NYT CROSSWORD • SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2025

NYT Crossword Answers Feb 23, 2025

Complete answer list for the February 23, 2025 New York Times Crossword. Across and Down, every clue, every answer — plus the full grid below.

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Across 65

  1. 1Dazzling display ↗ECLAT
  2. 6Tech giant based in Cupertino, Calif. ↗APPLE
  3. 11Plant with bugs? ↗SPY
  4. 14Formation of rugby players ↗SCRUM
  5. 19Queendom in the Bible ↗SHEBA
  6. 20Hint at L.G.B.T.Q.+ story lines to generate buzz ↗QUEERBAIT
  7. 22Give an address ↗ORATE
  8. 23What a tight deadline might require … or what's found in 30-Across? ↗QUICKTURNAROUND
  9. 25Viennese "please" ↗BITTE
  10. 26Attacked ↗MADEWAR
  11. 27Do perfectly ↗ACE
  12. 28Hound or dog ↗PESTER
  13. 29What's-___-name ↗HIS
  14. 30Question when leaving a grocery store, perhaps ↗WHEREDIDIPARK
  15. 34Inaugural ↗MAIDEN
  16. 38Unwanted event at a speakeasy ↗RAID
  17. 39Spot for a pin ↗MAT
  18. 40Lyricist Gershwin ↗IRA
  19. 41Halls that may have glass ceilings ↗ATRIA
  20. 42Improvise ↗WINGIT
  21. 44"Everything ___ Changed" (Taylor Swift song) ↗HAS
  22. 45Scheme ↗PLOT
  23. 46Tolerate misbehavior … or what's found in 56-Across? ↗LOOKTHEOTHERWAY
  24. 49Collectors of signatures? ↗CASTS
  25. 50___ of Cleves, wife of Henry VIII ↗ANNE
  26. 51Newspaper section ↗ARTS
  27. 52Tuna variety ↗AHI
  28. 53Word with lock or pocket ↗AIR
  29. 54Second printings, e.g. ↗REISSUES
  30. 56Source of some public funding ↗FEDERALGRANT
  31. 62Boiling state ↗IRE
  32. 63Author of the 1964 artist's book "Grapefruit" ↗ONO
  33. 64Legal tender ↗MONEY
  34. 65When doubled, a dance ↗CAN
  35. 66Home of the Sugarloaf Cable Car, informally ↗RIO
  36. 67Totally the wrong way … or what's found in 79-Across? ↗ASSBACKWARDS
  37. 70"Really! Check for yourself!" ↗ITSAFACT
  38. 72Radar gun inits. ↗MPH
  39. 73Philosophy ↗ISM
  40. 74It may be on the chopping block ↗LOIN
  41. 75"Uh-huh, whatever you say!" ↗IBET
  42. 76Distorts ↗SKEWS
  43. 79"It'd be my pleasure" ↗IMHAPPYTOOBLIGE
  44. 83Mates ↗PALS
  45. 841/96 of a pint: Abbr. ↗TSP
  46. 85It comes with a hefty bill ↗TOUCAN
  47. 86Happen over and over ↗RECUR
  48. 87Beehive State athlete ↗UTE
  49. 88Coalesce ↗GEL
  50. 8911, literally ↗ONES
  51. 90Occasions for self-indulgence ↗MEDAYS
  52. 91Completely change one's position … or what's found in 104-Across? ↗REVERSECOURSE
  53. 96Intimidate ↗COW
  54. 97Wild goats of the Alps ↗IBEXES
  55. 98Delta hub: Abbr. ↗ATL
  56. 99Reality competition show with quickfire challenges ↗TOPCHEF
  57. 103Smidgen ↗OUNCE
  58. 104Gift-wrapping supplies ↗SCOTCHTAPEROLLS
  59. 109Formal "you," in Uruguay ↗USTED
  60. 110Americans who live in their own time zone ↗HAWAIIANS
  61. 111Many a piece of writing by Joan Didion ↗ESSAY
  62. 112In a bashful manner ↗SHYLY
  63. 113Sweetie ↗HON
  64. 114Part of a wheel ↗SPOKE
  65. 115Detaches from a source of dependence ↗WEANS

