NYT CROSSWORD • WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2025

NYT Crossword Answers Feb 12, 2025

Complete answer list for the February 12, 2025 New York Times Crossword. Across and Down, every clue, every answer — plus the full grid below.

By Philip KoskiEdited by Will ShortzGrid 15×1677 clues

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The Grid

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Across 36

  1. 1Mineral that shimmers ↗MICA
  2. 5Bat around, as a kitten might ↗PAWAT
  3. 10Composer Stravinsky ↗IGOR
  4. 14Like much graffiti: Abbr. ↗ANON
  5. 15Belittle ↗ABASE
  6. 16Emperor named an enemy of the state in A.D. 68 ↗NERO
  7. 17Not admit ↗DENY
  8. 18Aboveboard ↗LEGIT
  9. 19Neighbor of Indonesia, on a Risk board ↗SIAM
  10. 20The ↗DEFINITEARTICLE
  11. 23Knocked off ↗DIDIN
  12. 24City that was a rival of ancient Sparta ↗ARGOS
  13. 25Big mo. for eggnog sales ↗DEC
  14. 26Cover story? ↗FIB
  15. 29Lee who directed "Gemini Man" ↗ANG
  16. 30Talks frankly ↗SPEAKSONESPIECE
  17. 36Screen play? ↗PASS
  18. 37Singsong refrain ↗TRALA
  19. 38Heating pad target ↗ACHE
  20. 39Lead-in to -gram or -graph ↗EPI
  21. 40Pep rally cry ↗RAH
  22. 41Cousin of Inc. ↗LLC
  23. 43Doll who debuted in swim trunks ↗KEN
  24. 44Success against all odds ↗CINDERELLASTORY
  25. 48Either of two for Mozart's Queen of the Night ↗OPERAARIA
  26. 49“Take THAT!” ↗BOOM
  27. 52Flowing slowly ↗SEEPY
  28. 53"Should that happen …" ↗IFSO
  29. 57Builders of 25,000+ miles of roads in South America ↗INCAS
  30. 59TV's DeGeneres ↗ELLEN
  31. 60With 63-Across, where some journalism is located ... or how to interpret the ends of 20-, 30- and 44-Across vis-à-vis the shaded squares ↗BEHINDA
  32. 63See 60-Across ↗PAYWALL
  33. 65Exhaustion from work ↗BURNOUT
  34. 66Without much hope ↗BLEAKLY
  35. 67Green sauces ↗PESTOS
  36. 68Features of coins which make them harder to counterfeit ↗RIDGES

Down 41

  1. 1Road safety org. ↗MADD
  2. 2"___ to Know" (1999 Marc Anthony hit) ↗INEED
  3. 3Tells private things ↗CONFIDESIN
  4. 4"How will we ever get out of this mess?" ↗ANYIDEAS
  5. 5Satirist Michael ↗PALIN
  6. 6Drive for, maybe ↗ABET
  7. 7___ gap ↗WAGE
  8. 8It's east of the Urals ↗ASIA
  9. 9Half of octo- ↗TETRA
  10. 10Presidential seal, for one ↗INSIGNIA
  11. 11Lizard mascot with a Cockney accent ↗GEICOGECKO
  12. 12Some campus grilling events? ↗ORALS
  13. 13Spanish Steps locale ↗ROME
  14. 21Small cut ↗NICK
  15. 22Where a wedge may be used ↗TRAP
  16. 26Not to go ↗FORHERE
  17. 27___ flash ↗INA
  18. 28When to wave the white flag ↗BELLLAP
  19. 30Guideline, in brief ↗SPEC
  20. 31Big ___ (longtime Red Sox nickname) ↗PAPI
  21. 32Some looks into space ↗STARES
  22. 33___ cap ↗SALARY
  23. 34Sole one-named Best Actress Oscar winner ↗CHER
  24. 35Wee ↗EENY
  25. 40One leg curl, e.g. ↗REP
  26. 42CBS drama for 15 seasons ↗CSI
  27. 45Realms ↗DOMAINS
  28. 46Ka ___ (southernmost point in the U.S.) ↗LAE
  29. 47Sign of a hound's happiness ↗TAILWAG
  30. 49Kind of lettuce ↗BIBB
  31. 50Top ↗ONEUP
  32. 51Shade in a barren landscape ↗OCHRE
  33. 54Undependable sort ↗FLAKE
  34. 55Gives up the goods? ↗SELLS
  35. 56"Above us ___ sky" ("Imagine" lyric) ↗ONLY
  36. 58Pesky little brat ↗SNOT
  37. 59Observed ↗EYED
  38. 61Pop music's Wham! or Erasure ↗DUO
  39. 62Email signs ↗ATS
  40. 63Inexpensive beer, informally ↗PBR
  41. 64Two-time Oscar winner Mahershala ___ ↗ALI