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NYT Crossword — March 9, 2025

Sunday’s 21 × 21 puzzle, 140 clues. The full solution is below — answers stay masked until you reveal them, one clue or all at once.

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63 clues

1First lady McKinley

4Common saltwater baitfish

8Letters before Q

12Become crunchy in the oven

19Image of Mickey, maybe

21Lake that's largely fed by the Detroit River

22"Red telephone," historically

23Breakfast order request

25[London Herald, 4/16/1912]

27[The New York Times, 8/9/1974]

32"Catch ya later!"

34Frankincense or myrrh

36T-E-A-M doesn't have one, so they say

37Plantain lily, by another name

39[Chicago Daily Tribune, 11/3/1948]

47Company once called the California Perfume Company

48Wrap one's head around

49Popular Hawaiian dish

50Driest country in sub-Saharan Africa

54They're below par

57Footwear for a sharp dresser?

59"___ Mouse," Chick Corea jazz standard of 1972

60Toward the opposing goal, in hockey

62Geometry calculation: Abbr.

63"How ya doin'?"

64[Variety, 10/30/1929]

73Alliance since 1948, in brief

74Golf's Slammin' Sammy

79Seer cursed by Apollo so that her prophecies would not be believed

84Headwear that's stereotypically red

86Breakout performer?

87It's blowin' in the wind

89___ thruster (physics lab device)

90Corrin of "Nosferatu"

91[New York Daily News, 10/30/1975]

95"The rubber people," in Nahuatl

98"Biting" characteristic

99Big name in health care

104Where people typically go to the mat?

106Attempt to tear

113With 115-Across, [New York Post, 4/15/1983]

115See 113-Across

117"Jeez Louise!"

119Latin "Look"

120Filmmaker Johnson

121Degree held by only one U.S. president (George W. Bush)

122Drink after a race, say

125The Second vis-à-vis the First, say

Down

77 clues

1Cher and Madonna, e.g.

2Old Scratch, with "the"

3Baby name whose popularity plummeted after 2015

4It might be chewed in a theater

10Parts of comedy routines

11Serving at a Chinese restaurant

12Carolina Reaper, for one

13Good name for a geologist?

16Some red or white wines

17Pull some strings?

18Old Spanish coin

32Payments made at a table

38"I'll get to work right now"

40___ Woods, best-selling author of 2023's "The Lost Bookshop"

42Fund, as a college

43They're known to open with some jokes

44Longtime music director of the NBC Symphony Orchestra

45The "U" of 60-Down

46"Damage" director Louis

53Creature in the final scene of "Cleopatra"

55Long-term deposit, in brief

60It once shared a land border with 16 countries

61Drawstring place

65Hardly the social butterfly

69Monopolist's trait

70One-pointer in cribbage

71Some undergrad degs.

72Trojans' sch.

76"Jeez, I can't catch a break"

77Call from a crib

80Umpire's ruling

81Writings of dubious authenticity

84"Victory is mine!," in modern lingo

89"My heavens!"

92They can support a nest egg

9348-oz. beer glass

94Service providers?

95Wise-appearing

97Like the cheese in a grilled cheese

102Protective tip on a lace

103Bel ___ cheese

104Informal goodbye

105Made some waves?

107Tech giant whose initials are its N.Y.S.E. symbol

108Some have meters

109Mexican marinade

110"The Seduction of Joe ___" (1979 Alan Alda film)

112Tolkien trilogy, for short

113Morehouse or Howard, in brief

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Stats & info

Sunday, Mar 9, 2025

21×21

Grid size

140

Total entries

70/371

Black / letter cells

5.3

Avg entry length

18 ltrs

Longest entry

Themed

Sunday difficulty

PuzzleThe Crossword

PublishedMar 9, 2025

DaySunday

ThemeExtra! Extra!

ConstructorMichael Schlossberg

EditorWill Shortz

Clue split63 across · 77 down

Longest entries

39A[Chicago Daily Tribune, 11/3/1948]18 ltrs 91A[New York Daily News, 10/30/1975]18 ltrs 64A[Variety, 10/30/1929]15 ltrs 25A[London Herald, 4/16/1912]12 ltrs 27A[The New York Times, 8/9/1974]12 ltrs

Sunday is the big one, a 21 by 21 grid built around a named theme rather than raw difficulty. This grid has 70 black squares and averages 5.3 letters per entry.