October Crosswords 2025
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Butterfly puzzle
Across
1. Pa’s spouse
3. Negative
5. Brightly-colored parrot
7. A deadly sin
9. Knight’s “suit”
12. Sine or cosine
13. Wolf, grass, house, e.g.
14. Ghost’s cry
16. Astronomer Johannes
17. Ghost costume?
18. Menial
19. Like a chili pepper
20. Blackthorn fruit
22. Common connector
23. Reddish-brown
24. Pkg. deliverer
26. Harbor craft
27. Critter with tens to hundreds of legs
30. Team booster
32. Either
33. Noted blind mathematician
34. Indefinite article
36. Change dimensions
39. Swarming grasshopper
42. ___-baked potatoes
43. Pizazz
44. Hi-___ graphics
45. Floor cleaner
Down
1. Emulate a Power Ranger
2. Groups of ants
3. Small nut
4. Willow twig
5. Glasgow gal
6. Alpine call
7. ___ lazuli
8. Whig’s rival
10. Alter, as a photograph
11. Skier’s direction
12. Asylum seeker
14. Large snake
15. Antiquated
21. Fencer’s weapon
23. Actor Paul
25. Elicits a blessing, perhaps
26. Elegant refreshment shop
28. Factual
29. Drink garnish
30. Columbus soccer team
31. Coarse file
32. Uneaten morsel
35. To the ___ degree
37. Military address
38. Curling surface
40. Dove’s sound
41. Person in a mask
Bug Puzzle
Across
1. Group for educators and guardians
4. Having regrets
6. Not as tidy
8. Lose traction
9. Rough-skinned salamander
10. Once around the track
12. Measurement for flour
13. Curly diacritic
14. Employed
15. Song by John Lennon
16. Savory jelly
17. Raven homes
18. Poe: “Sweet flowers, ___ long”
19. The loneliest number
20. Fizzy drink
21. Small, aquamarine emotion in Inside Out 2
22. Snobbish
26. Arrogant ones
Down
1. Infection fluid
2. Christmas contraction
3. South American cuckoo
4. Black and red butterflies
5. Authenticity
6. Critter with hundreds of legs (but rarely a thousand)
7. Symbolize
11. Tranquility
12. Material for uniforms
23. Popular
24. Preposition
25. A scary clown
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Butterfly Solution
Bug Solution
