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Crossword puzzle answer grid for the fall 2025 Rochester Review magazine's crossword puzzle.
Puzzle by Stella Zawistowki

Across

1. That ’70s Show actress Debra Jo ___ ’74
RUPP

5. ___ Mahal
TAJ

8. “In what way?”
HOWSO

13. Other, in Spanish
OTRA

14. Element often deficient in anemia, the research focus of George Whipple
IRON

16. “Count me in!”
IWILL

17. Class of ’70 alumnus who served as the 12th US Secretary of Energy
STEVENCHU

19. “Tomorrow” show that earned Charles Strouse ’47E a Tony Award
ANNIE

20. Fished for morays
EELED

21. Emotion associated with teens
ANGST

23. Bit of airport info: Abbr.
ETD

24. Colombo, ___ Lanka
SRI

25. Atom that carries a charge
ION

27. Go to the Douglass Dining Center, say
EAT

29. Broad-spectrum antibiotic invented by Lloyd Conover ’50 (PhD)
TETRACYCLINE

35. Part of a deer’s “rack”
ANTLER

37. Naked mole ___ (animal used by URochester biologists to discover a “fountain of youth” gene)
RAT

38. Body art designs, for short
TATS

40. ___ Campus (Eastman Community Music School offering)
WORLD

41. Booze in a mojito
RUM

42. Quickly swivel
PIVOT

43. Position in golf
LIE

44. What a Yellowjacket is not, contrary to popular belief
BEE

45. Actress Stritch or May
ELAINE

46. Class of ’83E soprano who sang at Super Bowl XLVIII
RENEEFLEMING

50. Bonobo or gorilla
APE

51. Author Alvar or actress Farrow
MIA

52. “I’m ___ loss for words”
ATA

55. ___ Mental Health Project (initiative by URochester psychologist Emory Cohen)
PRIMARY

59. Elmwood ___ (Rochester watering hole)
INN

60. “You’re it!” game
TAG

61. Fruit juiced for a mojito
LIME

62. The Matrix visual effect developed by George Borshukov ’95
BULLETTIME

65. Purple Brazilian berry
ACAI

66. Once more
AGAIN

67. “My bad!”
OOPS

68. Adjacent (to)
NEXT

69. Project a URochester CSC student might build
ROBOT

70. Focus of study for URochester Professor Lynne Maquat and the basis of some COVID-19 vaccines
RNA

Down

1. Valentine’s Day flowers
ROSES

2. Say out loud
UTTER

3. Hassle-free Christmas decoration
PRELITTREE

4. Install some asphalt
PAVE

5. Chemical element with the shortest name
TIN

6. Esoteric knowledge
ARCANA

7. ___ Levey ’69, casting director of shows like ER and The West Wing
JOHN

8. Type of hernia
HIATAL

9. Have the deed to
OWN

10. Drink offered at Rochester’s Carnegie Cellars restaurant
WINE

11. Narrow cut
SLIT

12. Display tech made practical by Professor Emeritus Ching Tang: Abbr.
OLED

15. Chicken morsel, for short
NUG

18. Worked on the Campus Times, perhaps
EDITED

22. Religious splinter group
SECT

26. Bobby of hockey fame
ORR

28. Red color named after a Renaissance painter
TITIAN

30. 90-degree-angle shape
ELL

31. Inhumane
CRUEL

32. Thanksgiving tuber
YAM

33. Component of a website’s user experience
NAVIGATION

34. Famed British boarding school
ETON

35. Hole-punching tool
AWL

36. Dark film genre
NOIR

39. Sault ___ Marie, Michigan
STE

41. Official at a Yellowjackets football game
REF

42. Easily bendable
PLIANT

44. Establishment that specializes in craft brews
BEERBAR

45. Like Nobel Prize winner Arthur Kornberg ’41M (MD)
EMINENT

47. “Ask me for anything you want”
NAMEIT

48. Government group that researches microplastics: Abbr.
EPA

49. Actor Estevez
EMILIO

53. City on Florida’s Gulf Coast
TAMPA

54. Gets older
AGES

55. URochester’s Boundless Possibility, for example
PLAN

56. Staple grain in Asia
RICE

57. ___ Prismless Laser Projector (Oscar-winning tech codeveloped by Barry Silverstein ’84)
IMAX

58. Cold War-era auto make
YUGO

63. Engineering Quad facility, for short
LAB

64. Sci-fi/fantasy publisher
TOR

The original puzzle appears in the fall 2025 print issue of Rochester Review, the magazine of the University of Rochester.