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NYT Crossword hints: Thursday September 18th 2025
Below you can find all the hints in today’s NYT Crossword, listed first across, then down. If you need a bit of help on any of them, tap or click on the spoiler text below them to reveal our extra clue. And to reveal the answer for each clue separately, just expand the spoiler boxes below!
1a. Customizable, all-in-one internet digest.
Our hint: A two word answer.
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Stands for Really Simple Syndication.
8a. Shoots for the stars.
Our hint: A two word answer.
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Go big or go home!
15a. Game played on an 8×8 board.
Our hint: Has the same name as a certain Shakespearean play.
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A strategy board game.
16a. “Thumbs down from me”
Our hint: Often heard on “American Idol”
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Similar to Simon Cowell’s “It’s a no from me”
17a. Meditation chant, in a sense.
Our hint: What you say when someone cuts you a slice of cake that is a bit too big.
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Everything in moderation.
18a. Sought-after.
Our hint: To be wanted greatly.
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More than your average want.
19a. Variety of bark?
Our hint: Starts with an A.
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Heard at the dog park or a pound, perhaps.
20a. Something you might change on a bed.
Our hint: Or a table, perhaps.
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Maybe lay a towel down first.
22a. ___ Ulrich, Metallica drummer.
Our hint: Rhymes with one of the planets in our solar system.
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A drumming legend.
23a. Gave a sneak preview of.
Our hint: Like a trailer, for example.
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Teaser trailers are usually shorter than your average cinematic one.
25a. Tennis do-over, in a way.
Our hint: A risky Russian game.
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A do-over in tennis wipes the slate clean.
27a. Counterparts of countesses in British peerage.
Our hint: A Grey tea flavored with bergamot, perhaps.
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Earls and countesses are of high status.
28a. Equine hybrid.
Our hint: Starts with an H.
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The offspring of a male horse and a female donkey.
29a. One in Bonn.
Our hint: Bonn is in Germany.
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Ein is German for one.
30a. Sch. with a satellite campus in Calexico.
Our hint: Starts with an S.
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San Diego State University, in other words.
31a. Terse response “Why?”
Our hint: Shorthand for a certain family member.
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Short for because or cousin!
32a. Thingum.
Our hint: An obscure gadget.
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A placeholder title for something you can’t remember the name of.
34a. Superman portrayer Christopher, in so many words.
Our hint: Like an eclipse.
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Rare, indeed.
37a. Heart-pumping stuff?
Our hint: Or a laser!
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Plasma is the liquid part of blood.
40a. Goal to shoot for.
Our hint: In golf.
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Par is the number of shots expected for a hole.
41a. ___ Kong.
Our hint: In China.
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A Special Administrative Region in China.
45a. Steeplechase unit.
Our hint: A unit of distance.
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A sport similar to hurdles.
46a. Bar from the bank?
Our hint: Solid metal.
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Bars of precious metal, like gold or silver.
48a. Borderer of the Indian state of Sikkim.
Our hint: Mt. Everest is there.
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Home of the most popular Mt. Everest climbing route.
49a. Passport or driver’s license, in a manner of speaking.
Our hint: A prang, for example.
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Necessary documents after a car accident.
51a. Who wrote “Existentialism is a Humanism” in 1945.
Our hint: Jean-Paul.
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The argument that humans are not born with a preexisting purpose.
52a. First person?
Our hint: You.
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To think in the first-person, say.
53a. Spread some dirt.
Our hint: Or spill some tea, perhaps.
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Dirt is a slang term for gossip.
55a. Gershwin brother.
Our hint: Starts with an I.
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George is the second brother.
56a. Muscle car whose name evokes a U.S. road trip.
Our hint: Starts with a T.
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Speedy!
58a. Action star Jet, in a nutshell.
Our hint: Large birds with even larger beaks.
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Jet Li, the action star.
60a. “Don’t worry about the check”
Our hint: A three word answer.
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How generous!
61a. Close contemporary.
Our hint: A two word answer.
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Someone who is the same age as you!
62a. O-O and O-O-O, in chess notation.
Our hint: Dwellings, for those lucky enough.
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O-O is Kingside Castling and O-O-O is Queenside Castling.
63a. Like some shoes at a cobbler’s.
Our hint: Starts with an R.
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A common shoe ailment.
1d. Takes turns.
Our hint: To turn.
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Like a rotisserie chicken!
2d. One might say “Big savings all week!”
Our hint: Commonly seen on TV.
