Orchestra section toward the middle of the pit

Crossword Answer — September 07, 2025

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NYT Crossword

Sunday, September 07, 2025

By Derrick Niederman

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Across

  1. 1Where Gloria Estefan was born
  2. 7Hairstyle that can be casual or formal
  3. 11Relative of a sultan
  4. 15Strikebreaking sort
  5. 19One who gives a good talking-to?
  6. 20Spring's opposite, tidally
  7. 21Constant nuisance
  8. 22Mansión, por ejemplo
  9. 23As the British pound rises in value, the dollar ___
  10. 25Sure things
  11. 27Area with pews
  12. 28Part of many a morning routine
  13. 29Equipment
  14. 30Orchestra section toward the middle of the pit
  15. 31With 76-Down, individually
  16. 33Fury
  17. 34After spending the afternoon at Epcot, we had dinner at a ___ bistro
  18. 36Ancestor of the tuba or sousaphone
  19. 38Low-quality paper?
  20. 39Like a naughty Beetle Bailey, in brief
  21. 40Overdone
  22. 41The "E" of Q.E.D.
  23. 43Depleted
  24. 48Facetious suffix with most
  25. 51Did Joyce write courtesy of a ___?
  26. 55Blunt negative
  27. 56Philosopher who purportedly said "The best fighter is never angry"
  28. 58Have a bawl
  29. 59Son of Hanna-Barbera's Doggie Daddy
  30. 60Reason to relocate a picnic blanket, maybe
  31. 61Borneo neighbor
  32. 63Female moose or elephant
  33. 65Fish-eating raptors
  34. 66Dab with a towel
  35. 67Subdivisions of some counties: Abbr.
  36. 68An increase in ham prices forced the deli to ___ sandwiches higher
  37. 71Begged
  38. 72Scorch the surface
  39. 73Andean stimulant
  40. 74Source of the films "The Blues Brothers" and "Coneheads," in brief
  41. 75Gerald Ford or William Howard Taft, once
  42. 78Peter, Paul and Mary, e.g.
  43. 79Words before sea or lunch
  44. 81Summer mo.
  45. 83Decks for reading
  46. 84Biblical preposition
  47. 85To Washington ___, Germany, seemed far from Tarrytown, N.Y.
  48. 88Big word in advertising
  49. 89Toady
  50. 91Buzz, so to speak
  51. 92Charles or Ray who lent their name to a kind of chair
  52. 94Unpleasant look
  53. 97Social gathering of a sort
  54. 98Certain canines
  55. 102Some Californians consider Santa ___ on Earth
  56. 107___-cone
  57. 108Stockpile
  58. 109Anesthetic first used on a patient in 1842
  59. 110"Fine as is, actually"
  60. 111Canada's first national park, founded in 1885
  61. 113"___ Three Lives" (early TV drama)
  62. 114The shark-warning notes of "Jaws," for example
  63. 116The supermodel was holding a copy of ___ herself on the beach
  64. 118Tackle box item
  65. 119Home makeover, in brief
  66. 120Election Day is one: Abbr.
  67. 121Work on the score of
  68. 122Carbon compound
  69. 123Beat one's chest
  70. 124Set of pull-ups?
  71. 125Very high

