NYT CROSSWORD • WEDNESDAY, MAY 14, 2025

NYT Crossword Answers May 14, 2025

Complete answer list for the May 14, 2025 New York Times Crossword. Across and Down, every clue, every answer — plus the full grid below.

By Rebecca Goldstein and Adam WagnerEdited by Will ShortzGrid 16×1579 clues

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Across 37

  1. 1Do a spit take? ↗SWAB
  2. 5Sea creature whose name doesn't rhyme with 1-Across, weirdly ↗CRAB
  3. 9Bloating relief brand ↗GASX
  4. 13"I've made a huge mistake!" ↗OHNO
  5. 14Dance during which newlyweds might be lifted in chairs ↗HORA
  6. 15Spin instructor? ↗PRGURU
  7. 17Color-changing fad jewelry ... or a description of this answer's shaded letters? ↗MOODRINGS
  8. 19Colombian cakes that have been around since pre-Columbian times ↗AREPAS
  9. 20Hit single from the 1983 "Flashdance" soundtrack ↗MANIAC
  10. 21Man's name that's also a suffix ↗IAN
  11. 23Storm center ↗EYE
  12. 24Heroes' journeys, say ... or a description of this answer's shaded letters? ↗CHARACTERARCS
  13. 29___ in comparison ↗PALE
  14. 32Starter starter? ↗NON
  15. 33Barnard graduate, e.g. ↗ALUMNA
  16. 34Long-running British record label ↗EMI
  17. 35Canine that bites ↗TOOTH
  18. 37Actress Rapace of "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" ↗NOOMI
  19. 39Visual aids on scatter plots ... or a description of this answer's shaded letters? ↗REGRESSIONCURVES
  20. 43Not hot or cool ↗UNHIP
  21. 44Debase oneself ↗STOOP
  22. 45Nickname that omits -anna ↗ARI
  23. 46What might be used to connect evidence on a detective's corkboard ↗STRING
  24. 49Go wrong ↗ERR
  25. 50Pot leaves? ↗TEAS
  26. 51Some painting in a parking lot ... or a description of this answer's shaded letters? ↗DIVIDINGLINES
  27. 54Suffix with legal ↗ESE
  28. 55Star sign? ↗CUE
  29. 56"Come on, help me out" ↗BEAPAL
  30. 60Exposed ↗ATRISK
  31. 63Awkwardly lanky ... or a description of this answer's shaded letters? ↗ALLELBOWS
  32. 66"I Dreamed a Dream" musical, familiarly ↗LESMIS
  33. 67Genuine ↗REAL
  34. 68Where to get a shelf off the shelf ↗IKEA
  35. 69Breather ↗REST
  36. 70Certain blue note ↗SEXT
  37. 71Fit snugly (in) ↗NEST

Down 42

  1. 12010s documentary trilogy about training for a very difficult wine exam ↗SOMM
  2. 2"Hold your horses!" ↗WHOA
  3. 3Ghost writer? ↗ANON
  4. 4Close-fitting part of a dress ↗BODICE
  5. 5Some Mexican Americans ↗CHICANOS
  6. 6Actor/director Howard ↗RON
  7. 7Home to Los Glaciares National Park: Abbr. ↗ARG
  8. 8Word with cable or training ↗BASIC
  9. 9Sound from an annoyed samoyed ↗GRR
  10. 10Time of one's life ↗AGE
  11. 11Starbursts? ↗SUPERNOVAE
  12. 12Bit of equipment in a dentist's office ↗XRAYCAMERA
  13. 15Assembly of experts ↗PANEL
  14. 16Manipulates ↗USES
  15. 18When doubled, zealous ↗RAH
  16. 22One-time connection ↗ATA
  17. 25Australian hoppers, for short ↗ROOS
  18. 26Nay sayers ↗ANTIS
  19. 27Anticipatory events, collectively ↗RUNUP
  20. 28Cherubic archer ↗AMOR
  21. 29Country where potatoes originated ↗PERU
  22. 30"Preach!" ↗AMENSISTER
  23. 31Playful poetry ↗LIGHTVERSE
  24. 35Lukewarm ↗TEPID
  25. 36Stay there! ↗HOTEL
  26. 38Egyptian deity with a reduplicative name ↗ISIS
  27. 40Reduplicative nickname in pop music ↗RIRI
  28. 41Sushi seaweed ↗NORI
  29. 42Midwestern agricultural swath ↗CORNBELT
  30. 47Fleetwood Mac vocalist Stevie ↗NICKS
  31. 48Creature that stampeded in "The Lion King" ↗GNU
  32. 50Where to place personal items before walking through a scanner ↗TSABIN
  33. 51"You're on!" ↗DEAL
  34. 52Settings on a bike ↗GEARS
  35. 53Prey for an osprey ↗EEL
  36. 57Give the finger? ↗POKE
  37. 58Floors ↗AWES
  38. 59Exam whose score can't be argued, ironically ↗LSAT
  39. 61Quick chats? ↗IMS
  40. 62"If you can't say something good about someone, ___ right here by me": Alice Roosevelt Longworth ↗SIT
  41. 64Greta of "Past Lives" ↗LEE
  42. 65Hardly stringent ↗LAX