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Advertisements for stores, specifically.
3d. Rosh Hashana horns.
Our hint: Starts with an S.
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Hollow ram’s horns that are blown during the Jewish New Year.
4d. Like some nouns: Abbr.
Our hint: Common in French and Spanish.
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Short for female.
5d. Gets away from.
Our hint: Hard to grasp.
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Like the italicized clue answers, for example. They are most certainly eludng me.
6d. Nickname for the Medieval Spanish knight Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar.
Our hint: Starts with an E.
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Meaning The Lord, or Master.
7d. Mideast capital.
Our hint: Capital of Qatar.
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Home of the Museum of Islamic Art.
8d. Victorious military underdog in the bible.
Our hint: Starts with a G.
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Prominent in the Hebrew bible.
9d. Sports bet based on total points scored.
Our hint: A two word answer.
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When you guess either over or under a specific statistic.
10d. Sister of Helios, in Greek myth.
Our hint: Starts with an E.
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The Goddess of Dawn.
11d. Barrier to entry, perhaps.
Our hint: Commonly found on farms.
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Designed to allow humans over but nothing else.
12d. Chewed out.
Our hint: Reprimanded.
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Never a good feeling.
13d. Slothfulness.
Our hint: Newton’s First Law of Motion.
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The more mass an object has, the greater the inertia.
14d. Fortuitous gift.
Our hint: Sent straight from the heavens!
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A lifesaver, of sorts.
21d. Holdings of winnings.
Our hint: A two word answer.
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A pool, perhaps.
24d. Curved lines on sheet music.
Our hint: Or offensive names.
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The sheet music type of slur is definitely better than the other variety.
26d. France’s third-largest city, after Paris and Marseille.
Our hint: Starts with an L.
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A beautiful city.
28d. Quality to which a unique six-character code is assigned, in graphic design.
Our hint: Color.
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The code allows you to easily relocate the exact shade required.
31d. Arcade staple with a joystick.
Our hint: A picker-upper.
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Notoriously difficult and arguable rigged, but satisfying to win.
33d. Multiple-choice catchall.
Our hint: Alternative.
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“Not that one!”
35d. Inside of.
Our hint: Amongst.
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To be amid something is to be immersed.
36d. Large chemical container.
Our hint: The Joker fell inside one.
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Usually found in industrial environments.
37d. Credit cards, so to speak.
Our hint: The group of mean girls in Mean Girls.
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Tamarind may help to bind and remove microplastics from the body!
38d. Constellation whose name is Latin for “lizard”
Our hint: Found in the northern skies.
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Near Andromeda and Pegasus.
39d. U.S. History or Calculus BC, e.g.
Our hint: Quite advanced.
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Advanced Placement, in other words.
42d. Kind of illusion.
Our hint: Starts with an O.
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Like a mirage in the desert, perhaps.
43d. Do some storytelling.
Our hint: To tell a tale aloud.
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Like Fight Club, for example.
44d. Ascertained bit by bit.
Our hint: Starts with a G.
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To uncover information.
47d. Garden guardians.
Our hint: Cheeky and sometimes a little spooky.
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Everyone loves a good garden gnome!
48d. Italy’s third-largest city, after Rome and Milan.
Our hint: Known for its wine.
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A stunning city!
50d. Words before a contingency plan.
Our hint: A two word answer.
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“If not, [insert plan B here]”
51d. Invader’s tactic.
Our hint: Starts with an S.
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A long-term, planned out attack.
54d. Play-fight.
Our hint: Starts with an S.
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A practice fight, for example.
57d. Its youngest host was a 7-year-old Drew Barrymore in ’82.
Our hint: Always airs on the same night of the week.
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Saturday Night Live.
59d. “If you ask me…”
Our hint: An acronym.
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Stands for “in my opinion”
NYT Crossword answers: Thursday September 18th 2025
Done figuring it all out for yourself? Here’s the full completed NYT Crossword showing all the answers for today’s puzzle:
This was one of the hardest crosswords I have done in a long time, thanks to the italicized clues. Those hints are extremely obscure and still puzzling well after you figure them out.
I found myself cringing every time I saw those slanting words creeping up on me in the hints section, but it was very satisfying finally figuring them out! Just don’t ask me how long it took…
That’s all for today’s puzzle, but if you like to keep your brain active with more of NYT’s puzzles, you can also check out our guides on the Wordle hint and answer for Thursday 18th September and our Connections hint for Thursday 18th September.