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Every answer from the Sunday, March 2 2025 New York Times Crossword, checked and verified against the published NYT solution. Select a clue for the full explanation.

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1Town3 lettersSee answer ›4"___ funny …" (the most exciting phrase to hear in science, per Isaac Asimov)5 lettersSee answer ›9"Don't take offense," nowadays7 lettersSee answer ›16N.Y.C. neighborhood where the Cronut was invented3 lettersSee answer ›19Mid-voyage3 lettersSee answer ›20Members of a tough crowd, perhaps6 lettersSee answer ›21Some painkillers7 lettersSee answer ›22Neighbor of Pakistan3 lettersSee answer ›23Go-ahead responses3 lettersSee answer ›24The humanities, traditionally14 lettersSee answer ›26Move gingerly3 lettersSee answer ›27H.S. exams taken for college credit3 lettersSee answer ›28Hockey goal scored by deflecting an incoming puck5 lettersSee answer ›29Follower of Robespierre, in 18th-century France7 lettersSee answer ›30Winged pest3 lettersSee answer ›31What a daredevil might go without3 lettersSee answer ›32Binary pronoun options7 lettersSee answer ›34Photographer Goldin3 lettersSee answer ›35Expecting, informally5 lettersSee answer ›37One of two, in this clue7 lettersSee answer ›39Mafiosi7 lettersSee answer ›42Armada vessel6 lettersSee answer ›43Smidgen3 lettersSee answer ›44One tapped by leadership?3 lettersSee answer ›45Temper4 lettersSee answer ›46Bit of smack talk3 lettersSee answer ›47Sacred bird of Egyptian mythology4 lettersSee answer ›49Go in circles5 lettersSee answer ›51Taiwan-based tech giant4 lettersSee answer ›52Formicary residents4 lettersSee answer ›54Part of an underground network4 lettersSee answer ›55Maritime hazard3 lettersSee answer ›56It's simultaneously attractive and repulsive5 lettersSee answer ›58Malty craft beer6 lettersSee answer ›60Personal3 lettersSee answer ›61Mont Blanc, par exemple3 lettersSee answer ›62Like much limestone3 lettersSee answer ›63Gender abbr.3 lettersSee answer ›64Mama's mama4 lettersSee answer ›66Warning letters before a link4 lettersSee answer ›68Narrative arc3 lettersSee answer ›69Athletic competitions4 lettersSee answer ›70Band whose name is a rhyme scheme3 lettersSee answer ›71Vaping implement4 lettersSee answer ›72Oscar-winning Michelle4 lettersSee answer ›73Modest bouquet3 lettersSee answer ›74On the safe side, nautically3 lettersSee answer ›75Derby entry3 lettersSee answer ›76Comedian Philips3 lettersSee answer ›77Pompous "I"6 lettersSee answer ›79Makes mincemeat of5 lettersSee answer ›81Verifiable3 lettersSee answer ›82Actor Sebastian ___ of the "Avengers" movies4 lettersSee answer ›83Capital of East Timor4 lettersSee answer ›84Hurt badly4 lettersSee answer ›85Packaging cords5 lettersSee answer ›87Slippery4 lettersSee answer ›88Sloth, e.g.3 lettersSee answer ›89All-encompassing prefix4 lettersSee answer ›90Goddess of the dawn3 lettersSee answer ›91Site-seeing need?3 lettersSee answer ›92___ Rebellion (19th-century Chinese conflict)6 lettersSee answer ›95Something to chew on7 lettersSee answer ›97Is too overwhelmed with emotion to speak7 lettersSee answer ›101Showy5 lettersSee answer ›102Big name in fruit juice, or the first three letters of the fruit in it3 lettersSee answer ›103What "E" on a gauge means7 lettersSee answer ›105iPhone speaker?3 lettersSee answer ›106Spinoff of a popular lecture series3 lettersSee answer ›107Beers advertised with the slogan "La vida más fina"7 lettersSee answer ›110Prop ___5 lettersSee answer ›111Actress Carrie of HBO's "The Leftovers"3 lettersSee answer ›112Fighting3 lettersSee answer ›113Tidy way to color … and where seven words are hiding in this puzzle?14 lettersSee answer ›115Word on a shoppe sign3 lettersSee answer ›116Nike's swoosh or McDonald's golden arches3 lettersSee answer ›117Course with a name derived from the French word for "clear the table"7 lettersSee answer ›118Filmmaker John who directed the "Thriller" music video6 lettersSee answer ›119Equal3 lettersSee answer ›120Not quite yet3 lettersSee answer ›121Big name in Western wear7 lettersSee answer ›122"Good grief!"5 lettersSee answer ›123Some flight tracker data, for short3 lettersSee answer ›

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1Word after second or before split6 lettersSee answer ›2Hard court tournament6 lettersSee answer ›3What might fill you up after you fill up14 lettersSee answer ›4Parliamentary conservatives6 lettersSee answer ›5Cuisine style that's kept simmering at the table6 lettersSee answer ›6Pantheon of Norse gods5 lettersSee answer ›7Send8 lettersSee answer ›8W-9 nine: Abbr.3 lettersSee answer ›9Shortened name on a Pelicans jersey4 lettersSee answer ›10Well-connected grp.?4 lettersSee answer ›11Take a breather9 lettersSee answer ›12Milliners' decorations8 lettersSee answer ›13Stayed home for dinner5 lettersSee answer ›14"Nebraska" actor Bruce4 lettersSee answer ›15Shape of the border between yin and yang3 lettersSee answer ›16Longtime host Robert of NPR's "All Things Considered"6 lettersSee answer ›17Tries6 lettersSee answer ›18Approximate weight of a subcompact car or a medium-size giraffe6 lettersSee answer ›20Came clean?6 lettersSee answer ›25Set new records, say, informally4 lettersSee answer ›33___ pants (loose-fitting garb)5 lettersSee answer ›35American patriot Thomas5 lettersSee answer ›36Author of the "Goosebumps" series7 lettersSee answer ›38Gone by4 lettersSee answer ›40Came (from)8 lettersSee answer ›41Walks leisurely6 lettersSee answer ›42Sydneysider's salutation9 lettersSee answer ›44Two-point play in American football6 lettersSee answer ›47"At a time like this, scorching ___, not convincing argument, is needed": Frederick Douglass5 lettersSee answer ›48Super Mario character also known as King Koopa6 lettersSee answer ›49___ hook (device attached to a rope or cable)9 lettersSee answer ›50Stillness6 lettersSee answer ›53Star witness?14 lettersSee answer ›5716 years, for Little League Baseball8 lettersSee answer ›58Risen from the ashes6 lettersSee answer ›59Sloth, e.g.6 lettersSee answer ›63Lead-in to a stark reality6 lettersSee answer ›65Extreme pain5 lettersSee answer ›67Line of questioning?7 lettersSee answer ›69Saltwater6 lettersSee answer ›78Letter-shaped dress style5 lettersSee answer ›79Single-player and multiplayer, for two9 lettersSee answer ›80Knight's need5 lettersSee answer ›82Rockefeller Plaza muralist4 lettersSee answer ›84Driver8 lettersSee answer ›86Puns and anagrams, e.g.8 lettersSee answer ›91Except if6 lettersSee answer ›92Comes to6 lettersSee answer ›93Retort that sounds like a "Star Wars" character6 lettersSee answer ›94"Twister" star Bill6 lettersSee answer ›96Encryption code, in computer science lingo4 lettersSee answer ›97Spanish "when"6 lettersSee answer ›98Virgil epic6 lettersSee answer ›99Worn down6 lettersSee answer ›100Some Bay Area athletes, familiarly6 lettersSee answer ›102Following5 lettersSee answer ›104Fun romance5 lettersSee answer ›107Apt letters missing from "Te_h_ology r_view si_e"4 lettersSee answer ›108Emperor with a statue outside the Colosseum4 lettersSee answer ›109Memo header4 lettersSee answer ›113Points the finger at3 lettersSee answer ›114Popular wood for American whiskey barrels until a 20th-century blight3 lettersSee answer ›