Down 75

  1. 1Lawyer's title: Abbr. ↗ESQ
  2. 2Fish bait ↗CHUM
  3. 3Leader of filmdom's Rebel Alliance ↗LEIA
  4. 4Options on some tests ↗ABCD
  5. 5Receive severe criticism ↗TAKEHEAT
  6. 6Blue-green shades ↗AQUAS
  7. 7Sound of a smooth-running engine ↗PURR
  8. 8Pig's digs ↗PEN
  9. 9Locale where clovers bloom ↗LEA
  10. 10Forget to finish writing a clue, mayb ↗ERR
  11. 11Secret ___ ↗SAUCE
  12. 12Felt longing (for) ↗PINED
  13. 13Since Jan. 1 ↗YTD
  14. 14"C'est la vie" ↗SOBEIT
  15. 15Potato chip, to a Brit ↗CRISP
  16. 16Coiffure parts that are sometimes braided ↗RATTAILS
  17. 17Complete nonsense ↗UTTERROT
  18. 18Small mongooses ↗MEERKATS
  19. 21Creature that sounds like a snooze ↗BOAR
  20. 24Scarlett Johansson, Rami Malek or Vin Diesel (did you know?) ↗TWIN
  21. 28PalmPilots, e.g., for short ↗PDAS
  22. 30Wish list items ↗WANTS
  23. 31Like some heels and hopes ↗HIGH
  24. 32Marriage equality activist Windsor, familiarly ↗EDIE
  25. 33"Perhaps. That's something that interests me" ↗IMAY
  26. 34Disease that was the subject of the second Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1902) ↗MALARIA
  27. 35Yom Kippur observers, e.g. ↗ATONERS
  28. 36Amusingly incongruous outcomes ↗IRONIES
  29. 37Flood preventers ↗DIKES
  30. 38Hoots ↗RIOTS
  31. 42"Don't worry about us" ↗WEREOK
  32. 43Lines of work ↗TRADES
  33. 44What locks are made of ↗HAIR
  34. 45Catherine ___, wife of Henry VIII ↗PARR
  35. 47Horse's behind ↗HAUNCH
  36. 48Protein powder ingredient ↗WHEY
  37. 49Aetna alternative ↗CIGNA
  38. 53"Unfortunately, that's incorrect" ↗ALASNO
  39. 55Many long-running TV shows ↗SOAPS
  40. 56Word processing selection ↗FORMAT
  41. 57Close ↗END
  42. 58Director's directive ↗ACTION
  43. 59Most common coffee bean variety ↗ARABICA
  44. 60Love interest in a Hallmark movie, maybe ↗NICEGUY
  45. 61Walks unsteadily ↗TOTTERS
  46. 64"Monster ___" (1962 #1 song) ↗MASH
  47. 68i5 and X5 ↗BMWS
  48. 69Fraidy-cat ↗WIMP
  49. 70Soupçons ↗IOTAS
  50. 71Organized in a cabinet, say ↗FILED
  51. 74School before l'université ↗LYCEE
  52. 76Not to be relied upon ↗SPURIOUS
  53. 77Singer whose 1985 song “Running Up That Hill” became a top 10 hit in 2022 after being featured on “Stranger Things” ↗KATEBUSH
  54. 78110, facetiously ↗ELEVENTY
  55. 79Barbuda or Barbados ↗ISLE
  56. 80Shoddy ↗POOR
  57. 81Most dad jokes ↗PUNS
  58. 82Nickname for Milwaukee's baseball team ↗BREWCREW
  59. 84Ocean in "Ocean's Eleven" ↗TESS
  60. 88Like King Midas, notably ↗GREEDY
  61. 90Have a pity party ↗MOPE
  62. 92Google Sheets alternative ↗EXCEL
  63. 93Supply at the Hershey Company ↗CACAO
  64. 94City near Disney World, informally ↗OTOWN
  65. 95___ Beauty ↗ULTA
  66. 96Small wood ↗COPSE
  67. 99Fail ignominiously, as at the box office ↗TANK
  68. 100Rip off ↗HOSE
  69. 101"Lohengrin" soprano ↗ELSA
  70. 102Custardy treat ↗FLAN
  71. 104"Quiet!" ↗SHH
  72. 105Gender identity prefix ↗CIS
  73. 106With it ↗HIP
  74. 107Confucian concept ↗TAO
  75. 108Part of iOS: Abbr. ↗SYS