NYT CROSSWORD • FRIDAY, JANUARY 3, 2025

NYT Crossword Answers Jan 3, 2025

Complete answer list for the January 3, 2025 New York Times Crossword. Across and Down, every clue, every answer — plus the full grid below.

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Across 35

  1. 1Out of whack ↗ASKEW
  2. 6Rock group behind 2024's Power Up Tour ↗ACDC
  3. 10What a bodybuilder builds during a bulk cycle ↗MASS
  4. 14Sudden weather phenomenon ↗FLASHFLOOD
  5. 16Closing on Sundays? ↗AMEN
  6. 17Cocktail that's called a French 75 if you use Champagne instead of soda water ↗TOMCOLLINS
  7. 18Mulligan ↗REDO
  8. 19Eponymous tourist destination in Belgium ↗SPA
  9. 20Basis of some admissions ↗GUILT
  10. 21Strength, poetically ↗SINEW
  11. 22Area between the ribs and the round ↗LOIN
  12. 23Heaps of dressing? ↗LAUNDRY
  13. 25Responded identically to ↗ECHOED
  14. 28On the ___ ↗FENCE
  15. 29Early synthesizers ↗MOOGS
  16. 30Ringing nuisance ↗PRANKCALL
  17. 34Like a face telling a spooky campfire story, maybe ↗UPLIT
  18. 35Give juice to ↗REV
  19. 36"Ditto" ↗SODOI
  20. 37Words before someone finally snaps? ↗SAYCHEESE
  21. 39Bridge support ↗TRUSS
  22. 40Stool at a counter, e.g. ↗PERCH
  23. 41Woody's crush in "Toy Story" ↗BOPEEP
  24. 42Member of a warrior class ↗SAMURAI
  25. 45Small stretches, perhaps ↗FIBS
  26. 46Cherish ↗PRIZE
  27. 47Much-sought-after commodity in "Dune" ↗SPICE
  28. 49Singer Rita ↗ORA
  29. 52Ice skating move ↗LUTZ
  30. 53Postgame photo op between two opposing players ↗JERSEYSWAP
  31. 55First person to die, according to the Bible ↗ABEL
  32. 56They're part of the story ↗PLOTPOINTS
  33. 57Set back to zero, in a way ↗TARE
  34. 58Press rooms? ↗GYMS
  35. 59Wipe from one's visual memory, so to speak ↗UNSEE

Down 37

  1. 1Common nap times, in brief ↗AFTS
  2. 2Subpar dining hall food ↗SLOP
  3. 3Hindu god of love ↗KAMA
  4. 4F1 neighbor ↗ESC
  5. 5Challenge to an intruder ↗WHOGOESTHERE
  6. 6Like a fearless bettor at a casino ↗ALLIN
  7. 7Spring ↗COIL
  8. 8Command to stay ↗DONTLEAVE
  9. 9Items harmed when they're scratched, but not when they're burned ↗CDS
  10. 10Group whose band is the oldest professional music ensemble in the U.S. ↗MARINECORPS
  11. 11Change ↗AMEND
  12. 12Meal before the 15th of Nisan ↗SEDER
  13. 13White out, say ↗SNOWY
  14. 15Not set in stone ↗FLUID
  15. 21"That's rather unfortunate," dismissively ↗SUCKSTOBEYOU
  16. 22Exercise in deduction ↗LOGICPUZZLE
  17. 24___ Taylor (fashion chain) ↗ANN
  18. 25Australia declared "war" on them in 1932, in an attempt to stop them from destroying crops ↗EMUS
  19. 26Where Lola was a showgirl, in song ↗COPA
  20. 27Deified, say ↗HOLY
  21. 28Farm-to-table, say ↗FRESH
  22. 30"Couldn't have said it better myself" ↗PRECISELY
  23. 31For two musicians ↗ADUE
  24. 32Ditch ↗LOSE
  25. 33Aristotle purportedly spoke with one ↗LISP
  26. 38Word often after a president's name ↗ERA
  27. 41Curling target ↗BICEP
  28. 42Bad sound to hear by a kitchen counter ↗SPLAT
  29. 43Dutch constituent in the Caribbean ↗ARUBA
  30. 44Bishop's headwear ↗MITER
  31. 45Hitmakers? ↗FISTS
  32. 48Simple question on a high schooler's hand-drawn poster ↗PROM
  33. 49Dominates ↗OWNS
  34. 50Power or frequency, essentially ↗RATE
  35. 51Church part ↗APSE
  36. 53PNG alternative ↗JPG
  37. 54Motif in 1995's "Se7en" ↗SIN