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SATURDAY STUMPER

Saturday, October 11, 2025 Constructed by Matthew Sewell 70 clues
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Across

  1. Octane Booster brand 3 ℓ
  2. Discontinued docker 4 ℓ
  3. Acquire by quick action 4 ℓ
  4. Accounting records 8 ℓ
  5. Highly focused 4 ℓ
  6. Instructors' employer 7 ℓ
  7. Cult following 3 ℓ
  8. Emulates rappers 15 ℓ
  9. __ trap (atomic clock device) 3 ℓ
  10. Unnecessarily reserved 6 ℓ
  11. Propel well 4 ℓ
  12. Ancient American astronomer 4 ℓ
  13. You can "Watch the latest" on its home page 3 ℓ
  14. Coder's missing link 5 ℓ
  15. Chapter 28 of an 1850s nautical tale 4 ℓ
  16. Keeps from drifting off 4 ℓ
  17. Character generator 3 ℓ
  18. Dramatic form with many fans 3 ℓ
  19. Cross hairs 5 ℓ
  20. Plot adversary, or plotting adversary 4 ℓ
  21. Syn- kin 3 ℓ
  22. Tow sports brand 6 ℓ
  23. Squawk 4 ℓ
  24. Corporate disincentives 15 ℓ
  25. Hamlet "injurious" oath 7 ℓ
  26. Time of Eugene O'Neill 3 ℓ
  27. Social groups 4 ℓ
  28. "America's Playground" claimant 8 ℓ
  29. Comb carefully 5 ℓ
  30. Launcher of a five-Nobel family legacy 5 ℓ
  31. Good thru 3 ℓ
  32. Smiley-like Martian landmark 15 ℓ
  33. Skeptical text 5 ℓ
  34. Takes an attitude 5 ℓ
  35. Powder of a sort 3 ℓ
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Down

  1. Tightens securely 5 ℓ
  2. Cloisters 4 ℓ
  3. He helps Anna find Elsa 4 ℓ
  4. Exclamation acknowledging instantaneous occurrence 4 ℓ
  5. Not prosecutable 6 ℓ
  6. Of 3-D surface math 8 ℓ
  7. "We do beauty differently" sloganeer 4 ℓ
  8. Zip 4 ℓ
  9. Erstwhile autocrats 5 ℓ
  10. Cicero's "true mother of the arts" 10 ℓ
  11. Yet 5 ℓ
  12. Room with spectrophotometers 6 ℓ
  13. You'd expect it to be shady 5 ℓ
  14. Pretty __ 5 ℓ
  15. Air purifier output 5 ℓ
  16. Santa Fe is west of it 5 ℓ
  17. Crescent extremity 4 ℓ
  18. Zoomed 4 ℓ
  19. Strait of Gibraltar hazard 4 ℓ
  20. "Excuse me?" 4 ℓ
  21. Many Kuwaitis 4 ℓ
  22. Starts moving 5 ℓ
  23. Entry gate, e.g. 10 ℓ
  24. About to hit 5 ℓ
  25. Monthly writing 10 ℓ
  26. Puts in a bind 5 ℓ
  27. Harmonia's antithetical parent 4 ℓ
  28. Is turned off, in dating slang 10 ℓ
  29. Revolutionary Olympic movement 4 ℓ
  30. Far from lumbering 4 ℓ
  31. Deception metaphor 4 ℓ
  32. Anchovy kin 4 ℓ
  33. __ de devocion (sanctuary) 4 ℓ
  34. Blossom 5 ℓ
  35. Small advance 8 ℓ

About this puzzle

The Newsday Crossword for Saturday, October 11, 2025 is titled “SATURDAY STUMPER” and was constructed by Matthew Sewell. The puzzle features 70 clues arranged in a 21×21 grid — the standard format for Sunday-size puzzles.

Click any clue above to view its dedicated answer page, which includes letter-by-letter analysis, the puzzle context, and a history of every other Newsday puzzle the same clue or answer has appeared in. To see the complete grid filled in with every answer, use the “Reveal grid” button at the top of the grid.

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.

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