NYT CROSSWORD • TUESDAY, JANUARY 21, 2025

NYT Crossword Answers Jan 21, 2025

Complete answer list for the January 21, 2025 New York Times Crossword. Across and Down, every clue, every answer — plus the full grid below.

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Across 37

  1. 1Gobble ↗SNARF
  2. 6English pop duo with the 1984 hit "Last Christmas" ↗WHAM
  3. 10First book after the four Gospels ↗ACTS
  4. 14Slicker, as a winter road ↗ICIER
  5. 15Name of Sporty Spice in the Spice Girls ↗MELC
  6. 16TV host Trevor with the memoir "Born a Crime" ↗NOAH
  7. 17Convenient source of tinctures and tonics ↗CORNERDRUGSTORE
  8. 20Bit of workout apparel, informally ↗TEE
  9. 21Dish with a Cantonese counterpart called egg foo yong ↗OMELETTE
  10. 22Tool that may be used as a hoe ↗ADZ
  11. 25Needs for in vitro fertilization ↗OVA
  12. 27Prefix with liberal ↗NEO
  13. 28Actor McShane ↗IAN
  14. 29Singer of "Despacito," which has more than eight billion views on YouTube ↗LUISFONSI
  15. 32Exploitative ones ↗USERS
  16. 34Mardi Gras follower ↗LENT
  17. 35Fish also called a nishikigoi ↗KOI
  18. 36Surreptitiously let in on an email ↗BCC
  19. 37Popular camp activity … or, literally, what the circles are creating four times in this puzzle ↗SCAVENGERHUNT
  20. 42Kettle component ↗LID
  21. 43Figure painted by Warhol ↗MAO
  22. 44Skip out of a party ↗BAIL
  23. 46Canine welcomes ↗BARKS
  24. 49Item with hinged legs ↗CARDTABLE
  25. 51Salt Lake City-to-Minneapolis dir. ↗ENE
  26. 52___ Jordan, a.k.a. the Green Lantern ↗HAL
  27. 54Neither's partner ↗NOR
  28. 55Word after phone or, modernly, Zoom ↗SEX
  29. 56Piece of blackboard chalk, geometrically ↗CYLINDER
  30. 59Stir-fry accessory ↗WOK
  31. 61"That's not even the half of it ..." ↗OHYOUHAVENOIDEA
  32. 66Body personified by the Greek Titan Selene ↗MOON
  33. 67Walkie-talkie word ↗OVER
  34. 68Cultivates, in a way ↗PLOWS
  35. 69So, so, so long ↗EONS
  36. 70"Barbie" actor Michael ↗CERA
  37. 71Like Pittsburgh's Canton Avenue, famously ↗STEEP

Down 41

  1. 1[as printed!] ↗SIC
  2. 2Cpl. or sgt. ↗NCO
  3. 3Word with open or central ↗AIR
  4. 4Monthly budget item ↗RENT
  5. 5No longer burdened by ↗FREEOF
  6. 6Nuke, for one ↗WMD
  7. 7Hoagie ↗HERO
  8. 8Reunion attendees ↗ALUMNI
  9. 9Janis Joplin's "Me and Bobby ___" ↗MCGEE
  10. 10It may be a chip or two ↗ANTE
  11. 11Playground pathogen ↗COOTIE
  12. 12Dental detritus ↗TARTAR
  13. 13Glosses ↗SHEENS
  14. 18Annulled, as a license ↗REVOKED
  15. 19Sit non-ergonomically ↗SLOUCH
  16. 22100% ↗ALL
  17. 23Union requirements ↗DUES
  18. 24Brass component ↗ZINC
  19. 26In a bit, to a poet ↗ANON
  20. 30Celery component ↗STALK
  21. 31Greek letter that represents summation ↗SIGMA
  22. 33Marine photographer's aid ↗SCUBA
  23. 36Hang with the boys, slangily ↗BRODOWN
  24. 38God whose avatars restore cosmic order ↗VISHNU
  25. 39Net ↗EARN
  26. 40Catches in the act ↗NABS
  27. 41Rummikub piece ↗TILE
  28. 45Superman foe ___ Luthor ↗LEX
  29. 46"2 ___ 1" (Spice Girls song) ↗BECOME
  30. 47"O.K. ... moving on!" ↗ANYHOO
  31. 48Have as support ↗RELYON
  32. 49Use an ax on, perhaps ↗CLEAVE
  33. 50Military force ↗TROOPS
  34. 53Like some committees ↗ADHOC
  35. 57+ or – bits ↗IONS
  36. 58One vacationing in a camper, informally ↗RVER
  37. 60Bagpiper's wear ↗KILT
  38. 62Big time ↗ERA
  39. 63Fawn's mother ↗DOE
  40. 64Lamb's mother ↗EWE
  41. 65Snake created by Medusa's blood, in myth ↗ASP