NYT Across Crossword October 21, 2025 - Master All 35 Left-to-Right Clues
Quick Summary: Today's NYT Crossword has 35 Across clues. We have all the horizontal answers plus helpful hints to make solving easier!
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About Today's Across Clues
| Detail | Information |
|---|---|
| Date | October 21, 2025 |
| Day of Week | Tuesday |
| Total Across Clues | 35 clues |
| Direction | Horizontal (Left to Right) |
| Difficulty | Challenging |
All Across Clues - Complete List
Here are all 35 Across clues for today's puzzle. These go horizontally from left to right.
| Number | Clue |
|---|---|
| 1 Across | 1. A right one is 90° |
| 2 Across | 6. Hairstyle for Questlove |
| 3 Across | 10. ___ de plume |
| 4 Across | 13. Luxury watch brand |
| 5 Across | 14. Half of a classic lunch special |
| 6 Across | 15. Donate |
| 7 Across | 16. Reward for rolling over, perhaps |
| 8 Across | 17. Redwood or cottonwood |
| 9 Across | 18. Best starting hand in Texas hold 'em |
| 10 Across | 19. Device for capturing thermal images |
| 11 Across | 22. Little locking brick |
| 12 Across | 23. Radical religious groups |
| 13 Across | 24. Where you might dance to some underground music? |
| 14 Across | 30. Specialty coffee order |
| 15 Across | 31. Make a speech |
| 16 Across | 32. Buck's mate |
| 17 Across | 35. Valuable Minecraft blocks |
| 18 Across | 36. Entertain |
| 19 Across | 37. Postseason college football game |
| 20 Across | 38. Fig. on a college transcript |
| 21 Across | 39. Latin phrase that's often abbreviated |
| 22 Across | 40. Big name in briefs |
| 23 Across | 41. Venue for combatants wearing vests with sensors |
| 24 Across | 44. Maki or temaki |
| 25 Across | 46. Belgrade resident |
| 26 Across | 47. Wild guess … or what 19-, 24- and 41-Across let you take? |
| 27 Across | 53. Bobber in a lake |
| 28 Across | 54. Peeved |
| 29 Across | 55. Nut-brown hue |
| 30 Across | 57. Head-butts |
| 31 Across | 58. "Summer of ___," Questlove documentary about the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival |
| 32 Across | 59. Cone or sphere |
| 33 Across | 60. Pub order |
| 34 Across | 61. The brother in "Am I my brother's keeper?" |
| 35 Across | 62. It might be picante |
Detailed Hints and Answers for All Across Clues
Need help? Here are comprehensive hints and answers for each Across clue. Also check these helpful guides:
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Complete Across Solutions:
1 Across: "1. A right one is 90°"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 5 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'A' and ends with 'E'
- Word pattern: A___E
- Similar words: tip, slant
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- This is Across clue number 1
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
ANGLE
2 Across: "6. Hairstyle for Questlove"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 4 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'A' and ends with 'O'
- Word pattern: A__O
- Similar words: Afro hairdo
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- Definition: a rounded thickly curled hairdo
- This is Across clue number 2
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
AFRO
3 Across: "10. ___ de plume"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 3 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'N' and ends with 'M'
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- This is Across clue number 3
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
NOM
4 Across: "13. Luxury watch brand"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 5 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'R' and ends with 'X'
- Word pattern: R___X
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- This is Across clue number 4
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
ROLEX
5 Across: "14. Half of a classic lunch special"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 4 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'S' and ends with 'P'
- Word pattern: S__P
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- This is Across clue number 5
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
SOUP
6 Across: "15. Donate"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 4 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'G' and ends with 'E'
- Word pattern: G__E
- Similar words: pass, give way
- Opposite of: starve
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- This is Across clue number 6
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
GIVE
7 Across: "16. Reward for rolling over, perhaps"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 5 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'T' and ends with 'T'
- Word pattern: T___T
- Similar words: delicacy, deal
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- Definition: something considered choice to eat
- This is Across clue number 7
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
TREAT
8 Across: "17. Redwood or cottonwood"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 4 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'T' and ends with 'E'
- Word pattern: T__E
- Similar words: tree diagram, shoetree
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- This is Across clue number 8
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
TREE
9 Across: "18. Best starting hand in Texas hold 'em"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 4 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'A' and ends with 'S'
- Word pattern: A__S
- Similar words: virtuoso, sweep through
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- This is Across clue number 9
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
ACES
10 Across: "19. Device for capturing thermal images"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 14 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'I' and ends with 'A'
- Word pattern: I____________A
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- This is Across clue number 10
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
INFRAREDCAMERA
11 Across: "22. Little locking brick"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 4 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'L' and ends with 'O'
- Word pattern: L__O
- Similar words: Lego set
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- This is Across clue number 11
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
LEGO
12 Across: "23. Radical religious groups"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 5 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'C' and ends with 'S'
- Word pattern: C___S
- Similar words: furor, rage
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- This is Across clue number 12
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
CULTS
13 Across: "24. Where you might dance to some underground music?"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 13 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'B' and ends with 'Y'
- Word pattern: B___________Y
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- This is Across clue number 13
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
BASEMENTPARTY
14 Across: "30. Specialty coffee order"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 5 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'L' and ends with 'E'
- Word pattern: L___E
- Similar words: caffe latte
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- This is Across clue number 14
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
LATTE
15 Across: "31. Make a speech"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 5 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'O' and ends with 'E'
- Word pattern: O___E
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- Definition: talk pompously
- This is Across clue number 15
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
ORATE
16 Across: "32. Buck's mate"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 3 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'D' and ends with 'E'
- Similar words: Energy
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- This is Across clue number 16
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
DOE
17 Across: "35. Valuable Minecraft blocks"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 4 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'O' and ends with 'S'
- Word pattern: O__S
- Similar words: ore
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- This is Across clue number 17
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
ORES
