NYT CROSSWORD • SUNDAY, MAY 11, 2025

NYT Crossword Answers May 11, 2025

Complete answer list for the May 11, 2025 New York Times Crossword. Across and Down, every clue, every answer — plus the full grid below.

By Brendan Emmett QuigleyEdited by Will ShortzGrid 21×21128 clues

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Across 61

  1. 1Cartridge from the 1980s ↗ATARIGAME
  2. 10Source of the words "galore" and "smithereens" ↗IRISH
  3. 15"Nice!" ↗SWEET
  4. 20Drag-racing venue ↗MOTORPLEX
  5. 21Nature personified ↗MOTHEREARTH
  6. 23"Pinky-swear?" ↗PROMISEME
  7. 24Step on a scale? ↗MUSICALNOTE
  8. 25The Beatles' "White Album" has four of them ↗SIDES
  9. 26Sphere of influence ↗ORBIT
  10. 281957 Isaac Asimov novel, with "The" ↗NAKEDSUN
  11. 29Command that might be represented by a curved arrow pointing left ↗UNDO
  12. 30Outer layer of the brain ↗CORTEX
  13. 32Inveigle ↗ENTICE
  14. 33Package drop-off sites: Abbr. ↗POS
  15. 34"Council," in Russian ↗SOVIET
  16. 35"Flower Myth" painter Paul ↗KLEE
  17. 36Takes a bit off the top ↗TRIMS
  18. 40Showed off on an instrument ↗SOLOED
  19. 41Follow closely ↗HEED
  20. 42Note-to-self medium, perhaps ↗POSTIT
  21. 43Beers from Bremen, informally ↗STPAULIS
  22. 46Zingy flavor ↗TANG
  23. 47Way off in the distance ↗FAR
  24. 48Agreeable words ↗IDO
  25. 49Defeated decisively ↗WHIPPED
  26. 50Fish that passes the "mirror test" of self-recognition ↗MANTARAY
  27. 52Salon sound ↗SNIP
  28. 53Poker declaration ↗IRAISE
  29. 54"I've Been Everywhere" singer in the Country Music Hall of Fame ↗HANKSNOW
  30. 55Mass agreements ↗AMENS
  31. 56"Whoever did this has it coming!" ↗SOMEONEISGETTINGFIRED
  32. 59Lynn ___, Super Bowl X M.V.P. ↗SWANN
  33. 60At the end of the day ↗AFTERALL
  34. 61Recently ↗OFLATE
  35. 62"Phooey!" ↗RATS
  36. 63Right of way, say ↗PRIORITY
  37. 64Cornmeal dish at a trattoria ↗POLENTA
  38. 65"I ___ you!" ↗OWE
  39. 66Eternity ↗EON
  40. 67Partner of 74-Across ↗DINE
  41. 68Acted diplomatically ↗MEDIATED
  42. 69Organ above the trachea ↗LARYNX
  43. 71Comic Ali ↗WONG
  44. 72Black out ↗REDACT
  45. 73Big name in the cleaning aisle ↗LYSOL
  46. 74Partner of 67-Across ↗WINE
  47. 75Embody something proudly ↗WEARIT
  48. 76___ Fring, "Breaking Bad" antagonist ↗GUS
  49. 79Spots for lavalier mics ↗LAPELS
  50. 81Hebrew greeting ↗SHALOM
  51. 82Turn to pulp ↗MASH
  52. 831999 Maeve Binchy novel ↗TARAROAD
  53. 86Young salmon ↗SMOLT
  54. 87Unit of magnetic flux density ↗GAMMA
  55. 88Spirit with a citrus flavor ↗ORANGEVODKA
  56. 90Head cheese ↗MISTERBIG
  57. 93Minor crime ↗MISDEMEANOR
  58. 94Adding up (to) ↗AMOUNTING
  59. 95Joy on TV ↗BEHAR
  60. 96Button on many appliances ↗START
  61. 97"Network" co-star, 1976 ↗NEDBEATTY

