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NYT Crossword — April 24, 2025

Thursday’s 15 × 15 puzzle, 78 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"Interview With the Vampire" and "Prince of Thorns"

6"Borat" and "This Is Spinal Tap"

14Like some experimental music

17Valentine's Day sentiment

18More than a mere grudge

19They might be all over the map

21Animal known for freezing under pressure

22Noted criminal extradited to the U.S. in 2017

25Locale for a cochlea

29"You Come ___" (Robert Frost collection)

30___ Holden, U.S. soccer player-turned-commentator

31Kind of cucumber that isn't a vegetable

35"Lady Bird" and "Stand By Me"

39Actress ___ Taylor-Joy

40Bundle of paper or grain

46Eponymous Italian designer Mario

47Prefix with soul or classical

48Spanish letter before te

50One of many listed on the back of a tour shirt

54"Get that away from me!"

56Grid lines, perhaps

58Mythical forge locale

62Second calling?

65Items that gather lather

69Person with the shift after a long one of yours

701980s New York mayor

Down

43 clues

2Verb that sounds like a number ... and is a letter backward

4Potato turnover

6"Outta my way!"

8One of 10 in a millennium: Abbr.

11Like some socks and chess players

12Return to a PC keyboard?

20"Nice one, you got me"

23Selection at the butcher's

24"The Thursday Murder Club" and "A Killer Sundae"

26Cher's catchphrase in "Clueless"

27The Knights of ___, shadowy side group in "Star Wars"

32Food thickener

34One-named singer who's a former member of One Direction

36Poetic contraction that omits a "v"

37Might, to Shakespeare

42Button added to Apple's Messages app in 2022

46"Downton Abbey" and "Shogun"

49Far from fresh

51Mixing thematic elements and tropes … or a feature of this puzzle?

52Dave ___, seven-time All-Star pitcher for the Blue Jays

53Mr. Reed, to Jane Eyre

55People celebrated worldwide on March 8

57Skinny white mushroom

61Floating mass

63Subject of Homer's loathing on "The Simpsons"

64Bird-related prefix

66One of "them"

67Sports org. that now includes U.C. Berkeley and Stanford, strangely enough

68"There ___ Goes" (1988 hit by the La's)

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Stats & info

Thursday, Apr 24, 2025

15×15

Grid size

78

Total entries

42/183

Black / letter cells

4.7

Avg entry length

8 ltrs

Longest entry

Tricky

Thursday difficulty

PuzzleThe Crossword

PublishedApr 24, 2025

DayThursday

ThemeUntitled

ConstructorKathleen Duncan

EditorWill Shortz

Clue split35 across · 43 down

Longest entries

6A"Borat" and "This Is Spinal Tap"8 ltrs 16ADeferential8 ltrs 18AMore than a mere grudge8 ltrs 62ASecond calling?8 ltrs 69APerson with the shift after a long one of yours8 ltrs

Thursday is the gimmick day: rebus squares, reversed entries and other tricks are fair game. This grid has 42 black squares and averages 4.7 letters per entry.