Across Clues NYT November 27, 2025 - Today's Complete Horizontal Solutions
Quick Summary: Today's NYT Crossword has 37 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 27, 2025 |
| Day of Week | Thursday |
| Total Across Clues | 37 clues |
| Direction | Horizontal (Left to Right) |
| Difficulty | Challenging |
All Across Clues - Complete List
Here are all 37 Across clues for today's puzzle. These go horizontally from left to right.
| Number | Clue |
|---|---|
| 1 Across | 1. Feature of a mountain or fingerprint |
| 2 Across | 6. Deli counter units: Abbr. |
| 3 Across | 9. "___ dabba doo!" |
| 4 Across | 14. Type type |
| 5 Across | 15. Thanos, to the Avengers |
| 6 Across | 16. Company that's the subject of the documentary "The Smartest Guys in the Room" |
| 7 Across | 17. Football offense arrangement that resembles an inverted Y shape |
| 8 Across | 20. High key? |
| 9 Across | 21. Big inits. in home security |
| 10 Across | 22. Stranger |
| 11 Across | 23. Symbols for density, in physics |
| 12 Across | 25. Select, as a career |
| 13 Across | 27. Low-lying area |
| 14 Across | 29. Good person to give a time-consuming project, maybe |
| 15 Across | 34. St. ___ (city on a bay, informally) |
| 16 Across | 35. Latin for "but" |
| 17 Across | 36. One way to live |
| 18 Across | 37. Skin-care product thinner than a moisturizer |
| 19 Across | 38. "Tee" follower |
| 20 Across | 39. Greek theater |
| 21 Across | 40. In ___ (developing) |
| 22 Across | 41. Like nonagenarians |
| 23 Across | 42. Joshes |
| 24 Across | 43. Process for a descending spacecraft |
| 25 Across | 45. Kerfuffles |
| 26 Across | 46. Losers to the Olympians |
| 27 Across | 48. Sing like Ella Fitzgerald |
| 28 Across | 51. Coke-versus-Pepsi and Apple-versus-Samsung, e.g. |
| 29 Across | 54. So far |
| 30 Across | 56. "Ouch!" |
| 31 Across | 57. Complete an impossible task ... or a hint to reading three Down answers in this puzzle |
| 32 Across | 60. Check someone's checks? |
| 33 Across | 61. Openly gay |
| 34 Across | 62. Total brawl |
| 35 Across | 63. Tosses out |
| 36 Across | 64. "Antiques Roadshow" network |
| 37 Across | 65. Use, as one's influence |
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. Feature of a mountain or fingerprint"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 5 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'R' and ends with 'E'
- Word pattern: R___E
- Similar words: ridgepole, rooftree
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- Definition: a long narrow natural elevation or striation
- This is Across clue number 1
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
RIDGE
2 Across: "6. Deli counter units: Abbr."
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 3 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'O' and ends with 'S'
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- This is Across clue number 2
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
OZS
3 Across: "9. "___ dabba doo!""
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 5 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'Y' and ends with 'A'
- Word pattern: Y___A
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- This is Across clue number 3
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
YABBA
4 Across: "14. Type type"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 5 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'A' and ends with 'L'
- Word pattern: A___L
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- This is Across clue number 4
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
ARIAL
5 Across: "15. Thanos, to the Avengers"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 3 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'F' and ends with 'E'
- Similar words: opposition, foeman
- Opposite of: friend
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- This is Across clue number 5
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
FOE
6 Across: "16. Company that's the subject of the documentary "The Smartest Guys in the Room""
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 5 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'E' and ends with 'N'
- Word pattern: E___N
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- This is Across clue number 6
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
ENRON
7 Across: "17. Football offense arrangement that resembles an inverted Y shape"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 17 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'W' and ends with 'N'
- Word pattern: W_______________N
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- This is Across clue number 7
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
WISHBONEFORMATION
8 Across: "20. High key?"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 3 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'E' and ends with 'C'
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- This is Across clue number 8
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
ESC
9 Across: "21. Big inits. in home security"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 3 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'A' and ends with 'T'
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- This is Across clue number 9
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
ADT
10 Across: "22. Stranger"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 6 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'E' and ends with 'R'
- Word pattern: E____R
- Similar words: eery, eerie
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- Definition: suggestive of the supernatural; mysterious
- This is Across clue number 10
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
EERIER
11 Across: "23. Symbols for density, in physics"
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: rho
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- Definition: the 17th letter of the Greek alphabet
- This is Across clue number 11
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
RHOS
12 Across: "25. Select, as a career"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 6 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'G' and ends with 'O'
- Word pattern: G____O
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- This is Across clue number 12
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
GOINTO
13 Across: "27. Low-lying area"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 4 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'V' and ends with 'E'
- Word pattern: V__E
- Similar words: valley
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- This is Across clue number 13
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
VALE
14 Across: "29. Good person to give a time-consuming project, maybe"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 10 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'F' and ends with 'R'
- Word pattern: F________R
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- This is Across clue number 14
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
FASTWORKER
15 Across: "34. St. ___ (city on a bay, informally)"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 4 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'P' and ends with 'E'
- Word pattern: P__E
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- This is Across clue number 15
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
PETE
16 Across: "35. Latin for "but""
