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NYT Crossword May 9 2025 Answers

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Every answer from the Friday, May 9 2025 New York Times Crossword, checked and verified against the published NYT solution. Select a clue for the full explanation.

Constructed by Willa Angel Chen Miller and Erik Agard · Edited by Will Shortz

Across

1Walks softly4 lettersSee answer ›5Impossible to contact by ordinary means10 lettersSee answer ›15"___, sing America"4 lettersSee answer ›16Feature focused on investigation and resolution10 lettersSee answer ›17Turf4 lettersSee answer ›18Downward-facing dog?10 lettersSee answer ›19___ text (label for a screen reader)3 lettersSee answer ›20___ Robert Jr., 2020 Gold Glove Award winner4 lettersSee answer ›21Encrust4 lettersSee answer ›22What might be caught Red-handed?7 lettersSee answer ›24Cracker topper4 lettersSee answer ›27Raise5 lettersSee answer ›28Popular vacation spot8 lettersSee answer ›32Talks up5 lettersSee answer ›33It's not worth what it seems9 lettersSee answer ›34Kick out4 lettersSee answer ›35Roughly 62% of its claimed territory is in Antarctica5 lettersSee answer ›36Fine-textured wood used in musical instruments4 lettersSee answer ›37Unfettered flow of goods9 lettersSee answer ›39It might turn up a turnip5 lettersSee answer ›40Software clients8 lettersSee answer ›41Minuscule5 lettersSee answer ›42"That's my opinion, too"4 lettersSee answer ›43Components of some makeovers7 lettersSee answer ›45Boatload4 lettersSee answer ›48First-rate, in slang4 lettersSee answer ›49R&B's ___ Hill3 lettersSee answer ›50"Be kind!"10 lettersSee answer ›54First name of the first Black woman to win a Nobel Prize in Literature4 lettersSee answer ›55What holding one's thumb up might indicate10 lettersSee answer ›56"How could ___?"4 lettersSee answer ›57Cooking byproduct sometimes called "liquid gold"10 lettersSee answer ›58Rescues, maybe4 lettersSee answer ›

Down

1Fragrant rice dish5 lettersSee answer ›2Day and night10 lettersSee answer ›3"Must I spell it out further?"10 lettersSee answer ›4Turf3 lettersSee answer ›5Like practices associated with pentacles6 lettersSee answer ›6Enfeebled5 lettersSee answer ›7Some scuba diving gear4 lettersSee answer ›8"OMG, I didn't need to know that!"3 lettersSee answer ›9"She's everything. ___ just Ken" (2023 movie tagline)3 lettersSee answer ›10Genre heard at many raves, for short3 lettersSee answer ›11Pioneer in computer science who has a college at Yale named after her11 lettersSee answer ›12Asian royal4 lettersSee answer ›13"Don't worry about me"4 lettersSee answer ›14Have the audacity4 lettersSee answer ›20Colleen4 lettersSee answer ›23Emotionally complex, in a way11 lettersSee answer ›24James Baldwin's "If ___ Street Could Talk"5 lettersSee answer ›25One-named singer in the 2023 hit "Prada"4 lettersSee answer ›26What one might subscribe to3 lettersSee answer ›28"I'll let that ___ …"5 lettersSee answer ›29Not to be repeated10 lettersSee answer ›30Seeking comment?10 lettersSee answer ›31Title heroine who says "I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will; which I now exert to leave you"4 lettersSee answer ›32Stir-fry protein option4 lettersSee answer ›33This, too, shall pass5 lettersSee answer ›35Squeeze4 lettersSee answer ›38Not yet final, in brief3 lettersSee answer ›39Number of kings en España named Felipe4 lettersSee answer ›41Position at a food company6 lettersSee answer ›43Throng5 lettersSee answer ›44Boardroom group5 lettersSee answer ›45Mail4 lettersSee answer ›46Superboy's crush4 lettersSee answer ›47Holiday lead-ins4 lettersSee answer ›48Entice4 lettersSee answer ›51Antidiscrimination legis. of 19903 lettersSee answer ›52___ flakes (fruity Chinese snack)3 lettersSee answer ›53Long period3 lettersSee answer ›54What a boat shouldn't do3 lettersSee answer ›