NYT CROSSWORD • SATURDAY, MAY 3, 2025

NYT Crossword Answers May 3, 2025

Complete answer list for the May 3, 2025 New York Times Crossword. Across and Down, every clue, every answer — plus the full grid below.

By Michael LiebermanEdited by Will ShortzGrid 15×1570 clues

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Across 35

  1. 1Source of the line "Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend" ↗ANIMALFARM
  2. 11National Merit Scholarship qualifying exam ↗PSAT
  3. 15Nailed ↗DONETOATEE
  4. 16"Nope" ↗UHUH
  5. 17"Can we be real for a second?!" ↗LETSFACEIT
  6. 18Zippo ↗NADA
  7. 19Bass output ↗ALES
  8. 20Spicy alternative to a Frito ↗TAKI
  9. 21Small drama ↗SKIT
  10. 22Country that is more than 50% desert: Abbr. ↗ISR
  11. 23Frenetic bursts of energy in pets, colloquially ↗ZOOMIES
  12. 26Cry for help ↗SOS
  13. 27Löwenbräu product ↗BIER
  14. 28"Yessiree!" ↗RIGHTO
  15. 30Ubiquitous figure during the holiday season ↗SALEPRICE
  16. 35Subatomic particle that binds quarks together ↗GLUON
  17. 36Like some tournaments ↗PROAM
  18. 37Subj. of some interpretive work ↗ASL
  19. 38Malarkey ↗HOKUM
  20. 39How some people self-identify ↗ITSME
  21. 40"Whatever" ↗LIKEICARE
  22. 42Gets out of the way, as hair ↗TIESUP
  23. 44[Get out of my way!] ↗HONK
  24. 45Onetime union member: Abbr. ↗SSR
  25. 46Draw out ↗PROLONG
  26. 49Eponymous Belgian tourist spot ↗SPA
  27. 52Intervals ↗GAPS
  28. 54Son of Isaac and Rebekah ↗ESAU
  29. 55Common tater ↗SPUD
  30. 56Tending to get fixated, say ↗ANAL
  31. 57Was way too keyed up, in modern slang ↗HADNOCHILL
  32. 60Remoulade base, informally ↗MAYO
  33. 61Manchego curado or Asiago d'allevo ↗AGEDCHEESE
  34. 62Computer programming keyword ↗ELSE
  35. 63Director and co-star of 2013's "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" ↗BENSTILLER

Down 35

  1. 1"___ and Estes — The Bestest" (1956 campaign slogan) ↗ADLAI
  2. 2Winter airs ↗NOELS
  3. 3Prefix with change ↗INTER
  4. 4Futz around (with) ↗MESS
  5. 5Fed. agency that investigates arson ↗ATF
  6. 6Hawaiian for "long" ↗LOA
  7. 7!, in mathematics ↗FACTORIAL
  8. 8Top unit ↗ATEAM
  9. 9Japanese energy-healing technique ↗REIKI
  10. 10Calling ↗METIER
  11. 11"The lowest form of human behavior," per John Oliver ↗PUNS
  12. 12North African egg-and-tomato dish ↗SHAKSHUKA
  13. 13Museum offering with a headset ↗AUDIOTOUR
  14. 14"I'm responsible for what happened" ↗THATSONME
  15. 23Request from someone getting dressed ↗ZIPMEUP
  16. 24Poetic preposition ↗OER
  17. 25Showing exasperation, in a way ↗SIGHING
  18. 27Rays ↗BEAMS
  19. 29Pistol brand ↗GLOCK
  20. 30Tries to talk smoothly, in slang ↗SPITSGAME
  21. 31Made using traditional methods ↗ARTISANAL
  22. 32Stakes of some bar bets ↗LOSERPAYS
  23. 33Franchise based in Vegas and N.Y., among others ↗CSI
  24. 34Norwegian hunting dogs ↗ELKHOUNDS
  25. 41Long spell ↗EON
  26. 43Physical therapy before an operation, familiarly ↗PREHAB
  27. 47Tribe in "Killers of the Flower Moon" ↗OSAGE
  28. 48Weighed down ↗LADEN
  29. 49Pitcher's output ↗SPIEL
  30. 50Beat ↗PULSE
  31. 51Renata ___, longtime journalist for The New Yorker ↗ADLER
  32. 53Blackthorn berry ↗SLOE
  33. 55Poet Silverstein ↗SHEL
  34. 58Mo. when Supreme Court terms begin ↗OCT
  35. 59Home of the White Sox, for short ↗CHI