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The NYT Crossword answers for Wednesday, September 10th 2025

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NYT Crossword hints: Wednesday September 10th 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. Spiritual principle symbolized by an endless knot.

Our hint: It can be a real b**ch.

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The answer is: KARMA.

What goes around, comes around!

6a. Rock, for one.

Our hint: Books featuring graphic images.

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The answer is: COMIC.

DC and Marvel, for example.

11a. Bit of cream.

Our hint: To blot at.

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The answer is: DAB.

Or a certain dance move the kids do these days...

14a. Change, as a legislative bill.

Our hint: Done to the Constitution five times...

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The answer is: AMEND.

Like the Fifth Amendment, for example.

15a. Carne ___

Our hint: Starts with an A.

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The answer is: ASADA.

Roasted meat. Delicious!

16a. Bird whose males incubate the eggs.

Our hint: They're Australian.

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The answer is: EMU.

Very large and sometimes fierce birds.

17a. Skimpy serving of foie gras, say.

Our hint: "Just a ___..."

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The answer is: LIVER SLIVER.

A sliver is a tiny piece!

19a. San Fransisco/Oakland separator.

Our hint: A body of water.

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The answer is: BAY.

San Fransicso Bay, specifically.

20a. Otis's love interest on Netflix's "Sex Education"

Our hint: Starts with an M.

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The answer is: MAEVE.

Maeve Wiley.

21a. Some dressing in an operating room.

Our hint: A thin, mesh-like material.

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The answer is: GAUZE.

Protects wounds.

23a. One of Daniel Radcliffe's paparazi, say.

Our hint: Related to Daniel Radcliffe's most popular role...

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The answer is: POTTER SPOTTER.

Daniel Radcliffe was Harry Potter!

26a. Billy Joel's "___ from an Italian restaurant"

Our hint: A certain section of a movie or show.

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The answer is: SCENES.

A scene is a picturesque moment.

28a. Glass in a frame.

Our hint: Window ___.

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The answer is: PANE.

A pane is the glass bit of the window!

29a. Opening on a stage?

Our hint: The first of many scenes.

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The answer is: ACT 1.

There are usually five, sometimes more.

30a. Certain tennis shot.

Our hint: Cut me one of cake!

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The answer is: SLICE.

A slice in tennis is a shot that makes the ball spin, causing it to take an unpredictable trajectory.

32a. Ave. crossers.

Our hint: Look both ways before you cross the ___ (for short)

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The answer is: STS.

Short for streets.

35a. Heinz bottle blueprint, say.

Our hint: x2.

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The answer is: KETCHUPS KETCHUP.

If you put it on steak I don't know if we can be friends.

39a. Ice cream maker Joseph.

Our hint: From Oakland, California.

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The answer is: EDY.

Dreyer is the other half.

40a. Remark to the audience.

Our hint: Put something to the side.

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The answer is: ASIDE.

A side note, perhaps.

41a. Prefix in aviation.

Our hint: A British prefix.

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The answer is: AERO.

Aeroplane in British English, and airplane in American English.

42a. Place to wear a mitt.

Our hint: For hot things!

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The answer is: OVEN.

Oven mitts are a kitchen essential.

43a. With skepticism.

Our hint: Starts with an A.

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The answer is: ASKANT.

An uncommon phrase.

45a. The biggest and most loving of hugs, say.

Our hint: From someone very important.

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The answer is: MOTHER SMOTHER.

Sounds like a lovely hug.

50a. Pack animal related to camels.

Our hint: Placed in fields to protect sheep.

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The answer is: LLAMA.

Adorable animals with very long necks!

51a. Trailing behind.

Our hint: A two word answer.

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The answer is: IN TOW.

ike a car on a tow-rope, perhaps.

52a. "After ___..."

Our hint: Everything.

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The answer is: ALL.

"It wasn't so bad, after all."

53a. Idahoan, say.

Our hint: What a small, crispy potato treat would say?

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The answer is: TATERS TATER.

Tater Tots are a delicious snack.

59a. God, in Italian.

Our hint: Starts with a D.

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The answer is: DIO.

Dios, in Spanish.

60a. Hallmark of a typical Greek tragedy.

Our hint: It's funny, but also not really.

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The answer is: IRONY.

Like a fire station burning down, for example.

61a. Something gotten by a scapegoat.

Our hint: Human's are always trying to place it.

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The answer is: BLAME.

Whose fault something is.

62a. ¥

Our hint: Found in Japan.

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The answer is: YEN.

Japanese currency.

63a. Nerve-racking.

Our hint: Like your shoulders after a long day.

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The answer is: TENSE.

Tension is often held in the jaw.

64a. "Get what I'm sayin'?"

Our hint: Informal filler phrase.

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The answer is: YKNOW.

Short for you know.

1d. ___-El (Superman's birth name)

Our hint: Starts with a K.

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The answer is: KAL.

One of his three names!

2d. Pal in Paris.

Our hint: Friend in French.

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The answer is: AMI.

The Duolingo Owl will be satisfied for today!

3d. Intensify, with "up"

Our hint: Something cars do.

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The answer is: REV.

Rev is short for Revolutions which occur in the engine.

4d. "Richard of York gave battle in vain" for the colors of the rainbow.

Our hint: Starts with an M.

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The answer is: MNEMONIC.

A small rhyme created to help you remember something.

5d. Quote from a magazine rep.

Our hint: A two word answer.

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The answer is: AD RATE.

