NYT CROSSWORD • SUNDAY, MARCH 16, 2025

NYT Crossword Answers Mar 16, 2025

Complete answer list for the March 16, 2025 New York Times Crossword. Across and Down, every clue, every answer — plus the full grid below.

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Across 59

  1. 1Jeans material ↗BLUED
  2. 6Some P.D. alerts ↗APBS
  3. 10Leaves a relationship ↗SCOMPANY
  4. 1814-line poem with only two rhymes across three stanzas ↗RONDEL
  5. 20"The African Queen" scriptwriter ↗AGEE
  6. 21Per-hour cost to record music, say ↗STUDIOFEE
  7. 22Host of a 1990s late-night talk show that was briefly revived 20 years later ↗ARSENIOHALL
  8. 24Completely exclude ↗FREEZEOUT
  9. 25Low-fat dairy desserts ↗ICEMILKS
  10. 26Columbus's birthplace ↗GENOA
  11. 28L.L. Bean competitor ↗REI
  12. 29Dug through for digital analysis ↗DATAM
  13. 30Auto racer ___ Patrick ↗DANICA
  14. 32Subway commuters, informally ↗PHANGERS
  15. 37Promoted boastfully ↗TOUTED
  16. 39Others, to Ovid ↗ALIA
  17. 40Old-fashioned garnishes ↗ORANGEP
  18. 47M.L.B. V.I.P.s ↗GMS
  19. 48Al Capone adversary who only ever met him once in person ↗ELIOTNESS
  20. 53Selling points? ↗RETAILERS
  21. 55[Boo-hoo!] ↗SNIFF
  22. 56Hamlet or Laertes ↗DANE
  23. 57Longtime children's clothing store with a portmanteau name ↗GYMBOREE
  24. 58Dabbles in ↗PLAYSAT
  25. 60Loads ↗ATON
  26. 61Ratted ↗TOLD
  27. 62Make ready for new use ↗REFIT
  28. 63Exhibits brilliance ↗GLOWS
  29. 64Something one might need to look good in the morning ↗BEAUTYS
  30. 68Article of faith ↗TENET
  31. 69Not-so-joltin' joe? ↗FCOFFEE
  32. 71___ group (chemistry classification) ↗AMINO
  33. 72Source of the "blood" in a meatless burger, maybe ↗BEETS
  34. 73Good lighting? ↗HALO
  35. 74Spill the tea ↗DISH
  36. 75Playground retort ↗DOESNOT
  37. 77Doses of a certain hallucinogen ↗ACIDTABS
  38. 82___ breve ↗ALLA
  39. 83Russian range ↗URALS
  40. 84Sounding as if the speaker has some swollen glands ↗ADENOIDAL
  41. 85Much high school gossip ↗TEENDRAMA
  42. 87Metaphor for Juliet, in Romeo's soliloquy ↗SUN
  43. 89Got up and at ’em ↗DTHEDAY
  44. 90Official who reports to a president ↗DEAN
  45. 91Reddish-brown shade ↗SIENNA
  46. 94Secretly communicating in class ↗PASSINGN
  47. 98Make out ↗DETECT
  48. 100Settings for telling some ghost stories ↗CAMPF
  49. 105Superb, in slang ↗ACE
  50. 106In 2021 she became the first tennis player to light the Olympic cauldron during the opening ceremony ↗OSAKA
  51. 108Fried fare often served with marinara ↗CALAMARI
  52. 110Discards from fuzzy fruits ↗PEACHPITS
  53. 115Blade runner? ↗SPEEDSKATER
  54. 117Reassurance after bandaging a boo-boo ↗ALLBETTER
  55. 118Till bills ↗TENS
  56. 119Actress Richards of "Starship Troopers" ↗DENISE
  57. 120Felt absolutely determined about ↗WASDEADS
  58. 121Betting site's quote ↗ODDS
  59. 122Like the typefaces Helvetica and Arial ↗SANSS

