The Crossword Puzzle Answers for 10/18/2025. The October 18 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 Measure of rank in Maori culture, informallyFACETAT
- 8a BubblesFROTH
- 13a Sauce in Italian-American cuisineMARINARA
- 14a Knocked outINAWE
- 15a It’s in right nowLATESTFAD
- 16a Was worthy ofRATED
- 17a Having a single purposeADHOC
- 18a Light that goes up when things are going down?FLARE
- 20a SnatchBAG
- 21a Crank cases?UFOLOGY
- 23a Something pulled in many car chase scenes, for shortEBRAKE
- 25a Home to the Arco di ConstantinoROMA
- 26a Present a chance to get aheadOPENDOORS
- 29a Spaniards roll themARS
- 30a Was really moving, in slangHAULEDASS
- 31a “Uh … I guess”WELLSORTA
- 32a Sources of 24/7 supportHELPLINES
- 33a Many an attachmentPDF
- 36a Ones catching wavesRADIOSETS
- 37a Longtime name in Cuban politicsRAUL
- 38a Those playing the king of Egypt in “Aïda”BASSOS
- 39a Monthly magazine that sponsors a large annual music festival in New OrleansESSENCE
- 41a Easily removed locksWIG
- 42a Limited assignmentSTINT
- 45a Smallest member of the eurozone (122 square miles)MALTA
- 46a Appropriately change courseADAPT
- 48a Spirals out of control?TORNADOES
- 50a Panhellenic Games venueNEMEA
- 51a Can’t cool offSTAYSMAD
- 52a GiftedADEPT
- 53a Culinary concurrenceYESCHEF
- Down
- 1d UnderstandsFATHOMS
- 2d Site of some piercingsAREOLA
- 3d “There’s never been a better time” tech sloganeerCISCO
- 4d Fangorn residentENT
- 5d Sweet doings at a county fairTAFFYPULLS
- 6d ___ Sea, locale of a 20th-century environmental disasterARAL
- 7d Cry that might be made with a bowTADA
- 8d Responders to cruise ship emergenciesFIREBOATS
- 9d It works in translationRNA
- 10d Crunchy snacksOATBARS
- 11d Fine-tunesTWEAKS
- 12d Divider of lotsHEDGE
- 13d Really intoMADFOR
- 15d 21st-century first ladyLAURA
- 19d Attire for many a flamenco dancerREDDRESS
- 22d Upright barGOALPOST
- 24d Bonheur who painted “Ploughing in the Nivernais”ROSA
- 27d Woman’s name that sounds like two letters of the alphabetELSIE
- 28d Colorful swimmers in the AmazonNEONTETRAS
- 30d Energy device that reflects sunlightHELIOSTAT
- 31d Rings up?WEDS
- 32d Can hold one’s own, in modern lingoHASGAME
- 33d Bread purchase in the U.K.PANLOAF
- 34d Like a building’s central air conditioningDUCTED
- 35d Dogbane?FLEAS
- 36d Like drug dens, sometimesRAIDED
- 37d FAQ headingREADME
- 38d East African honorificBWANA
- 40d Reduce to a pulpSMASH
- 43d MinuteITSY
- 44d Pay attention toNOTE
- 47d ZipPEP
- 49d Home to the U.S.’s first pizzeria, according to the Pizza Hall of Fame, for shortNYC