All NYT Down Clues November 19, 2025 - 40 Vertical Answers with Hints
Quick Summary: Today's NYT Crossword has 40 Down clues. We have all the vertical answers plus helpful hints to make solving easier!
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About Today's Down Clues
| Detail | Information |
|---|---|
| Date | November 19, 2025 |
| Day of Week | Wednesday |
| Total Down Clues | 40 clues |
| Direction | Vertical (Top to Bottom) |
| Difficulty | Tricky |
All Down Clues - Complete List
Here are all 40 Down clues for today's puzzle. These go vertically from top to bottom.
| Number | Clue |
|---|---|
| 1 Down | 1. It's a good thing |
| 2 Down | 2. Flatbread eaten during Passover |
| 3 Down | 3. Nap interrupter, maybe |
| 4 Down | 4. Author ___ Neale Hurston |
| 5 Down | 5. Wrap up |
| 6 Down | 6. Chocolaty spread |
| 7 Down | 7. Antidiabetes drug taken by many for weight loss |
| 8 Down | 8. Cut up in a lab, perhaps |
| 9 Down | 9. Something shown in a sonogram |
| 10 Down | 10. Fell down hard, in slang |
| 11 Down | 11. Finito or kaput |
| 12 Down | 12. Lit class assignment |
| 13 Down | 15. Squeak or squeal |
| 14 Down | 17. Golden ___ (many a retiree) |
| 15 Down | 23. Space race cosmonaut Gagarin |
| 16 Down | 24. Fall into disrepair over time |
| 17 Down | 26. Playful prank |
| 18 Down | 27. Some outfits for Bollywood films |
| 19 Down | 28. "___ news?" |
| 20 Down | 29. Potty, to Potter |
| 21 Down | 30. "Naughty, naughty" |
| 22 Down | 33. "Inside Politics" channel |
| 23 Down | 34. Monopolize |
| 24 Down | 35. Austin-to-Boston dir. |
| 25 Down | 37. Its alphabet starts with Alfa and ends with Zulu |
| 26 Down | 39. Business that's picking up? |
| 27 Down | 42. Toast giver at a wedding, often |
| 28 Down | 43. Spanish sausage |
| 29 Down | 44. Intro to writing? |
| 30 Down | 47. "Encore!" |
| 31 Down | 48. Big hit in the ring |
| 32 Down | 49. ___ buddy |
| 33 Down | 50. Layer wrapping Earth |
| 34 Down | 51. "Get me?," to beatniks |
| 35 Down | 53. Center of the ancient Minoan civilization |
| 36 Down | 54. Netflix crime drama set in rural Missouri |
| 37 Down | 55. Some stadium toppers |
| 38 Down | 57. Showers with flowers and sweets, say |
| 39 Down | 59. Great Plains native |
| 40 Down | 62. I.C.U. staffers |
Detailed Hints and Answers for All Down Clues
Need help? Here are comprehensive hints and answers for each Down clue. Also check these helpful guides:
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Complete Down Solutions:
1 Down: "1. It's a good thing"
Helpful hints for this Down clue:
- This word has 5 letters going top to bottom
- It starts with 'A' and ends with 'T'
- Word pattern: A___T
- Similar words: plus
- Opposite of: liability
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- Definition: a useful or valuable quality
- This is Down clue number 1
Answer: Click to reveal the Down answer
ASSET
2 Down: "2. Flatbread eaten during Passover"
Helpful hints for this Down clue:
- This word has 5 letters going top to bottom
- It starts with 'M' and ends with 'O'
- Word pattern: M___O
- Similar words: matzah, matzoh
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- Definition: brittle flat bread eaten at Passover
- This is Down clue number 2
Answer: Click to reveal the Down answer
MATZO
3 Down: "3. Nap interrupter, maybe"
Helpful hints for this Down clue:
- This word has 5 letters going top to bottom
- It starts with 'A' and ends with 'M'
- Word pattern: A___M
- Similar words: alarum, alarm clock
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- Definition: fear resulting from the awareness of danger
- This is Down clue number 3
Answer: Click to reveal the Down answer
ALARM
4 Down: "4. Author ___ Neale Hurston"
Helpful hints for this Down clue:
- This word has 4 letters going top to bottom
- It starts with 'Z' and ends with 'A'
- Word pattern: Z__A
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- This is Down clue number 4
Answer: Click to reveal the Down answer
ZORA
5 Down: "5. Wrap up"
Helpful hints for this Down clue:
- This word has 3 letters going top to bottom
- It starts with 'E' and ends with 'D'
- Similar words: death, terminal
- Opposite of: beginning
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- Definition: either extremity of something that has length
- This is Down clue number 5
Answer: Click to reveal the Down answer
END
