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NYT Crossword May 2 2025 Answers

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Every answer from the Friday, May 2 2025 New York Times Crossword, checked and verified against the published NYT solution. Select a clue for the full explanation.

Constructed by Robyn Weintraub · Edited by Will Shortz

Across

1Setting for Arthur Miller's "The Crucible"5 lettersSee answer ›6"Well, ___ …" (segue)4 lettersSee answer ›10Grouch4 lettersSee answer ›14Gatsby or Hamlet10 lettersSee answer ›16Dolly of "Hello, Dolly!"4 lettersSee answer ›17Sides of circles?10 lettersSee answer ›18Not settled4 lettersSee answer ›19Seal team?3 lettersSee answer ›20Chloride and oxide, for two4 lettersSee answer ›21Fetes6 lettersSee answer ›23Unchecked4 lettersSee answer ›24___ seeds (ingredients in pickling)6 lettersSee answer ›25"Is that an amazing offer or what?"13 lettersSee answer ›29Titular female Disney character whose name also appears in a Shakespeare play5 lettersSee answer ›30Titular male Shakespeare character whose name also appears in a Disney film5 lettersSee answer ›31X3 lettersSee answer ›34Do something of interest?4 lettersSee answer ›35Like straw baskets5 lettersSee answer ›36Sunfish feature4 lettersSee answer ›37Modern car accessory3 lettersSee answer ›38Literary bird with a one-word vocabulary, apparently5 lettersSee answer ›39Merely watches without saying a word5 lettersSee answer ›40"Yadda, yadda, yadda"13 lettersSee answer ›43More inclined to recline6 lettersSee answer ›44Aerosol output4 lettersSee answer ›45Malaysian state or island6 lettersSee answer ›46Doesn't guzzle4 lettersSee answer ›47Poke bowl delicacy3 lettersSee answer ›50Sikorsky or Stravinsky4 lettersSee answer ›51"To nobody's surprise ..."10 lettersSee answer ›54It's a piece of work4 lettersSee answer ›55Categorize narrowly10 lettersSee answer ›56They might be red or blonde4 lettersSee answer ›57One of 12 on a euro coin4 lettersSee answer ›58Wires, say5 lettersSee answer ›

Down

1"You're doing it all wrong!"4 lettersSee answer ›2River next to the Uffizi Gallery4 lettersSee answer ›3Put (down)4 lettersSee answer ›4Impediment to collaboration3 lettersSee answer ›5Barely enough7 lettersSee answer ›6"No need to respond right now"11 lettersSee answer ›7Natural incubators4 lettersSee answer ›8Bit of energy (and of "energy")3 lettersSee answer ›9Makes a snack of8 lettersSee answer ›10Sci-fi remakes?6 lettersSee answer ›11It may have pluses and minuses10 lettersSee answer ›12Lincoln Center's former ___ Fisher Hall5 lettersSee answer ›13Containers at airport security4 lettersSee answer ›15Sing like Perry Como or Mel Tormé5 lettersSee answer ›22Swedish actress Lena4 lettersSee answer ›23Crushed, as a test4 lettersSee answer ›24Concrete example of rotational forces and fluid dynamics?11 lettersSee answer ›25One of two for one4 lettersSee answer ›26Brand that once offered an "Uh-Oh!" variety4 lettersSee answer ›27Best someone, but just barely10 lettersSee answer ›28Transfix5 lettersSee answer ›32A walk in the park?4 lettersSee answer ›33The "kid" in "Here's looking at you, kid"4 lettersSee answer ›35Concerns of the Paycheck Fairness Act8 lettersSee answer ›36Bams, cracks or dots, in mahjong4 lettersSee answer ›38Many a UNESCO site4 lettersSee answer ›39Subsides7 lettersSee answer ›41Much of northern Arkansas6 lettersSee answer ›42Land animal closely related to whales5 lettersSee answer ›43___ tender5 lettersSee answer ›45Shawarma wrap4 lettersSee answer ›46Super Monkey Ball brand4 lettersSee answer ›47Buckets4 lettersSee answer ›48Didn't give way4 lettersSee answer ›49Every month has one4 lettersSee answer ›52Early instruction in canine obedience school3 lettersSee answer ›53Mandy Patinkin's role in "Evita"3 lettersSee answer ›