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NYT Crossword — April 18, 2025

Friday’s 15 × 15 puzzle, 72 clues. The full solution is below — answers stay masked until you reveal them, one clue or all at once.

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Across

33 clues

1"Whoa! Easy there, buddy!"

11Exclamation to an old chap

16Who "can't buy you love" in an Elton John hit

17Trend that involves pink accessories and décor

19Plants, maybe

20Gifts sometimes made with pikake flowers

22Three-part event, informally

23Roofing supply

26Sore loser's wail

28Common additive in chewing gum

30Throat lozenge, often

31Act like everything's normal despite how one feels

37Its flag includes a coconut tree and a sailboat

39Call in a casino

41Let go to pot?

42Lowest of the low

43Get dressed (up)

48Cries of faux despair, say

49Leave it to beaver?

52"Feliz ____ Novo!"

53Some Elomi products

55Its stripes represent wisdom in Buddhism

57Government V.I.P.

59Bad thing to do when you see red

62Literature Nobelist Morrison

63Football maneuver involving a fake handoff

65"Oh, what's the worst that could happen?"

Down

39 clues

1Amounts of cream

2Not quite right

3Places in the heart

4Philadelphia tourist attraction

5Goddess known as "Great Mother"

7Discreetly fill in, in a way

8Garlic-rich topping

10Naomi ___, author of 2007's "The Shock Doctrine"

11Chat qualifier

12Present-day attire?

13Watered-down espresso, essentially

14Arabic name that means "wealthy"

21Lay the groundwork for, say

251960s-'80s singer/TV host Marilyn

27Claws or bites

29Be in rough shape

31Droid, e.g., for short

32Home of the first hippopotamus in Europe since the Roman Empire

33They help you get off a lot

34Tolkien menace

36University of New Mexico athletes

38___ Grand (Vegas hot spot)

44Pre-smash hit

46They "can obscure the truth," per Maya Angelou

47Deli purchases

48Trashy TV character?

50Reply of shocked annoyance

51Social movement introduced in 2006

54Org. with a "Defending Speech We Hate" section on its website

55Stock market sector, informally

61One may cover estates

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Stats & info

Friday, Apr 18, 2025

15×15

Grid size

72

Total entries

34/191

Black / letter cells

5.3

Avg entry length

15 ltrs

Longest entry

Hard

Friday difficulty

PuzzleThe Crossword

PublishedApr 18, 2025

DayFriday

ThemeThemeless

ConstructorGreg Snitkin and Glenn Davis

EditorWill Shortz

Clue split33 across · 39 down

Longest entries

39ACall in a casino15 ltrs 4DPhiladelphia tourist attraction11 ltrs 27DClaws or bites11 ltrs 1A"Whoa! Easy there, buddy!"10 ltrs 15ASolitary10 ltrs

Friday puzzles run themeless, so the fill leans on long open entries and wordplay clues rather than a central gimmick. This grid has 34 black squares and averages 5.3 letters per entry.