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NYT Crossword May 1 2025 Answers

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Every answer from the Thursday, May 1 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 Adam Levav · Edited by Will Shortz

Across

1Schoolroom that serves as a studio6 lettersSee answer ›7Original airer of "Doctor Who"3 lettersSee answer ›10Covenant4 lettersSee answer ›14Give a lashing6 lettersSee answer ›15Whom Will Smith played in a 2001 sports biopic3 lettersSee answer ›16Son of Zeus and Hera4 lettersSee answer ›17Sweetener in some diet sodas6 lettersSee answer ›18*Cat breed named after an Indonesian island from which it didn't originate8 lettersSee answer ›20Places to carry out some takeout orders, for short?3 lettersSee answer ›21Light unit5 lettersSee answer ›23"Not in the ___!"5 lettersSee answer ›24*It's "read" as a stern warning7 lettersSee answer ›26*Relative of a snowboard7 lettersSee answer ›28___ Men (group that won a Grammy Award in 2001 for Best Dance Recording)4 lettersSee answer ›29Old tone5 lettersSee answer ›31Is for the people?3 lettersSee answer ›32Daffy Duck speaking feature4 lettersSee answer ›34"I wanna!"5 lettersSee answer ›37Brings up a prior topic … or a hint to making sense of the answers to this puzzle's starred clues11 lettersSee answer ›41Country that was home to the Ebla library, thought to be the world's first (2500 B.C.)5 lettersSee answer ›42Sheet music symbol4 lettersSee answer ›44Past-tense verb that's potentially confusing (but grammatically correct!) when written twice in a row3 lettersSee answer ›47___ salt (form of magnesium sulfate)5 lettersSee answer ›50Lead-in to -nautics4 lettersSee answer ›52*Carve out, in a way7 lettersSee answer ›55*Comedy club fare7 lettersSee answer ›57Columbus's birthplace5 lettersSee answer ›58"___ My Heart in San Francisco"5 lettersSee answer ›60Video game character speaking a gibberish language3 lettersSee answer ›61*Villain's expression8 lettersSee answer ›63Like does6 lettersSee answer ›65___ Mendoza, former first lady of Puerto Rico4 lettersSee answer ›66Onetime C.I.A. foe3 lettersSee answer ›67Like government secrets, occasionally6 lettersSee answer ›68Title friend of Marlin in an animated film4 lettersSee answer ›69Times Square ball drop setting, in brief3 lettersSee answer ›70Revered sorts6 lettersSee answer ›

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1Soak up6 lettersSee answer ›2Outcome of a hung jury7 lettersSee answer ›3"How stylish!"8 lettersSee answer ›4W.C.3 lettersSee answer ›5Not quite straight up5 lettersSee answer ›6Gorgeous ones, informally6 lettersSee answer ›7Film based on the 1983 children's novel "The Sheep-Pig"4 lettersSee answer ›8Some comforters for toddlers8 lettersSee answer ›9Modern prefix with normativity3 lettersSee answer ›10Dairy-less diet5 lettersSee answer ›11Singer Grande6 lettersSee answer ›12Turn into stars, say?6 lettersSee answer ›13Tswana for "fly"6 lettersSee answer ›19West ___ (furniture retailer)3 lettersSee answer ›22Trailblazing astronaut Jemison3 lettersSee answer ›25Refuge from the heat5 lettersSee answer ›27It's one foot long4 lettersSee answer ›30Calls for sympathy5 lettersSee answer ›33Snoop3 lettersSee answer ›35Big thing in fast food?3 lettersSee answer ›36Splendor5 lettersSee answer ›38Language that gave us "Saskatchewan"4 lettersSee answer ›39Piercings that might be felt while kissing8 lettersSee answer ›40Memento8 lettersSee answer ›43More delicate and weak7 lettersSee answer ›44Who says "You're a wizard, Harry"6 lettersSee answer ›45Skin-care brand6 lettersSee answer ›46City that lends its name to a style of omelet6 lettersSee answer ›48Uplifting work3 lettersSee answer ›49Quiet6 lettersSee answer ›51Popping pills, say6 lettersSee answer ›53Racket-raising5 lettersSee answer ›54___ pal3 lettersSee answer ›56Source of Andrew Carnegie's wealth5 lettersSee answer ›59Community associated with Out magazine4 lettersSee answer ›62President posthumously inducted in the World Golf Hall of Fame, informally3 lettersSee answer ›64Crackpot3 lettersSee answer ›