18 Across: "36. Entertain"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 5 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'A' and ends with 'E'
- Word pattern: A___E
- Similar words: disport, divert
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- Definition: occupy in an agreeable
- This is Across clue number 18
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
AMUSE
19 Across: "37. Postseason college football game"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 4 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'B' and ends with 'L'
- Word pattern: B__L
- Similar words: sports stadium, arena
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- This is Across clue number 19
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
BOWL
20 Across: "38. Fig. on a college transcript"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 3 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'G' and ends with 'A'
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- This is Across clue number 20
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
GPA
21 Across: "39. Latin phrase that's often abbreviated"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 5 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'I' and ends with 'T'
- Word pattern: I___T
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- This is Across clue number 21
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
IDEST
22 Across: "40. Big name in briefs"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 5 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'H' and ends with 'S'
- Word pattern: H___S
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- This is Across clue number 22
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
HANES
23 Across: "41. Venue for combatants wearing vests with sensors"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 13 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'L' and ends with 'A'
- Word pattern: L___________A
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- This is Across clue number 23
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
LASERTAGARENA
24 Across: "44. Maki or temaki"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 5 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'S' and ends with 'I'
- Word pattern: S___I
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- Definition: rice (with raw fish) wrapped in seaweed
- This is Across clue number 24
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
SUSHI
25 Across: "46. Belgrade resident"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 4 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'S' and ends with 'B'
- Word pattern: S__B
- Similar words: Serbian
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- This is Across clue number 25
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
SERB
26 Across: "47. Wild guess … or what 19-, 24- and 41-Across let you take?"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 14 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'A' and ends with 'K'
- Word pattern: A____________K
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- This is Across clue number 26
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
ASHOTINTHEDARK
27 Across: "53. Bobber in a lake"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 4 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'B' and ends with 'Y'
- Word pattern: B__Y
- Similar words: buoy up
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- This is Across clue number 27
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
BUOY
28 Across: "54. Peeved"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 4 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'S' and ends with 'E'
- Word pattern: S__E
- Similar words: painful, sensitive
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- Definition: an open skin infection
- This is Across clue number 28
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
SORE
29 Across: "55. Nut-brown hue"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 5 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'A' and ends with 'N'
- Word pattern: A___N
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- This is Across clue number 29
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
ACORN
30 Across: "57. Head-butts"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 4 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'R' and ends with 'S'
- Word pattern: R__S
- Similar words: drive, random memory
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- This is Across clue number 30
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
RAMS
31 Across: "58. "Summer of ___," Questlove documentary about the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 4 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'S' and ends with 'L'
- Word pattern: S__L
- Similar words: psyche, someone
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- This is Across clue number 31
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
SOUL
32 Across: "59. Cone or sphere"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 5 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'S' and ends with 'D'
- Word pattern: S___D
- Similar words: self-colored, solidness
- Opposite of: liquid
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- Definition: matter that is solid at room temperature and pressure
- This is Across clue number 32
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
SOLID
33 Across: "60. Pub order"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 3 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'A' and ends with 'E'
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- This is Across clue number 33
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
ALE
34 Across: "61. The brother in "Am I my brother's keeper?""
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 4 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'A' and ends with 'L'
- Word pattern: A__L
- Similar words: Niels Abel
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- Definition: Norwegian mathematician (1802-1829)
- This is Across clue number 34
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
ABEL
35 Across: "62. It might be picante"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 5 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'S' and ends with 'A'
- Word pattern: S___A
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- This is Across clue number 35
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
SALSA
Expert Strategies for Solving Across Clues
Master the horizontal clues with these professional tips:
Why Start with Across Clues?
- Across clues often provide more letter intersections
- Reading left to right feels more natural
- Many common phrases run horizontally
- Across answers often help solve Down clues
Across Clue Patterns to Recognize
- Fill-in-the-blank clues: These are usually the easiest Across entries
- Common phrases: Many idioms run horizontally
- Abbreviations: Look for clues with "Abbr." or shortened forms
- Plural indicators: Words ending in 'S' are common in Across
- Pop culture references: Names and titles often appear horizontally
Time-Saving Across Techniques
| Technique | How It Helps |
|---|---|
| Scan all Across first | Get a mental map of the horizontal flow |
| Fill short Across words | 3-4 letter words are often articles or prepositions |
| Use crossing letters | Down letters help confirm Across answers |
| Look for themes | Related Across answers often share a theme |
Frequently Asked Questions About Across Clues
What are Across clues in crossword puzzles?
Across clues are the horizontal entries in a crossword puzzle that read from left to right. They're numbered and correspond to specific rows in the grid.
Should I solve Across or Down clues first?
Many solvers prefer starting with Across clues because reading left-to-right feels more natural. However, the best approach is to solve the clues you find easiest first, regardless of direction.
How many Across clues are in today's puzzle?
Today's NYT crossword has 35 Across clues.
Are Across clues easier than Down clues?
Neither direction is inherently easier. The difficulty depends on the specific clues and your knowledge. However, Across clues often contain more common phrases and expressions.
How do Across clues interact with Down clues?
Across and Down clues intersect at various points in the grid. Solving one can provide letters that help solve the other, making the puzzle easier as you progress.
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