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NYT Crossword — February 14, 2025

Friday’s 15 × 15 puzzle, 70 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

14Clean energy?

16___ Alexander, author of the fantasy series "The Chronicles of Prydain"

17"Everything's fine with me"

18Bad things to blow

19Word with "at" or "not in the"

20Made (out), but barely

23D.C. winter hrs.

24Nice chunk of change

28Mickey Mantle's retired jersey

30Classic Gustav Klimt painting made during his "Golden Period"

32Completely fluid

36Develop emotions (for)

39"Ragtime" role for which Audra McDonald won a Tony

40Body of Jewish law

41Classic ska song with the lyric "Let's get together and feel all right"

43Affaire de coeur

46___ lecithin (chocolate additive)

50Fútbol stadium cry

54Lose liquidity, in a way

55Peak performance

61"Skimbleshanks: The Railway Cat" poet

62Second Commandment subject

63People put down stakes for them

64Singer who wrote the Oscar-nominated song "May It Be" for "The Fellowship of the Ring"

65Title that translates to "highest principle"

Down

35 clues

2Unrealistic claim on the packaging of a kid's craft

4Promising words

5Renaissance painter ___ van Eyck

7Like a sultry eye shadow look

8Accepts defeat, in slang

91980s TV title character

10Desirable and profitable, as an assignment

11Symbol of social status in ancient Mesopotamia

12They might involve a Snellen chart

13Google platform for website monetization

15Protein-packed Purina product

21"Thanks, Captain Obvious"

26A little unwell?

31Martial art whose name means "sword way"

33Where the ka and ba reunite, in Egyptian mythology

37"Willing to join our endeavor?"

38"So-o-o-o funny!"

39"That's kind of you!"

42Little sucker?

44Its national dish, matoke, is made from green bananas

45"How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days" or "10 Things I Hate About You"

48Saoirse of 2019's "Little Women"

49Setting for the films "Life Is Beautiful" and "Call Me By Your Name"

51One-eyed "Futurama" character

53One sporting a sporran, maybe

56___ Carson Levine, author of "Ella Enchanted"

589-Down and his family

60Grp. using biometric cameras

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Stats & info

Friday, Feb 14, 2025

15×15

Grid size

70

Total entries

32/193

Black / letter cells

5.5

Avg entry length

13 ltrs

Longest entry

Hard

Friday difficulty

PuzzleThe Crossword

PublishedFeb 14, 2025

DayFriday

ThemeThemeless

ConstructorSarah Sinclair

EditorWill Shortz

Clue split35 across · 35 down

Longest entries

36ADevelop emotions (for)13 ltrs 15DProtein-packed Purina product10 ltrs 26DA little unwell?10 ltrs 14AClean energy?9 ltrs 17A"Everything's fine with me"9 ltrs

Friday puzzles run themeless, so the fill leans on long open entries and wordplay clues rather than a central gimmick. This grid has 32 black squares and averages 5.5 letters per entry.