Down

  1. 1Schmooze
  2. 2___ Afghan Airlines, carrier to the Mideast
  3. 3Parts of a heart or trumpet
  4. 4No fewer than
  5. 5"Stat!"
  6. 6Media personalities Melber and Fleischer
  7. 7Remove a restraint from
  8. 8Irk
  9. 9Have the nerve
  10. 10Special ___
  11. 11Buddy who portrayed TV's Jed Clampett
  12. 12Peninsula in southeast Asia
  13. 13Consecutively
  14. 14Somnial acronym
  15. 15Aquatic acronym
  16. 16Collection of laws
  17. 17"Jeez, sorry I ___!"
  18. 18Sarastro in Mozart's "The Magic Flute," e.g.
  19. 24Product of the first three primes
  20. 26Tiny house occupants
  21. 29Get crazy (over)
  22. 32Pushes with force
  23. 34Smears
  24. 35Directs, as cargo
  25. 37Edmonton N.H.L. player
  26. 38International shoe brand originating in England
  27. 42Extremely loyal
  28. 44One who's a well-meaning but bad influence on a friend, maybe
  29. 45Why do none of the Fruit of the Loom characters ___-colored clothing?
  30. 46Current
  31. 47Annoyance
  32. 48Trains above street level
  33. 49White wine named for a region in France
  34. 50Peeping ___ for Lady Godiva to appear
  35. 52Like some philosophical arguments
  36. 53Taj Mahal's city
  37. 54Numbskull
  38. 57Bar with drafts
  39. 62Love, in Lyon
  40. 64Spots to go in the U.K.
  41. 69End of any Shakespeare play
  42. 70Powerless
  43. 71Space balls
  44. 72Bed-___ (Brooklyn neighborhood, familiarly)
  45. 73Shakespeare, vis-à-vis the expression "brave new world"
  46. 76See 31-Across
  47. 77Sydney's state: Abbr.
  48. 80How some risks are taken
  49. 82Immaturity
  50. 86Secluded valley
  51. 87"Take it easy, will you?!"
  52. 90Startle
  53. 93Mounted below the surface of
  54. 95___ Sunday
  55. 96Body part containing photoreceptors
  56. 99Relating to the wind's movement
  57. 100Vingt + dix
  58. 101Equivocated
  59. 102Ball girl?
  60. 103Didn't dine out
  61. 104Large safari sight
  62. 105Intoxicating Asian plant whose name sounds like an insect
  63. 106Clear, in a way, as a windshield
  64. 107Beaver State capital
  65. 111Sight of a speeding car, maybe
  66. 112Season ticket holders, presumably
  67. 115Spherical shape
  68. 116Info for a traveler, for short
  69. 117Follower of waste and want

