NYT Crossword Across November 19, 2025: All 38 Horizontal Answers & Strategic Tips
Quick Summary: Today's NYT Crossword has 38 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 | November 19, 2025 |
| Day of Week | Wednesday |
| Total Across Clues | 38 clues |
| Direction | Horizontal (Left to Right) |
| Difficulty | Tricky |
All Across Clues - Complete List
Here are all 38 Across clues for today's puzzle. These go horizontally from left to right.
| Number | Clue |
|---|---|
| 1 Across | 1. Dazzle |
| 2 Across | 6. Unspoken "yes" |
| 3 Across | 9. Creep into a creek, say |
| 4 Across | 13. Establishment whose name means "lounge" in French |
| 5 Across | 14. Gun in an action flick |
| 6 Across | 15. "We're innocent of wrongdoing" |
| 7 Across | 16. Times noted in Captain Kirk's logs |
| 8 Across | 18. Foreboding signs |
| 9 Across | 19. Poet Pound |
| 10 Across | 20. Topaz and turquoise |
| 11 Across | 21. Spanish island with a lively club scene |
| 12 Across | 22. Holland in Hollywood |
| 13 Across | 23. Some loud dogs … or food critics |
| 14 Across | 25. Fiddle (with) |
| 15 Across | 26. Fancy spirals in calligraphy |
| 16 Across | 28. Place to say "I do" |
| 17 Across | 31. Does something about it |
| 18 Across | 32. Crave, with "for" |
| 19 Across | 36. Straight-shooting … or a punny title for this puzzle? |
| 20 Across | 38. Sexually excite … or another punny title for this puzzle? |
| 21 Across | 40. Harness for oxen |
| 22 Across | 41. Kindergarten basics |
| 23 Across | 45. Watch an entire season in one day, say |
| 24 Across | 46. Increases in pricing |
| 25 Across | 49. "Man, I tell ya!" |
| 26 Across | 52. Set up panels for renewable energy, informally |
| 27 Across | 53. Fish for fish sticks |
| 28 Across | 56. Conductor Seiji of the Boston Symphony |
| 29 Across | 58. Three-point shot, in slang |
| 30 Across | 59. Rice lookalike |
| 31 Across | 60. "That makes two of us" |
| 32 Across | 61. The Syracuse Mets vis-à-vis the New York Mets |
| 33 Across | 63. Food item placed in Egyptian tombs, as its layers symbolized eternity |
| 34 Across | 64. Earliest drug approved to treat H.I.V. |
| 35 Across | 65. ___ Dame |
| 36 Across | 66. Computer memory units, in brief |
| 37 Across | 67. "Right this minute!" |
| 38 Across | 68. Quests for |
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. Dazzle"
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: get, baffle
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- Definition: affect with wonder
- This is Across clue number 1
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
AMAZE
2 Across: "6. Unspoken "yes""
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 3 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'N' and ends with 'D'
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- Definition: a sign of assent or salutation or command
- This is Across clue number 2
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
NOD
3 Across: "9. Creep into a creek, say"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 4 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'W' and ends with 'E'
- Word pattern: W__E
- Similar words: Virginia Wade
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- This is Across clue number 3
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
WADE
4 Across: "13. Establishment whose name means "lounge" in French"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 5 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'S' and ends with 'N'
- Word pattern: S___N
- Similar words: beauty salon, beauty shop
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- Definition: gallery where works of art can be displayed
- This is Across clue number 4
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
SALON
5 Across: "14. Gun in an action flick"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 3 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'U' and ends with 'I'
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- This is Across clue number 5
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
UZI
6 Across: "15. "We're innocent of wrongdoing""
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 5 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'N' and ends with 'S'
- Word pattern: N___S
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- This is Across clue number 6
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
NOTUS
7 Across: "16. Times noted in Captain Kirk's logs"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 9 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'S' and ends with 'S'
- Word pattern: S_______S
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- This is Across clue number 7
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
STARDATES
8 Across: "18. Foreboding signs"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 5 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'O' and ends with 'S'
- Word pattern: O___S
- Similar words: prognostication, foretell
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- Definition: a sign of something about to happen
- This is Across clue number 8
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
OMENS
9 Across: "19. Poet Pound"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 4 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'E' and ends with 'A'
- Word pattern: E__A
- Similar words: Book of Ezra
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- This is Across clue number 9
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
EZRA
10 Across: "20. Topaz and turquoise"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 4 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'G' and ends with 'S'
- Word pattern: G__S
- Similar words: gemstone, gem
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- Definition: art highly prized for its beauty or perfection
- This is Across clue number 10
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
GEMS
11 Across: "21. Spanish island with a lively club scene"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 5 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 11
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
IBIZA
12 Across: "22. Holland in Hollywood"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 3 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'T' and ends with 'M'
- Similar words: gobbler, tomcat
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- This is Across clue number 12
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
TOM
13 Across: "23. Some loud dogs … or food critics"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 7 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'Y' and ends with 'S'
- Word pattern: Y_____S
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- This is Across clue number 13
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
YELPERS
14 Across: "25. Fiddle (with)"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 3 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'T' and ends with 'Y'
- Similar words: plaything, flirt
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- Definition: an artifact designed to be played with
- This is Across clue number 14
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
TOY
15 Across: "26. Fancy spirals in calligraphy"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 9 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'C' and ends with 'S'
- Word pattern: C_______S
- Similar words: roll, whorl
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- This is Across clue number 15
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
CURLICUES
16 Across: "28. Place to say "I do""
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 5 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'A' and ends with 'R'
- Word pattern: A___R
- Similar words: communion table, Lord's table
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- Definition: the table in Christian churches where communion is given
- This is Across clue number 16
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
ALTAR
17 Across: "31. Does something about it"
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: do, represent
