NYT Crossword hints and answer for January 25, 2025
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Clues70
Across35
Down35
ConstructorMichael Lieberman
Today’s NYT Crossword clues, hints & answers
Every clue from this puzzle with a hint and the answer behind separate buttons, so you only see what you need. Click a clue for its own page.
Across
1A
Undesirable airplane seatmate (10)
Starts with A, ends with GARMRESTHOG→
11A
Sound from a hedge clipper (4)
Starts with S, ends with PSNIP→
15A
"This is a waste of my time" (10)
Starts with W, ends with EWHYAMIHERE→
16A
Strike one! (4)
Starts with P, ends with EPOSE→
17A
Body shops? (10)
Starts with M, ends with SMORTUARIES→
18A
"Combats ___ tes défenseurs!" ("La Marseillaise" line) (4)
Starts with A, ends with CAVEC→
19A
Poet Bradstreet (4)
Starts with A, ends with EANNE→
20A
Abbr. in some job titles (4)
Starts with A, ends with TASST→
21A
Coward of the theater world (4)
Starts with N, ends with LNOEL→
22A
Largest U.S. union, with about three million members, in brief (3)
Starts with N, ends with ANEA→
23A
Funding source for the Great Wall of China (7)
Starts with S, ends with XSALTTAX→
26A
Org. in 2015's "Bridge of Spies" (3)
Starts with C, ends with ACIA→
28A
Felt in the Christmas spirit? (7)
Starts with E, ends with SELFHATS→
30A
"The Way," in Islam (6)
Starts with S, ends with ASHARIA→
33A
A, B, and C, but not T and V (8)
Starts with V, ends with SVITAMINS→
34A
Under control (5)
Starts with T, ends with DTAMED→
35A
One working on a column? (3)
Starts with C, ends with ACPA→
36A
Sight in Monet's "Boating on the River Epte" (5)
Starts with C, ends with ECANOE→
37A
Current events (8)
Starts with R, ends with SRIPTIDES→
39A
Spreads (6)
Starts with S, ends with SSTREWS→
40A
Novel technology? (7)
Starts with E, ends with REREADER→
42A
Old atlas inits. (3)
Starts with S, ends with RSSR→
43A
In the 80s or 90s, say (7)
Starts with O, ends with ROVERPAR→
45A
Take another direction (3)
Starts with Z, ends with GZIG→
48A
It's fit for a king (4)
Starts with S, ends with HSASH→
50A
Classic novel of the South Seas (4)
Starts with O, ends with OOMOO→
51A
Some photomontage art (4)
Starts with D, ends with ADADA→
52A
___ Mountains, Kyrgyz/Tajik border range (4)
Starts with A, ends with IALAI→
53A
They'll show you a thing or two (10)
Starts with T, ends with STOURGUIDES→
56A
Weight of an adult elephant, very imprecisely (4)
Starts with T, ends with STONS→
57A
Initiative (10)
Starts with E, ends with EENTERPRISE→
58A
Segments of curling matches (4)
Starts with E, ends with SENDS→
59A
Holders of orbs (10)
Starts with E, ends with SEYESOCKETS→
Down
1D
"Ugh, that's the worst!" (5)
Starts with A, ends with NAWMAN→
2D
It passes through many Swiss banks (5)
Starts with R, ends with ERHONE→
3D
Loy of filmdom (5)
Starts with M, ends with AMYRNA→
4D
Thing of interest? (4)
Starts with R, ends with ERATE→
5D
Foe in a 1932 Australian "war" (3)
Starts with E, ends with UEMU→
6D
"Cheap Thrills" pop star (3)
Starts with S, ends with ASIA→
7D
Clutches (6)
Starts with T, ends with LTHRALL→
8D
Job that might require a fence (5)
Starts with H, ends with THEIST→
9D
Aeschylus trilogy of tragedies (8)
Starts with O, ends with AORESTEIA→
10D
The forest, in a metaphor (7)
Starts with G, ends with TGESTALT→
11D
Extend across (4)
Starts with S, ends with NSPAN→
12D
Number at filling stations? (9)
Starts with N, ends with ENOVOCAINE→
13D
"Oh-h-h-h, that makes sense" (9)
Starts with I, ends with WISEEITNOW→
14D
They support many student movements (9)
Starts with P, ends with SPECLASSES→
23D
Joined a union (7)
Starts with S, ends with OSAIDIDO→
24D
___ nage (cooked in a broth) (3)
Starts with A, ends with AALA→
25D
Certain something (7)
Starts with X, ends with RXFACTOR→
27D
"Barbie" director Gerwig (5)
Starts with G, ends with AGRETA→
29D
Asian grocery chain (5)
Starts with H, ends with THMART→
30D
Consumed with grief? (9)
Starts with S, ends with ESTRESSATE→
31D
Where locks are picked? (9)
Starts with H, ends with NHAIRSALON→
32D
S&P 500 part (9)
Starts with A, ends with DAMPERSAND→
33D
Some corp. execs (3)
Starts with V, ends with SVPS→
35D
Confirmation, e.g. (8)
Starts with C, ends with YCEREMONY→
38D
Ardent supporter (7)
Starts with D, ends with EDEVOTEE→
39D
Place whose name has an appropriate final vowel sound (3)
Starts with S, ends with ASPA→
41D
Reproductive cells (6)
Starts with S, ends with SSPORES→
44D
Dispatch (toward) (5)
Starts with R, ends with EROUTE→
45D
___ Smith, "The Autograph Man" novelist (5)
Starts with Z, ends with EZADIE→
46D
Namely (5)
Starts with I, ends with TIDEST→
47D
Sublimation products (5)
Starts with G, ends with SGASES→
49D
Indicator of deflation (4)
Starts with H, ends with SHISS→
51D
Long-bladed thrusting dagger (4)
Starts with D, ends with KDIRK→
54D
Miracle-___ (3)
Starts with G, ends with OGRO→
55D
Lines at a grocery store (3)
Starts with U, ends with CUPC→
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How many clues are in the NYT Crossword for January 25, 2025?+
70 clues: 35 Across and 35 Down. The puzzle was constructed by Michael Lieberman and edited by Will Shortz.
What are some answers in today’s NYT Crossword?+
For example: Undesirable airplane seatmate (ARMRESTHOG); Sound from a hedge clipper (SNIP); "This is a waste of my time" (WHYAMIHERE).
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