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NYT Crossword May 17 2025 Answers

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Every answer from the Saturday, May 17 2025 New York Times Crossword, checked and verified against the published NYT solution. Select a clue for the full explanation.

Constructed by Ryan Judge · Edited by Will Shortz

Across

1Much mail to Santa5 lettersSee answer ›6Rubbish destinations4 lettersSee answer ›10Sultanate that controls the exclave of Madha4 lettersSee answer ›14Mescal source5 lettersSee answer ›15Tip line?9 lettersSee answer ›17Sitcom set in a corner store run by a Korean Canadian family (2016-21)15 lettersSee answer ›19Halloween vis-à-vis All Saints' Day3 lettersSee answer ›20Hair color, e.g.5 lettersSee answer ›21Cards' home3 lettersSee answer ›22The sun, e.g., in about five billion years8 lettersSee answer ›24Humiliated (or honored), as on Nickelodeon6 lettersSee answer ›27Like one preferring platonic relationships, informally3 lettersSee answer ›28British singer ___ Parks4 lettersSee answer ›30Museum with works by Hockney, Turner and Millais4 lettersSee answer ›31Going down, in a way11 lettersSee answer ›35Threw one's hat in the ring3 lettersSee answer ›36Becomes uncomfortable, as underwear7 lettersSee answer ›37Frightful7 lettersSee answer ›39Type that's compatible with everyone, in brief4 lettersSee answer ›40First president of the S.C.L.C.3 lettersSee answer ›42Neutral color3 lettersSee answer ›43Work well together3 lettersSee answer ›44"C'mon, dish it!"11 lettersSee answer ›49Chicken nugget shape4 lettersSee answer ›51Stands to practice hitting4 lettersSee answer ›52Causes of some burns4 lettersSee answer ›53N.F.L. team whose name is a literary reference6 lettersSee answer ›55Fills up8 lettersSee answer ›57Scale range8 lettersSee answer ›59Blather6 lettersSee answer ›60"Bad Moon Rising" band, familiarly3 lettersSee answer ›61Further4 lettersSee answer ›62M.L.B. star Pete who holds the single-season record for homers by a rookie (53)6 lettersSee answer ›63Map inset3 lettersSee answer ›64End of a trail, perhaps4 lettersSee answer ›65They're accepted at church6 lettersSee answer ›

Down

1Athlete who shares his home venue with the Sparks5 lettersSee answer ›2"Enough!"5 lettersSee answer ›3Prime choice15 lettersSee answer ›4They're found in dens3 lettersSee answer ›5Sports and Arts, e.g.8 lettersSee answer ›6Something to take in from a boat11 lettersSee answer ›7Outside the typical biological setting7 lettersSee answer ›8Dostoyevsky's denial4 lettersSee answer ›9Spanish word on a U.S. map3 lettersSee answer ›10Having lost interest6 lettersSee answer ›11Where you might refuel after refueling8 lettersSee answer ›12Miami is in it, for short3 lettersSee answer ›13French word that sounds like a vote3 lettersSee answer ›16Turn (up)4 lettersSee answer ›18Rita ___, "R.I.P." singer3 lettersSee answer ›23Composer Edvard5 lettersSee answer ›24"Anyway, gonna move on now"11 lettersSee answer ›25Name-dropping abbreviation4 lettersSee answer ›26Not own4 lettersSee answer ›29Schlep3 lettersSee answer ›31End part of a violin bow4 lettersSee answer ›32What might lead to a row at a party?9 lettersSee answer ›33Forrest of film4 lettersSee answer ›34Miscellany4 lettersSee answer ›38Chain whose name came from a Boston hotel whose sign was too expensive to remove8 lettersSee answer ›41Part of a cold pack?7 lettersSee answer ›44Wine valley in the Bay Area6 lettersSee answer ›45Green expanse3 lettersSee answer ›46It was founded as the Medical College of Louisiana6 lettersSee answer ›47One with an "I" problem?6 lettersSee answer ›48Team whose logo contains an "H" on top of a star6 lettersSee answer ›50It's not gross3 lettersSee answer ›53Sway4 lettersSee answer ›54"Enough!"4 lettersSee answer ›56Base of a pump4 lettersSee answer ›58"Ended, ___ it begun" (Emily Dickinson poem)3 lettersSee answer ›