- Opposite of: refrain
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- This is Across clue number 17
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
ACTS
18 Across: "32. Crave, with "for""
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 4 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'A' and ends with 'E'
- Word pattern: A__E
- Similar words: languish, suffer
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- Definition: a dull persistent (usually moderately intense) pain
- This is Across clue number 18
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
ACHE
19 Across: "36. Straight-shooting … or a punny title for this puzzle?"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 6 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'N' and ends with 'N'
- Word pattern: N____N
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- This is Across clue number 19
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
NOSPIN
20 Across: "38. Sexually excite … or another punny title for this puzzle?"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 6 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'T' and ends with 'N'
- Word pattern: T____N
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- This is Across clue number 20
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
TURNON
21 Across: "40. Harness for oxen"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 4 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'Y' and ends with 'E'
- Word pattern: Y__E
- Similar words: twosome, couplet
- Opposite of: unyoke
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- Definition: fabric comprising a fitted part at the top of a garment
- This is Across clue number 21
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
YOKE
22 Across: "41. Kindergarten basics"
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: alphabet, rudiment
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- Definition: the elementary stages of any subject (usually plural)
- This is Across clue number 22
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
ABCS
23 Across: "45. Watch an entire season in one day, say"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 5 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'B' and ends with 'E'
- Word pattern: B___E
- Similar words: overgorge, bust
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- Definition: any act of immoderate indulgence
- This is Across clue number 23
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
BINGE
24 Across: "46. Increases in pricing"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 9 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'R' and ends with 'S'
- Word pattern: R_______S
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- This is Across clue number 24
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
RATEHIKES
25 Across: "49. "Man, I tell ya!""
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 3 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'B' and ends with 'Y'
- Similar words: male child, son
- Opposite of: girl
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- Definition: a youthful male person
- This is Across clue number 25
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
BOY
26 Across: "52. Set up panels for renewable energy, informally"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 7 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'G' and ends with 'R'
- Word pattern: G_____R
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- This is Across clue number 26
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
GOSOLAR
27 Across: "53. Fish for fish sticks"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 3 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'C' and ends with 'D'
- Similar words: C.O.D., taunt
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- This is Across clue number 27
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
COD
28 Across: "56. Conductor Seiji of the Boston Symphony"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 5 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'O' and ends with 'A'
- Word pattern: O___A
- Similar words: Seiji Ozawa
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- Definition: United States conductor (born in Japan in 1935)
- This is Across clue number 28
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
OZAWA
29 Across: "58. Three-point shot, in slang"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 4 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'T' and ends with 'Y'
- Word pattern: T__Y
- Similar words: tierce, tercet
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- Definition: the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one
- This is Across clue number 29
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
TREY
30 Across: "59. Rice lookalike"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 4 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'O' and ends with 'O'
- Word pattern: O__O
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- This is Across clue number 30
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
ORZO
31 Across: "60. "That makes two of us""
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
- This is Across clue number 31
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
SODOI
32 Across: "61. The Syracuse Mets vis-à-vis the New York Mets"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 9 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'M' and ends with 'M'
- Word pattern: M_______M
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- This is Across clue number 32
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
MINORTEAM
33 Across: "63. Food item placed in Egyptian tombs, as its layers symbolized eternity"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 5 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'O' and ends with 'N'
- Word pattern: O___N
- Similar words: onion plant, Allium cepa
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- Definition: the bulb of an onion plant
- This is Across clue number 33
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
ONION
34 Across: "64. Earliest drug approved to treat H.I.V."
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 3 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'A' and ends with 'T'
- Similar words: ZDV, zidovudine
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- This is Across clue number 34
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
AZT
35 Across: "65. ___ Dame"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 5 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'N' and ends with 'E'
- Word pattern: N___E
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- This is Across clue number 35
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
NOTRE
36 Across: "66. Computer memory units, in brief"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 4 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'M' and ends with 'S'
- Word pattern: M__S
- Similar words: million, meg
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- Definition: the number that is represented as a one followed by 6 zeros
- This is Across clue number 36
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
MEGS
37 Across: "67. "Right this minute!""
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 3 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'N' and ends with 'W'
- Similar words: instantly, at once
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- Definition: the momentary present
- This is Across clue number 37
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
NOW
38 Across: "68. Quests for"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 5 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'S' and ends with 'S'
- Word pattern: S___S
- Similar words: seek, look for
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- This is Across clue number 38
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
SEEKS
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 38 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.
