UNCOMMON ANTONYMS
Across
- Start to have an effect
- Academy Award category
- Jam-pack
- Set up for sowing
- Woodworking hand tools
- Path preceder
- Stained
- Cargo carrier
- Online gasp
- Charlie's successor on Two and a Half Men
- All too fallible
- Paying close attention
- Chimp cousin
- Red carpet event
- Hatching posts
- European range
- What Madonna and Teller are
- Specialty magnifier
- With the awareness of, with "to"
- Guitar ancestors
- Give Kids a Smile org.
- Plank with a binding
- Corporate owner
- Former capital of Italy
- Happy
- "No, thank you"
- British pen
- Young-adult novelist Gruen
- Where America's only royal palace is
- Merry, per "Deck the Halls"
- Easily wearied
- Olympians, for instance
- Body of eau
Down
- Cautious-beginning metaphor
- Break from working out
- Contemporary tennisdom
- Protective influence
- County seat structures
- Frances or John who raised Poe
- Banned hydrocarbon
- Article written by Curie
- Luxury hotel chain
- Winged predator
- Noah ancestor
- Mental perception
- Bicontinental country's capital
- Genetic newcomer
- Unforgiving
- Woodworking hand tools
- On their way
- Extended suits
- Exude elation
- Trending thing
- A thing of the past
- Souvenir shop staple
- Parched
- Salad or soup
- Indonesian Film Festival site
- Tug
- Early 12-Down star
- Where the Jesus Trail is hiked
- Became red in the face
- What may hide a bed
- Started a winning streak
- Lane around Broadway
- "Super" starter
- Exam with logic games
- Greek bread of old
- Evidence of editing
- Entertainment Weekly's #1 of the "50 greatest sidekicks"
About this puzzle
The Newsday Crossword for Friday, November 7, 2025 is titled “UNCOMMON ANTONYMS” and was constructed by S.N.. The puzzle features 70 clues arranged in a 21×21 grid — the standard format for Sunday-size puzzles.
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