Down 67

  1. 1Invigorates ↗AMPSUP
  2. 2Home of the Italian soccer club Juventus ↗TORINO
  3. 3Fighting (with) ↗ATODDS
  4. 4Fictional character who says "Here's to my love! O true apothecary! Thy drugs are quick" ↗ROMEO
  5. 5Mechanism that controls a camera's aperture ↗IRIS
  6. 6Dashboard device, in brief ↗GPS
  7. 7Tavern offering ↗ALE
  8. 8High school reunion topic ↗MEMORIES
  9. 9Spent ↗EXERTED
  10. 10Amalgamate ↗IMMIX
  11. 11Uninteresting game, perhaps ↗ROUT
  12. 12Word with a commonly misapplied apostrophe ↗ITS
  13. 13Climbed, as a rope ↗SHINNED
  14. 14Greek goddess depicted holding torches and snakes ↗HECATE
  15. 15Person on a nominating committee, say ↗SELECTOR
  16. 16Goes nowhere in particular ↗WANDERS
  17. 17Psyche's partner ↗EROS
  18. 18Accusatory words ↗ETTU
  19. 19"Well ___" ↗THEN
  20. 22Twice-distilled Turkish beverage ↗RAKI
  21. 27Item in a hedge ↗BET
  22. 30Lass ↗COLLEEN
  23. 31Semicircular? ↗OVOID
  24. 32With style ↗ELEGANTLY
  25. 34"Let's eat!" ↗SOUPSON
  26. 35School whose sports teams are known as the Golden Flashes ↗KENTSTATE
  27. 37Traveling from place to place ↗ITINERANT
  28. 38Shopgirl in a Paris boutique ↗MIDINETTE
  29. 39Freezes ↗STOPSDEAD
  30. 40Homo ___ neanderthalensis ↗SAPIENS
  31. 41Strong urge ↗HANKERING
  32. 42Cough up ↗PAY
  33. 43Cake with a distinctive swirl ↗SWISSROLL
  34. 44Casual and not meant to be taken seriously, as a remark ↗THROWAWAY
  35. 45Spinal cord membranes ↗PIAMATERS
  36. 46Shade akin to pumpkin ↗TANGERINE
  37. 47Court favor in a cringey fashion ↗FAWN
  38. 50Beasts with enormous tusks ↗MASTODONS
  39. 51Shake up ↗ROIL
  40. 52Show warmth to ↗SMILEAT
  41. 54Like recording studio equipment ↗HIFI
  42. 55Plague ↗AFFLICT
  43. 57Take in ↗EARN
  44. 58Archer's gift ↗GOODAIM
  45. 63Old curse word ↗POX
  46. 64Actor Pascal of "Gladiator II" ↗PEDRO
  47. 66What provides the big picture? ↗ENLARGER
  48. 68Noon or 6:00 p.m., for some ↗MEALTIME
  49. 70Reality TV star Hadid ↗YOLANDA
  50. 71Something sown, per an idiom ↗WILDOAT
  51. 72Macho stereotype ↗REALMAN
  52. 74Goes in and out ↗WEAVES
  53. 75Word before knows or cares ↗WHO
  54. 76Chess opening ↗GAMBIT
  55. 77Dime store? ↗USMINT
  56. 78In need of a haircut, say ↗SHAGGY
  57. 80Limerick, e.g. ↗POEM
  58. 81Tricked out with the latest technology, say ↗SMART
  59. 82One-named Brazilian soccer star who is a six-time FIFA World Player of the Year ↗MARTA
  60. 83Body building? ↗TOMB
  61. 84___ Crown Theater (downtown Chicago landmark) ↗ARIE
  62. 85Acting without thinking ↗RASH
  63. 86Candy brand with a crown in its logo ↗SKOR
  64. 87See 89-Down ↗GENE
  65. 8987-Down makeup ↗DNA
  66. 91It may be rolled out in the backyard ↗SOD
  67. 92Setting for Jacques-Louis David's painting "The Death of Marat" ↗TUB