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 3 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'S' and ends with 'D'
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- This is Across clue number 16
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
SED
17 Across: "36. One way to live"
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: prominent, vauntingly
- Opposite of: small
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- Definition: a garment size for a large person
- This is Across clue number 17
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
LARGE
18 Across: "37. Skin-care product thinner than a moisturizer"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 5 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'S' and ends with 'M'
- Word pattern: S___M
- Similar words: blood serum
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- Definition: an amber
- This is Across clue number 18
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
SERUM
19 Across: "38. "Tee" follower"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 3 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'H' and ends with 'E'
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- This is Across clue number 19
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
HEE
20 Across: "39. Greek theater"
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
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- This is Across clue number 20
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
ODEON
21 Across: "40. In ___ (developing)"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 5 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'U' and ends with 'O'
- Word pattern: U___O
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- This is Across clue number 21
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
UTERO
22 Across: "41. Like nonagenarians"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 3 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'O' and ends with 'D'
- Similar words: sure-enough, erstwhile
- Opposite of: new
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- Definition: past times (especially in the phrase `in days of old')
- This is Across clue number 22
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
OLD
23 Across: "42. Joshes"
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: rib, guy
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- Definition: support resembling the rib of an animal
- This is Across clue number 23
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
RIBS
24 Across: "43. Process for a descending spacecraft"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 12 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'E' and ends with 'Y'
- Word pattern: E__________Y
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- This is Across clue number 24
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
EARTHREENTRY
25 Across: "45. Kerfuffles"
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: bustle, hustle
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- Definition: a rapid active commotion
- This is Across clue number 25
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
ADOS
26 Across: "46. Losers to the Olympians"
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: titan, heavyweight
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- Definition: a person of exceptional importance and reputation
- This is Across clue number 26
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
TITANS
27 Across: "48. Sing like Ella Fitzgerald"
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: scarper, run away
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- This is Across clue number 27
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
SCAT
28 Across: "51. Coke-versus-Pepsi and Apple-versus-Samsung, e.g."
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 6 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'A' and ends with 'S'
- Word pattern: A____S
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- This is Across clue number 28
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
ADWARS
29 Across: "54. So far"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 3 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'Y' and ends with 'T'
- Similar words: thus far, so far
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- Definition: up to the present time
- This is Across clue number 29
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
YET
30 Across: "56. "Ouch!""
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 3 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'Y' and ends with 'W'
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- This is Across clue number 30
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
YOW
31 Across: "57. Complete an impossible task ... or a hint to reading three Down answers in this puzzle"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 15 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'S' and ends with 'E'
- Word pattern: S_____________E
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- This is Across clue number 31
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
SQUARETHECIRCLE
32 Across: "60. Check someone's checks?"
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: scrutinize, audited account
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- This is Across clue number 32
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
AUDIT
33 Across: "61. Openly gay"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 3 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'O' and ends with 'T'
- Similar words: extinct, proscribed
- Opposite of: safe
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- This is Across clue number 33
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
OUT
34 Across: "62. Total brawl"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 5 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'M' and ends with 'E'
- Word pattern: M___E
- Similar words: scrimmage, battle royal
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- Definition: a noisy riotous fight
- This is Across clue number 34
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
MELEE
35 Across: "63. Tosses out"
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: sick, casting
- Opposite of: keep down
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- Definition: the actors in a play
- This is Across clue number 35
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
CASTS
36 Across: "64. "Antiques Roadshow" network"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 3 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'P' and ends with 'S'
- Similar words: lead, PB
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- Definition: a solution containing a phosphate buffer
- This is Across clue number 36
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
PBS
37 Across: "65. Use, as one's influence"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 5 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'E' and ends with 'T'
- Word pattern: E___T
- Similar words: wield, maintain
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- Definition: put to use
- This is Across clue number 37
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
EXERT
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 37 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.
