Friday's NYT Across Nov 21 - Full Horizontal Grid Solutions
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 | November 21, 2025 |
| Day of Week | Friday |
| Total Across Clues | 35 clues |
| Direction | Horizontal (Left to Right) |
| Difficulty | Medium |
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. Allow |
| 2 Across | 6. Snappy sort, for short? |
| 3 Across | 10. Tahoe runners |
| 4 Across | 14. Fanny Brice portrayer on Broadway |
| 5 Across | 16. Governess of Thornfield Hall |
| 6 Across | 17. Sits legs akimbo, pejoratively |
| 7 Across | 18. Highway attention-getter |
| 8 Across | 19. Calculating |
| 9 Across | 20. Symbol of fertility in ancient Egypt |
| 10 Across | 21. Settled down |
| 11 Across | 23. Shakespearean "Hush!" |
| 12 Across | 24. "Sorry to tell ya" |
| 13 Across | 25. What "it's not," they say |
| 14 Across | 29. Eschew |
| 15 Across | 30. Parts of some wedding rituals |
| 16 Across | 31. Clubs opening, perhaps |
| 17 Across | 34. Prized people |
| 18 Across | 35. She was totally taken by Paris |
| 19 Across | 36. Popular perfume named after a singing star |
| 20 Across | 37. Modern art? |
| 21 Across | 38. Germs |
| 22 Across | 39. That's a wrap! |
| 23 Across | 40. Suspenseful |
| 24 Across | 43. Grown-up gummies, e.g. |
| 25 Across | 45. Touch |
| 26 Across | 46. King and queen |
| 27 Across | 47. Strength of character |
| 28 Across | 48. One in a cage |
| 29 Across | 51. That's a laugh! |
| 30 Across | 52. Insomniac's aid |
| 31 Across | 55. Juana ___ de la Cruz, classic Mexican writer known as "The Tenth Muse" |
| 32 Across | 56. Aces |
| 33 Across | 57. Schlep |
| 34 Across | 58. Alumni notes datum |
| 35 Across | 59. St. ___ (vacation spot) |
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:
- May 21 2022 NYT Clues Solutions
- April 29 2023 NYT Clues Solutions
- November 30 2019 NYT Clues Solutions
- Xwordhint Crossword Answers November 02
Complete Across Solutions:
1 Across: "1. Allow"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 5 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'A' and ends with 'T'
- Word pattern: A___T
- Similar words: acknowledge, take
- Opposite of: deny
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- This is Across clue number 1
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
ADMIT
2 Across: "6. Snappy sort, for short?"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 4 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'C' and ends with 'C'
- Word pattern: C__C
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- This is Across clue number 2
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
CROC
3 Across: "10. Tahoe runners"
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: mack, macintosh
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- Definition: a waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric
- This is Across clue number 3
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
MACS
4 Across: "14. Fanny Brice portrayer on Broadway"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 10 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'L' and ends with 'E'
- Word pattern: L________E
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- This is Across clue number 4
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
LEAMICHELE
5 Across: "16. Governess of Thornfield Hall"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 4 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'E' and ends with 'E'
- Word pattern: E__E
- Similar words: Lake Eyre
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- This is Across clue number 5
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
EYRE
6 Across: "17. Sits legs akimbo, pejoratively"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 10 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'M' and ends with 'S'
- Word pattern: M________S
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- This is Across clue number 6
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
MANSPREADS
7 Across: "18. Highway attention-getter"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 4 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'T' and ends with 'T'
- Word pattern: T__T
- Similar words: claxon, carousal
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- Definition: a blast of a horn
- This is Across clue number 7
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
TOOT
8 Across: "19. Calculating"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 3 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'S' and ends with 'Y'
- Similar words: cunning, foxy
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- Definition: marked by skill in deception
- This is Across clue number 8
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
SLY
9 Across: "20. Symbol of fertility in ancient Egypt"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 4 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'T' and ends with 'D'
- Word pattern: T__D
- Similar words: toad frog, batrachian
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- This is Across clue number 9
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
TOAD
10 Across: "21. Settled down"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 6 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'A' and ends with 'T'
- Word pattern: A____T
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- This is Across clue number 10
