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NYT Crossword May 8 2025 Answers

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Every answer from the Thursday, May 8 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

12022 Jordan Peele horror/sci-fi film4 lettersSee answer ›5San ___ Bay (estuary near San Francisco)5 lettersSee answer ›10Noted silver-tongued Olympic gold medalist3 lettersSee answer ›13Coin toss call4 lettersSee answer ›14Supply5 lettersSee answer ›15Generals and such4 lettersSee answer ›16Quickly put (together)4 lettersSee answer ›17Tres + tres + tres5 lettersSee answer ›18Single ___ (tourney type)4 lettersSee answer ›19Clarifying words4 lettersSee answer ›20Kierkegaard, for one4 lettersSee answer ›21Cattle steerers5 lettersSee answer ›22Worn-down part3 lettersSee answer ›24Fail to understand6 lettersSee answer ›26Section of a curriculum3 lettersSee answer ›28Broadway star Hagen3 lettersSee answer ›30Musical pitch interval7 lettersSee answer ›34Mayo to mayo, say3 lettersSee answer ›35Writer honored by Oz Park in Chicago4 lettersSee answer ›37"My Neighbor ___," 1988 Hayao Miyazaki film6 lettersSee answer ›38One not getting enough sleep in Apr., perhaps3 lettersSee answer ›39"Mind your own business!" ... or a hint to the four sides of this puzzle7 lettersSee answer ›41Prefix with meter3 lettersSee answer ›42As a ___6 lettersSee answer ›44Prefix with phobia4 lettersSee answer ›45"I'm Just ___" (2023 Oscar-nominated song)3 lettersSee answer ›46Halting speakers?7 lettersSee answer ›48"Inside Politics" airer3 lettersSee answer ›49Field3 lettersSee answer ›50Like many flowers and prizes6 lettersSee answer ›52Down in the dumps3 lettersSee answer ›54Tasty pastry spread5 lettersSee answer ›57Main ingredient in the Japanese liqueur umeshu4 lettersSee answer ›59Hats, informally4 lettersSee answer ›62Nice chunk of dough4 lettersSee answer ›63Garden tool5 lettersSee answer ›64Kind of arch that resembles the shape of a Hershey's Kiss4 lettersSee answer ›65Qualifying races4 lettersSee answer ›66This might come in a saucer5 lettersSee answer ›67Side to take into consideration4 lettersSee answer ›68Actress Goth of 2022's "X"3 lettersSee answer ›69Supervises5 lettersSee answer ›70Mustang feature, once4 lettersSee answer ›

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1Org. with probes4 lettersSee answer ›2Muddies, as water4 lettersSee answer ›3Ascetic breakfast selection10 lettersSee answer ›4Channel for watching college games5 lettersSee answer ›5Turn topsy-turvy4 lettersSee answer ›6One doing some deep-sea exploration8 lettersSee answer ›7"Muy ___!"5 lettersSee answer ›8Resides a long time ago?6 lettersSee answer ›9Be down in the dumps3 lettersSee answer ›10Singer Guthrie4 lettersSee answer ›11Crisscross pattern4 lettersSee answer ›12Credos4 lettersSee answer ›15Lacking, with "of"6 lettersSee answer ›21Bike and Bike+, e.g.8 lettersSee answer ›23Like a witch's cauldron8 lettersSee answer ›25God honored by gladiatorial fights6 lettersSee answer ›26Mother-of-pearl5 lettersSee answer ›27How to sign a check5 lettersSee answer ›29Draw tight6 lettersSee answer ›31Criticized10 lettersSee answer ›32Primate, for humans5 lettersSee answer ›33Who "can get in the way of what I'm feelin'," in an Alicia Keys hit5 lettersSee answer ›36Letters on an N.Y.C. fare card3 lettersSee answer ›40Obstructed, as an opening8 lettersSee answer ›43God who begat the Titans6 lettersSee answer ›47Lissome6 lettersSee answer ›51Author ___-René Lesage5 lettersSee answer ›53Overhead5 lettersSee answer ›54Thing on a docket4 lettersSee answer ›55Something a waiter may pull out4 lettersSee answer ›56I, to Socrates4 lettersSee answer ›58Sharp set?4 lettersSee answer ›60Interior design4 lettersSee answer ›61Permeate4 lettersSee answer ›63Fill fully3 lettersSee answer ›