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NYT Crossword — April 9, 2025

Wednesday’s 16 × 15 puzzle, 81 clues. The full solution is below — answers stay masked until you reveal them, one clue or all at once.

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Across

41 clues

1Septet with the #1 albums "Be" and "Map of the Soul: 7"

4Sorghum relative

10Dried chili pepper

15Like a limbo bar, after a few rounds

16"Seinfeld" role for Julia Louis-Dreyfus

17Seating option at a diner

18Magritte's "Ceci n'est pas ___ pipe"

19Three-star review of a cocktail shaker?

23Thurman of "Kill Bill"

24Sell/buy-back agreement, for short

25Three-star review of Battleship?

31Spike of cinema

36A good one is bright

39Piece of bread dipped in gravy

40Three-star review of a no-stress class?

42Actress Vardalos

43Apt rhyme for "fiddle"

45Clear, as dishes

46Like a step in the right direction?

47Sign that there's no turning back

48Sign on a park bench, maybe

49S.F. commuter train system

50AOL, e.g., in brief

51Three-star review of Tulsa?

54Subject line abbr.

59Source of smoke for a model volcano

60Three-star review of the Friday before Easter?

64Title in Spain: Abbr.

65Opposite of forward?

66Starbucks drink made with olive oil

67M&M color replaced in 1995

70Nickname that drops -art

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40 clues

1React to flirtation, say

2"You're getting too excited"

4"No man has a good enough ___ to be a successful liar": Lincoln

8Ultimate purpose

9Length for a pregnancy or presidency

10They might be made of steel, hyperbolically

12Actor Sprouse of "Riverdale"

13Address opener

22Sage-colored sage

26Words of defeat

27Puts on a patch, say

29"Fine, I'll ___"

33Ones getting good marks?

34Stereotypical monocle wearer

35Hurdle for a future "Esq."

37Odysseus' captor

40Smartphone predecessors, in brief

41Perform a felonious favor for

49LeVar who hosted TV's "Reading Rainbow" for 23 years

52Where Jewish singles might mingle

53Reeves of "Point Break"

54City seen in Instagram?

61Pub. that predicted it would take one to 10 million years to invent a flying machine, two months before the first airplane flight

62Stephen of "The Crying Game"

63Urging at the start of a meal

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Stats & info

Wednesday, Apr 9, 2025

16×15

Grid size

81

Total entries

36/204

Black / letter cells

5.0

Avg entry length

12 ltrs

Longest entry

Medium

Wednesday difficulty

PuzzleThe Crossword

PublishedApr 9, 2025

DayWednesday

ThemeUntitled

ConstructorAidan Deshong and Oren Hartstein

EditorWill Shortz

Clue split41 across · 40 down

Longest entries

19AThree-star review of a cocktail shaker?12 ltrs 60AThree-star review of the Friday before Easter?12 ltrs 2D"You're getting too excited"10 ltrs 3DSugar10 ltrs 33DOnes getting good marks?10 ltrs

Wednesday is the midweek pivot, where themes get denser and clues start bending the surface reading. This grid has 36 black squares and averages 5.0 letters per entry.