Crossword clues, hints, and answers

Across

  1. 1. Where Gloria Estefan was born — Answer: HAVANA
  2. 7. Hairstyle that can be casual or formal — Answer: UPDO
  3. 11. Relative of a sultan — Answer: EMIR
  4. 15. Strikebreaking sort — Answer: SCAB
  5. 19. One who gives a good talking-to? — Answer: ORATOR
  6. 20. Spring's opposite, tidally — Answer: NEAP
  7. 21. Constant nuisance — Answer: BANE
  8. 22. Mansión, por ejemplo — Answer: CASA
  9. 23. As the British pound rises in value, the dollar ___ — Answer: BILLWITHERS
  10. 25. Sure things — Answer: SLAMDUNKS
  11. 27. Area with pews — Answer: NAVE
  12. 28. Part of many a morning routine — Answer: SHAVE
  13. 29. Equipment — Answer: GEAR
  14. 30. Orchestra section toward the middle of the pit — Answer: OBOES
  15. 31. With 76-Down, individually — Answer: ONEAT
  16. 33. Fury — Answer: IRE
  17. 34. After spending the afternoon at Epcot, we had dinner at a ___ bistro — Answer: TONYORLANDO
  18. 36. Ancestor of the tuba or sousaphone — Answer: BASSHORN
  19. 38. Low-quality paper? — Answer: RAG
  20. 39. Like a naughty Beetle Bailey, in brief — Answer: AWOL
  21. 40. Overdone — Answer: TRITE
  22. 41. The "E" of Q.E.D. — Answer: ERAT
  23. 43. Depleted — Answer: USEDUP
  24. 48. Facetious suffix with most — Answer: EST
  25. 51. Did Joyce write courtesy of a ___? — Answer: ULYSSESGRANT
  26. 55. Blunt negative — Answer: NOPE
  27. 56. Philosopher who purportedly said "The best fighter is never angry" — Answer: LAOTSE
  28. 58. Have a bawl — Answer: SOB
  29. 59. Son of Hanna-Barbera's Doggie Daddy — Answer: AUGIE
  30. 60. Reason to relocate a picnic blanket, maybe — Answer: ANTS
  31. 61. Borneo neighbor — Answer: SUMATRA
  32. 63. Female moose or elephant — Answer: COW
  33. 65. Fish-eating raptors — Answer: ERNS
  34. 66. Dab with a towel — Answer: BLOT
  35. 67. Subdivisions of some counties: Abbr. — Answer: TWPS
  36. 68. An increase in ham prices forced the deli to ___ sandwiches higher — Answer: MARKCUBAN
  37. 71. Begged — Answer: PLED. Hint: Think of a heartfelt request that often involves urgency! 🙏
  38. 72. Scorch the surface — Answer: SEAR
  39. 73. Andean stimulant — Answer: COCA
  40. 74. Source of the films "The Blues Brothers" and "Coneheads," in brief — Answer: SNL
  41. 75. Gerald Ford or William Howard Taft, once — Answer: YALEMAN
  42. 78. Peter, Paul and Mary, e.g. — Answer: TRIO
  43. 79. Words before sea or lunch — Answer: OUTTO
  44. 81. Summer mo. — Answer: AUG. Hint: This month is often associated with vacations and the peak of summer fun! ☀️
  45. 83. Decks for reading — Answer: TAROTS
  46. 84. Biblical preposition — Answer: UNTO
  47. 85. To Washington ___, Germany, seemed far from Tarrytown, N.Y. — Answer: IRVINGBERLIN
  48. 88. Big word in advertising — Answer: NEW
  49. 89. Toady — Answer: YESMAN
  50. 91. Buzz, so to speak — Answer: CALL
  51. 92. Charles or Ray who lent their name to a kind of chair — Answer: EAMES
  52. 94. Unpleasant look — Answer: LEER
  53. 97. Social gathering of a sort — Answer: BEE
  54. 98. Certain canines — Answer: EYETEETH
  55. 102. Some Californians consider Santa ___ on Earth — Answer: BARBARAEDEN
  56. 107. ___-cone — Answer: SNO
  57. 108. Stockpile — Answer: STORE
  58. 109. Anesthetic first used on a patient in 1842 — Answer: ETHER
  59. 110. "Fine as is, actually" — Answer: STET
  60. 111. Canada's first national park, founded in 1885 — Answer: BANFF
  61. 113. "___ Three Lives" (early TV drama) — Answer: ILED
  62. 114. The shark-warning notes of "Jaws," for example — Answer: LEITMOTIF
  63. 116. The supermodel was holding a copy of ___ herself on the beach — Answer: ELLEFANNING
  64. 118. Tackle box item — Answer: LINE
  65. 119. Home makeover, in brief — Answer: RENO
  66. 120. Election Day is one: Abbr. — Answer: TUES
  67. 121. Work on the score of — Answer: NOTATE
  68. 122. Carbon compound — Answer: ENOL
  69. 123. Beat one's chest — Answer: BRAG
  70. 124. Set of pull-ups? — Answer: ARMS
  71. 125. Very high — Answer: STONED

