NYT CROSSWORD • TUESDAY, APRIL 15, 2025

NYT Crossword Answers Apr 15, 2025

Complete answer list for the April 15, 2025 New York Times Crossword. Across and Down, every clue, every answer — plus the full grid below.

By Per BykodorovEdited by Will ShortzGrid 15×1576 clues

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Across 35

  1. 1"Snow job" or "rainmaker," e.g. ↗SLANG
  2. 6Beer pong locale ↗FRAT
  3. 10Tight-lipped ↗MUM
  4. 13Figure once marketed as "America's movable fighting man" ↗GIJOE
  5. 14Tempt ↗LURE
  6. 15___ for sore eyes (www.optometrists.com?) ↗SITE
  7. 16Like a film that's both sad and funny ↗TRAGICOMIC
  8. 18Cactus ___ (Arizona's state bird) ↗WREN
  9. 19Lisa Simpson's musical instrument ↗SAX
  10. 20"Go on now, git!" ↗SHOO
  11. 21Wild pigs ↗BOARS
  12. 22Ben & Jerry's flavor honoring a jam band legend ↗CHERRYGARCIA
  13. 25Seem ↗APPEAR
  14. 28Potter : wheel :: painter : ___ ↗EASEL
  15. 29___ chic (fashion style) ↗BOHO
  16. 30"Can't you get someone else?" ↗MUSTI
  17. 32Water-testing org. ↗EPA
  18. 35Not quite right ... or a hint to this puzzle's circled letters ↗CLOSEBUTNOCIGAR
  19. 39Moviemaking backdrop ↗SET
  20. 40D.E.A. agent, informally ↗NARCO
  21. 41Lit ___ ↗CRIT
  22. 42Smells ↗ODORS
  23. 44Herculean tasks ↗LABORS
  24. 46Genre for Gabriel García Márquez's "One Hundred Years of Solitude" ↗MAGICREALISM
  25. 50Start of the Hebrew alphabet ↗ALEPH
  26. 51Dum-dum ↗LUNK
  27. 52Anatomical pouch ↗SAC
  28. 55Skirt with a high hemline ↗MINI
  29. 56Online marketplace with a "barter" category ↗CRAIGSLIST
  30. 59Similar (to) ↗AKIN
  31. 60Six-time French Open champ Björn ↗BORG
  32. 61Fuel ship ↗OILER
  33. 62"Just a ___!" ↗SEC
  34. 63Moore of "The Substance" ↗DEMI
  35. 64Prenatal ↗FETAL

Down 41

  1. 1March V.I.P.s?: Abbr. ↗SGTS
  2. 2Old Italian money ↗LIRA
  3. 3Cleaning product with a mythical name ↗AJAX
  4. 4Yuletide drink ↗NOG
  5. 5Performer at ozashiki parties ↗GEISHA
  6. 6Lower limit ↗FLOOR
  7. 7Something heard through the grapevine ↗RUMOR
  8. 8News anchor Melber ↗ARI
  9. 9Private eye, in old crime novels ↗TEC
  10. 10Big name in fertilizers ↗MIRACLEGRO
  11. 11Wombs ↗UTERI
  12. 12High-I.Q. society ↗MENSA
  13. 15Said "%$#@!" ↗SWORE
  14. 17The so-called "Goddess of Pop" ↗CHER
  15. 21Fundamental ↗BASIC
  16. 22Co. heads ↗CEOS
  17. 23Like the questions asked in Guess Who? ↗YESNO
  18. 24Feline, to Felipe ↗GATO
  19. 25Fundamentals ↗ABCS
  20. 26Fire station fixture ↗POLE
  21. 27Camera-friendly ↗PHOTOGENIC
  22. 30Container for keys, wallet, razor, etc., in a modern portmanteau ↗MURSE
  23. 31World clock std. ↗UTC
  24. 33Unexciting holding in poker ↗PAIR
  25. 34Lincoln Center focus ↗ARTS
  26. 36Son of Cain ↗ENOCH
  27. 37Former attorney general Bill ↗BARR
  28. 38Warhead weapon, in brief ↗ICBM
  29. 43Take out a small part of one's savings, say ↗DIPIN
  30. 44Suffix with duck or suck ↗LING
  31. 45Requests from ↗ASKSOF
  32. 46Some bedtime story readers ↗MAMAS
  33. 47The same ↗ALIKE
  34. 48Worry greatly ↗ALARM
  35. 49Video game character in a green hat ↗LUIGI
  36. 52River residue ↗SILT
  37. 53Not on firm ground? ↗ASEA
  38. 54___+C ("copy" on a PC) ↗CTRL
  39. 56Ingredient in some trendy gummies, for short ↗CBD
  40. 57Fish eggs ↗ROE
  41. 58"It's not you, it's me," often ↗LIE