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NYT Crossword — April 15, 2025

Tuesday’s 15 × 15 puzzle, 76 clues. The full solution is below — answers stay masked until you reveal them, one clue or all at once.

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Across

35 clues

1"Snow job" or "rainmaker," e.g.

6Beer pong locale

13Figure once marketed as "America's movable fighting man"

15___ for sore eyes (www.optometrists.com?)

16Like a film that's both sad and funny

18Cactus ___ (Arizona's state bird)

19Lisa Simpson's musical instrument

20"Go on now, git!"

22Ben & Jerry's flavor honoring a jam band legend

28Potter : wheel :: painter : ___

29___ chic (fashion style)

30"Can't you get someone else?"

32Water-testing org.

35Not quite right ... or a hint to this puzzle's circled letters

39Moviemaking backdrop

40D.E.A. agent, informally

44Herculean tasks

46Genre for Gabriel García Márquez's "One Hundred Years of Solitude"

50Start of the Hebrew alphabet

52Anatomical pouch

55Skirt with a high hemline

56Online marketplace with a "barter" category

60Six-time French Open champ Björn

62"Just a ___!"

63Moore of "The Substance"

Down

41 clues

1March V.I.P.s?: Abbr.

2Old Italian money

3Cleaning product with a mythical name

4Yuletide drink

5Performer at ozashiki parties

7Something heard through the grapevine

8News anchor Melber

9Private eye, in old crime novels

10Big name in fertilizers

12High-I.Q. society

17The so-called "Goddess of Pop"

23Like the questions asked in Guess Who?

24Feline, to Felipe

26Fire station fixture

27Camera-friendly

30Container for keys, wallet, razor, etc., in a modern portmanteau

31World clock std.

33Unexciting holding in poker

34Lincoln Center focus

37Former attorney general Bill

38Warhead weapon, in brief

43Take out a small part of one's savings, say

44Suffix with duck or suck

45Requests from

46Some bedtime story readers

48Worry greatly

49Video game character in a green hat

52River residue

53Not on firm ground?

54___+C ("copy" on a PC)

56Ingredient in some trendy gummies, for short

58"It's not you, it's me," often

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Stats & info

Tuesday, Apr 15, 2025

15×15

Grid size

76

Total entries

38/187

Black / letter cells

4.9

Avg entry length

15 ltrs

Longest entry

Easy

Tuesday difficulty

PuzzleThe Crossword

PublishedApr 15, 2025

DayTuesday

ThemeUntitled

ConstructorPer Bykodorov

EditorWill Shortz

Clue split35 across · 41 down

Longest entries

35ANot quite right ... or a hint to this puzzle's circled letters15 ltrs 22ABen & Jerry's flavor honoring a jam band legend12 ltrs 46AGenre for Gabriel García Márquez's "One Hundred Years of Solitude"12 ltrs 16ALike a film that's both sad and funny10 ltrs 56AOnline marketplace with a "barter" category10 ltrs

Tuesday sits one notch above Monday, usually with a light theme and a few playful clues. This grid has 38 black squares and averages 4.9 letters per entry.