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NYT Crossword Answers Mar 11, 2025

Complete answer list for the March 11, 2025 New York Times Crossword. Across and Down, every clue, every answer — plus the full grid below.

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Across 38

  1. 1U.S.'s oldest continuous women's professional sports org. ↗LPGA
  2. 5Sample sake, say ↗SIP
  3. 8___ salmon ↗SMOKED
  4. 14They're mined, all mined! ↗ORES
  5. 15Kissing on a park bench, e.g., for short ↗PDA
  6. 16"Fingers crossed!" ↗HOPESO
  7. 17Gives a thumbs-up ↗VOTESYES
  8. 19Take to the sky ↗AVIATE
  9. 20Vex ↗EATAT
  10. 21Pollen producer ↗STAMEN
  11. 23Texter's "I can't believe this" ↗SMH
  12. 24Made a scene? ↗ACTED
  13. 26"I cannot ___ anybody anything; I can only make them think": Socrates ↗TEACH
  14. 30"Hijack" actor Idris ↗ELBA
  15. 32"Nope!" ↗UHUH
  16. 34Middling mark ↗CEE
  17. 35Recruit successfully, as a reluctant participant ↗ROPEIN
  18. 37Signs of spring ↗ROSEBUDS
  19. 39At the moment ↗ASOFNOW
  20. 41Finger foods served on a toothpick, maybe ↗CANAPES
  21. 42"Taste the rainbow" candy ↗SKITTLES
  22. 44Perplex ↗BEMUSE
  23. 45Sunbather's goal ↗TAN
  24. 46First-person shooter video game franchise ↗HALO
  25. 4799% fat-free, say ↗LEAN
  26. 48Jazz legend Shaw ↗ARTIE
  27. 50Gave it a go ↗TRIED
  28. 52Surveillance device, informally ↗CAM
  29. 55Followed the leader ↗OBEYED
  30. 57Plenty o' ↗LOTSA
  31. 59Road sign with a unidirectional arrow ↗ONEWAY
  32. 62Compliment on the green ↗NICEPUTT
  33. 64The Blenheim in England, for one ↗PALACE
  34. 65"___ soon?" ↗TOO
  35. 66Spooky-sounding lake ↗ERIE
  36. 67Reeks ↗STINKS
  37. 68"Wowza!" ↗OMG
  38. 69Bears' lairs ↗DENS

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  1. 1Is nuts for ↗LOVES
  2. 2Type of event run by the 1-Across ↗PROAM
  3. 3Grasp a central idea ↗GETTHEPOINT
  4. 4Sailing, say ↗ASEA
  5. 5Ian Fleming figure ↗SPY
  6. 6"I.e.," spelled out ↗IDEST
  7. 7Frenchman who developed an anthrax vaccine ↗PASTEUR
  8. 8Decorative pillowcase ↗SHAM
  9. 9Make noticeable progress ↗MOVETHENEEDLE
  10. 10Offer a thought ↗OPINE
  11. 11Hawaii's Mauna ___ ↗KEA
  12. 12Fig. at a body shop ↗EST
  13. 13A deer, a female deer ↗DOE
  14. 18Betray ↗STABINTHEBACK
  15. 22Like some temporary committees ↗ADHOC
  16. 25Common cooking oil ↗CANOLA
  17. 27Traditional Chinese medicine component ... in which a practitioner might 3-, 9- and 18-Down? ↗ACUPUNCTURE
  18. 28Relinquishes ↗CEDES
  19. 29Hermann who wrote "Siddhartha" ↗HESSE
  20. 31One side of the political aisle, with "the" ↗LEFT
  21. 33Functional ↗USABLE
  22. 35Believer in Jah, familiarly ↗RASTA
  23. 36Herr Schindler in "Schindler's List" ↗OSKAR
  24. 38"Roll Tide!" school, in brief ↗BAMA
  25. 40Eudora ___, Pulitzer-winning author for "The Optimist's Daughter" ↗WELTY
  26. 43Kia S.U.V. ↗SORENTO
  27. 49Sioux City native ↗IOWAN
  28. 51"A pain in the neck," e.g. ↗IDIOM
  29. 53Actor Sean of "Stranger Things" ↗ASTIN
  30. 54Aussie buds ↗MATES
  31. 56So-called "windows to the soul" ↗EYES
  32. 58Take in the paper? ↗OPED
  33. 59Photo ___ ↗OPS
  34. 60Revolutionary Turner ↗NAT
  35. 61Horror director Roth ↗ELI
  36. 63Gear tooth ↗COG