COLD FUSION
Across
- Alpo alternative
- Mimic closely
- Car bumper protector
- "Fingers crossed!"
- Makes move
- Record label since '29
- Power source with liquids
- Inconsequential
- Fonts of creativity
- An interest in real estate
- Novel focus
- Prefix for proof
- Elevation indication
- Pal of Sundance
- Editorial overruling
- Solar wind particle
- Cold thing "fused" 10 times in today's diagonals
- Oil company, in Wall Street slang
- Steam shovel's bucket
- Incautious
- Finned predator
- Jobs in high-tech
- Louisville's river
- Trivial details
- Useful details
- As a consolation
- Appear before
- Compacted coolers
- Exactly right
- Marine scientist's concern
- Aphrodite's child
- Capacity of some carafes
- Game running in Utah
- Plural pronoun homonym
- Discreetly include
- Self-styled stinger
- Transpose
- Charters, for instance
- The bulk of
Down
- NASA orbiter since '98
- __ St. Louis, IL
- Exit poll data, for short
- "On My Own" in Les Miz
- About 25% of the UN
- Retro cheer
- Mother hen's concern
- Cold War contingent
- Duff Beer server
- Stop stalling
- HP hardware
- Occasional fast food sandwich
- Be too theatrical
- Jai __
- Word on the American Commonwealth list
- Far-flying wader
- Alien-hunting project
- DVD player button
- Ending like -arian
- National Book Mo.
- Not just any
- Pound fractions
- Bombast
- Selection from a toddler's togs
- iPad display
- Vague impression
- General public, from the Greek
- Jaunty
- Be forced to recant
- Corps
- BeBe Winans' singing sister
- Bricklayer's implement
- Second-person plural
- Bird on the Rosetta Stone
- Few-drop quantities
- Acceleration
- Architect's space
- Shrubby tracts
- Capital of Piemonte
About this puzzle
The Newsday Crossword for Friday, November 14, 2025 is titled “COLD FUSION” and was constructed by Jay Silverman. The puzzle features 78 clues arranged in a 21×21 grid — the standard format for Sunday-size puzzles.
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The Newsday Crossword is published daily by Newsday on Long Island and edited by Stan Newman. Difficulty builds across the week from a gentle Monday introduction up to Saturday’s legendary themeless Stumper. The official puzzle is available on the Newsday Games site. For other days, browse the complete Newsday Crossword archive indexed by date.