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NYT Crossword — January 7, 2025

Tuesday’s 15 × 15 puzzle, 74 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

1Disordered state

14List shortener

16D.I.Y. website

17Communists want to dISMantle it

19Valley in which it's easy to get a cab

20Hochkönig, for one

21___ Szewinska, only sprinter (male or female) to hold world records in the 100m, 200m and 400m events

23Mexican dish similar to taquitos

25TikTok phenomena

27It's condit⌄(ion)ed on regular payments

30Ours contain about 700 megabytes of information

34Respectful title that's an anagram of another respectful title

36Pig of kids' TV

38An outbuilding

39___ Speedwagon

40Pottery making and illustration, for example

412003 #1 hit with the lyric "What's cooler than being cool?"

42It's hard to believe

46Pity party exclamation

47"Whoa, that's good!"

51"___ my Eggo!" (bygone waffle slogan)

52Island kingdom

54Random number generator

55Still contending

56Protest seeking a different arrangement with landlords

58Philippine currency

63Contraceptive options

Down

37 clues

1After-dinner order

4Film director Roth

5Sacred insect in a hieroglyph

7"How often have I ___ beneath rain on a strange roof, thinking of home": Faulkner

8Often-quoted line from "Return of the Jedi" when the Rebels are ambushed

9On the blue side: Abbr.

10One paying a flat fee?

11"You believe me now?"

18Protagonist of Shakespeare's first tragedy

24Olive oil has many of them

26___ Skeeter, journalist/witch in the Harry Potter books

29Simone who sang "To Be Young, Gifted and Black"

30Robes and such

32"Zoom fatigue" is a modern one

36Baby carrier in Bath

37"You get the picture"

38U.K. channel nickname, with "the"

40Classic Angela Davis do

41Drum kit component

43Rubber bone, e.g.

45Starts working remotely, say

48Formal farewell

49Competed in part of a triathlon

50Hurls forcibly, in modern slang

51Grammy-winning Dua

53Kind of place that's beside the point?

57High stat for a heavy hitter

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Stats & info

Tuesday, Jan 7, 2025

15×15

Grid size

74

Total entries

32/193

Black / letter cells

5.2

Avg entry length

12 ltrs

Longest entry

Easy

Tuesday difficulty

PuzzleThe Crossword

PublishedJan 7, 2025

DayTuesday

ThemeUntitled

ConstructorDana Edwards

EditorWill Shortz

Clue split37 across · 37 down

Longest entries

27AIt's condit⌄(ion)ed on regular payments12 ltrs 42AIt's hard to believe12 ltrs 17ACommunists want to dISMantle it10 ltrs 56AProtest seeking a different arrangement with landlords10 ltrs 11D"You believe me now?"9 ltrs

Tuesday sits one notch above Monday, usually with a light theme and a few playful clues. This grid has 32 black squares and averages 5.2 letters per entry.