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NYT Crossword hints: Tuesday September 30th 2025
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1a. Wood turner.
Our hint: Starts with an L.
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A spinning tool that holds your work in place while shaving down the sides.
6a. Frank who directed “It’s a Wonderful Life”
Our hint: Starts with a C.
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Also directed “It Happened One Night”
11a. Yuletide beverages.
Our hint: Made with egg.
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Sometimes spiked with rum!
14a. Storyteller of antiquity.
Our hint: An ancient Greek thinker.
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His stories contained many important moral lessons.
15a. How tuna may be packed.
Our hint: A two word answer.
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I prefer spring water.
16a. Card game that involves shouting its name.
Our hint: You shout when you have one card left.
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A fun game for the whole family.
17a. *What a straw man in a cornfield is for.
Our hint: A two word answer.
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Gotta keep those crows away from the crops!
19a. Palindromic woman’s name.
Our hint: Usually reserved for grandmas.
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Nana is another common name for a nan.
20a. “Already accomplished!”
Our hint: A two word answer.
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Another task ticked off the to-do list.
21a. Dodge.
Our hint: Can be done with taxes.
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Not recommended with taxes, though.
23a. Product in high demand.
Our hint: A two word answer.
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Very popular!
26a. Material for a pub quiz.
Our hint: Nights can be dedicated to it.
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Crosswords are an excellent way to prepare for a trivia night!
27a. During a tiebreaker, informally.
Our hint: Two words, one for short.
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OT is short for “overtime”
28a. *Ref who makes a ruling against your favored team?
Our hint: A two word answer.
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They can’t all be great!
31a. Queen Elizabeth II’s favored dog breed.
Our hint: Small and stocky.
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So cute!
33a. Move like the Blob.
Our hint: Slowly seep around.
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Like honey!
34a. Informal top.
Our hint: Great for warmer weather.
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A basic, sleeveless shirt.
35a. *Primate with perfect pitch?
Our hint: A Nintendo IP.
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Donkey Kong is a great game for the whole family.
39a. Puppet alien of TV.
Our hint: Starts with an A.
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Short for “Alien Life Form”
42a. Greek cheese.
Our hint: White and crumbly.
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Great in salads.
43a. Underground waterway.
Our hint: Where the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles live.
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Best left unexplored, unless you’re a professional, of course.
47a. *Kelley Blue Book?
Our hint: A two word answer.
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The KBB, for short.
51a. “Tootsie” actress Garr.
Our hint: Starts with a T.
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Also seen on “Star Trek” and “Young Frankenstein”
52a. “Unfortunately that’s wrong”
Our hint: A two word answer.
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Alas is an age old way of expressing disappointment.
53a. Sleazy hotel.
Our hint: What some may call an itchy dog.
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That doesn’t sound good.
55a. “Shush!”
Our hint: A two word answer.
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An alternative way to tell someone to shut it.
56a. “No more for me, thanks”
Our hint: Said after Christmas dinner, perhaps.
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That’s a good time to stop eating!
58a. Something found in a pen or octopus.
Our hint: Can stain.
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Neither option is a very good one to be covered in.
59a. “I love this!” …or, phonetically, remark about the answer to each of the starred clues.
Our hint: A three word answer.
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The starred answers are all missing D’s!
64a. Year in Spain.
Our hint: Starts with an A.
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The Duolingo Owl would be proud!
65a. Sign between Virgo and Scorpio.
Our hint: Symbolized by the scales.
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The scales represent balance and harmony.
66a. “Unfortunately…”
Our hint: A two word answer.
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“That was obvious, I fear.”
67a. Declares, informally.
Our hint: Slang term starting with S.
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Slang for “says”
68a. Teeny-tiny.
Our hint: Preceeds weensy.
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Similar to itsy bitsy.
69a. Run-down.
Our hint: How you feel after a night of drinking, for example.
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Not a nice feeling.
1d. Fond du ___, Wis.
Our hint: A place in Wisconsin.
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Affectionately called “Fondy”
2d. ___ Lingus.
Our hint: The national airline of Ireland.
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With a distinctive shamrock logo.
3d. General on a Chinese menu.
Our hint: Starts with a T.
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A delicious chicken dish.
4d. “Was your performance a success?”
Our hint: A three word answer.
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The answer is hopefully good!
5d. Disney park with Spaceship Earth.
Our hint: Starts with an E.
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One of the four main areas in Disney.
6d. Movie house.
