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NYT Crossword — January 23, 2025

Thursday’s 15 × 15 puzzle, 72 clues. The full solution is below — answers stay masked until you reveal them, one clue or all at once.

0 of 72 revealed

1B

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5L

6Y

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17O

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45Y

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46D

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POT

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57O

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59D

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60D

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61F

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Across

35 clues

1Tavern regular

7Bit of haunted house décor

13Remove some bugs from

14Beethoven work initially dedicated to Napoleon

15Classic line from the Dick and Jane series

16Hiring practice at a family business, say

17Like many shots in soccer

19One might be worthy or formidable

20Years of decline

23Pilots' chronicles

25"___ plaisir!"

27Where people amass for Mass

30Hurdle for a future Ph.D.

31E, in a musical mnemonic

32Land whose name meant "between two rivers"

39Grp. with a lot of intelligence

40Painter Bob who said "We don't make mistakes. We have happy accidents"

44Advocacy org. that gained prominence in 1980s New York City

45Eastern currency

46Word repeated in a children's game

47Laura of "Jurassic Park"

48Structure with smoke flaps

50Prefix with color and county

51"Snow Falling on ___," 1994 mystery novel set in Washington State

53Bank assessment

55Sichuan bean curd dish

56Obstacles for a driver ... or what this puzzle's circled squares represent

58"When in the course of human ___ …" (start of the Declaration of Independence)

59"You're kidding yourself!"

61In the interim

Down

37 clues

1Singers who co-starred in the 1978 film "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"

3Either of two diverging in a Robert Frost poem

4Horse-racing measurements

5Football powerhouse in the S.E.C.

6Eastern currency

7Perfume ecclesiastically

8Unrefined metal sources

9Sunset in the West?

10Motion-sensing gaming device

11Popeye's creator

13All over again

15Lounges, e.g.

18Bit of biographical data

21___ chips, snack from Hawaii

26Fall apart mentally

28Canadian province where "Anne of Green Gables" is set: Abbr.

33Special reading ability, for short

34"And make it snappy!"

35Hall & Oates hit with the opening lyric "She'll only come out at night"

37Geologic formation from glacial melting

38Word with clothes or cleaner

41Discharge of water, e.g.

48Arrangement for an heir, perhaps

49Literary husband of Zeena Frome

52Early p.m. times, in brief

54Steamed dumpling in Tibetan cuisine

56Common download

57Metal para una medalla olímpica

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Stats & info

Thursday, Jan 23, 2025

15×15

Grid size

72

Total entries

38/187

Black / letter cells

5.4

Avg entry length

12 ltrs

Longest entry

Tricky

Thursday difficulty

PuzzleThe Crossword

PublishedJan 23, 2025

DayThursday

ThemeUntitled

ConstructorNatan Last and the J.A.S.A. Crossword Class

EditorWill Shortz

Clue split35 across · 37 down

Longest entries

9DSunset in the West?12 ltrs 32ALand whose name meant "between two rivers"11 ltrs 15AClassic line from the Dick and Jane series10 ltrs 26DFall apart mentally10 ltrs 22DWay9 ltrs

Thursday is the gimmick day: rebus squares, reversed entries and other tricks are fair game. This grid has 38 black squares and averages 5.4 letters per entry.