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NYT Crossword March 9 2025 Answers

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

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Across

1First lady McKinley3 lettersSee answer ›4Common saltwater baitfish4 lettersSee answer ›8Letters before Q4 lettersSee answer ›12Become crunchy in the oven7 lettersSee answer ›19Image of Mickey, maybe3 lettersSee answer ›20___ Nostra4 lettersSee answer ›21Lake that's largely fed by the Detroit River4 lettersSee answer ›22"Red telephone," historically7 lettersSee answer ›23Breakfast order request8 lettersSee answer ›25[London Herald, 4/16/1912]12 lettersSee answer ›27[The New York Times, 8/9/1974]12 lettersSee answer ›29"Scarface"8 lettersSee answer ›30Schedule5 lettersSee answer ›31Drives off5 lettersSee answer ›32"Catch ya later!"5 lettersSee answer ›33Wee one3 lettersSee answer ›34Frankincense or myrrh5 lettersSee answer ›36T-E-A-M doesn't have one, so they say3 lettersSee answer ›37Plantain lily, by another name5 lettersSee answer ›39[Chicago Daily Tribune, 11/3/1948]18 lettersSee answer ›47Company once called the California Perfume Company4 lettersSee answer ›48Wrap one's head around3 lettersSee answer ›49Popular Hawaiian dish4 lettersSee answer ›50Driest country in sub-Saharan Africa7 lettersSee answer ›54They're below par7 lettersSee answer ›56Choice words3 lettersSee answer ›57Footwear for a sharp dresser?9 lettersSee answer ›59"___ Mouse," Chick Corea jazz standard of 19725 lettersSee answer ›60Toward the opposing goal, in hockey5 lettersSee answer ›62Geometry calculation: Abbr.3 lettersSee answer ›63"How ya doin'?"3 lettersSee answer ›64[Variety, 10/30/1929]15 lettersSee answer ›70___ Dhabi3 lettersSee answer ›73Alliance since 1948, in brief3 lettersSee answer ›74Golf's Slammin' Sammy5 lettersSee answer ›75Bouquet5 lettersSee answer ›79Seer cursed by Apollo so that her prophecies would not be believed9 lettersSee answer ›83Poorly3 lettersSee answer ›84Headwear that's stereotypically red7 lettersSee answer ›86Breakout performer?7 lettersSee answer ›87It's blowin' in the wind4 lettersSee answer ›89___ thruster (physics lab device)3 lettersSee answer ›90Corrin of "Nosferatu"4 lettersSee answer ›91[New York Daily News, 10/30/1975]18 lettersSee answer ›95"The rubber people," in Nahuatl5 lettersSee answer ›98"Biting" characteristic3 lettersSee answer ›99Big name in health care5 lettersSee answer ›100Trouble3 lettersSee answer ›101Fleet5 lettersSee answer ›104Where people typically go to the mat?5 lettersSee answer ›106Attempt to tear5 lettersSee answer ›111Fool around8 lettersSee answer ›113With 115-Across, [New York Post, 4/15/1983]12 lettersSee answer ›115See 113-Across12 lettersSee answer ›117"Jeez Louise!"8 lettersSee answer ›118Boils7 lettersSee answer ›119Latin "Look"4 lettersSee answer ›120Filmmaker Johnson4 lettersSee answer ›121Degree held by only one U.S. president (George W. Bush)3 lettersSee answer ›122Drink after a race, say7 lettersSee answer ›123Signaled4 lettersSee answer ›124Wraps up4 lettersSee answer ›125The Second vis-à-vis the First, say3 lettersSee answer ›

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1Cher and Madonna, e.g.5 lettersSee answer ›2Old Scratch, with "the"5 lettersSee answer ›3Baby name whose popularity plummeted after 20155 lettersSee answer ›4It might be chewed in a theater7 lettersSee answer ›5Frost4 lettersSee answer ›6Taxpayers9 lettersSee answer ›79 to 5, e.g.8 lettersSee answer ›8Release5 lettersSee answer ›9Beams5 lettersSee answer ›10Parts of comedy routines4 lettersSee answer ›11Serving at a Chinese restaurant3 lettersSee answer ›12Carolina Reaper, for one5 lettersSee answer ›13Good name for a geologist?5 lettersSee answer ›14"How sad"9 lettersSee answer ›15Lapse4 lettersSee answer ›16Some red or white wines6 lettersSee answer ›17Pull some strings?6 lettersSee answer ›18Old Spanish coin6 lettersSee answer ›24Waste away3 lettersSee answer ›26Bottom5 lettersSee answer ›28Actress Skye4 lettersSee answer ›32Payments made at a table5 lettersSee answer ›35Leg up4 lettersSee answer ›36Query3 lettersSee answer ›38"I'll get to work right now"4 lettersSee answer ›39Dollops4 lettersSee answer ›40___ Woods, best-selling author of 2023's "The Lost Bookshop"4 lettersSee answer ›41Threadbare4 lettersSee answer ›42Fund, as a college5 lettersSee answer ›43They're known to open with some jokes6 lettersSee answer ›44Longtime music director of the NBC Symphony Orchestra9 lettersSee answer ›45The "U" of 60-Down5 lettersSee answer ›46"Damage" director Louis5 lettersSee answer ›51K-pop septet3 lettersSee answer ›52Short note?3 lettersSee answer ›53Creature in the final scene of "Cleopatra"3 lettersSee answer ›55Long-term deposit, in brief3 lettersSee answer ›56Go (for)3 lettersSee answer ›58Certain spot4 lettersSee answer ›60It once shared a land border with 16 countries4 lettersSee answer ›61Drawstring place6 lettersSee answer ›65Hardly the social butterfly5 lettersSee answer ›66Stowed5 lettersSee answer ›67___ soda3 lettersSee answer ›68Needlefish3 lettersSee answer ›69Monopolist's trait5 lettersSee answer ›70One-pointer in cribbage3 lettersSee answer ›71Some undergrad degs.3 lettersSee answer ›72Trojans' sch.3 lettersSee answer ›76"Jeez, I can't catch a break"4 lettersSee answer ›77Call from a crib4 lettersSee answer ›78Slightly4 lettersSee answer ›80Umpire's ruling4 lettersSee answer ›81Writings of dubious authenticity9 lettersSee answer ›82Eschew5 lettersSee answer ›84"Victory is mine!," in modern lingo9 lettersSee answer ›85Privy to4 lettersSee answer ›88Make a scene3 lettersSee answer ›89"My heavens!"8 lettersSee answer ›92They can support a nest egg5 lettersSee answer ›9348-oz. beer glass4 lettersSee answer ›94Service providers?7 lettersSee answer ›95Wise-appearing6 lettersSee answer ›96___ Tunes6 lettersSee answer ›97Like the cheese in a grilled cheese6 lettersSee answer ›102Protective tip on a lace5 lettersSee answer ›103Bel ___ cheese5 lettersSee answer ›104Informal goodbye5 lettersSee answer ›105Made some waves?5 lettersSee answer ›107Tech giant whose initials are its N.Y.S.E. symbol3 lettersSee answer ›108Some have meters5 lettersSee answer ›109Mexican marinade5 lettersSee answer ›110"The Seduction of Joe ___" (1979 Alan Alda film)5 lettersSee answer ›112Tolkien trilogy, for short4 lettersSee answer ›113Morehouse or Howard, in brief4 lettersSee answer ›114Whole bunch4 lettersSee answer ›116Instant3 lettersSee answer ›