NYT CROSSWORD • WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 1, 2025
NYT Crossword Answers Jan 1, 2025
Complete answer list for the January 1, 2025 New York Times Crossword. Across and Down, every clue, every answer — plus the full grid below.
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Across 42
- 1Rapscallion ↗SCAMP
- 6Certain tankful ↗GAS
- 9Kind of game that's a pitcher's dream ↗NOHIT
- 14Micronesian island that was the setting for a season of "Survivor" ↗PALAU
- 15Tuna type ↗AHI
- 16Airport near the intersection of I-90 and I-294 ↗OHARE
- 17Cove ↗INLET
- 18On the ___ ↗LAM
- 19Christopher who directed "Oppenheimer" ↗NOLAN
- 20Slangy suffix with "most" ↗EST
- 21"OK ... tell me" ↗ILLBITE
- 24N.B.A. 1-pointers: Abbr. ↗FTS
- 25Exclamation from Homer ↗DOH
- 26Hero of "The Matrix" ↗NEO
- 27"A work of ___ that isn't based on feeling isn't ___ at all": Cézanne ↗ART
- 28"Look at Me, I'm Sandra ___" ("Grease" song) ↗DEE
- 29Dickens's "The Mystery of ___ Drood" ↗EDWIN
- 31Chinese greeting ↗NIHAO
- 33Tool for a pineapple ↗CORER
- 351990s sitcom featuring a bookstore ↗ELLEN
- 38You can count on them ↗ABACI
- 39Rating for junk bonds ↗CCC
- 42Candymaker Wonka ↗WILLY
- 43Chauvinist or racist ↗BIGOT
- 44In the style of ↗ALA
- 45Start of Caesar's boast ↗ICAME
- 46Actress Hatcher ↗TERI
- 47Deposit, as an egg ↗LAY
- 48Patrick Stewart and Elton John, for two ↗SIRS
- 49Singer on "Give Peace a Chance" ↗ONO
- 51"Golden Girls" actress Arthur ↗BEA
- 52Sheds, with "off" ↗SLOUGHS
- 56Stylish tote for an executive ↗WORKBAG
- 60Worshiping rows ↗PEWS
- 61Cousin of a croc ↗GATOR
- 63The Emerald Isle ↗EIRE
- 64"___ have to do" ↗ITLL
- 65Like the breeds Shetland and merino ↗OVINE
- 66TALK LIKE THIS! ↗YELL
- 67Like a yenta ↗NOSY
- 68Props for close-up magicians ↗DECKS
- 69Arrogant sort ↗SNOT
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- 1Worked for the C.I.A., perhaps ↗SPIED
- 2Playground retort ↗CANSO
- 3Super-trendy ↗ALLTHERAGE
- 4West who said "Men are my life, diamonds are my career" ↗MAE
- 5Set down on paper ↗PUTINWRITING
- 6Cider unit ↗GALLON
- 7Starbuck's higher-up? ↗AHAB
- 8Ape or monkey ↗SIMIAN
- 9In the dark about something nefarious ↗NONETHEWISER
- 10"Well, lookee there!" ↗OHO
- 11Place to see J.F.K. ↗HALFDOLLAR
- 12Hopping mad ↗IRATE
- 13Past, present or future ↗TENSE
- 22Flowery necklace ↗LEI
- 23Multisport race, in short ↗TRI
- 30In a prim and proper way ↗DECOROUSLY
- 32Singer with the #1 albums "As I Am" and "Girl on Fire" ↗ALICIAKEYS
- 33What you might call a tipsy friend ↗CAB
- 34Last words? ↗OBIT
- 36Symbols of wisdom ↗ELMS
- 3712/31 ↗NYE
- 39Part of U.C.L.A.: Abbr. ↗CAL
- 40Material used to make the object "illustrated" here, in a seasonal song ↗CLAY
- 41Coral island ↗CAY
- 50"Yikes!" ↗OHGOD
- 51Puts to sleep, say ↗BORES
- 52Take a turn with the object illustrated by the central black squares in this puzzle (leading to one of the four circled results) ↗SPIN
- 53Oscar-winning Jared ↗LETO
- 54Symbols of wisdom ↗OWLS
- 55Word processing command ↗SAVE
- 56Policy nerd ↗WONK
- 57"Très ___" ↗BIEN
- 58Singer Guthrie ↗ARLO
- 59Chocolate money won or lost in this puzzle's game ↗GELT
- 62___-tac-toe ↗TIC