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NYT Crossword — January 25, 2025

Saturday’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

1Undesirable airplane seatmate

11Sound from a hedge clipper

15"This is a waste of my time"

18"Combats ___ tes défenseurs!" ("La Marseillaise" line)

19Poet Bradstreet

20Abbr. in some job titles

21Coward of the theater world

22Largest U.S. union, with about three million members, in brief

23Funding source for the Great Wall of China

26Org. in 2015's "Bridge of Spies"

28Felt in the Christmas spirit?

30"The Way," in Islam

33A, B, and C, but not T and V

34Under control

35One working on a column?

36Sight in Monet's "Boating on the River Epte"

37Current events

40Novel technology?

42Old atlas inits.

43In the 80s or 90s, say

45Take another direction

48It's fit for a king

50Classic novel of the South Seas

51Some photomontage art

52___ Mountains, Kyrgyz/Tajik border range

53They'll show you a thing or two

56Weight of an adult elephant, very imprecisely

58Segments of curling matches

59Holders of orbs

Down

35 clues

1"Ugh, that's the worst!"

2It passes through many Swiss banks

3Loy of filmdom

4Thing of interest?

5Foe in a 1932 Australian "war"

6"Cheap Thrills" pop star

8Job that might require a fence

9Aeschylus trilogy of tragedies

10The forest, in a metaphor

11Extend across

12Number at filling stations?

13"Oh-h-h-h, that makes sense"

14They support many student movements

23Joined a union

24___ nage (cooked in a broth)

25Certain something

27"Barbie" director Gerwig

29Asian grocery chain

30Consumed with grief?

31Where locks are picked?

33Some corp. execs

35Confirmation, e.g.

38Ardent supporter

39Place whose name has an appropriate final vowel sound

41Reproductive cells

44Dispatch (toward)

45___ Smith, "The Autograph Man" novelist

47Sublimation products

49Indicator of deflation

51Long-bladed thrusting dagger

55Lines at a grocery store

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Stats & info

Saturday, Jan 25, 2025

15×15

Grid size

70

Total entries

28/197

Black / letter cells

5.6

Avg entry length

10 ltrs

Longest entry

Hardest

Saturday difficulty

PuzzleThe Crossword

PublishedJan 25, 2025

DaySaturday

ThemeThemeless

ConstructorMichael Lieberman

EditorWill Shortz

Clue split35 across · 35 down

Longest entries

1AUndesirable airplane seatmate10 ltrs 15A"This is a waste of my time"10 ltrs 17ABody shops?10 ltrs 53AThey'll show you a thing or two10 ltrs 57AInitiative10 ltrs

Saturday is the hardest grid of the week, themeless and clued as obliquely as the editor allows. This grid has 28 black squares and averages 5.6 letters per entry.