Down

  1. 1. Schmooze — Answer: HOBNOB
  2. 2. ___ Afghan Airlines, carrier to the Mideast — Answer: ARIANA
  3. 3. Parts of a heart or trumpet — Answer: VALVES
  4. 4. No fewer than — Answer: ATLEAST
  5. 5. "Stat!" — Answer: NOW
  6. 6. Media personalities Melber and Fleischer — Answer: ARIS
  7. 7. Remove a restraint from — Answer: UNHARNESS
  8. 8. Irk — Answer: PEEVE
  9. 9. Have the nerve — Answer: DARE
  10. 10. Special ___ — Answer: OPS
  11. 11. Buddy who portrayed TV's Jed Clampett — Answer: EBSEN
  12. 12. Peninsula in southeast Asia — Answer: MALAYA
  13. 13. Consecutively — Answer: INAROW
  14. 14. Somnial acronym — Answer: REM
  15. 15. Aquatic acronym — Answer: SCUBA
  16. 16. Collection of laws — Answer: CANON
  17. 17. "Jeez, sorry I ___!" — Answer: ASKED
  18. 18. Sarastro in Mozart's "The Magic Flute," e.g. — Answer: BASSO
  19. 24. Product of the first three primes — Answer: THIRTY
  20. 26. Tiny house occupants — Answer: DOLLS
  21. 29. Get crazy (over) — Answer: GOGAGA
  22. 32. Pushes with force — Answer: THRUSTS
  23. 34. Smears — Answer: TARS
  24. 35. Directs, as cargo — Answer: ROUTES
  25. 37. Edmonton N.H.L. player — Answer: OILER
  26. 38. International shoe brand originating in England — Answer: REEBOK
  27. 42. Extremely loyal — Answer: TRUEBLUE
  28. 44. One who's a well-meaning but bad influence on a friend, maybe — Answer: ENABLER
  29. 45. Why do none of the Fruit of the Loom characters ___-colored clothing? — Answer: DONLEMON
  30. 46. Current — Answer: UPTODATE
  31. 47. Annoyance — Answer: PEST
  32. 48. Trains above street level — Answer: ELS
  33. 49. White wine named for a region in France — Answer: SAUTERNE
  34. 50. Peeping ___ for Lady Godiva to appear — Answer: TOMWAITS
  35. 52. Like some philosophical arguments — Answer: SOCRATIC
  36. 53. Taj Mahal's city — Answer: AGRA
  37. 54. Numbskull — Answer: NINNY
  38. 57. Bar with drafts — Answer: TAPROOM
  39. 62. Love, in Lyon — Answer: AMOUR
  40. 64. Spots to go in the U.K. — Answer: WCS
  41. 69. End of any Shakespeare play — Answer: ACTV
  42. 70. Powerless — Answer: UNABLE
  43. 71. Space balls — Answer: PLANETS
  44. 72. Bed-___ (Brooklyn neighborhood, familiarly) — Answer: STUY
  45. 73. Shakespeare, vis-à-vis the expression "brave new world" — Answer: COINER
  46. 76. See 31-Across — Answer: ATIME
  47. 77. Sydney's state: Abbr. — Answer: NSW
  48. 80. How some risks are taken — Answer: ONABET
  49. 82. Immaturity — Answer: GREENNESS
  50. 86. Secluded valley — Answer: GLEN
  51. 87. "Take it easy, will you?!" — Answer: LAYOFF
  52. 90. Startle — Answer: ALARM
  53. 93. Mounted below the surface of — Answer: SETINTO
  54. 95. ___ Sunday — Answer: EASTER
  55. 96. Body part containing photoreceptors — Answer: RETINA
  56. 99. Relating to the wind's movement — Answer: EOLIAN
  57. 100. Vingt + dix — Answer: TRENTE
  58. 101. Equivocated — Answer: HEDGED
  59. 102. Ball girl? — Answer: BELLE
  60. 103. Didn't dine out — Answer: ATEIN
  61. 104. Large safari sight — Answer: RHINO
  62. 105. Intoxicating Asian plant whose name sounds like an insect — Answer: BETEL
  63. 106. Clear, in a way, as a windshield — Answer: DEFOG
  64. 107. Beaver State capital — Answer: SALEM
  65. 111. Sight of a speeding car, maybe — Answer: BLUR
  66. 112. Season ticket holders, presumably — Answer: FANS
  67. 115. Spherical shape — Answer: ORB
  68. 116. Info for a traveler, for short — Answer: ETA
  69. 117. Follower of waste and want — Answer: NOT

The answer to “Orchestra section toward the middle of the pit” in the New York Times crossword is OBOES — a 5-letter word. This clue ran in the New York Times crossword on September 7, 2025, a Sunday puzzle, at 30-Across. If it's the entry standing between you and a clean grid, that's the word you need — and below you'll find why it fits, plus links to the day's other clues if more than one square is giving you trouble.

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The answer is OBOES, a 5-letter word. It appeared in the New York Times crossword on September 7, 2025.

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