6 Down: "6. Chocolaty spread"
Helpful hints for this Down clue:
- This word has 7 letters going top to bottom
- It starts with 'N' and ends with 'A'
- Word pattern: N_____A
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- This is Down clue number 6
Answer: Click to reveal the Down answer
NUTELLA
7 Down: "7. Antidiabetes drug taken by many for weight loss"
Helpful hints for this Down clue:
- This word has 7 letters going top to bottom
- It starts with 'O' and ends with 'C'
- Word pattern: O_____C
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- This is Down clue number 7
Answer: Click to reveal the Down answer
OZEMPIC
8 Down: "8. Cut up in a lab, perhaps"
Helpful hints for this Down clue:
- This word has 7 letters going top to bottom
- It starts with 'D' and ends with 'T'
- Word pattern: D_____T
- Similar words: break down, analyze
- Opposite of: synthesize
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- Definition: cut open or cut apart
- This is Down clue number 8
Answer: Click to reveal the Down answer
DISSECT
9 Down: "9. Something shown in a sonogram"
Helpful hints for this Down clue:
- This word has 4 letters going top to bottom
- It starts with 'W' and ends with 'B'
- Word pattern: W__B
- Similar words: uterus
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- This is Down clue number 9
Answer: Click to reveal the Down answer
WOMB
10 Down: "10. Fell down hard, in slang"
Helpful hints for this Down clue:
- This word has 5 letters going top to bottom
- It starts with 'A' and ends with 'T'
- Word pattern: A___T
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- This is Down clue number 10
Answer: Click to reveal the Down answer
ATEIT
11 Down: "11. Finito or kaput"
Helpful hints for this Down clue:
- This word has 5 letters going top to bottom
- It starts with 'D' and ends with 'O'
- Word pattern: D___O
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- This is Down clue number 11
Answer: Click to reveal the Down answer
DUNZO
12 Down: "12. Lit class assignment"
Helpful hints for this Down clue:
- This word has 5 letters going top to bottom
- It starts with 'E' and ends with 'Y'
- Word pattern: E___Y
- Similar words: try, try out
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- Definition: an analytic or interpretive literary composition
- This is Down clue number 12
Answer: Click to reveal the Down answer
ESSAY
13 Down: "15. Squeak or squeal"
Helpful hints for this Down clue:
- This word has 5 letters going top to bottom
- It starts with 'N' and ends with 'E'
- Word pattern: N___E
- Similar words: dissonance, resound
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- This is Down clue number 13
Answer: Click to reveal the Down answer
NOISE
14 Down: "17. Golden ___ (many a retiree)"
Helpful hints for this Down clue:
- This word has 4 letters going top to bottom
- It starts with 'A' and ends with 'R'
- Word pattern: A__R
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- This is Down clue number 14
Answer: Click to reveal the Down answer
AGER
15 Down: "23. Space race cosmonaut Gagarin"
Helpful hints for this Down clue:
- This word has 4 letters going top to bottom
- It starts with 'Y' and ends with 'I'
- Word pattern: Y__I
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- This is Down clue number 15
Answer: Click to reveal the Down answer
YURI
16 Down: "24. Fall into disrepair over time"
Helpful hints for this Down clue:
- This word has 4 letters going top to bottom
- It starts with 'R' and ends with 'T'
- Word pattern: R__T
- Similar words: rusty, rust-brown
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- This is Down clue number 16
Answer: Click to reveal the Down answer
RUST
17 Down: "26. Playful prank"
Helpful hints for this Down clue:
- This word has 5 letters going top to bottom
- It starts with 'C' and ends with 'R'
- Word pattern: C___R
- Similar words: job, capriole
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- Definition: any of numerous plants of the genus Capparis
- This is Down clue number 17
Answer: Click to reveal the Down answer
CAPER
18 Down: "27. Some outfits for Bollywood films"
Helpful hints for this Down clue:
- This word has 5 letters going top to bottom
- It starts with 'S' and ends with 'S'
- Word pattern: S___S
- Similar words: saree, sari
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- This is Down clue number 18
