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SATURDAY STUMPER

Saturday, September 13, 2025 Constructed by Lester Ruff 70 clues
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Across

  1. Attack 10 ℓ
  2. First of a certain 26 4 ℓ
  3. Cabbage + onions + jalapenos... 7 ℓ
  4. Map table 6 ℓ
  5. "Softest-soft Whitest-white" sloganeer 6 ℓ
  6. Contraction missing its middle 4 ℓ
  7. Sat in a stand 9 ℓ
  8. Turned over 5 ℓ
  9. Singer name-checked in Darin's "Mack the Knife" 10 ℓ
  10. Muffin morsel 4 ℓ
  11. Even-__ (of similar height in a forest) 4 ℓ
  12. Mega Stuf snack 10 ℓ
  13. Chariot racer in the 67 Olympics 4 ℓ
  14. All I Did Was Ask memoirist/broadcaster 10 ℓ
  15. "That's a surprise!" 10 ℓ
  16. Deal breaker 4 ℓ
  17. Karl Benz's first car (1885) 10 ℓ
  18. Green snapper 4 ℓ
  19. Tends to 9 ℓ
  20. Self-reproach 5 ℓ
  21. Almost 4 ℓ
  22. All Nancy Drew book authors 6 ℓ
  23. C to F and F to B 7 ℓ
  24. Underground flow 6 ℓ
  25. 18-Across shade 5 ℓ
  26. Medical show prop 5 ℓ
  27. "...love but __ forever": Burns 3 ℓ
  28. Wing bone 4 ℓ
  29. Plato disliked his philosophy 4 ℓ
  30. Sacher Torte topper 5 ℓ
  31. Tonga is its closest nation 5 ℓ
  32. Be hard on the ears 5 ℓ
  33. __ game 3 ℓ
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Down

  1. Desires (to) 4 ℓ
  2. Vehicular feeder 10 ℓ
  3. Into the future 10 ℓ
  4. '65 Oscar score song played by a balalaika band 10 ℓ
  5. Keep in place 6 ℓ
  6. Author with half-sisters in China 3 ℓ
  7. "__ was flattery lost on poet's ear": Scott 4 ℓ
  8. Boundary improver 5 ℓ
  9. Boxster competitor 5 ℓ
  10. Investment ad adjective 6 ℓ
  11. Close enough to reach 7 ℓ
  12. Snowless flurries 4 ℓ
  13. Be more than enough for 4 ℓ
  14. Baby __ 4 ℓ
  15. Fastskin swimsuit maker 6 ℓ
  16. These days 6 ℓ
  17. Cooper's Rise and Fall of an American Fortune (2023) 5 ℓ
  18. What to pay with the Park Smarter app 5 ℓ
  19. Soft drink named for its parental partner 4 ℓ
  20. Regarding things 4 ℓ
  21. Pre-__-European languages 4 ℓ
  22. Bertrand Russell's "parent of cruelty" 4 ℓ
  23. Shredded, say 4 ℓ
  24. Kit and caboodle 3 ℓ
  25. Unenterable 4 ℓ
  26. Peace Prize and Primetime Emmy winner in 2007 4 ℓ
  27. The Nile runs through it 10 ℓ
  28. Juno star, per Wikipedia 10 ℓ
  29. Spirit-raising pro 10 ℓ
  30. She's absorbed by extravagance 3 ℓ
  31. Confound 4 ℓ
  32. Fight like heck 4 ℓ
  33. Top with a crown 3 ℓ
  34. Secondary swerve 3 ℓ
  35. Only quadruple career Grand Slam champ 4 ℓ
  36. Paper to plot pathogen progression, perhaps 7 ℓ
  37. Be more than enough for 4 ℓ

About this puzzle

The Newsday Crossword for Saturday, September 13, 2025 is titled “SATURDAY STUMPER” and was constructed by Lester Ruff. 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.

Newsday SATURDAY STUMPER Crossword September 13 2025 Answers