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NYT Crossword — April 10, 2025

Thursday’s 15 × 15 puzzle, 74 clues. The full solution is below — answers stay masked until you reveal them, one clue or all at once.

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Across

37 clues

4Rapper with back-to-back triple-platinum albums in 2000 and 2001

10Meas. that becomes a third of its size if its second letter is removed

14Hundredths of a Swedish krona

15It might drip onto an urban sidewalk, informally

16What a spooked horse might do

17"To ___ is human, but it feels divine": Mae West

20Show-stopping device

22Godmother in Guatemala, perhaps

23Space for venting?

28Ancient speakers of Nahuatl

29Tie score ender

31Country known as the "Land of a Million Elephants"

39Letters aptly missing from "d_ _a_ state"

42Like many an atrium

43Button often pressed moments before noticing a typo

47Limo passenger, perhaps

54Fair-hiring inits. since 1964

55Some victories, for short

61Parisian boulevard

62Ursula's lackeys in "The Little Mermaid"

64"What's the ___?"

65Jet stream direction

67___ E. King, "Stand by Me" singer

Down

37 clues

1___ Hennessy Louis Vuitton, French luxury goods holding company

2What a car service might await

3Corona o Dos Equis

4Jacksonville N.F.L. player, familiarly

6Testy chance encounter

7Remove some metadata from, on social media

8Diminutive, diminutively

9Bastille Day season

11It might be pushed back by "just one more story"

12Michigan city in Simon & Garfunkel's "America"

13Opposite of follow

19It dissolves in H2O

21Good way to come out

25Member of the South Asian diaspora

26Tabloid talk show host Povich

27International grocery chain founded in Germany

32Moves in a left-left-right-right footstep pattern

33Norse god of war

36Brand that rhymes with what it helps remove

37Internet equivalent of an R rating

38"Understand?"

39Asylum seeker

40Country whose name comes from the Latin phrase for "Red Sea"

41Cars with clutches

44Act of pleasant stress relief

45Titular solver of many a medical mystery in 2000s TV

48Hebrew for "My Lord"

50Grain milled into flour

51Fabled storyteller

52Gets "warmer"

58"Well, well, well!"

59Rock's ___ Fighters

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Stats & info

Thursday, Apr 10, 2025

15×15

Grid size

74

Total entries

40/185

Black / letter cells

5.0

Avg entry length

14 ltrs

Longest entry

Tricky

Thursday difficulty

PuzzleThe Crossword

PublishedApr 10, 2025

DayThursday

ThemeUntitled

ConstructorAdam Wagner

EditorWill Shortz

Clue split37 across · 37 down

Longest entries

24AMartini?14 ltrs 49ASublet?14 ltrs 18AShoveling?11 ltrs 57ARockette?11 ltrs 35ABandito?9 ltrs

Thursday is the gimmick day: rebus squares, reversed entries and other tricks are fair game. This grid has 40 black squares and averages 5.0 letters per entry.