Answer: Click to reveal the Down answer
SARIS
19 Down: "28. "___ news?""
Helpful hints for this Down clue:
- This word has 3 letters going top to bottom
- It starts with 'A' and ends with 'Y'
- Similar words: whatever, whatsoever
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- Definition: one or some or every or all without specification
- This is Down clue number 19
Answer: Click to reveal the Down answer
ANY
20 Down: "29. Potty, to Potter"
Helpful hints for this Down clue:
- This word has 3 letters going top to bottom
- It starts with 'L' and ends with 'O'
- Similar words: water closet, closet
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- Definition: a toilet in Britain
- This is Down clue number 20
Answer: Click to reveal the Down answer
LOO
21 Down: "30. "Naughty, naughty""
Helpful hints for this Down clue:
- This word has 3 letters going top to bottom
- It starts with 'T' and ends with 'K'
- Similar words: tut, tut-tut
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- Definition: utter `tsk
- This is Down clue number 21
Answer: Click to reveal the Down answer
TSK
22 Down: "33. "Inside Politics" channel"
Helpful hints for this Down clue:
- This word has 3 letters going top to bottom
- It starts with 'C' and ends with 'N'
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- This is Down clue number 22
Answer: Click to reveal the Down answer
CNN
23 Down: "34. Monopolize"
Helpful hints for this Down clue:
- This word has 3 letters going top to bottom
- It starts with 'H' and ends with 'G'
- Similar words: Sus scrofa, pig
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- Definition: a person regarded as greedy and pig-like
- This is Down clue number 23
Answer: Click to reveal the Down answer
HOG
24 Down: "35. Austin-to-Boston dir."
Helpful hints for this Down clue:
- This word has 3 letters going top to bottom
- It starts with 'E' and ends with 'E'
- Similar words: east northeast
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- Definition: the compass point midway between northeast and east
- This is Down clue number 24
Answer: Click to reveal the Down answer
ENE
25 Down: "37. Its alphabet starts with Alfa and ends with Zulu"
Helpful hints for this Down clue:
- This word has 4 letters going top to bottom
- It starts with 'N' and ends with 'O'
- Word pattern: N__O
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- This is Down clue number 25
Answer: Click to reveal the Down answer
NATO
26 Down: "39. Business that's picking up?"
Helpful hints for this Down clue:
- This word has 4 letters going top to bottom
- It starts with 'U' and ends with 'R'
- Word pattern: U__R
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- This is Down clue number 26
Answer: Click to reveal the Down answer
UBER
27 Down: "42. Toast giver at a wedding, often"
Helpful hints for this Down clue:
- This word has 7 letters going top to bottom
- It starts with 'B' and ends with 'N'
- Word pattern: B_____N
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- This is Down clue number 27
Answer: Click to reveal the Down answer
BESTMAN
28 Down: "43. Spanish sausage"
Helpful hints for this Down clue:
- This word has 7 letters going top to bottom
- It starts with 'C' and ends with 'O'
- Word pattern: C_____O
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- Definition: a spicy Spanish pork sausage
- This is Down clue number 28
Answer: Click to reveal the Down answer
CHORIZO
29 Down: "44. Intro to writing?"
Helpful hints for this Down clue:
- This word has 7 letters going top to bottom
- It starts with 'S' and ends with 'W'
- Word pattern: S_____W
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- This is Down clue number 29
