NYT CROSSWORD • THURSDAY, APRIL 17, 2025
NYT Crossword Answers Apr 17, 2025
Complete answer list for the April 17, 2025 New York Times Crossword. Across and Down, every clue, every answer — plus the full grid below.
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Across 37
- 1___ bowl (healthful dish) ↗ACAI
- 5Cellular protein ↗ACTIN
- 10Give out ↗EMIT
- 14Expels ↗BANS
- 15Mars with bars ↗BRUNO
- 16Cold-blooded kind of monster ↗GILA
- 17"And so …" ↗ERGO
- 18Common back-to-school purchases ↗LUNCHBOXES
- 20Bit of ballet wear ↗TOESHOE
- 222013 movie co-starring Scarlett Johansson in which she is never seen ↗HER
- 23"Going Back to Cali" rapper, 1998 ↗LLCOOLJ
- 25*Abigail Adams or Eleanor Roosevelt, informally ↗LOTUS
- 29*Red denizen of Sesame Street ↗ELM
- 30Advocates for ↗ESPOUSES
- 33Animal with luxurious fur ↗SABLE
- 36Consumer protection agcy. ↗FTC
- 37Muse of memory ↗MNEME
- 38See 64-Across ↗TREES
- 39*Hasty ↗ASH
- 40Become fixed ↗SETIN
- 41Santa ___ (hot winds) ↗ANAS
- 42What three is ↗CROWD
- 44"Hmm, I don't think so" ↗UHNO
- 45*"The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a ___ to be kindled": Plutarch ↗FIR
- 46Eliot protagonist ↗MARNER
- 47*Pickle or asparagus unit ↗PEAR
- 48Bog ↗FEN
- 49Placed in an air fryer instead of a microwave, say ↗CRISPED
- 51State with 1,350 miles of coastline (second-most after Alaska): Abbr. ↗FLA
- 52*Small, embedded program ↗APPLE
- 54São ___, most populous city in the Southern Hemisphere ↗PAULO
- 56Toward that place, quaintly ↗THITHER
- 58Ancient Rome and Persia ↗EMPIRES
- 61Own ↗POSSESS
- 62Comforts ↗SOLACES
- 63Almost half of Scandinavians ↗SWEDES
- 64What you can't see due to the 38-Across in this puzzle? ↗FOREST
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- 1Help with a crime ↗ABET
- 2Apt name for a December baby ↗CAROL
- 3Early investor ↗ANGEL
- 4Literally, "equal legs" ↗ISOSCELES
- 5Like many a plant in spring ↗ABLOOM
- 6Draconian ↗CRUEL
- 7Large cask for beer or wine ↗TUN
- 8Crawl (along) ↗INCH
- 9What a bad assistant might be ↗NOHELP
- 10Teamwork inhibitor ↗EGO
- 11Word with cake or trail ↗MIX
- 12Spot dans la Seine ↗ILE
- 13Many Ph.D. students ↗TAS
- 19Some Halloween "transports" ↗BROOMS
- 21Plot problems ↗HOLES
- 24ABC's first program broadcast in color, with "The" ↗JETSONS
- 26Refurbish, as an old piano ↗TUNEUP
- 27What one may have to do to destroy a Death Star ↗USETHEFORCE
- 28Original and influential ↗SEMINAL
- 31Big name in soft drinks ↗SCHWEPPES
- 32___ Presidenta, term of address for Mexico's leader beginning in 2024 ↗SENORA
- 33Wizard's weapon, maybe ↗STAFF
- 34"___ the Doughnut," start of a children's book series ↗ARNIE
- 35Classic French sauce ↗BEARNAISE
- 36Horseshoe enthusiasts? ↗FARRIERS
- 42Like one who might have to hoof it ↗CARLESS
- 43Aspire to ↗DREAMOF
- 46John ___, author of "Annals of the Former World" ↗MCPHEE
- 50Brand of oversize Lego bricks ↗DUPLO
- 53Veteran's affliction, in brief ↗PTSD
- 55Yarn spinner ↗LIAR
- 56Does a certain prank on, informally ↗TPS
- 57___-to ↗HOW
- 59Some M.I.T. grads, in brief ↗EES
- 60The last one flew in 10/03 ↗SST