NYT CROSSWORD • THURSDAY, MAY 1, 2025
NYT Crossword Answers May 1, 2025
Complete answer list for the May 1, 2025 New York Times Crossword. Across and Down, every clue, every answer — plus the full grid below.
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THUMAY
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Across 37
- 1Schoolroom that serves as a studio ↗ARTLAB
- 7Original airer of "Doctor Who" ↗BBC
- 10Covenant ↗PACT
- 14Give a lashing ↗BERATE
- 15Whom Will Smith played in a 2001 sports biopic ↗ALI
- 16Son of Zeus and Hera ↗ARES
- 17Sweetener in some diet sodas ↗STEVIA
- 18*Cat breed named after an Indonesian island from which it didn't originate ↗BASELINE
- 20Places to carry out some takeout orders, for short? ↗ORS
- 21Light unit ↗LUMEN
- 23"Not in the ___!" ↗LEAST
- 24*It's "read" as a stern warning ↗RICOTTA
- 26*Relative of a snowboard ↗KIMONOS
- 28___ Men (group that won a Grammy Award in 2001 for Best Dance Recording) ↗BAHA
- 29Old tone ↗SEPIA
- 31Is for the people? ↗ARE
- 32Daffy Duck speaking feature ↗LISP
- 34"I wanna!" ↗LEMME
- 37Brings up a prior topic … or a hint to making sense of the answers to this puzzle's starred clues ↗CIRCLESBACK
- 41Country that was home to the Ebla library, thought to be the world's first (2500 B.C.) ↗SYRIA
- 42Sheet music symbol ↗CLEF
- 44Past-tense verb that's potentially confusing (but grammatically correct!) when written twice in a row ↗HAD
- 47___ salt (form of magnesium sulfate) ↗EPSOM
- 50Lead-in to -nautics ↗AERO
- 52*Carve out, in a way ↗AVENGER
- 55*Comedy club fare ↗DUSTPAN
- 57Columbus's birthplace ↗GENOA
- 58"___ My Heart in San Francisco" ↗ILEFT
- 60Video game character speaking a gibberish language ↗SIM
- 61*Villain's expression ↗REVILING
- 63Like does ↗FEMALE
- 65___ Mendoza, former first lady of Puerto Rico ↗INES
- 66Onetime C.I.A. foe ↗KGB
- 67Like government secrets, occasionally ↗LEAKED
- 68Title friend of Marlin in an animated film ↗DORY
- 69Times Square ball drop setting, in brief ↗EST
- 70Revered sorts ↗ELDERS
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- 1Soak up ↗ABSORB
- 2Outcome of a hung jury ↗RETRIAL
- 3"How stylish!" ↗TRESCHIC
- 4W.C. ↗LAV
- 5Not quite straight up ↗ATILT
- 6Gorgeous ones, informally ↗BEAUTS
- 7Film based on the 1983 children's novel "The Sheep-Pig" ↗BABE
- 8Some comforters for toddlers ↗BLANKIES
- 9Modern prefix with normativity ↗CIS
- 10Dairy-less diet ↗PALEO
- 11Singer Grande ↗ARIANA
- 12Turn into stars, say? ↗CENSOR
- 13Tswana for "fly" ↗TSETSE
- 19West ___ (furniture retailer) ↗ELM
- 22Trailblazing astronaut Jemison ↗MAE
- 25Refuge from the heat ↗OASIS
- 27It's one foot long ↗IAMB
- 30Calls for sympathy ↗PLEAS
- 33Snoop ↗PRY
- 35Big thing in fast food? ↗MAC
- 36Splendor ↗ECLAT
- 38Language that gave us "Saskatchewan" ↗CREE
- 39Piercings that might be felt while kissing ↗LIPRINGS
- 40Memento ↗KEEPSAKE
- 43More delicate and weak ↗FRAILER
- 44Who says "You're a wizard, Harry" ↗HAGRID
- 45Skin-care brand ↗AVEENO
- 46City that lends its name to a style of omelet ↗DENVER
- 48Uplifting work ↗ODE
- 49Quiet ↗MUFFLE
- 51Popping pills, say ↗ONMEDS
- 53Racket-raising ↗NOISY
- 54___ pal ↗GAL
- 56Source of Andrew Carnegie's wealth ↗STEEL
- 59Community associated with Out magazine ↗LGBT
- 62President posthumously inducted in the World Golf Hall of Fame, informally ↗IKE
- 64Crackpot ↗MAD