A:** Epitome of smoothness
– **64A:** What fashions and fads do
– **65A:** Golfer’s pocketful
– **66A:** TV show based on a series of ads for NBC Sports
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### Down Clues
– **1D:** Smartphone predecessor: Abbr.
– **2D:** Asset for a birder, fittingly
– **3D:** Natural border on a mountain
– **4D:** “99 Luftballons” singer
– **5D:** Sticker applied by a boxer
– **6D:** Signified
– **7D:** Messages with R.S.V.P. links
– **8D:** What may precede “Stay”
– **9D:** Style
– **10D:** Pan, e.g.
– **11D:** Creator of ChatGPT
– **12D:** Small hardware connector
– **14D:** Greta who starred in “Past Lives”
– **17D:** Person with talent?
– **21D:** Therapeutic technique used in psychodrama to encourage empathy
– **22D:** Some bootlegged media
– **24D:** Saturate
– **27D:** Palindromic bread
– **29D:** Word with suction or sippy
– **32D:** Noisy weather events, for short
– **34D:** It’s often clear and sticky
– **36D:** Stick in a lock
– **38D:** What whistles may be attached to
– **39D:** Delays
– **40D:** Fusses
– **42D:** Trip around a track
– **44D:** One at a keyboard
– **45D:** Place in a real bind?
– **46D:** In the database
– **48D:** “I’m dying of suspense!”
– **51D:** Floppy ___
– **53D:** Played (with)
– **56D:** [Error not mine]
– **58D:** Volcano said to be the site of Hephaestus’ forge
– **61D:** Fate
– **62D:** Concert-venue cheer
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Use this guide to help complete your New Yorker Crossword puzzle for October 21, 2025. Happy puzzling!
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