NYT CROSSWORD • WEDNESDAY, MAY 28, 2025

NYT Crossword Answers May 28, 2025

Complete answer list for the May 28, 2025 New York Times Crossword. Across and Down, every clue, every answer — plus the full grid below.

By Peter A. CollinsEdited by Will ShortzGrid 15×1575 clues

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The Grid

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Across 37

  1. 1Small foresail ↗JIB
  2. 4Maritime ↗NAVAL
  3. 9Holed up ↗HID
  4. 12Rare blood type, in brief ↗ANEG
  5. 14Cognizant ↗AWARE
  6. 15Pixar character who has trouble saying "anemone" ↗NEMO
  7. 16Philosopher known for paradoxes ↗ZENO
  8. 17Looked stunned, say ↗GAPED
  9. 18Decrease? ↗IRON
  10. 19"Sharp Dressed Man" band ↗ZZTOP
  11. 21Understanding ↗KEN
  12. 22Special ___ ↗AGENT
  13. 23Two tablets, e.g. ↗DOSE
  14. 25Sholem ___, author of "Children of Abraham" ↗ASCH
  15. 27Cause of low vitality ↗ANEMIA
  16. 30Something to get the ball rolling ↗PUTTER
  17. 34New Jersey city with a bridge to Staten Island ↗BAYONNE
  18. 36Certain Nov. 11 honoree ↗ARMYVET
  19. 37Turned aside ↗AVERTED
  20. 38Like many a Swiftie ↗TEENAGE
  21. 39___ a soul ↗NARY
  22. 40Part of Caesar's boast ↗VENI
  23. 41Rice-A-___ ↗RONI
  24. 44Eur. alliance ↗GSIX
  25. 48Anthem that ends "We stand on guard for thee" ↗OCANADA
  26. 52One attending orientation ↗NEWHIRE
  27. 55Sounded like a brook ↗GURGLED
  28. 56Left off ↗OMITTED
  29. 57New Haven collegian ↗ELI
  30. 58Musical featuring the song depicted by this puzzle's circled letters, familiarly ↗FIDDLER
  31. 60"One card left" ↗UNO
  32. 61Backstabber ↗RAT
  33. 6241-Down's "Top Hat" co-star ↗ASTAIRE
  34. 63It means little in Paris ↗PEU
  35. 64Majorcan Mrs. ↗SRA
  36. 65Troopers, on a CB radio ↗SMOKEYS
  37. 66Concorde, e.g., for short ↗SST

Down 38

  1. 1Genre for Count Basie or Charlie Parker ↗JAZZ
  2. 2Name akin to Agnes ↗INEZ
  3. 3Proclivity ↗BENT
  4. 4Keep after, say ↗NAG
  5. 5Out of the arms of Morpheus, so to speak ↗AWAKE
  6. 6Puff on an e-cig ↗VAPE
  7. 7Kind of rock ↗ARENA
  8. 8Spearheaded ↗LED
  9. 9Question while pointing ↗HERE
  10. 10"That's my cue!" ↗IMON
  11. 11Terse admonition ↗DONT
  12. 13First words of the day, perhaps ↗GOODMORNING
  13. 15Last words of the day, perhaps ↗NIGHTYNIGHT
  14. 20Starting place ↗POINTA
  15. 22Astuteness ↗ACUMEN
  16. 24More sound ↗SANER
  17. 26Buying binge ↗SPREE
  18. 27Legal org. ↗ABA
  19. 28___ system (GPS device) ↗NAV
  20. 29Symbol on the back of a dollar bill ↗EYE
  21. 31F.D.R. program ↗TVA
  22. 32Hosp. diagnostic ↗EEG
  23. 33Waze suggestion: Abbr. ↗RTE
  24. 35Big name in the freezer aisle ↗EDY
  25. 36Off-roader, in brief ↗ATV
  26. 4162-Across's "Top Hat" co-star ↗ROGERS
  27. 42Related to vision ↗OCULAR
  28. 43International airport serving Tokyo ↗NARITA
  29. 45Some gym reps ↗SITUPS
  30. 46Actresses Dunne and Ryan ↗IRENES
  31. 47Crossed off ↗XEDOUT
  32. 49Some sporty wheels, informally ↗ALFAS
  33. 50Benjamin Franklin's faith ↗DEISM
  34. 51Complement ↗ADDTO
  35. 52"I swear!" ↗NOLIE
  36. 53Mani-pedi material ↗EMERY
  37. 54Does some electrical work on ↗WIRES
  38. 59___ Terr., area from 1861 to 1889 ↗DAK