NYT CROSSWORD • SUNDAY, MARCH 2, 2025

NYT Crossword Answers Mar 2, 2025

Complete answer list for the March 2, 2025 New York Times Crossword. Across and Down, every clue, every answer — plus the full grid below.

By Adam WagnerEdited by Will ShortzGrid 22×21145 clues

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FRIFEB
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SATMAR
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SUNMAR
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By Adam Wagner
MONMAR
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TUEMAR
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Across 83

  1. 1Town ↗BUG
  2. 4"___ funny …" (the most exciting phrase to hear in science, per Isaac Asimov) ↗THATS
  3. 9"Don't take offense," nowadays ↗NOSHADE
  4. 16N.Y.C. neighborhood where the Cronut was invented ↗SHO
  5. 19Mid-voyage ↗ASA
  6. 20Members of a tough crowd, perhaps ↗BOOERS
  7. 21Some painkillers ↗OPIATES
  8. 22Neighbor of Pakistan ↗IAN
  9. 23Go-ahead responses ↗NOS
  10. 24The humanities, traditionally ↗ARTSANDLETTERS
  11. 26Move gingerly ↗ESE
  12. 27H.S. exams taken for college credit ↗APS
  13. 28Hockey goal scored by deflecting an incoming puck ↗TIPIN
  14. 29Follower of Robespierre, in 18th-century France ↗JACOBIN
  15. 30Winged pest ↗GAT
  16. 31What a daredevil might go without ↗NET
  17. 32Binary pronoun options ↗HEORSHE
  18. 34Photographer Goldin ↗NAN
  19. 35Expecting, informally ↗PREGO
  20. 37One of two, in this clue ↗ANAPEST
  21. 39Mafiosi ↗MADEMEN
  22. 42Armada vessel ↗GALLON
  23. 43Smidgen ↗TAD
  24. 44One tapped by leadership? ↗SIR
  25. 45Temper ↗MOOD
  26. 46Bit of smack talk ↗DIS
  27. 47Sacred bird of Egyptian mythology ↗IBIS
  28. 49Go in circles ↗GRATE
  29. 51Taiwan-based tech giant ↗ASUS
  30. 52Formicary residents ↗ANTS
  31. 54Part of an underground network ↗ROOT
  32. 55Maritime hazard ↗REF
  33. 56It's simultaneously attractive and repulsive ↗MANET
  34. 58Malty craft beer ↗RYEIPA
  35. 60Personal ↗OWN
  36. 61Mont Blanc, par exemple ↗APE
  37. 62Like much limestone ↗GAY
  38. 63Gender abbr. ↗FEM
  39. 64Mama's mama ↗NANA
  40. 66Warning letters before a link ↗NSFW
  41. 68Narrative arc ↗POT
  42. 69Athletic competitions ↗METS
  43. 70Band whose name is a rhyme scheme ↗ABA
  44. 71Vaping implement ↗ECIG
  45. 72Oscar-winning Michelle ↗YEOH
  46. 73Modest bouquet ↗PSY
  47. 74On the safe side, nautically ↗ALE
  48. 75Derby entry ↗COT
  49. 76Comedian Philips ↗EMO
  50. 77Pompous "I" ↗ROYALE
  51. 79Makes mincemeat of ↗GRIDS
  52. 81Verifiable ↗TRE
  53. 82Actor Sebastian ___ of the "Avengers" movies ↗STAN
  54. 83Capital of East Timor ↗DILI
  55. 84Hurt badly ↗MAIM
  56. 85Packaging cords ↗TWINS
  57. 87Slippery ↗EELY
  58. 88Sloth, e.g. ↗SIN
  59. 89All-encompassing prefix ↗OMNI
  60. 90Goddess of the dawn ↗EOS
  61. 91Site-seeing need? ↗URL
  62. 92___ Rebellion (19th-century Chinese conflict) ↗TAPING
  63. 95Something to chew on ↗TEETHER
  64. 97Is too overwhelmed with emotion to speak ↗CANTEEN
  65. 101Showy ↗ORATE
  66. 102Big name in fruit juice, or the first three letters of the fruit in it ↗POM
  67. 103What "E" on a gauge means ↗ADDFUEL
  68. 105iPhone speaker? ↗SRI
  69. 106Spinoff of a popular lecture series ↗TEX
  70. 107Beers advertised with the slogan "La vida más fina" ↗CORONAS
  71. 110Prop ___ ↗PLANE
  72. 111Actress Carrie of HBO's "The Leftovers" ↗CON
  73. 112Fighting ↗ATT
  74. 113Tidy way to color … and where seven words are hiding in this puzzle? ↗INSIDETHELINES
  75. 115Word on a shoppe sign ↗ODE
  76. 116Nike's swoosh or McDonald's golden arches ↗LOO
  77. 117Course with a name derived from the French word for "clear the table" ↗DESSERT
  78. 118Filmmaker John who directed the "Thriller" music video ↗LANDIS
  79. 119Equal ↗PER
  80. 120Not quite yet ↗SON
  81. 121Big name in Western wear ↗STETSON
  82. 122"Good grief!" ↗MYGOD
  83. 123Some flight tracker data, for short ↗EDS

