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NYT Crossword May 14 2025 Answers

Deborah Simmons ✓Solving & explaining puzzles since 1998 · Updated May 14 2025

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Every answer from the Wednesday, May 14 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

1Do a spit take?4 lettersSee answer ›5Sea creature whose name doesn't rhyme with 1-Across, weirdly4 lettersSee answer ›9Bloating relief brand4 lettersSee answer ›13"I've made a huge mistake!"4 lettersSee answer ›14Dance during which newlyweds might be lifted in chairs4 lettersSee answer ›15Spin instructor?6 lettersSee answer ›17Color-changing fad jewelry ... or a description of this answer's shaded letters?9 lettersSee answer ›19Colombian cakes that have been around since pre-Columbian times6 lettersSee answer ›20Hit single from the 1983 "Flashdance" soundtrack6 lettersSee answer ›21Man's name that's also a suffix3 lettersSee answer ›23Storm center3 lettersSee answer ›24Heroes' journeys, say ... or a description of this answer's shaded letters?13 lettersSee answer ›29___ in comparison4 lettersSee answer ›32Starter starter?3 lettersSee answer ›33Barnard graduate, e.g.6 lettersSee answer ›34Long-running British record label3 lettersSee answer ›35Canine that bites5 lettersSee answer ›37Actress Rapace of "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo"5 lettersSee answer ›39Visual aids on scatter plots ... or a description of this answer's shaded letters?16 lettersSee answer ›43Not hot or cool5 lettersSee answer ›44Debase oneself5 lettersSee answer ›45Nickname that omits -anna3 lettersSee answer ›46What might be used to connect evidence on a detective's corkboard6 lettersSee answer ›49Go wrong3 lettersSee answer ›50Pot leaves?4 lettersSee answer ›51Some painting in a parking lot ... or a description of this answer's shaded letters?13 lettersSee answer ›54Suffix with legal3 lettersSee answer ›55Star sign?3 lettersSee answer ›56"Come on, help me out"6 lettersSee answer ›60Exposed6 lettersSee answer ›63Awkwardly lanky ... or a description of this answer's shaded letters?9 lettersSee answer ›66"I Dreamed a Dream" musical, familiarly6 lettersSee answer ›67Genuine4 lettersSee answer ›68Where to get a shelf off the shelf4 lettersSee answer ›69Breather4 lettersSee answer ›70Certain blue note4 lettersSee answer ›71Fit snugly (in)4 lettersSee answer ›

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12010s documentary trilogy about training for a very difficult wine exam4 lettersSee answer ›2"Hold your horses!"4 lettersSee answer ›3Ghost writer?4 lettersSee answer ›4Close-fitting part of a dress6 lettersSee answer ›5Some Mexican Americans8 lettersSee answer ›6Actor/director Howard3 lettersSee answer ›7Home to Los Glaciares National Park: Abbr.3 lettersSee answer ›8Word with cable or training5 lettersSee answer ›9Sound from an annoyed samoyed3 lettersSee answer ›10Time of one's life3 lettersSee answer ›11Starbursts?10 lettersSee answer ›12Bit of equipment in a dentist's office10 lettersSee answer ›15Assembly of experts5 lettersSee answer ›16Manipulates4 lettersSee answer ›18When doubled, zealous3 lettersSee answer ›22One-time connection3 lettersSee answer ›25Australian hoppers, for short4 lettersSee answer ›26Nay sayers5 lettersSee answer ›27Anticipatory events, collectively5 lettersSee answer ›28Cherubic archer4 lettersSee answer ›29Country where potatoes originated4 lettersSee answer ›30"Preach!"10 lettersSee answer ›31Playful poetry10 lettersSee answer ›35Lukewarm5 lettersSee answer ›36Stay there!5 lettersSee answer ›38Egyptian deity with a reduplicative name4 lettersSee answer ›40Reduplicative nickname in pop music4 lettersSee answer ›41Sushi seaweed4 lettersSee answer ›42Midwestern agricultural swath8 lettersSee answer ›47Fleetwood Mac vocalist Stevie5 lettersSee answer ›48Creature that stampeded in "The Lion King"3 lettersSee answer ›50Where to place personal items before walking through a scanner6 lettersSee answer ›51"You're on!"4 lettersSee answer ›52Settings on a bike5 lettersSee answer ›53Prey for an osprey3 lettersSee answer ›57Give the finger?4 lettersSee answer ›58Floors4 lettersSee answer ›59Exam whose score can't be argued, ironically4 lettersSee answer ›61Quick chats?3 lettersSee answer ›62"If you can't say something good about someone, ___ right here by me": Alice Roosevelt Longworth3 lettersSee answer ›64Greta of "Past Lives"3 lettersSee answer ›65Hardly stringent3 lettersSee answer ›