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NYT Crossword April 9 2025 Answers

Deborah Simmons ✓Solving & explaining puzzles since 1998 · Updated April 9 2025

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Every answer from the Wednesday, April 9 2025 New York Times Crossword, checked and verified against the published NYT solution. Select a clue for the full explanation.

Constructed by Aidan Deshong and Oren Hartstein · Edited by Will Shortz

Across

1Septet with the #1 albums "Be" and "Map of the Soul: 7"3 lettersSee answer ›4Sorghum relative6 lettersSee answer ›10Dried chili pepper5 lettersSee answer ›15Like a limbo bar, after a few rounds3 lettersSee answer ›16"Seinfeld" role for Julia Louis-Dreyfus6 lettersSee answer ›17Seating option at a diner5 lettersSee answer ›18Magritte's "Ceci n'est pas ___ pipe"3 lettersSee answer ›19Three-star review of a cocktail shaker?12 lettersSee answer ›21"Toodle-oo!"6 lettersSee answer ›23Thurman of "Kill Bill"3 lettersSee answer ›24Sell/buy-back agreement, for short4 lettersSee answer ›25Three-star review of Battleship?9 lettersSee answer ›28Diamond stat3 lettersSee answer ›30Shipshape4 lettersSee answer ›31Spike of cinema3 lettersSee answer ›32Tax-related6 lettersSee answer ›36A good one is bright4 lettersSee answer ›37Sea ___3 lettersSee answer ›38Pens7 lettersSee answer ›39Piece of bread dipped in gravy3 lettersSee answer ›40Three-star review of a no-stress class?8 lettersSee answer ›42Actress Vardalos3 lettersSee answer ›43Apt rhyme for "fiddle"7 lettersSee answer ›45Clear, as dishes3 lettersSee answer ›46Like a step in the right direction?4 lettersSee answer ›47Sign that there's no turning back6 lettersSee answer ›48Sign on a park bench, maybe3 lettersSee answer ›49S.F. commuter train system4 lettersSee answer ›50AOL, e.g., in brief3 lettersSee answer ›51Three-star review of Tulsa?9 lettersSee answer ›54Subject line abbr.4 lettersSee answer ›57Drop down3 lettersSee answer ›59Source of smoke for a model volcano6 lettersSee answer ›60Three-star review of the Friday before Easter?12 lettersSee answer ›64Title in Spain: Abbr.3 lettersSee answer ›65Opposite of forward?5 lettersSee answer ›66Starbucks drink made with olive oil6 lettersSee answer ›67M&M color replaced in 19953 lettersSee answer ›68___ manager5 lettersSee answer ›69Spiff up6 lettersSee answer ›70Nickname that drops -art3 lettersSee answer ›

Down

1React to flirtation, say5 lettersSee answer ›2"You're getting too excited"10 lettersSee answer ›3Sugar10 lettersSee answer ›4"No man has a good enough ___ to be a successful liar": Lincoln6 lettersSee answer ›5Pelvis bone5 lettersSee answer ›6Hardly strict3 lettersSee answer ›7Bluff, e.g.3 lettersSee answer ›8Ultimate purpose6 lettersSee answer ›9Length for a pregnancy or presidency4 lettersSee answer ›10They might be made of steel, hyperbolically3 lettersSee answer ›11Cultivate7 lettersSee answer ›12Actor Sprouse of "Riverdale"4 lettersSee answer ›13Address opener4 lettersSee answer ›14Extremely4 lettersSee answer ›20Talking-tos7 lettersSee answer ›22Sage-colored sage4 lettersSee answer ›26Words of defeat5 lettersSee answer ›27Puts on a patch, say4 lettersSee answer ›29"Fine, I'll ___"4 lettersSee answer ›33Ones getting good marks?10 lettersSee answer ›34Stereotypical monocle wearer10 lettersSee answer ›35Hurdle for a future "Esq."4 lettersSee answer ›36That ___ say4 lettersSee answer ›37Odysseus' captor7 lettersSee answer ›38Touches5 lettersSee answer ›40Smartphone predecessors, in brief4 lettersSee answer ›41Perform a felonious favor for4 lettersSee answer ›44Fall off7 lettersSee answer ›46Very doable4 lettersSee answer ›48Squirm6 lettersSee answer ›49LeVar who hosted TV's "Reading Rainbow" for 23 years6 lettersSee answer ›52Where Jewish singles might mingle5 lettersSee answer ›53Reeves of "Point Break"5 lettersSee answer ›54City seen in Instagram?4 lettersSee answer ›55"Piggies"4 lettersSee answer ›56At most4 lettersSee answer ›58Gobs4 lettersSee answer ›61Pub. that predicted it would take one to 10 million years to invent a flying machine, two months before the first airplane flight3 lettersSee answer ›62Stephen of "The Crying Game"3 lettersSee answer ›63Urging at the start of a meal3 lettersSee answer ›