NYT CROSSWORD • FRIDAY, MARCH 21, 2025

NYT Crossword Answers Mar 21, 2025

Complete answer list for the March 21, 2025 New York Times Crossword. Across and Down, every clue, every answer — plus the full grid below.

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Across 33

  1. 1Basketball's quadruple double, e.g ↗RARITY
  2. 7Not done naturally, in a way ↗STAGED
  3. 13Prosciutto, e.g. ↗CUREDHAM
  4. 15Player in the A.L. East ↗ORIOLE
  5. 16Image on a South African Krugerrand ↗ANTELOPE
  6. 17Whip (up) ↗RUSTLE
  7. 18Corsair ↗RAIDER
  8. 19Loses power ↗DIES
  9. 21Something typically left in the U.S., but not in Japan ↗TIP
  10. 22Site with a "Craft Supplies & Tools" category ↗ETSY
  11. 23It's a short walk from home ↗FIRSTBASE
  12. 25"Who ___?" (informal question) ↗DAT
  13. 26Item not found much in cars nowadays ↗ATLAS
  14. 28Many an M.B.A.'s undergrad major, informally ↗ECON
  15. 29Bad thing to blow ↗BIGLEAD
  16. 31Item that might be on a list ↗ERRAND
  17. 33For a song ↗CHEAPASDIRT
  18. 35"About damn time!" ↗ATLAST
  19. 37Show again, as a historical event ↗REENACT
  20. 39"How you ___?" ("Friends" catchphrase) ↗DOIN
  21. 40"Hot-diggity" or "Cool it" ↗SLANG
  22. 41Obfuscated ↗HID
  23. 43Attire often used in filming C.G.I. scenes, informally ↗MOCAPSUIT
  24. 46Home of the Cotahuasi Canyon, which is more than two miles deep ↗PERU
  25. 47With 48-Across, cousin of sleet ↗ICE
  26. 48See 47-Across ↗RAIN
  27. 49Tribal spiritualist ↗SHAMAN
  28. 51Begin listening to a podcast, say ↗TUNEIN
  29. 53PepsiCo product ↗GATORADE
  30. 55How Mario introduces himself in video games ↗ITSAME
  31. 56Really stands out ↗SPARKLES
  32. 57Be on the precipice ↗TEETER
  33. 58Historical records ↗ANNALS

Down 35

  1. 1Not pay as one goes ↗RUNATAB
  2. 2Freedom of expression? ↗ARTISTICLICENSE
  3. 3Like wetlands, typically ↗REEDY
  4. 4Chilling, maybe ↗IDLE
  5. 5God who wears the belt Megingjörd ↗THOR
  6. 6Big fat mouth ↗YAP
  7. 7Dressing targets ↗SORES
  8. 8Target of the 1890 Sherman Act ↗TRUST
  9. 9Some digital assistants, informally ↗AIS
  10. 10Pokémon tagline ↗GOTTACATCHEMALL
  11. 11Ralph who wrote the novel "Juneteenth" ↗ELLISON
  12. 12Spot for cannonballs ↗DEEPEND
  13. 13Minded ↗CARED
  14. 14People always getting favorable news coverage ↗MEDIADARLINGS
  15. 20Org. with a commissioner ↗IRS
  16. 23To-do ↗FLAP
  17. 24Sports great who said "If the world were perfect, it wouldn't be" ↗BERRA
  18. 26Sierra Nevadas, e.g. ↗ALES
  19. 27Handful on the farm ↗TEAT
  20. 30Country represented by the Black Star of Africa ↗GHANA
  21. 31Heaven on earth ↗EDEN
  22. 32Dial ↗RING
  23. 34Rear end ↗SEAT
  24. 35"Fess up!" ↗ADMITIT
  25. 36"Totes adorbs!" ↗TOOCUTE
  26. 38Philippics ↗TIRADES
  27. 40___ generis ↗SUI
  28. 42Features of the sci-fi planet Arrakis ↗DUNES
  29. 44Of the highest quality ↗PRIME
  30. 45More reasonable ↗SANER
  31. 46"Animal skin," in Aleut ↗PARKA
  32. 49Eminem hit whose title became a neologism for "fan" ↗STAN
  33. 50Eritrea's locale in Africa ↗HORN
  34. 52Inhale, so to speak ↗EAT
  35. 54Therapists' org. ↗APA