The Crossword Puzzle Answers for 10/17/2025. The October 17 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 What a comment might be made inJEST
- 5a Plant often confused with algaeMOSS
- 9a “The Craft”WICCA
- 14a Pulitzer-winning historian and journalist ApplebaumANNE
- 15a Understanding responseISEE
- 16a Amazon smart speakersECHOS
- 17a British singer with the top 10 albums “Crash” and “Brat”CHARLIXCX
- 19a Some suitorsBEAUS
- 20a Sets in motionCAUSES
- 21a Sake, for oneRICEWINE
- 23a Not fixed, as a stoneUNSET
- 24a Drinking game with projectilesBEERDARTS
- 25a Sign of healingSCAR
- 26a New service memberRECRUIT
- 27a Mental image, for short?EEG
- 28a Fun-size, so to speakTINY
- 29a StalkSTEM
- 31a First releasesDEBUTS
- 33a Taking out the trash and othersCHORES
- 35a Lab liquidsSERA
- 36a Max ___, boxer nicknamed “Madcap Maxie”BAER
- 37a Corn ___ (snack misnomer)NUT
- 39a Longtime Nestlé candy brandSNOCAPS
- 41a Arizona tribe with matrilineal clansHOPI
- 42a 1992 Whoopi Goldberg comedySISTERACT
- 45a Survived, so to speakCOPED
- 46a Portmanteau for evidence based solely on personal accountsANECDATA
- 47a Popular name of the 1958 Italian hit “Nel Blu, Dipinto di Blu”VOLARE
- 48a ___ monthLUNAR
- 49a Act of writing down whatever comes to mind in order to clear mental clutterBRAINDUMP
- 51a WipeERASE
- 52a Biblical locale in a Steinbeck titleEDEN
- 53a Golfer AokiISAO
- 54a Rationed (out)METED
- 55a BleakDIRE
- 56a GravitateTEND
- Down
- 1d Historic Émile Zola letter of 1898JACCUSE
- 2d ImprovedENHANCED
- 3d Meaty dog treats “in a blanket”SNAUSAGES
- 4d Less prolixTERSER
- 5d Customizable Nintendo avatarsMIIS
- 6d Mac platform renamed in 2016OSX
- 7d Condition of discretionSECRECY
- 8d More seductiveSEXIER
- 9d One managing online contentWEBEDITOR
- 10d Drink that comes with free refillsICEWATER
- 11d Word with easy or highCHAIR
- 12d MatterCOUNT
- 13d Insufferable sortsASSES
- 18d Court callLET
- 22d Handles beautifully, in slangCRUSHES
- 24d Bills worth 100 buckaroosBENS
- 26d British singer with the hits “R.I.P.” and “Radioactive”RITAORA
- 28d Showed embarrassment, sayTURNEDRED
- 30d Event typically occurring in one’s late 40s or early 50sMENOPAUSE
- 32d Hoped-for scenarioBESTCASE
- 33d America, for one: Abbr.CAPT
- 34d DC figure since 1938SUPERMAN
- 36d Brand of rum mentioned in Hemingway novelsBACARDI
- 38d Certain unit of detergentTIDEPOD
- 40d Pet gear often eschewed in favor of someone’s lapCATBED
- 41d “Stop the presses!”HOLDIT
- 42d Capital that’s home to the oldest university in the Western U.S. (1842)SALEM
- 43d HabituateINURE
- 44d Upper house of the French parliamentSENAT
- 45d With, in SpanishCON
- 47d Plant on a pergolaVINE
- 50d ___ LingusAER