Short for Advertising Rate.

6d. Have a cow?

Our hint: Found in the legs.

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The answer is: CALVE.

A calf is a baby cow.

7d. Willow whose twigs are used for basketry.

Our hint: Starts with an O.

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The answer is: OSIER.

Grows near water.

8d. Dallas baller.

Our hint: For short.

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The answer is: MAV.

Short for Dallas Mavericks.

9d. Suffix with sulf-

Our hint: Or low-t-.

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The answer is: IDE.

Hydrogen Sulfide, for example.

10d. Mesh for securing items in transport.

Our hint: A two word answer.

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The answer is: CARGO NET.

Sturdy and reliable.

11d. When a star is first seen.

Our hint: "It's time for my big ___!"

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The answer is: DEBUT.

An actor's first movie, for example, or a band's first album.

12d. Knock over.

Our hint: To wow.

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The answer is: AMAZE.

To knock someone's socks off!

13d. Retailer's counterpart.

Our hint: Someone in the market for something.

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The answer is: BUYER.

A buyer is the one who buys.

18d. Women's professional tennis matches have three of them.

Our hint: A collection of something.

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The answer is: SETS.

A set is a grouping of items meant to go together.

22d. Had a nosh.

Our hint: What you did to your dinner last night.

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The answer is: ATE.

To eat!

23d. Small-minded.

Our hint: To get back at or take a stab at someone is ___.

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The answer is: PETTY.

Not a good way to be.

24d. Certain volleyball hit.

Our hint: The dog from Rugrats.

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The answer is: SPIKE.

An offensive play.

25d. Engage in a bit of back-and-forth?

Our hint: What you absentmindedly do while talking on the phone.

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The answer is: PACE.

An anxious movement.

26d. Purpose.

Our hint: "For the ___ of it."

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The answer is: SAKE.

For the sake of it is to do something for no particular reason.

27d. Included in correspondence, in a way.

Our hint: To include but not direct to.

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The answer is: CCED.

CC is short for Carbon Copy.

30d. Feeling of dizziness with "the"

Our hint: What a ferris wheel does.

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The answer is: SPINS.

The head spins, for example.

31d. Alternative to mushrooms.

Our hint: A hallucinogenic.

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The answer is: LSD.

Also known as Acid.

32d. ___ Madness, punny name for a barbershop.

Our hint: Starts with an S.

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The answer is: SHEAR.

Shear/Sheer Madness!

33d. Bad thing to try to do from the middle lane.

Our hint: A 3-point is an example of one.

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The answer is: TURN.

Hopefully not talking from experience here!

34d. Stereotypical name for a dalmatian.

Our hint: Or a good ___ to eat?

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The answer is: SPOT.

A classic dalmatian name.

36d. "You try!"

Our hint: A three word answer.

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The answer is: HAVE AT IT.

To go for it!

37d. Password creator.

Our hint: Someone who uses something.

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The answer is: USER.

Like a computer profile.

38d. Absurdly easy task.

Our hint: A two word answer.

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The answer is: CAKE WALK.

Like taking candy from a baby.

42d. Physicist who built upon Volta's work.

Our hint: Starts with an O.

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The answer is: OHM.

The discoverer of Ohm's Law.

43d. Many characters in "Better Call Saul": Abbr.

Our hint: Lawyer lingo.

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The answer is: ATTS.

Short for attorneys.

44d. Flew past.

Our hint: A two word answer.

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The answer is: SHOT BY.

To fly by really, really fast.

45d. Quaint term of address for a noblewoman.

Our hint: A shortened form of two words.

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The answer is: MLADY.

Short for My Lady.

46d. Skateboard jump.

Our hint: Starts with an O.

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The answer is: OLLIE.

One of the first tricks you would learn.

47d. Raven claw.

Our hint: Starts with a T.

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The answer is: TALON.

Used to grab prey.

48d. Demeanors.

Our hint: Starts with an M.

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The answer is: MEINS.

A person's appearance or manner.

49d. Like corned beef in a Reuben sandwich.

Our hint: A two word answer.

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The answer is: ON RYE.

A type of bread.

54d. "There you ___!"

Our hint: What you say when you find someone.

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The answer is: ARE.

A way of being.

55d. Boatload.

Our hint: 907.185 kgs.

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The answer is: TON.

That's heavy.

56d. Color akin to caramel.

Our hint: What you get when you hang out in the sun.

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The answer is: TAN.

A brownish shade.

57d. Genre that pop punk paved the way for.

Our hint: My Chemical Romance, for example.

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The answer is: EMO.

Short for Emotional Hardcore.

58d. FF's opposite.

Our hint: FF meaning Fast Forward.

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The answer is: REW.

REW meaning Rewind.

NYT Crossword answers: Wednesday September 10th 2025

Done figuring it all out for yourself? Here's the full completed NYT Crossword showing all the answers for today's puzzle:

The completed NYT Mini Crossword for 10/09/2025, showing all the answers for each clue.
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And there it is! The NYT Crossword for September 10th in all of its glory. The hardest riddles in this puzzle were those in italics, particularly the Heinz Ketchup one.

I don't know if it's just me but I still can't quite make sense of it. Ketchup's Ketchup? Perhaps it's referring to Heinz's Ketchup? But they do make more than Ketchup, making them synonymous with more than just tomato sauce to me. But maybe I am overthinking it!

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 29th September and our Connections hint for Tuesday 29th September.

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