NYT CROSSWORD • THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2025

NYT Crossword Answers Feb 6, 2025

Complete answer list for the February 6, 2025 New York Times Crossword. Across and Down, every clue, every answer — plus the full grid below.

By Aidan Deshong and Jacob ReedEdited by Will ShortzGrid 16×1578 clues

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Across 38

  1. 1Damsel in distress in Donkey Kong ↗PAULINE
  2. 8Preschool timeouts ↗NAPS
  3. 12Lawn covering ↗DEW
  4. 15Sources of fine wool ↗ALPACAS
  5. 16Ijeoma ___, author of 2018's "So You Want to Talk About Race" ↗OLUO
  6. 17Air quality org. ↗EPA
  7. 18Identity? ↗RUSSETPOTATO
  8. 20Mingle ↗MIX
  9. 21Strikes down ↗SMITES
  10. 22Catherine ___, surviving wife of King Henry VIII ↗PARR
  11. 23Platform that might update while you sleep ↗IOS
  12. 24Closure ↗END
  13. 25Deport? ↗WILMINGTON
  14. 28Eschew carbs, maybe ↗DIET
  15. 30NASA probe named for a Roman goddess ↗JUNO
  16. 31"No problemo" ↗DENADA
  17. 32Balance ↗OFFSET
  18. 34Drags (in) ↗ROPES
  19. 35Arrange? ↗OZARKS
  20. 37Canine? ↗PADRES
  21. 39Diminish, as trust ↗ERODE
  22. 40Sense of foreboding ↗UNEASE
  23. 42Self-obsession ↗EGOISM
  24. 44Darth Sidious, e.g., in the "Star Wars" universe ↗SITH
  25. 45Machine learning fodder ↗DATA
  26. 49Hiking? ↗KAMEHAMEHA
  27. 51Abraham Van Helsing and John Seward in "Dracula": Abbr. ↗DRS
  28. 52Zelda console, in brief ↗NES
  29. 53___ Lum a.k.a. Awkwafina ↗NORA
  30. 54Sources of soft wool ↗LLAMAS
  31. 57Purge ↗RID
  32. 58Fledge? ↗GULFOFMEXICO
  33. 60Tire inflation abbr. ↗PSI
  34. 61Leave a review of, as an Airbnb ↗RATE
  35. 62Banquet hiree ↗CATERER
  36. 63Fuji, e.g.: Abbr. ↗MTN
  37. 64"What ___?" ↗ELSE
  38. 65Most hip ↗COOLEST

Down 40

  1. 1Deconstructed, in a way ↗PARSED
  2. 2Kamala Harris and Thurgood Marshall vis-à-vis Howard University ↗ALUMNI
  3. 3Benefit ↗UPSIDE
  4. 4Stick it out ↗LAST
  5. 5Drink with a Frosted Lemonade variety ↗ICEE
  6. 6Capital ball club, familiarly ↗NATS
  7. 7Medium strength? ↗ESP
  8. 8"What's cookin'?" response ↗NOTALOT
  9. 9Clock radio feature ↗ALARM
  10. 10Rotten-smelling ↗PUTRID
  11. 11"Your point being …?" ↗SOO
  12. 12Submission to a record executive ↗DEMOTAPE
  13. 13Parts of a season ↗EPISODES
  14. 14Become fuller, in a way ↗WAX
  15. 19Serve hot takes ↗OPINE
  16. 23Paid no heed to ↗IGNORED
  17. 25Fail to do something out of fear, with "out" ↗WUSS
  18. 26Wonks ... or a candy once owned by the Willy Wonka Candy Company ↗NERDS
  19. 27"Street Dreams" rapper ↗NAS
  20. 29Obsequious sorts ↗TOADIES
  21. 30#35 ↗JFK
  22. 33Smart-alecky ↗FRESH
  23. 35Ballpark player not wearing a uniform ↗ORGANIST
  24. 36Got a closer look ↗ZOOMEDIN
  25. 37Org. that sells "Go Vegan and Nobody Gets Hurt" T-shirts ↗PETA
  26. 38"Ni-i-ice!" ↗AAH
  27. 39"Mice!" ↗EEK
  28. 40Cost of doing business, maybe ↗USERFEE
  29. 41Chinese "hello" ↗NIHAO
  30. 43Rare type of rental car ↗MANUAL
  31. 46___ from afar ↗ADMIRE
  32. 47Remnants ↗TRACES
  33. 48Classify ↗ASSORT
  34. 50Comes out of one's skin ↗MOLTS
  35. 54"OMG, I'm dying over here" ↗LMAO
  36. 55Mother to Apollo and Artemis ↗LETO
  37. 56One-footed jump ↗AXEL
  38. 57Record player speed, for short ↗RPM
  39. 58Test for an M.B.A. seeker ↗GRE
  40. 59Air quality org.? ↗FCC