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NYT Crossword — May 1, 2025

Thursday’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

1Schoolroom that serves as a studio

7Original airer of "Doctor Who"

14Give a lashing

15Whom Will Smith played in a 2001 sports biopic

16Son of Zeus and Hera

17Sweetener in some diet sodas

18*Cat breed named after an Indonesian island from which it didn't originate

20Places to carry out some takeout orders, for short?

23"Not in the ___!"

24*It's "read" as a stern warning

26*Relative of a snowboard

28___ Men (group that won a Grammy Award in 2001 for Best Dance Recording)

31Is for the people?

32Daffy Duck speaking feature

37Brings up a prior topic … or a hint to making sense of the answers to this puzzle's starred clues

41Country that was home to the Ebla library, thought to be the world's first (2500 B.C.)

42Sheet music symbol

44Past-tense verb that's potentially confusing (but grammatically correct!) when written twice in a row

47___ salt (form of magnesium sulfate)

50Lead-in to -nautics

52*Carve out, in a way

55*Comedy club fare

57Columbus's birthplace

58"___ My Heart in San Francisco"

60Video game character speaking a gibberish language

61*Villain's expression

65___ Mendoza, former first lady of Puerto Rico

66Onetime C.I.A. foe

67Like government secrets, occasionally

68Title friend of Marlin in an animated film

69Times Square ball drop setting, in brief

70Revered sorts

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37 clues

2Outcome of a hung jury

3"How stylish!"

5Not quite straight up

6Gorgeous ones, informally

7Film based on the 1983 children's novel "The Sheep-Pig"

8Some comforters for toddlers

9Modern prefix with normativity

10Dairy-less diet

11Singer Grande

12Turn into stars, say?

13Tswana for "fly"

19West ___ (furniture retailer)

22Trailblazing astronaut Jemison

25Refuge from the heat

27It's one foot long

30Calls for sympathy

35Big thing in fast food?

38Language that gave us "Saskatchewan"

39Piercings that might be felt while kissing

43More delicate and weak

44Who says "You're a wizard, Harry"

45Skin-care brand

46City that lends its name to a style of omelet

48Uplifting work

51Popping pills, say

53Racket-raising

56Source of Andrew Carnegie's wealth

59Community associated with Out magazine

62President posthumously inducted in the World Golf Hall of Fame, informally

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Stats & info

Thursday, May 1, 2025

15×15

Grid size

74

Total entries

38/187

Black / letter cells

5.1

Avg entry length

11 ltrs

Longest entry

Tricky

Thursday difficulty

PuzzleThe Crossword

PublishedMay 1, 2025

DayThursday

ThemeUntitled

ConstructorAidan Deshong and Adam Levav

EditorWill Shortz

Clue split37 across · 37 down

Longest entries

37ABrings up a prior topic … or a hint to making sense of the answers to this puzzle's starred clues11 ltrs 18A*Cat breed named after an Indonesian island from which it didn't originate8 ltrs 61A*Villain's expression8 ltrs 3D"How stylish!"8 ltrs 8DSome comforters for toddlers8 ltrs

Thursday is the gimmick day: rebus squares, reversed entries and other tricks are fair game. This grid has 38 black squares and averages 5.1 letters per entry.