Our hint: Where you go to watch the latest releases on the big screen.
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A perfect date destination.
7d. Opposing.
Our hint: Starts with an A.
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Opposed to or against something.
8d. Left of a ship… or what a ship may have left.
Our hint: Or an alcoholic beverage.
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Port is a sweet, fortified wine.
9d. Locale of an annual carnaval.
Our hint: Home of Christ the Redeemer.
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Rio de Janeiro.
10d. Pollen, cat hair, etc.
Our hint: Some people aren’t affected by them.
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Causes hayfever, for example.
11d. Largest and most northern Canadian territory.
Our hint: Starts with an N.
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Very chilly!
12d. One way to stop.
Our hint: A three word answer.
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Means with extreme precision or speed.
13d. Flipped out.
Our hint: A two word answer.
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Never a good thing, really.
18d. Earth’s pull, in brief.
Our hint: A two word answer.
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One unit of gravitational acceleration.
22d. Struggle.
Our hint: Rhymes with a delicious, fruity desert.
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“Several teams vied for the championship”, for example.
23d. Sound of a drinker in comics.
Our hint: Involuntary spasms of the diaphragm.
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The hiccups, in other words.
24d. Yoko who sang on “Give Peace a Chance”
Our hint: John Lennon’s partner.
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A very unique artist.
25d. Crag.
Our hint: Rocky formations.
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A high, exposed outcrop.
26d. Big name in tea.
Our hint: Starts with a T.
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Founded in Oregon.
29d. Befitting a king or queen.
Our hint: The ___ Family.
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A king or queen is a royal.
30d. ___ choy.
Our hint: A delicious leafy green vegetable.
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Great for stir-fry.
32d. Babyish.
Our hint: Immature behavior.
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Can also relate more specifically to actions or characteristics involving infants.
36d. Low-carb kind of diet.
Our hint: High-fat.
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Designed to shift your body into ketosis.
37d. H, to Homer.
Our hint: “When will you be here?”
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Can also mean “estimated time of arrival”
38d. “Oh. Come. On!”
Our hint: A three word answer.
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Said to someone who is minding your business a bit too much.
39d. Some pod-bearing trees.
Our hint: Bearing yellow flowers.
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Also known as wattle, mimosa, or thorntree.
40d. Fitness guru Jack.
Our hint: Starts with an L.
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Also known as “The Godfather of Fitness”
41d. Puppeteer with “Sesame Street” and “The Muppet Show”
Our hint: Two words, one starting with F and the other, O.
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You learn something new everyday.
44d. Fly catcher.
Our hint: Spun by spiders.
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Cobwebs are ones that have been left abandoned.
45d. Time in history.
Our hint: Taylor Swift has many of them.
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Chapters of the Earth, perhaps.
46d. Big truck.
Our hint: Or massive piece of machinery.
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Something set up, perhaps.
48d. CBS forensic drama.
Our hint: There is a Miami version, as well.
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Stands for “Crime Scene Investigations”
49d. When nothing goes right.
Our hint: A two word answer.
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They can’t all be good days!
50d. Sticky stuff.
Our hint: Sometimes eaten at school?
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Eating the glue at school is not recommended.
54d. ___ Island, locate in New York Harbor.
Our hint: Starts with an E.
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Functions as a museum and historic site.
56d. ID for a library volume.
Our hint: An acronym.
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International Standard Book Number, in more words.
57d. Planet whose name is also a candy company.
Our hint: Creates chocolate bars filled with nougat and caramel.
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Now I’m hungry!
60d. Bit of apparel that often has stripes.
Our hint: Comes in bow form, as well.
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Goes well with a suit.
61d. “Golly!”
Our hint: Usually preceeds “whizz”
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Gee whiz!
62d. Owned.
Our hint: Past has.
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Once upon a time!
63d. Attempt.
Our hint: Scored in Rugby.
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All you can do is try!
NYT Crossword answers: Tuesday September 30th 2025
Done figuring it all out for yourself? Here’s the full completed NYT Crossword showing all the answers for today’s puzzle:
And there she is! In all of her completed glory: the NYT Crossword for Tuesday, 30th September. Congratulations on completing yet another one of the NYT’s greatest challenges!
This puzzle was filled with riddles, some of the most challenging of which were the starred answers. Each starred answer was missing a valuable letter — the letter D. That certainly threw a spanner in the works!
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 Tuesday 30th September and our Connections hint for Tuesday 30th September.