NYT CROSSWORD • SUNDAY, MAY 18, 2025

NYT Crossword Answers May 18, 2025

Complete answer list for the May 18, 2025 New York Times Crossword. Across and Down, every clue, every answer — plus the full grid below.

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Across 65

  1. 1Verso's counterpart ↗RECTO
  2. 6Alternative to an onion bagel ↗BIALY
  3. 11Jai ___ ↗ALAI
  4. 15Where the Pilgrims first landed in the New World ↗CAPE
  5. 19Skating gold medalist Oksana ↗BAIUL
  6. 20Host ↗EMCEE
  7. 21Quick look ↗PEEK
  8. 22Has a tab open, say ↗OWES
  9. 23Hip-hop's "Puba" and "Daddy I.U."? ↗GRANDRAPIDS
  10. 25Station near Madison Square Garden, for short ↗PENN
  11. 26Fleet ↗FAST
  12. 27Hung around ↗LOITERED
  13. 28Remove from the champagne bucket? ↗TAKEOFFICE
  14. 30"Just kidding!" ↗NOT
  15. 31Feeling rash? ↗ITCHY
  16. 34Hip-hop artist with the 2019 hit "My Type" ↗SAWEETIE
  17. 35Crisis involving cartels ↗DRUGWAR
  18. 39Goes "Vroom!" ↗ROARS
  19. 41Royal title ↗SIRE
  20. 42Casting a total brat in the school play? ↗MAKINGANIMPACT
  21. 45Some govt. securities ↗TNOTES
  22. 49___-tempered ↗EVEN
  23. 50"Super cool!" ↗DOPE
  24. 51Get ready to take a shot ↗AIM
  25. 53Ship propeller ↗SCREW
  26. 54French for "from" ↗DES
  27. 55Release ↗EMIT
  28. 57Dante's guide in the "Inferno" ↗VIRGIL
  29. 60Singer Del Rey ↗LANA
  30. 61"The score upon which reality is written," per Henry Miller ↗CHAOS
  31. 62Apps might be seen on one ↗MENU
  32. 63Sediment, e.g. ↗DEPOSIT
  33. 65"The co-star of 'Duck Soup' has to be sore after that!"? ↗GROUCHOMARXMUSTACHE
  34. 69Anonymous guy ↗JOHNDOE
  35. 70Pauperism, so to speak ↗RAGS
  36. 71Author of the 2020 memoir "Cubed" ↗RUBIK
  37. 72Lots ↗ATON
  38. 73"Because I'm the boss!" ↗SAYSME
  39. 75Pinged online ↗IMED
  40. 76Condition for which Luvox may be prescribed, in brief ↗OCD
  41. 79"Wonder Woman" star ↗GADOT
  42. 81Mountain ___ ↗DEW
  43. 82Late singer Payne of One Direction ↗LIAM
  44. 84Modern home of where cuneiform writing originated ↗IRAQ
  45. 85Way up or way down ↗STAIRS
  46. 87"How long have beavers blocked this river?"? ↗WHATSTHEDAMAGE
  47. 92"As ___ …" ↗SUCH
  48. 94Earthenware pots ↗OLLAS
  49. 95Was comparable to ↗RIVALED
  50. 96Apparel feature that a bandeau lacks ↗BRASTRAP
  51. 100Function in the role of ↗ACTAS
  52. 102Monk's title ↗DOM
  53. 103Be crazy about Chicago trains with broken A.C.s? ↗LOVEHOTELS
  54. 105Much in quantity ↗BEAUCOUP
  55. 109Baseball family name ↗ALOU
  56. 110Actor Jared ↗LETO
  57. 111Metric in a competitive family business? ↗SALESPERSON
  58. 114Prince, e.g. ↗HEIR
  59. 115In ___ parentis ↗LOCO
  60. 116Blow ↗ERUPT
  61. 117Designer Hilfiger ↗TOMMY
  62. 118Lays turf on ↗SODS
  63. 119Little twerp ↗SNOT
  64. 120Trunk ↗TORSO
  65. 121Head of Slytherin House in the Harry Potter books ↗SNAPE