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
ATREST
11 Across: "23. Shakespearean "Hush!""
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 4 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'S' and ends with 'T'
- Word pattern: S__T
- Similar words: flaccid, lenient
- Opposite of: hardened
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- Definition: yielding readily to pressure or weight
- This is Across clue number 11
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
SOFT
12 Across: "24. "Sorry to tell ya""
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 7 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'F' and ends with 'O'
- Word pattern: F_____O
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- This is Across clue number 12
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
FRAIDSO
13 Across: "25. What "it's not," they say"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 13 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'R' and ends with 'E'
- Word pattern: R___________E
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- This is Across clue number 13
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
ROCKETSCIENCE
14 Across: "29. Eschew"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 5 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'A' and ends with 'D'
- Word pattern: A___D
- Similar words: stave off, nullify
- Opposite of: validate
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- This is Across clue number 14
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
AVOID
15 Across: "30. Parts of some wedding rituals"
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 15
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
HORAS
16 Across: "31. Clubs opening, perhaps"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 3 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'B' and ends with 'D'
- Similar words: tender, conjure
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- Definition: an authoritative direction or instruction to do something
- This is Across clue number 16
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
BID
17 Across: "34. Prized people"
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: stone, gem
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- Definition: art highly prized for its beauty or perfection
- This is Across clue number 17
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
GEMS
18 Across: "35. She was totally taken by Paris"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 5 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'H' and ends with 'N'
- Word pattern: H___N
- Similar words: Helen of Troy
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- This is Across clue number 18
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
HELEN
19 Across: "36. Popular perfume named after a singing star"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 4 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'R' and ends with 'I'
- Word pattern: R__I
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- This is Across clue number 19
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
RIRI
20 Across: "37. Modern art?"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 3 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'A' and ends with 'E'
- Similar words: comprise, follow
- Opposite of: differ
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- Definition: a unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters
- This is Across clue number 20
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
ARE
21 Across: "38. Germs"
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: seminal fluid, cum
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- Definition: a small hard fruit
- This is Across clue number 21
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
SEEDS
22 Across: "39. That's a wrap!"
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
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- Definition: any of various thermoplastic resins used to make things
- This is Across clue number 22
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
SARAN
23 Across: "40. Suspenseful"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 13 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'H' and ends with 'G'
- Word pattern: H___________G
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- This is Across clue number 23
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
HEARTSTOPPING
24 Across: "43. Grown-up gummies, e.g."
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 7 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'E' and ends with 'S'
- Word pattern: E_____S
- Similar words: victual, comestible
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- Definition: any substance that can be used as food
- This is Across clue number 24
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
EDIBLES
25 Across: "45. Touch"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 4 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'A' and ends with 'T'
- Word pattern: A__T
- Similar words: march, butt against
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- Definition: lie adjacent to another or share a boundary
- This is Across clue number 25
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
ABUT
26 Across: "46. King and queen"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 6 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'T' and ends with 'S'
- Word pattern: T____S
- Similar words: statute title, championship
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- This is Across clue number 26
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
TITLES
27 Across: "47. Strength of character"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 4 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'G' and ends with 'T'
- Word pattern: G__T
- Similar words: backbone, gumption
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- Definition: a hard coarse-grained siliceous sandstone
- This is Across clue number 27
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
GRIT
28 Across: "48. One in a cage"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 3 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'R' and ends with 'B'
- Similar words: jest at, make fun
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- Definition: support resembling the rib of an animal
- This is Across clue number 28
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
RIB
29 Across: "51. That's a laugh!"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 4 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'H' and ends with 'A'
- Word pattern: H__A
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- This is Across clue number 29
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
HAHA
30 Across: "52. Insomniac's aid"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 10 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'W' and ends with 'E'
- Word pattern: W________E
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- This is Across clue number 30
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
WHITENOISE
31 Across: "55. Juana ___ de la Cruz, classic Mexican writer known as "The Tenth Muse""
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 4 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'I' and ends with 'S'
- Word pattern: I__S
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- This is Across clue number 31
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
INES
32 Across: "56. Aces"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 10 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'H' and ends with 'E'
- Word pattern: H________E
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- This is Across clue number 32
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
HOLESINONE
33 Across: "57. Schlep"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 4 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'C' and ends with 'T'
- Word pattern: C__T
- Similar words: go-cart, handcart
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- This is Across clue number 33
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
CART
34 Across: "58. Alumni notes datum"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 4 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'Y' and ends with 'R'
- Word pattern: Y__R
- Similar words: class, twelvemonth
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- Definition: a period of time containing 365 (or 366) days
- This is Across clue number 34
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
YEAR
35 Across: "59. St. ___ (vacation spot)"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 5 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'K' and ends with 'S'
- Word pattern: K___S
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- This is Across clue number 35
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
KITTS
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.
