NYT Daily Crossword - Wednesday, September 24, 2025

Bit of clever handiwork in today's theme! But a few clues led me in the wrong direction, and it took me forever it figure out what was going on... THINGS I MISSED: 27A - it was 108, actually 40A - it's actually pronounced something like "ehh-jzhuh" 42A - etymologically, literally "hang" 45A - didn't actually catch the wordplay here 4D - as in a staircase 19D - former president of Liberia 40D - the other is "al-Adha"