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Every answer from the Sunday, May 18 2025 New York Times Crossword, checked and verified against the published NYT solution. Select a clue for the full explanation.

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1Verso's counterpart5 lettersSee answer ›6Alternative to an onion bagel5 lettersSee answer ›11Jai ___4 lettersSee answer ›15Where the Pilgrims first landed in the New World4 lettersSee answer ›19Skating gold medalist Oksana5 lettersSee answer ›20Host5 lettersSee answer ›21Quick look4 lettersSee answer ›22Has a tab open, say4 lettersSee answer ›23Hip-hop's "Puba" and "Daddy I.U."?11 lettersSee answer ›25Station near Madison Square Garden, for short4 lettersSee answer ›26Fleet4 lettersSee answer ›27Hung around8 lettersSee answer ›28Remove from the champagne bucket?10 lettersSee answer ›30"Just kidding!"3 lettersSee answer ›31Feeling rash?5 lettersSee answer ›34Hip-hop artist with the 2019 hit "My Type"8 lettersSee answer ›35Crisis involving cartels7 lettersSee answer ›39Goes "Vroom!"5 lettersSee answer ›41Royal title4 lettersSee answer ›42Casting a total brat in the school play?14 lettersSee answer ›45Some govt. securities6 lettersSee answer ›49___-tempered4 lettersSee answer ›50"Super cool!"4 lettersSee answer ›51Get ready to take a shot3 lettersSee answer ›53Ship propeller5 lettersSee answer ›54French for "from"3 lettersSee answer ›55Release4 lettersSee answer ›57Dante's guide in the "Inferno"6 lettersSee answer ›60Singer Del Rey4 lettersSee answer ›61"The score upon which reality is written," per Henry Miller5 lettersSee answer ›62Apps might be seen on one4 lettersSee answer ›63Sediment, e.g.7 lettersSee answer ›65"The co-star of 'Duck Soup' has to be sore after that!"?19 lettersSee answer ›69Anonymous guy7 lettersSee answer ›70Pauperism, so to speak4 lettersSee answer ›71Author of the 2020 memoir "Cubed"5 lettersSee answer ›72Lots4 lettersSee answer ›73"Because I'm the boss!"6 lettersSee answer ›75Pinged online4 lettersSee answer ›76Condition for which Luvox may be prescribed, in brief3 lettersSee answer ›79"Wonder Woman" star5 lettersSee answer ›81Mountain ___3 lettersSee answer ›82Late singer Payne of One Direction4 lettersSee answer ›84Modern home of where cuneiform writing originated4 lettersSee answer ›85Way up or way down6 lettersSee answer ›87"How long have beavers blocked this river?"?14 lettersSee answer ›92"As ___ …"4 lettersSee answer ›94Earthenware pots5 lettersSee answer ›95Was comparable to7 lettersSee answer ›96Apparel feature that a bandeau lacks8 lettersSee answer ›100Function in the role of5 lettersSee answer ›102Monk's title3 lettersSee answer ›103Be crazy about Chicago trains with broken A.C.s?10 lettersSee answer ›105Much in quantity8 lettersSee answer ›109Baseball family name4 lettersSee answer ›110Actor Jared4 lettersSee answer ›111Metric in a competitive family business?11 lettersSee answer ›114Prince, e.g.4 lettersSee answer ›115In ___ parentis4 lettersSee answer ›116Blow5 lettersSee answer ›117Designer Hilfiger5 lettersSee answer ›118Lays turf on4 lettersSee answer ›119Little twerp4 lettersSee answer ›120Trunk5 lettersSee answer ›121Head of Slytherin House in the Harry Potter books5 lettersSee answer ›

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1Subject of the 2018 biopic "On the Basis of Sex," familiarly3 lettersSee answer ›2Noble title4 lettersSee answer ›3"Ci vediamo in giro!"4 lettersSee answer ›4Getting ready to listen8 lettersSee answer ›5Historic district of a city7 lettersSee answer ›6Gnarly problem, so to speak4 lettersSee answer ›7Architect of Hong Kong's Bank of China Tower5 lettersSee answer ›8Certain hallucinatory experience8 lettersSee answer ›9Directed3 lettersSee answer ›10Last word of James Joyce's "Ulysses"3 lettersSee answer ›11Dad, in Korean4 lettersSee answer ›12Ingredients in some potato soups5 lettersSee answer ›13Son of Aphrodite6 lettersSee answer ›14"You don't have to tell me"7 lettersSee answer ›15Time for a pick-me-up, humorously12 lettersSee answer ›16Lie ahead5 lettersSee answer ›17Joe of "Home Alone"5 lettersSee answer ›18First name in perfumes5 lettersSee answer ›24Label anew5 lettersSee answer ›28Banks from Los Angeles4 lettersSee answer ›29Maidenhair and others5 lettersSee answer ›32Common dog command4 lettersSee answer ›33Chance3 lettersSee answer ›35Hit up on Instagram, informally4 lettersSee answer ›36Overnight party with light shows and "cuddle puddles"4 lettersSee answer ›37Luau strings4 lettersSee answer ›38Rock group with the 1992 hit "Creep"9 lettersSee answer ›40Harum-___ (reckless)6 lettersSee answer ›43Untrue5 lettersSee answer ›44Notaro of comedy3 lettersSee answer ›46Drag-and-drop disposal icon5 lettersSee answer ›47Start of a counting rhyme5 lettersSee answer ›48Hit with a smack4 lettersSee answer ›52Time in a Shakespeare title9 lettersSee answer ›55Former Israeli P.M. Olmert4 lettersSee answer ›56Platform for Safari and FaceTime5 lettersSee answer ›57Borderline5 lettersSee answer ›58"Need You Tonight" band, 19874 lettersSee answer ›59Leave alone5 lettersSee answer ›61Arbiters of taste12 lettersSee answer ›62Polite term of address4 lettersSee answer ›64Stamp on an invoice4 lettersSee answer ›65Implied5 lettersSee answer ›66Valerie Harper title role5 lettersSee answer ›67One of three immortal elders in "A Wrinkle in Time"6 lettersSee answer ›68Dickens's ___ Heep5 lettersSee answer ›69Bouts4 lettersSee answer ›74Tree whose name sounds like a pronoun3 lettersSee answer ›76Word with history or hygiene4 lettersSee answer ›77Shut up4 lettersSee answer ›78Threw out of a contest, informally4 lettersSee answer ›80Philosopher's pursuit5 lettersSee answer ›82Exam with an argumentative writing section, in brief4 lettersSee answer ›83"You know, I can't quite remember"8 lettersSee answer ›84"Oh geez, the answer was staring me in the face!"8 lettersSee answer ›86Goes through screen after screen7 lettersSee answer ›88"Sadly …"4 lettersSee answer ›89Special attention, for short3 lettersSee answer ›90Made nice5 lettersSee answer ›91Wading birds7 lettersSee answer ›93Publicly bash6 lettersSee answer ›96Doldrums5 lettersSee answer ›97Lumberjacks' competition5 lettersSee answer ›98Walk around, maybe5 lettersSee answer ›99Where one might pick up litter5 lettersSee answer ›101Oozes5 lettersSee answer ›104Burgle4 lettersSee answer ›106About4 lettersSee answer ›107West Point inst.4 lettersSee answer ›108Fanfare4 lettersSee answer ›111Like a diamond in a ring3 lettersSee answer ›112Queer identity, in brief3 lettersSee answer ›11312/313 lettersSee answer ›