Down 62

  1. 1Word after second or before split ↗BANANA
  2. 2Hard court tournament ↗USOPEN
  3. 3What might fill you up after you fill up ↗GASSTATIONFOOD
  4. 4Parliamentary conservatives ↗TORIES
  5. 5Cuisine style that's kept simmering at the table ↗HOTPOT
  6. 6Pantheon of Norse gods ↗AESIR
  7. 7Send ↗TRANSMIT
  8. 8W-9 nine: Abbr. ↗SSN
  9. 9Shortened name on a Pelicans jersey ↗NOLA
  10. 10Well-connected grp.? ↗OPEC
  11. 11Take a breather ↗SITONEOUT
  12. 12Milliners' decorations ↗HATBANDS
  13. 13Stayed home for dinner ↗ATEIN
  14. 14"Nebraska" actor Bruce ↗DERN
  15. 15Shape of the border between yin and yang ↗ESS
  16. 16Longtime host Robert of NPR's "All Things Considered" ↗SIEGEL
  17. 17Tries ↗HASAGO
  18. 18Approximate weight of a subcompact car or a medium-size giraffe ↗ONETON
  19. 20Came clean? ↗BATHED
  20. 25Set new records, say, informally ↗DJED
  21. 33___ pants (loose-fitting garb) ↗HAREM
  22. 35American patriot Thomas ↗PAINE
  23. 36Author of the "Goosebumps" series ↗RLSTINE
  24. 38Gone by ↗PAST
  25. 40Came (from) ↗EMANATED
  26. 41Walks leisurely ↗MOSEYS
  27. 42Sydneysider's salutation ↗GDAYMATES
  28. 44Two-point play in American football ↗SAFETY
  29. 47"At a time like this, scorching ___, not convincing argument, is needed": Frederick Douglass ↗IRONY
  30. 48Super Mario character also known as King Koopa ↗BOWSER
  31. 49___ hook (device attached to a rope or cable) ↗GRAPPLING
  32. 50Stillness ↗REPOSE
  33. 53Star witness? ↗SPACETELESCOPE
  34. 5716 years, for Little League Baseball ↗AGELIMIT
  35. 58Risen from the ashes ↗REBORN
  36. 59Sloth, e.g. ↗ANIMAL
  37. 63Lead-in to a stark reality ↗FACTIS
  38. 65Extreme pain ↗AGONY
  39. 67Line of questioning? ↗WHYISIT
  40. 69Saltwater ↗MARINE
  41. 78Letter-shaped dress style ↗ALINE
  42. 79Single-player and multiplayer, for two ↗GAMEMODES
  43. 80Knight's need ↗STEED
  44. 82Rockefeller Plaza muralist ↗SERT
  45. 84Driver ↗MOTORIST
  46. 86Puns and anagrams, e.g. ↗WORDPLAY
  47. 91Except if ↗UNLESS
  48. 92Comes to ↗TOTALS
  49. 93Retort that sounds like a "Star Wars" character ↗ARETOO
  50. 94"Twister" star Bill ↗PAXTON
  51. 96Encryption code, in computer science lingo ↗HASH
  52. 97Spanish "when" ↗CUANDO
  53. 98Virgil epic ↗AENEID
  54. 99Worn down ↗ERODED
  55. 100Some Bay Area athletes, familiarly ↗NINERS
  56. 102Following ↗POSSE
  57. 104Fun romance ↗FLING
  58. 107Apt letters missing from "Te_h_ology r_view si_e" ↗CNET
  59. 108Emperor with a statue outside the Colosseum ↗NERO
  60. 109Memo header ↗ATTN
  61. 113Points the finger at ↗IDS
  62. 114Popular wood for American whiskey barrels until a 20th-century blight ↗ELM