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NYT Crossword — April 30, 2025

Wednesday’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

40 clues

1Leafy vegetable with a lot of vitamin K

5Co. whose camera broadcast the first live video from space

8Lard and tallow, for two

12Where pandas are native

14Evidence of a leak

15A reason to act this very instant … or why you might 6-Down 32-Down?

18Like a 1,000-piece monochromatic jigsaw puzzle

19Least expensive way to fly

20Spun some records, informally

22Actress de Armas

26Chance to see the big game?

28Marvel supervillain

30Alternative to a blur or pixelation

36El Paso-to-Oklahoma City dir.

40Broad valleys

41Anderson who directed "Fantastic Mr. Fox"

42Word after fruit or word

44Comes to a close

45"Saturday Night Fever" music genre

47Obama-era policy whose last three letters spell a different Obama-era law

48Some printable files

50Nurse a grudge, say

51Form of much of the dialogue of 2021's "CODA," in brief

52Pirates' support group?

55Ways of the world

57Model's pride, informally

60Gets under control

61Prefix with tourism

63Caveman's covering

64Heart test, for short

65Meat-and-potatoes diner dish

Down

34 clues

1Blade sheathed in a saya

2___ Ghani, former Afghan president

5___ Novarro, Hollywood sex symbol of the 1920s

6With 32-Down, beat an opponent soundly

7Wonderland interloper

8First prez to appoint a woman to the cabinet

9Like the environment in many reptile terrariums

10Item next to a piano in a piano bar

11Certain form-fitting swimsuit

16Trap by freezing

17Apt anagram for "brush"

21Put on, as a costume

23Arduous walks

24Bedframe boards

27It's granted by a security clearance

29Three-note chords

31Stitchers' gathering

33Sheltie from a shelter, e.g.

34Bottleful that might 6-/32-Down?

35Love of the past

39Bottleful that might 6-Down/32-Down?

45One of two in Monopoly

52"Hey, I've got a secret to tell you"

53[Ah, woe is me!]

56Neighbor of N.J.

59"Breaking Bad" investigatory grp.

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Stats & info

Wednesday, Apr 30, 2025

15×15

Grid size

74

Total entries

43/182

Black / letter cells

4.9

Avg entry length

13 ltrs

Longest entry

Medium

Wednesday difficulty

PuzzleThe Crossword

PublishedApr 30, 2025

DayWednesday

ThemeUntitled

ConstructorAdam Vincent

EditorWill Shortz

Clue split40 across · 34 down

Longest entries

15AA reason to act this very instant … or why you might 6-Down 32-Down?13 ltrs 30AAlternative to a blur or pixelation9 ltrs 31DStitchers' gathering9 ltrs 32DSee 6-Down9 ltrs 33DSheltie from a shelter, e.g.9 ltrs

Wednesday is the midweek pivot, where themes get denser and clues start bending the surface reading. This grid has 43 black squares and averages 4.9 letters per entry.