Answer: Click to reveal the Down answer
SILENTW
30 Down: "47. "Encore!""
Helpful hints for this Down clue:
- This word has 5 letters going top to bottom
- It starts with 'A' and ends with 'N'
- Word pattern: A___N
- Similar words: once more, once again
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- Definition: anew
- This is Down clue number 30
Answer: Click to reveal the Down answer
AGAIN
31 Down: "48. Big hit in the ring"
Helpful hints for this Down clue:
- This word has 4 letters going top to bottom
- It starts with 'K' and ends with 'O'
- Word pattern: K__O
- Similar words: knockout, knock cold
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- Definition: a blow that renders the opponent unconscious
- This is Down clue number 31
Answer: Click to reveal the Down answer
KAYO
32 Down: "49. ___ buddy"
Helpful hints for this Down clue:
- This word has 5 letters going top to bottom
- It starts with 'B' and ends with 'M'
- Word pattern: B___M
- Similar words: titty, embrace
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- This is Down clue number 32
Answer: Click to reveal the Down answer
BOSOM
33 Down: "50. Layer wrapping Earth"
Helpful hints for this Down clue:
- This word has 5 letters going top to bottom
- It starts with 'O' and ends with 'E'
- Word pattern: O___E
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- This is Down clue number 33
Answer: Click to reveal the Down answer
OZONE
34 Down: "51. "Get me?," to beatniks"
Helpful hints for this Down clue:
- This word has 5 letters going top to bottom
- It starts with 'Y' and ends with 'G'
- Word pattern: Y___G
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- This is Down clue number 34
Answer: Click to reveal the Down answer
YADIG
35 Down: "53. Center of the ancient Minoan civilization"
Helpful hints for this Down clue:
- This word has 5 letters going top to bottom
- It starts with 'C' and ends with 'E'
- Word pattern: C___E
- Similar words: Kriti
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- This is Down clue number 35
Answer: Click to reveal the Down answer
CRETE
36 Down: "54. Netflix crime drama set in rural Missouri"
Helpful hints for this Down clue:
- This word has 5 letters going top to bottom
- It starts with 'O' and ends with 'K'
- Word pattern: O___K
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- This is Down clue number 36
Answer: Click to reveal the Down answer
OZARK
37 Down: "55. Some stadium toppers"
Helpful hints for this Down clue:
- This word has 5 letters going top to bottom
- It starts with 'D' and ends with 'S'
- Word pattern: D___S
- Similar words: attic, bonce
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- This is Down clue number 37
Answer: Click to reveal the Down answer
DOMES
38 Down: "57. Showers with flowers and sweets, say"
Helpful hints for this Down clue:
- This word has 4 letters going top to bottom
- It starts with 'W' and ends with 'S'
- Word pattern: W__S
- Similar words: romance, court
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- Definition: seek someone's favor
- This is Down clue number 38
Answer: Click to reveal the Down answer
WOOS
39 Down: "59. Great Plains native"
Helpful hints for this Down clue:
- This word has 4 letters going top to bottom
- It starts with 'O' and ends with 'E'
- Word pattern: O__E
- Similar words: Oto
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- This is Down clue number 39
Answer: Click to reveal the Down answer
OTOE
40 Down: "62. I.C.U. staffers"
Helpful hints for this Down clue:
- This word has 3 letters going top to bottom
- It starts with 'R' and ends with 'S'
- Similar words: radon, Rn
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- This is Down clue number 40
Answer: Click to reveal the Down answer
RNS
Expert Strategies for Solving Down Clues
Master the vertical clues with these professional tips:
Why Start with Down Clues?
- Down clues often reveal key letters for intersecting words
- Vertical patterns can unlock difficult sections
- Many prefixes and suffixes run vertically
- Down answers often help solve Across clues
Down Clue Patterns to Recognize
- Fill-in-the-blank clues: These are usually the easiest Down entries
- Prefixes and suffixes: Common word parts often run vertically
- Abbreviations: Look for clues with "Abbr." or shortened forms
- Plural indicators: Words ending in 'S' are common in Down
- Pop culture references: Names and titles often appear vertically
Time-Saving Down Techniques
| Technique | How It Helps |
|---|---|
| Scan all Down first | Get a mental map of the vertical flow |
| Fill short Down words | 3-4 letter words are often prefixes or connectors |
| Use crossing letters | Across letters help confirm Down answers |
| Look for themes | Related Down answers often share a theme |
Frequently Asked Questions About Down Clues
What are Down clues in crossword puzzles?
Down clues are the vertical entries in a crossword puzzle that read from top to bottom. They're numbered and correspond to specific columns in the grid.
Should I solve Down or Across clues first?
Many solvers alternate between Down and Across clues to build momentum. Down clues can help unlock difficult sections by providing key intersecting letters. The best approach is to solve the clues you find easiest first, regardless of direction.
How many Down clues are in today's puzzle?
Today's NYT crossword has 40 Down clues.
Are Down clues easier than Across clues?
Neither direction is inherently easier. The difficulty depends on the specific clues and your knowledge. However, Down clues often contain helpful prefixes, suffixes, and word parts that can be easier to guess.
How do Down clues interact with Across clues?
Down and Across 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.