NYT CROSSWORD • SATURDAY, JANUARY 18, 2025

NYT Crossword Answers Jan 18, 2025

Complete answer list for the January 18, 2025 New York Times Crossword. Across and Down, every clue, every answer — plus the full grid below.

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Across 27

  1. 1Famous palindrome starter ↗AMANAPLANACANAL
  2. 16"Is there more?" ↗CARETOELABORATE
  3. 17It can be infectious after Thanksgiving ↗CHRISTMASSPIRIT
  4. 18Coloring sometimes confused with dun ↗ROAN
  5. 19Female rapper with the 2008 hit "Paper Planes" ↗MIA
  6. 20Makes a move ↗ACTS
  7. 21Lead-in to day, way or more ↗ANY
  8. 22Love interest of Peter in the "Spider-Man" universe ↗GWEN
  9. 24Informal preposition ↗TIL
  10. 26Fish with a shy-sounding name ↗KOI
  11. 27It's the word ↗MUM
  12. 28___-Cat ↗SNO
  13. 31One of 12 for Katharine Hepburn ↗OSCARNOMINATION
  14. 37Dish that's different from its cousins by the inclusion of potatoes ↗SPANISHOMELETTE
  15. 38Catchers of waves ↗SATELLITEDISHES
  16. 39Vein output ↗ORE
  17. 40Constellation with the star Regulus ↗LEO
  18. 41Informal hookups ↗IVS
  19. 42Half a candy bar? ↗KAT
  20. 43Reasonable ↗SANE
  21. 45Initials for a 20th-century president (and his wife) ↗LBJ
  22. 48Avian symbol of good fortune in Celtic culture ↗WREN
  23. 51Throne ↗CAN
  24. 52Uncover ↗BARE
  25. 53Hit 1976 album whose title track won the Grammy for Record of the Year ↗HOTELCALIFORNIA
  26. 58Yogi Berra or Joe DiMaggio, e.g. ↗ITALIANAMERICAN
  27. 59Sent out feelers, so to speak ↗TESTEDTHEWATERS

Down 45

  1. 1City that's the "heart of Africa's art scene," per National Geographic ↗ACCRA
  2. 2Capital and second-largest city of Minorca ↗MAHON
  3. 3Range ↗ARRAY
  4. 4How to turn down a Hamburger ↗NEIN
  5. 5They share keys with 2's ↗ATS
  6. 6Nursery purchase ↗POT
  7. 7"I can handle this!" ↗LEMME
  8. 8___ LeRoy Locke, "Father of the Harlem Renaissance" ↗ALAIN
  9. 9Org. with a climate research program ↗NASA
  10. 10Required safety feature on cars, in brief ↗ABS
  11. 1113-Down, e.g. ↗COP
  12. 12It preceded Calibri as Microsoft's default font ↗ARIAL
  13. 13Kilo finder ↗NARC
  14. 14Plugging away ↗ATIT
  15. 15Some do-overs ↗LETS
  16. 22Chest-beating sort ↗GORILLA
  17. 23Kate who won an Academy Award for "The Reader" ↗WINSLET
  18. 24On the right radio frequency ↗TUNEDIN
  19. 25Cry after a close shave ↗IMALIVE
  20. 26Memorable title role of a 1941 film ↗KANE
  21. 27Handy person? ↗MIME
  22. 28Dark Lord of the ___ ("Star Wars" title) ↗SITH
  23. 29Pay attention to ↗NOTE
  24. 30Stack of Monopoly bills ↗ONES
  25. 31Scapola o femore ↗OSSO
  26. 32Go a couple of rounds ↗SPAR
  27. 33___ Tiernan, author of the "Immortal Beloved" trilogy ↗CATE
  28. 34Largest tributary of the Mississippi ↗OHIO
  29. 35Wisecrack ↗MOT
  30. 36Novelist Gerritsen ↗TESS
  31. 42Showed respect or submission, in a way ↗KNELT
  32. 43Arabic for "prayer" ↗SALAH
  33. 44Netflix category ↗ANIME
  34. 45Long weapon ↗LANCE
  35. 46Pipe material ↗BRIAR
  36. 47Jimmy Carter was the first president regularly seen in these ↗JEANS
  37. 48Slightest amount ↗WHIT
  38. 49___ learning ↗ROTE
  39. 50Some travelers' concerns, in brief ↗ETAS
  40. 51Lingo ↗CANT
  41. 52Person partial to humour? ↗BRIT
  42. 54Golfer's concern ↗LIE
  43. 55Scoundrel ↗CAD
  44. 56Handful ↗FEW
  45. 57___ pro nobis ↗ORA