NYT CROSSWORD • FRIDAY, JANUARY 17, 2025

NYT Crossword Answers Jan 17, 2025

Complete answer list for the January 17, 2025 New York Times Crossword. Across and Down, every clue, every answer — plus the full grid below.

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Across 35

  1. 1Introductory course ↗SALAD
  2. 6Exchange letters ↗IPO
  3. 9Venue for the sale of the town of Buford, Wyo., in 2012 (price: $900,000) ↗EBAY
  4. 13What you might get after being taken for a ride ↗UBERRATING
  5. 16Hint ↗NOTE
  6. 17Jörmungandr, in Norse mythology ↗SEAMONSTER
  7. 18___ option ↗CALL
  8. 19Narrow passage: Abbr. ↗STR
  9. 20Affixes, in a way ↗PINS
  10. 21Unprincipled ↗AMORAL
  11. 23Midrange performer ↗ALTO
  12. 24Shattering results ↗SHARDS
  13. 25So-so at best ↗NOGREATSHAKES
  14. 29Buff marsh resident ↗EGRET
  15. 30Budget alternative ↗ALAMO
  16. 31Saucer contents, in brief ↗ETS
  17. 34Industrial Revolution and others ↗ERAS
  18. 35First Pixar film with a female protagonist ↗BRAVE
  19. 36Fulminate ↗RAIL
  20. 37Cubby hole? ↗DEN
  21. 38Playwright/screenwriter Douglas Carter ___ ↗BEANE
  22. 39First capital of Alaska ↗SITKA
  23. 40One method of payment ↗DIRECTDEPOSIT
  24. 43Pickle ↗SCRAPE
  25. 44Actress Melissa Joan ___ ↗HART
  26. 45Sauce made of seeds ↗TAHINI
  27. 46Company behind Sonic the Hedgehog ↗SEGA
  28. 47Blubber ↗SOB
  29. 502011 hit by Jay-Z and Kanye West that samples a 1966 soul performance ↗OTIS
  30. 51Very ↗NOTALITTLE
  31. 54Bit of a subway station wall ↗TILE
  32. 55"That'll do" ↗GOODENOUGH
  33. 56Split things, sometimes ↗ENDS
  34. 57Some printer purchases, for short ↗HPS
  35. 58Ping maker ↗SONAR

Down 37

  1. 1Work (out) ↗SUSS
  2. 2Provide crooked support for ↗ABET
  3. 3Shakespearean counterpart to Logan on "Succession" ↗LEAR
  4. 4Ready to fight ↗ARM
  5. 5Bead ↗DROPLET
  6. 6"Take your time!" ↗ITSNOTARACE
  7. 7Worst possible circumstances, with "the" ↗PITS
  8. 8Horizontal line, in Chinese writing ↗ONE
  9. 9"More!" ↗ENCORE
  10. 10Positions of governance ↗BOARDSEATS
  11. 11It shows the lay of the land ↗ATLAS
  12. 12Big whoop ↗YELL
  13. 14Borg who co-founded the Institute for Women in Technology ↗ANITA
  14. 15Kenneth who wrote "The Wind in the Willows" ↗GRAHAME
  15. 22Speedy shark ↗MAKO
  16. 23Father of Phobos and Deimos ↗ARES
  17. 24Features of some monks and punks ↗SHAVEDHEADS
  18. 25It's a must ↗NEED
  19. 26Fantasy creature ↗OGRE
  20. 27Relative minor? ↗GRANDCHILD
  21. 28Way of looking at things ↗SLANT
  22. 32___ bar ↗TIKI
  23. 33Louver ↗SLAT
  24. 35Alarm sound option on a smartphone ↗BEEPING
  25. 36Hoot ↗RIOT
  26. 38Milling byproduct ↗BRAN
  27. 39Unfortunate twists ↗SPRAINS
  28. 41Blooms for van Gogh ↗IRISES
  29. 42Quarter back? ↗EAGLE
  30. 43Smooth kind of finish ↗SATIN
  31. 45Schlep ↗TOTE
  32. 46Point on a bus route ↗STOP
  33. 47Floor ↗STUN
  34. 48___ Tokarczuk, winner of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature ↗OLGA
  35. 49Big name in paint ↗BEHR
  36. 52"How gorgeous!" ↗OOH
  37. 53Adverb much used by Goldilocks ↗TOO