FIRST PERSONS
Across
- Jazz buff's collection
- Generous slice
- Low-end, informally
- Title performer in a Wagner opera
- Snapple alternative
- Add to the records
- Bit of help
- Just not right
- Breezy "bye"
- Couple following me
- "Two cents" prelude text
- Refrigerate
- Period of note
- Celestial radio wave source
- Swindles successfully
- Erratic
- Avenue __ Champs-Elysees
- Wholly
- Wooden warehouse item
- Rossini title character
- City on Biscayne Bay
- Quite engrossed
- Scriptural utopia
- RN setups
- Lugosi of filmdom
- Be benevolent
- Last to finish
- Mesoamerican timetable
- Nylon protective device
- Sci-fi sightings
- Encouraging word
- Poetic preposition
- Starting stake
- Tennis great Nadal's nickname
- Boat club hanging
- Bone-dry
- Text-scanning tech
Down
- Little bighorn
- Lettered lunch
- Austrian topography
- Used for support
- Scattered about
- Shakespearean title soldier
- Pushup beneficiary
- "Sorry, but ..."
- Soccer team complement
- Ecological home
- Inflation meas.
- Downhill event
- Carried on diligently
- Shoulder warmers
- Overrun
- Held in check
- Tennis great Agassi
- Reunion attendees
- Nobel Peace Center city
- Prepare in a pan
- "Uh-huh"
- Try to win over
- TV overseer
- Tabasco tomorrow
- Accomplishes
- Scot's "Certainly!"
- Hotel amenity
- Soup sprinkling
- Walnut or cashew
- Cottage cheese, essentially
- Group discord
- National name on some euros
- Big name in soul music
- Asian rival of Dell
- Tomato for paste
- What the F major scale has
- Makes over
- Butting heads
- DOJ VIPs
About this puzzle
The Newsday Crossword for Thursday, November 6, 2025 is titled “FIRST PERSONS” and was constructed by Mark McClain. The puzzle features 76 clues arranged in a 21×21 grid — the standard format for Sunday-size puzzles.
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