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NYT Crossword — February 6, 2025

Thursday’s 16 × 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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38 clues

1Damsel in distress in Donkey Kong

8Preschool timeouts

12Lawn covering

15Sources of fine wool

16Ijeoma ___, author of 2018's "So You Want to Talk About Race"

17Air quality org.

22Catherine ___, surviving wife of King Henry VIII

23Platform that might update while you sleep

28Eschew carbs, maybe

30NASA probe named for a Roman goddess

31"No problemo"

39Diminish, as trust

40Sense of foreboding

42Self-obsession

44Darth Sidious, e.g., in the "Star Wars" universe

45Machine learning fodder

51Abraham Van Helsing and John Seward in "Dracula": Abbr.

52Zelda console, in brief

53___ Lum a.k.a. Awkwafina

54Sources of soft wool

60Tire inflation abbr.

61Leave a review of, as an Airbnb

62Banquet hiree

63Fuji, e.g.: Abbr.

Down

40 clues

1Deconstructed, in a way

2Kamala Harris and Thurgood Marshall vis-à-vis Howard University

5Drink with a Frosted Lemonade variety

6Capital ball club, familiarly

7Medium strength?

8"What's cookin'?" response

9Clock radio feature

10Rotten-smelling

11"Your point being …?"

12Submission to a record executive

13Parts of a season

14Become fuller, in a way

19Serve hot takes

23Paid no heed to

25Fail to do something out of fear, with "out"

26Wonks ... or a candy once owned by the Willy Wonka Candy Company

27"Street Dreams" rapper

29Obsequious sorts

35Ballpark player not wearing a uniform

36Got a closer look

37Org. that sells "Go Vegan and Nobody Gets Hurt" T-shirts

40Cost of doing business, maybe

41Chinese "hello"

43Rare type of rental car

46___ from afar

50Comes out of one's skin

54"OMG, I'm dying over here"

55Mother to Apollo and Artemis

56One-footed jump

57Record player speed, for short

58Test for an M.B.A. seeker

59Air quality org.?

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Stats & info

Thursday, Feb 6, 2025

16×15

Grid size

78

Total entries

40/200

Black / letter cells

5.1

Avg entry length

12 ltrs

Longest entry

Tricky

Thursday difficulty

PuzzleThe Crossword

PublishedFeb 6, 2025

DayThursday

ThemeUntitled

ConstructorAidan Deshong and Jacob Reed

EditorWill Shortz

Clue split38 across · 40 down

Longest entries

18AIdentity?12 ltrs 58AFledge?12 ltrs 25ADeport?10 ltrs 49AHiking?10 ltrs 12DSubmission to a record executive8 ltrs

Thursday is the gimmick day: rebus squares, reversed entries and other tricks are fair game. This grid has 40 black squares and averages 5.1 letters per entry.