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NYT Crossword — March 22, 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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1D
2A
3D
4A
5G
6A
7W
8K
9C
10H
11O
12S
13E
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15T
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16D
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17C
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18R
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L
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19D
C
H
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20O
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21D
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22P
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27L
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41D
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42L
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44S
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51I
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53Z
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54G
55A
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65N
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Across

35 clues
1Style of Duchamp's so-called "readymades"
5Overlook?
9Voted for
14___ blue (original team color of the Chelsea Football Club)
15Royal adversary
16Accident reminders
17It's not as random as it seems
20Elevated, as a ballet movement
21Long-lived being in Buddhist cosmology
22Dish sometimes served with lomi-lomi salmon
23Telepathic connections
26Ashanti Anderson's "___ to Black Skin"
27Surrealist painter Carrington
29Set units
31Modern initialism for Black dialect
32On the topic of
37"Colors" rapper (1988)
38[Here we go again]
39Classic Langston Hughes poem quoted on a wall of the National Museum of African American History and Culture
40"Enough!"
42Like the Muddy Waters album "At Newport 1960"
43Excellent, average or bad, depending on the context
44Ornate water heater
46The Wildcats of the Big 12 Conf.
48Massive hockey arena in St. Petersburg, Russia
51PC discourse?
52Pop
53Company that owns Words With Friends
56Plot device in some suspense thrillers
60English actress Bamber
61Cream alternative
62Angled for attention?: Abbr.
63Collection in an herbarium, say
64This is unreal!
65Bird whose diet includes berries that grow on lava

Down

35 clues
1Style influenced by Cubism, informally
2Volumes
3"Stay still!"
4___ of Bourbon, grandmother of Mary, Queen of Scots
5Car seen in the opening scene of "Dazed and Confused"
6Shoemaker's tool
7"The Ballad of Reading Gaol" poet
8Show obeisance, in a way
9They protect some software purchases
10Snicker bit
11Prelude to good news
12Rose
13Australian actress Davis
18The Aces of Triple-A baseball
19Early Netflix offering
24Annual Atlanta gathering of sci-fi/gaming fans
25One of la familia
27Bébé's breakfast
28Per
30The "magic" in some mushrooms
33Configurations of locks
34Wife of Mikhail Gorbachev
35Cosmic explosion
36Concert ending?
41Links in a certain chain
45Way-out fun?
46They come with strings attached
47Cry before a shot
49Pentagon quintet
50Fix (up)
542023 Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of J. Edgar Hoover
55Up to something?
57You might sit for one
58Certain plan for the future, in brief
59Close-lipped

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Stats & info

Saturday, Mar 22, 2025
15×15
Grid size
70
Total entries
32/193
Black / letter cells
5.5
Avg entry length
15 ltrs
Longest entry
Hardest
Saturday difficulty
PuzzleThe Crossword
PublishedMar 22, 2025
DaySaturday
ThemeThemeless
ConstructorKatie Hoody
EditorWill Shortz
Clue split35 across · 35 down
Longest entries
17AIt's not as random as it seems15 ltrs56APlot device in some suspense thrillers15 ltrs3D"Stay still!"15 ltrs11DPrelude to good news15 ltrs32AOn the topic of10 ltrs

Saturday is the hardest grid of the week, themeless and clued as obliquely as the editor allows. This grid has 32 black squares and averages 5.5 letters per entry.