NYT CROSSWORD • FRIDAY, MAY 9, 2025

NYT Crossword Answers May 9, 2025

Complete answer list for the May 9, 2025 New York Times Crossword. Across and Down, every clue, every answer — plus the full grid below.

By Willa Angel Chen Miller and Erik AgardEdited by Will ShortzGrid 15×1572 clues

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Across 33

  1. 1Walks softly ↗PADS
  2. 5Impossible to contact by ordinary means ↗OFFTHEGRID
  3. 15"___, sing America" ↗ITOO
  4. 16Feature focused on investigation and resolution ↗CRIMEDRAMA
  5. 17Turf ↗LAND
  6. 18Downward-facing dog? ↗CANISMAJOR
  7. 19___ text (label for a screen reader) ↗ALT
  8. 20___ Robert Jr., 2020 Gold Glove Award winner ↗LUIS
  9. 21Encrust ↗CAKE
  10. 22What might be caught Red-handed? ↗FLYBALL
  11. 24Cracker topper ↗BRIE
  12. 27Raise ↗HOIST
  13. 28Popular vacation spot ↗SEASHORE
  14. 32Talks up ↗TOUTS
  15. 33It's not worth what it seems ↗PLAYMONEY
  16. 34Kick out ↗OUST
  17. 35Roughly 62% of its claimed territory is in Antarctica ↗CHILE
  18. 36Fine-textured wood used in musical instruments ↗PEAR
  19. 37Unfettered flow of goods ↗FREETRADE
  20. 39It might turn up a turnip ↗SPADE
  21. 40Software clients ↗USERBASE
  22. 41Minuscule ↗TEENY
  23. 42"That's my opinion, too" ↗SAME
  24. 43Components of some makeovers ↗HAIRDOS
  25. 45Boatload ↗SLEW
  26. 48First-rate, in slang ↗BOSS
  27. 49R&B's ___ Hill ↗DRU
  28. 50"Be kind!" ↗HAVEAHEART
  29. 54First name of the first Black woman to win a Nobel Prize in Literature ↗TONI
  30. 55What holding one's thumb up might indicate ↗INEEDARIDE
  31. 56"How could ___?" ↗INOT
  32. 57Cooking byproduct sometimes called "liquid gold" ↗PASTAWATER
  33. 58Rescues, maybe ↗PETS

Down 39

  1. 1Fragrant rice dish ↗PILAF
  2. 2Day and night ↗ATALLHOURS
  3. 3"Must I spell it out further?" ↗DONTYOUSEE
  4. 4Turf ↗SOD
  5. 5Like practices associated with pentacles ↗OCCULT
  6. 6Enfeebled ↗FRAIL
  7. 7Some scuba diving gear ↗FINS
  8. 8"OMG, I didn't need to know that!" ↗TMI
  9. 9"She's everything. ___ just Ken" (2023 movie tagline) ↗HES
  10. 10Genre heard at many raves, for short ↗EDM
  11. 11Pioneer in computer science who has a college at Yale named after her ↗GRACEHOPPER
  12. 12Asian royal ↗RAJA
  13. 13"Don't worry about me" ↗IMOK
  14. 14Have the audacity ↗DARE
  15. 20Colleen ↗LASS
  16. 23Emotionally complex, in a way ↗BITTERSWEET
  17. 24James Baldwin's "If ___ Street Could Talk" ↗BEALE
  18. 25One-named singer in the 2023 hit "Prada" ↗RAYE
  19. 26What one might subscribe to ↗ISM
  20. 28"I'll let that ___ …" ↗SLIDE
  21. 29Not to be repeated ↗ONEANDDONE
  22. 30Seeking comment? ↗READYORNOT
  23. 31Title heroine who says "I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will; which I now exert to leave you" ↗EYRE
  24. 32Stir-fry protein option ↗TOFU
  25. 33This, too, shall pass ↗PHASE
  26. 35Squeeze ↗CRAM
  27. 38Not yet final, in brief ↗TBA
  28. 39Number of kings en España named Felipe ↗SEIS
  29. 41Position at a food company ↗TASTER
  30. 43Throng ↗HORDE
  31. 44Boardroom group ↗SUITS
  32. 45Mail ↗SHIP
  33. 46Superboy's crush ↗LANA
  34. 47Holiday lead-ins ↗EVES
  35. 48Entice ↗BAIT
  36. 51Antidiscrimination legis. of 1990 ↗ADA
  37. 52___ flakes (fruity Chinese snack) ↗HAW
  38. 53Long period ↗ERA
  39. 54What a boat shouldn't do ↗TIP