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NYT Crossword Answers Mar 22, 2025

Complete answer list for the March 22, 2025 New York Times Crossword. Across and Down, every clue, every answer — plus the full grid below.

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FRIMAR
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SATMAR
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By Katie Hoody
SUNMAR
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MONMAR
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The Grid

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Across 35

  1. 1Style of Duchamp's so-called "readymades" ↗DADA
  2. 5Overlook? ↗GAWK
  3. 9Voted for ↗CHOSE
  4. 14___ blue (original team color of the Chelsea Football Club) ↗ETON
  5. 15Royal adversary ↗TWIN
  6. 16Accident reminders ↗DENTS
  7. 17It's not as random as it seems ↗CONTROLLEDCHAOS
  8. 20Elevated, as a ballet movement ↗ONTOE
  9. 21Long-lived being in Buddhist cosmology ↗DEVA
  10. 22Dish sometimes served with lomi-lomi salmon ↗POI
  11. 23Telepathic connections ↗MINDMELDS
  12. 26Ashanti Anderson's "___ to Black Skin" ↗ODE
  13. 27Surrealist painter Carrington ↗LEONORA
  14. 29Set units ↗REPS
  15. 31Modern initialism for Black dialect ↗AAVE
  16. 32On the topic of ↗ADDRESSING
  17. 37"Colors" rapper (1988) ↗ICET
  18. 38[Here we go again] ↗GROAN
  19. 39Classic Langston Hughes poem quoted on a wall of the National Museum of African American History and Culture ↗ITOO
  20. 40"Enough!" ↗THATDOESIT
  21. 42Like the Muddy Waters album "At Newport 1960" ↗LIVE
  22. 43Excellent, average or bad, depending on the context ↗MEAN
  23. 44Ornate water heater ↗SAMOVAR
  24. 46The Wildcats of the Big 12 Conf. ↗KSU
  25. 48Massive hockey arena in St. Petersburg, Russia ↗ICEPALACE
  26. 51PC discourse? ↗IMS
  27. 52Pop ↗SODA
  28. 53Company that owns Words With Friends ↗ZYNGA
  29. 56Plot device in some suspense thrillers ↗TICKINGTIMEBOMB
  30. 60English actress Bamber ↗ELLIE
  31. 61Cream alternative ↗ECRU
  32. 62Angled for attention?: Abbr. ↗ITAL
  33. 63Collection in an herbarium, say ↗SEEDS
  34. 64This is unreal! ↗SHAM
  35. 65Bird whose diet includes berries that grow on lava ↗NENE

Down 35

  1. 1Style influenced by Cubism, informally ↗DECO
  2. 2Volumes ↗ATON
  3. 3"Stay still!" ↗DONTMOVEAMUSCLE
  4. 4___ of Bourbon, grandmother of Mary, Queen of Scots ↗ANTOINETTE
  5. 5Car seen in the opening scene of "Dazed and Confused" ↗GTO
  6. 6Shoemaker's tool ↗AWL
  7. 7"The Ballad of Reading Gaol" poet ↗WILDE
  8. 8Show obeisance, in a way ↗KNEEL
  9. 9They protect some software purchases ↗CDCASES
  10. 10Snicker bit ↗HEH
  11. 11Prelude to good news ↗ONAPOSITIVENOTE
  12. 12Rose ↗STOOD
  13. 13Australian actress Davis ↗ESSIE
  14. 18The Aces of Triple-A baseball ↗RENO
  15. 19Early Netflix offering ↗DVDRENTAL
  16. 24Annual Atlanta gathering of sci-fi/gaming fans ↗DRAGONCON
  17. 25One of la familia ↗MADRE
  18. 27Bébé's breakfast ↗LAIT
  19. 28Per ↗EACH
  20. 30The "magic" in some mushrooms ↗PSILOCYBIN
  21. 33Configurations of locks ↗DOS
  22. 34Wife of Mikhail Gorbachev ↗RAISA
  23. 35Cosmic explosion ↗NOVA
  24. 36Concert ending? ↗GOER
  25. 41Links in a certain chain ↗DAISIES
  26. 45Way-out fun? ↗MAZE
  27. 46They come with strings attached ↗KITES
  28. 47Cry before a shot ↗SMILE
  29. 49Pentagon quintet ↗EDGES
  30. 50Fix (up) ↗PATCH
  31. 542023 Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of J. Edgar Hoover ↗GMAN
  32. 55Up to something? ↗ABLE
  33. 57You might sit for one ↗KID
  34. 58Certain plan for the future, in brief ↗IRA
  35. 59Close-lipped ↗MUM