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NYT Crossword May 21 2025 Answers

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Every answer from the Wednesday, May 21 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

1Word with chocolate or computer4 lettersSee answer ›5Thompson or Stone of 2021's "Cruella"4 lettersSee answer ›9Fragment5 lettersSee answer ›14Sci-fi novel with giant sandworms4 lettersSee answer ›15Help for a faltering business4 lettersSee answer ›16Type of hunter-gatherer diet5 lettersSee answer ›17"Smile for the photo, dude!"9 lettersSee answer ›19Able to bend smoothly5 lettersSee answer ›20Fragment6 lettersSee answer ›21Mythological instruments of vengeance6 lettersSee answer ›22Contractor's pipe material, for short3 lettersSee answer ›24"Work on your enunciation, bro!"11 lettersSee answer ›26Omen7 lettersSee answer ›28Little bit of work3 lettersSee answer ›29"The most beautiful deception of all," per Debussy3 lettersSee answer ›30Tedious work4 lettersSee answer ›31Much social media humor5 lettersSee answer ›33"That is messed up, girl!"13 lettersSee answer ›39___ and foremost5 lettersSee answer ›40Origin crossers4 lettersSee answer ›42Marshland3 lettersSee answer ›45Org. whose officers train at Camp Peary3 lettersSee answer ›46Cause to jump, say7 lettersSee answer ›49"Protect the quarterback, buddy!"11 lettersSee answer ›52Pupil's place3 lettersSee answer ›53Best way to sing6 lettersSee answer ›54What "sostenuto" means in music6 lettersSee answer ›56Cuba ___ (drink)5 lettersSee answer ›57"That's unbelievable, love!"9 lettersSee answer ›60Diarist Nin5 lettersSee answer ›61Leave out4 lettersSee answer ›62Finger4 lettersSee answer ›63Seems to point to5 lettersSee answer ›64"Damned if ___ …"4 lettersSee answer ›65Put on a schedule4 lettersSee answer ›

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1Atlanta-based govt. agency3 lettersSee answer ›2"Come again?"3 lettersSee answer ›3How some funds are held8 lettersSee answer ›4What old paint might do4 lettersSee answer ›5Smallest three-syllable number6 lettersSee answer ›6Tin lizzie6 lettersSee answer ›7Language in which "Kia ora" means "Hello"5 lettersSee answer ›8Director Lee3 lettersSee answer ›9Goes for the expensive option, say8 lettersSee answer ›10Sticky, as a situation5 lettersSee answer ›11Nissan sedan6 lettersSee answer ›12Try again6 lettersSee answer ›13"That ___ ring a bell"6 lettersSee answer ›18One of two on a record4 lettersSee answer ›21Physicist Enrico5 lettersSee answer ›22Afterthought's afterthought: Abbr.3 lettersSee answer ›23Plug-in Chevy4 lettersSee answer ›25Geese formations4 lettersSee answer ›27Cry near quittin' time4 lettersSee answer ›31Colorado summer hrs.3 lettersSee answer ›32Classic cookie cutter shape4 lettersSee answer ›34Something feigned by Ferris Bueller to get out of school8 lettersSee answer ›35Shoshone, e.g.5 lettersSee answer ›36Biblical birthright barterer4 lettersSee answer ›37Not from within8 lettersSee answer ›38Depend (on)4 lettersSee answer ›41"Get it?"3 lettersSee answer ›42Forensics HQ in Quantico, Va.6 lettersSee answer ›43Cause of some turbulent weather6 lettersSee answer ›44"That's halfway decent!"6 lettersSee answer ›46Like a good poker face6 lettersSee answer ›47Look after6 lettersSee answer ›48Cry of frustration4 lettersSee answer ›50Marie who is the only person to win a Nobel Prize in two different science fields5 lettersSee answer ›51Ectoplasmic residue5 lettersSee answer ›55Many ages4 lettersSee answer ›57"Mind. Blown."3 lettersSee answer ›58Brooding music genre3 lettersSee answer ›59So far3 lettersSee answer ›