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  1. 1Cornrow or challah feature ↗BRAID
  2. 2Playwright Federico García ___ ↗LORCA
  3. 3Like freshly poured concrete ↗UNSET
  4. 4Medical buildup of fluid ↗EDEMA
  5. 5- ↗DENIM
  6. 6Verbally reacts to in awe ↗AAHSAT
  7. 7Links letters ↗PGA
  8. 8Where Waterloo is ↗BELGIUM
  9. 9Picks ↗SELECTS
  10. 10- ↗STRAP
  11. 11Something you might get a break with? ↗CUE
  12. 12Composition of Catullus in ancient Rome ↗ODE
  13. 13"Les ___" ↗MIZ
  14. 14Creator of the mystery-solving C. Auguste Dupin ↗POE
  15. 15Prior to, old-style ↗AFORE
  16. 16German soccer legend Manuel who innovated the "sweeper-keeper" role ↗NEUER
  17. 17"Abominable" ones ↗YETIS
  18. 19Rap title? ↗LIL
  19. 21BART stop, for short ↗SFO
  20. 23Gave the go-ahead ↗OKD
  21. 27Scot's denial ↗NAE
  22. 31Eggy holiday drinks ↗NOGS
  23. 33Port city near Mount Carmel ↗HAIFA
  24. 34High up ↗ALOFT
  25. 35A persnickety person might pick it ↗NIT
  26. 36Frodo's enchanting friend ↗GANDALF
  27. 38What to do if someone makes a false accusation about you ↗DENYIT
  28. 40Alternative to .net ↗ORG
  29. 41King of Castile ↗REY
  30. 42Device whose keypad often has Braille on it ↗ATM
  31. 43Catch in the act ↗NAB
  32. 44Florentine artist known for frescoes ↗GIOTTO
  33. 45"The Jetsons" boy ↗ELROY
  34. 46- ↗PEELS
  35. 49It's one thing after another ↗LIST
  36. 50Have as food, formally ↗EATOF
  37. 51Former Maine senator Olympia with an apt name for her state ↗SNOWE
  38. 52Taste or touch ↗SENSE
  39. 54Light to stop at ↗RED
  40. 55Like the best bonds, perhaps ↗SAFEST
  41. 58Primps ↗PREENS
  42. 59Slow, musically ↗LENTO
  43. 63Brit's jolly cry of approval ↗GOODOH
  44. 64Lacking a knack for ↗BADAT
  45. 65Zola who wrote "J'Accuse …!" ↗EMILE
  46. 66Critic's common seating preference ↗AISLE
  47. 67Lets go of ↗UNHANDS
  48. 68Some green cars ↗TESLAS
  49. 69- ↗FACED
  50. 70Hawkeye's real first name in the "Avengers" movies ↗CLINT
  51. 72Smile ↗BEAM
  52. 73Bamboozled ↗HAD
  53. 75Boxer Roberto who fought Sugar Ray Leonard ↗DURAN
  54. 76Chimp's cousin ↗ORANG
  55. 78Attach, with "on" ↗TIE
  56. 79Attach, with "on" ↗ADD
  57. 80Cote quote? ↗BAA
  58. 81___ dog ↗SLY
  59. 84Author Rice ↗ANNE
  60. 86"Agnus ___" ↗DEI
  61. 87Hopes that one might ↗SEEKSTO
  62. 88Live, in a way ↗UNTAPED
  63. 92Girl who's "sweet as apple cider," per an old song ↗IDA
  64. 93Admission ↗ACCESS
  65. 94Tree with oblong yellow-green fruit ↗PAPAW
  66. 95What's on the fast track? ↗ACELA
  67. 96Navy group ↗SEALS
  68. 97- ↗NOTES
  69. 99Tiny bit ↗TAD
  70. 100Bars of soap ↗CAKES
  71. 101Appliance brand owned by Whirlpool ↗AMANA
  72. 102Morning in Monaco ↗MATIN
  73. 103Word with French or bench ↗PRESS
  74. 104- ↗FIRES
  75. 107Latvia, e.g., once: Abbr. ↗SSR
  76. 109Drug sold in 77-Across ↗LSD
  77. 111Compound found in marijuana, for short ↗CBD
  78. 112Start of a bray or conclusion of a giggle ↗HEE
  79. 113Sch. calendar abbr. ↗PTA
  80. 114"___ be a pleasure" ↗ITD
  81. 116Call off ↗END