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  1. 1Subject of the 2018 biopic "On the Basis of Sex," familiarly ↗RBG
  2. 2Noble title ↗EARL
  3. 3"Ci vediamo in giro!" ↗CIAO
  4. 4Getting ready to listen ↗TUNINGIN
  5. 5Historic district of a city ↗OLDTOWN
  6. 6Gnarly problem, so to speak ↗BEAR
  7. 7Architect of Hong Kong's Bank of China Tower ↗IMPEI
  8. 8Certain hallucinatory experience ↗ACIDTRIP
  9. 9Directed ↗LED
  10. 10Last word of James Joyce's "Ulysses" ↗YES
  11. 11Dad, in Korean ↗APPA
  12. 12Ingredients in some potato soups ↗LEEKS
  13. 13Son of Aphrodite ↗AENEAS
  14. 14"You don't have to tell me" ↗IKNOWIT
  15. 15Time for a pick-me-up, humorously ↗COFFEEOCLOCK
  16. 16Lie ahead ↗AWAIT
  17. 17Joe of "Home Alone" ↗PESCI
  18. 18First name in perfumes ↗ESTEE
  19. 24Label anew ↗RETAG
  20. 28Banks from Los Angeles ↗TYRA
  21. 29Maidenhair and others ↗FERNS
  22. 32Common dog command ↗COME
  23. 33Chance ↗HAP
  24. 35Hit up on Instagram, informally ↗DMED
  25. 36Overnight party with light shows and "cuddle puddles" ↗RAVE
  26. 37Luau strings ↗UKES
  27. 38Rock group with the 1992 hit "Creep" ↗RADIOHEAD
  28. 40Harum-___ (reckless) ↗SCARUM
  29. 43Untrue ↗NOTSO
  30. 44Notaro of comedy ↗TIG
  31. 46Drag-and-drop disposal icon ↗TRASH
  32. 47Start of a counting rhyme ↗EENIE
  33. 48Hit with a smack ↗SWAT
  34. 52Time in a Shakespeare title ↗MIDSUMMER
  35. 55Former Israeli P.M. Olmert ↗EHUD
  36. 56Platform for Safari and FaceTime ↗MACOS
  37. 57Borderline ↗VERGE
  38. 58"Need You Tonight" band, 1987 ↗INXS
  39. 59Leave alone ↗LETBE
  40. 61Arbiters of taste ↗CONNOISSEURS
  41. 62Polite term of address ↗MAAM
  42. 64Stamp on an invoice ↗PAID
  43. 65Implied ↗GOTAT
  44. 66Valerie Harper title role ↗RHODA
  45. 67One of three immortal elders in "A Wrinkle in Time" ↗MRSWHO
  46. 68Dickens's ___ Heep ↗URIAH
  47. 69Bouts ↗JAGS
  48. 74Tree whose name sounds like a pronoun ↗YEW
  49. 76Word with history or hygiene ↗ORAL
  50. 77Shut up ↗CAGE
  51. 78Threw out of a contest, informally ↗DQED
  52. 80Philosopher's pursuit ↗TRUTH
  53. 82Exam with an argumentative writing section, in brief ↗LSAT
  54. 83"You know, I can't quite remember" ↗ITSABLUR
  55. 84"Oh geez, the answer was staring me in the face!" ↗IMAMORON
  56. 86Goes through screen after screen ↗SCROLLS
  57. 88"Sadly …" ↗ALAS
  58. 89Special attention, for short ↗TLC
  59. 90Made nice ↗DIDUP
  60. 91Wading birds ↗AVOCETS
  61. 93Publicly bash ↗HATEON
  62. 96Doldrums ↗BLAHS
  63. 97Lumberjacks' competition ↗ROLEO
  64. 98Walk around, maybe ↗AVOID
  65. 99Where one might pick up litter ↗PETCO
  66. 101Oozes ↗SEEPS
  67. 104Burgle ↗LOOT
  68. 106About ↗ASTO
  69. 107West Point inst. ↗USMA
  70. 108Fanfare ↗POMP
  71. 111Like a diamond in a ring ↗SET
  72. 112Queer identity, in brief ↗ARO
  73. 11312/31 ↗NYE