NYT CROSSWORD • SATURDAY, JANUARY 25, 2025

NYT Crossword Answers Jan 25, 2025

Complete answer list for the January 25, 2025 New York Times Crossword. Across and Down, every clue, every answer — plus the full grid below.

By Michael LiebermanEdited by Will ShortzGrid 15×1570 clues

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The Grid

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Across 35

  1. 1Undesirable airplane seatmate ↗ARMRESTHOG
  2. 11Sound from a hedge clipper ↗SNIP
  3. 15"This is a waste of my time" ↗WHYAMIHERE
  4. 16Strike one! ↗POSE
  5. 17Body shops? ↗MORTUARIES
  6. 18"Combats ___ tes défenseurs!" ("La Marseillaise" line) ↗AVEC
  7. 19Poet Bradstreet ↗ANNE
  8. 20Abbr. in some job titles ↗ASST
  9. 21Coward of the theater world ↗NOEL
  10. 22Largest U.S. union, with about three million members, in brief ↗NEA
  11. 23Funding source for the Great Wall of China ↗SALTTAX
  12. 26Org. in 2015's "Bridge of Spies" ↗CIA
  13. 27Brass ↗GALL
  14. 28Felt in the Christmas spirit? ↗ELFHATS
  15. 30"The Way," in Islam ↗SHARIA
  16. 33A, B, and C, but not T and V ↗VITAMINS
  17. 34Under control ↗TAMED
  18. 35One working on a column? ↗CPA
  19. 36Sight in Monet's "Boating on the River Epte" ↗CANOE
  20. 37Current events ↗RIPTIDES
  21. 39Spreads ↗STREWS
  22. 40Novel technology? ↗EREADER
  23. 41Jam ↗SPOT
  24. 42Old atlas inits. ↗SSR
  25. 43In the 80s or 90s, say ↗OVERPAR
  26. 45Take another direction ↗ZIG
  27. 48It's fit for a king ↗SASH
  28. 50Classic novel of the South Seas ↗OMOO
  29. 51Some photomontage art ↗DADA
  30. 52___ Mountains, Kyrgyz/Tajik border range ↗ALAI
  31. 53They'll show you a thing or two ↗TOURGUIDES
  32. 56Weight of an adult elephant, very imprecisely ↗TONS
  33. 57Initiative ↗ENTERPRISE
  34. 58Segments of curling matches ↗ENDS
  35. 59Holders of orbs ↗EYESOCKETS

Down 35

  1. 1"Ugh, that's the worst!" ↗AWMAN
  2. 2It passes through many Swiss banks ↗RHONE
  3. 3Loy of filmdom ↗MYRNA
  4. 4Thing of interest? ↗RATE
  5. 5Foe in a 1932 Australian "war" ↗EMU
  6. 6"Cheap Thrills" pop star ↗SIA
  7. 7Clutches ↗THRALL
  8. 8Job that might require a fence ↗HEIST
  9. 9Aeschylus trilogy of tragedies ↗ORESTEIA
  10. 10The forest, in a metaphor ↗GESTALT
  11. 11Extend across ↗SPAN
  12. 12Number at filling stations? ↗NOVOCAINE
  13. 13"Oh-h-h-h, that makes sense" ↗ISEEITNOW
  14. 14They support many student movements ↗PECLASSES
  15. 23Joined a union ↗SAIDIDO
  16. 24___ nage (cooked in a broth) ↗ALA
  17. 25Certain something ↗XFACTOR
  18. 27"Barbie" director Gerwig ↗GRETA
  19. 29Asian grocery chain ↗HMART
  20. 30Consumed with grief? ↗STRESSATE
  21. 31Where locks are picked? ↗HAIRSALON
  22. 32S&P 500 part ↗AMPERSAND
  23. 33Some corp. execs ↗VPS
  24. 35Confirmation, e.g. ↗CEREMONY
  25. 38Ardent supporter ↗DEVOTEE
  26. 39Place whose name has an appropriate final vowel sound ↗SPA
  27. 41Reproductive cells ↗SPORES
  28. 44Dispatch (toward) ↗ROUTE
  29. 45___ Smith, "The Autograph Man" novelist ↗ZADIE
  30. 46Namely ↗IDEST
  31. 47Sublimation products ↗GASES
  32. 49Indicator of deflation ↗HISS
  33. 51Long-bladed thrusting dagger ↗DIRK
  34. 54Miracle-___ ↗GRO
  35. 55Lines at a grocery store ↗UPC