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NYT Crossword — January 30, 2025

Thursday’s 15 × 15 puzzle, 76 clues. The full solution is below — answers stay masked until you reveal them, one clue or all at once.

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Across

37 clues

1First U.S. prez to be born outside the original 13 Colonies

4Airport transports

8The film "Airplane!," e.g.

13Cry in a horror film

14Challenge for an interpreter, perhaps

16Result of a leadoff walk

17"Sic vita ___" ("Such is life")

20DEF, on a phone

23Groundbreaking medical procedure first accomplished in 1967

27Region bordering India and China in Risk

29Nestlé Purina PetCare brand

31Only about 10% of Americans have one

34Shakers in the woods

35Suffix with social

38Focus of a product development test

40Govt. agency for retirees

41They might sound the alarm

43In-the-works software versions

45Score endings

51"Brooklyn Nine-Nine" police captain

52Has a clouded mind

56Turn left or right, say

57Uncertainties of life ... or a feature of four answers in this puzzle?

61Supermodel Carangi

62Personal style

63Throat lozenge additive

64This is "plagiarism or revolution," per Gauguin

66Walks, for one

67Anti-vaping ad, e.g.

Down

39 clues

1Singer with the 1972 album "Young, Gifted and Black," informally

2Quantity on a farm

4Clamps in a shop

7Cover some ground?

9Pays for a hand

10Connects with an ex, e.g.

12Suffix with methyl

15Children's author who wrote "And the only reason for being a bee that I know of is making honey"

19Work on a sub?

21Grandson of Eve

24Newspapers, collectively

25Delicate fabric

26Fictional prison guarded by Dementors

28Canyonlands National Park feature

31Division of the Dept. of Labor

33Plunks (down)

34Pidgeon, Hawke or Crowe

35Rash reaction?

36Play a bogey-free round, maybe

37TV character who said "Doing the right thing is never the wrong thing"

42Deep-pocketed types

44Stick at a roast

46Zoo Atlanta's Lun Lun or Yang Yang

48Separation in some relationships?

49Possible answer to "Whose?"

52Cousin of a haddock

53One can be fixed or liquid

55Base for a proposal?

57Hagen in the American Theater Hall of Fame

58Switch positions

60U.S. org. that operates a cryptology museum in Maryland

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Stats & info

Thursday, Jan 30, 2025

15×15

Grid size

76

Total entries

36/189

Black / letter cells

5.0

Avg entry length

11 ltrs

Longest entry

Tricky

Thursday difficulty

PuzzleThe Crossword

PublishedJan 30, 2025

DayThursday

ThemeUntitled

ConstructorJoe Marquez

EditorWill Shortz

Clue split37 across · 39 down

Longest entries

18AMercenary11 ltrs 57AUncertainties of life ... or a feature of four answers in this puzzle?11 ltrs 23AGroundbreaking medical procedure first accomplished in 196710 ltrs 52AHas a clouded mind10 ltrs 10DConnects with an ex, e.g.8 ltrs

Thursday is the gimmick day: rebus squares, reversed entries and other tricks are fair game. This grid has 36 black squares and averages 5.0 letters per entry.