The Crossword Puzzle Answers for 10/16/2025. The October 16 2025 Puzzle Answers are listed below in such order that they are easy to find.
The puzzles get harder and harder to solve and more complex as the week passes You can search by clue name, number or direction for example for 2 Across clue just type '2A' or '2D' for 2nd down clue.
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- Across
- 1a “___ Talkin’ ?bout Love” (Van Halen song)AINT
- 5a *Treat with kindnessBENTO
- 10a Noted works of the Roman poet HoraceODES
- 14a BruteBOOR
- 15a Statuette modeled after a knight holding a crusader?s swordOSCAR
- 16a Feeling associated with skipping a party, perhapsFOMO
- 17a UnchangeableSETINSTONE
- 19a Horned creature in “Pan’s Labyrinth”FAUN
- 20a Hungers forCRAVES
- 21a Early Germanic peopleGOTHS
- 23a Move around the worldORBIT
- 24a *ExpensivePRY
- 26a LiftHOIST
- 29a Mardi Gras locale, informallyNOLA
- 30a Ovarian sac contentsROE
- 31a Fuddy-duddiesPRUDES
- 32a “Still ___” (2022 rap hit)DRE
- 33a MeanderWEND
- 34a High lights?AURORA
- 35a Practice chiromancyREADPALMS
- 37a Disappear, as a trailGOCOLD
- 40a “Central Park in the Dark” composerIVES
- 41a Music box?AMP
- 44a DivinerORACLE
- 45a Jerry?s uncle on “Seinfeld”LEO
- 46a Box a bitSPAR
- 47a Tonkatsu coatingPANKO
- 48a *Deli deviceSLR
- 49a Bug expert, for shortITPRO
- 50a Invite at the doorASKIN
- 52a Extreme pressureDURESS
- 53a El ___PASO
- 55a Felt tired during the day, sayNEEDEDANAP
- 58a Words to a betrayerETTU
- 59a ?The Philosophy of Right? authorHEGEL
- 60a Like a computer with a running screensaverIDLE
- 61a How whiskey might be served ? with a hint to the answers to the seven starred cluesNEAT
- 62a *Risky endeavor, idiomaticallyDROLL
- 63a Onetime resident of the Winter PalaceTSAR
- Down
- 1d BoltABSCOND
- 2d Certain Windows hard drive malfunctionIOERROR
- 3d *ConspicuousNOTABLE
- 4d Stupid stuff it’s fun to knowTRIVIA
- 5d Level-ending foeBOSS
- 6d Educated guess: Abbr.EST
- 7d Sgt., e.g.NCO
- 8d Like lemon curdTANGY
- 9d Preceder of “Bites” and “Bars” in commercial namesOREO
- 10d *Chance to meet one-on-one with a professorOFFHOURS
- 11d “Copy me”DOASIDO
- 12d Runner Down UnderEMU
- 13d Certain heirSON
- 18d Make in the endNET
- 22d Steady humming soundsTHRUMS
- 24d Locale for catfish or carpPOND
- 25d What allows Neo to disconnect from the MatrixREDPILL
- 27d Spanish 101 verbSER
- 28d Whom you might greet with open arms, for short?TSA
- 30d Novelist Charles who wrote “The Cloister and the Hearth”READE
- 31d Prefix with botanistPALEO
- 33d “Sure ? if you say so”WELLOK
- 35d Enjoys oneself uninhibitedly ? or a punny title for this puzzleROCKSOUT
- 36d ProfessAVER
- 37d Something Lincoln once led, for shortGOP
- 38d Italian time unitORA
- 39d Card game with a winning score of 5,000 pointsCANASTA
- 41d *Book addendaAPPENDS
- 42d Chicken ___MARSALA
- 43d ThrivePROSPER
- 46d Narrow channelSTRAIT
- 48d Derisive lookSNEER
- 49d OB/GYN offeringIUD
- 51d Crisply shown, as on TVINHD
- 52d Wooded valleyDELL
- 53d CoopPEN
- 54d Performed amazingly, in slangATE
- 56d Id’s counterpartEGO
- 57d The First State: Abbr.DEL