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NYT Crossword — January 21, 2025

Tuesday’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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37 clues

6English pop duo with the 1984 hit "Last Christmas"

10First book after the four Gospels

14Slicker, as a winter road

15Name of Sporty Spice in the Spice Girls

16TV host Trevor with the memoir "Born a Crime"

17Convenient source of tinctures and tonics

20Bit of workout apparel, informally

21Dish with a Cantonese counterpart called egg foo yong

22Tool that may be used as a hoe

25Needs for in vitro fertilization

27Prefix with liberal

28Actor McShane

29Singer of "Despacito," which has more than eight billion views on YouTube

32Exploitative ones

34Mardi Gras follower

35Fish also called a nishikigoi

36Surreptitiously let in on an email

37Popular camp activity … or, literally, what the circles are creating four times in this puzzle

42Kettle component

43Figure painted by Warhol

44Skip out of a party

46Canine welcomes

49Item with hinged legs

51Salt Lake City-to-Minneapolis dir.

52___ Jordan, a.k.a. the Green Lantern

54Neither's partner

55Word after phone or, modernly, Zoom

56Piece of blackboard chalk, geometrically

59Stir-fry accessory

61"That's not even the half of it ..."

66Body personified by the Greek Titan Selene

67Walkie-talkie word

68Cultivates, in a way

69So, so, so long

70"Barbie" actor Michael

71Like Pittsburgh's Canton Avenue, famously

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3Word with open or central

4Monthly budget item

5No longer burdened by

8Reunion attendees

9Janis Joplin's "Me and Bobby ___"

10It may be a chip or two

11Playground pathogen

12Dental detritus

18Annulled, as a license

19Sit non-ergonomically

23Union requirements

24Brass component

26In a bit, to a poet

30Celery component

31Greek letter that represents summation

33Marine photographer's aid

36Hang with the boys, slangily

38God whose avatars restore cosmic order

40Catches in the act

41Rummikub piece

45Superman foe ___ Luthor

46"2 ___ 1" (Spice Girls song)

47"O.K. ... moving on!"

48Have as support

49Use an ax on, perhaps

50Military force

53Like some committees

57+ or – bits

58One vacationing in a camper, informally

60Bagpiper's wear

63Fawn's mother

64Lamb's mother

65Snake created by Medusa's blood, in myth

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Stats & info

Tuesday, Jan 21, 2025

15×15

Grid size

78

Total entries

36/189

Black / letter cells

4.8

Avg entry length

15 ltrs

Longest entry

Easy

Tuesday difficulty

PuzzleThe Crossword

PublishedJan 21, 2025

DayTuesday

ThemeUntitled

ConstructorDan Caprera

EditorWill Shortz

Clue split37 across · 41 down

Longest entries

17AConvenient source of tinctures and tonics15 ltrs 61A"That's not even the half of it ..."15 ltrs 37APopular camp activity … or, literally, what the circles are creating four times in this puzzle13 ltrs 29ASinger of "Despacito," which has more than eight billion views on YouTube9 ltrs 49AItem with hinged legs9 ltrs

Tuesday sits one notch above Monday, usually with a light theme and a few playful clues. This grid has 36 black squares and averages 4.8 letters per entry.