NYT Crossword hints and answer for March 14, 2025
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Clues68
Across31
Down37
ConstructorBrandon Koppy
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
Charlie Chaplin persona (5)
Starts with T, ends with PTRAMP→
13A
Knight shtick? (5)
Starts with H, ends with RHONOR→
14A
Reaction to an unexpected bit of humor (8)
Starts with S, ends with ESPITTAKE→
15A
Wonderland directive (5)
Starts with E, ends with EEATME→
16A
Hurdles before some touchdowns (9)
Starts with R, ends with SREENTRIES→
17A
Adds to a thread (3)
Starts with C, ends with SCCS→
18A
Subjected to a waiting game, militarily (6)
Starts with S, ends with DSIEGED→
20A
___-ran (4)
Starts with A, ends with OALSO→
21A
Question to one's best friend, maybe (12)
Starts with W, ends with YWHOSAGOODBOY→
24A
Frasier's brother on "Frasier" (5)
Starts with N, ends with SNILES→
25A
Where hips do lie (7)
Starts with R, ends with DROSEBED→
29A
Big orbiter (6)
Starts with P, ends with TPLANET→
31A
Rock band with the 1990s hits "Fly" and "Every Morning" (8)
Starts with S, ends with YSUGARRAY→
32A
Upton Sinclair novel that inspired the film "There Will Be Blood" (3)
Starts with O, ends with LOIL→
33A
Knotting (up) (5)
Starts with T, ends with GTYING→
35A
Trade on (3)
Starts with U, ends with EUSE→
36A
Very hot day (8)
Starts with S, ends with RSCORCHER→
39A
They might be written off (6)
Starts with L, ends with SLOSSES→
42A
Journeys of escape (7)
Starts with H, ends with SHEGIRAS→
43A
Singer Washington or Shore (5)
Starts with D, ends with HDINAH→
44A
Bench press? (12)
Starts with P, ends with HPUTMEINCOACH→
48A
Words of comparison (4)
Starts with I, ends with OISTO→
51A
Assert without proof (6)
Starts with A, ends with EALLEGE→
52A
___ Locks, connection between Lake Superior and Lake Huron (3)
Starts with S, ends with OSOO→
53A
Not learn one's lesson? (9)
Starts with S, ends with SSKIPCLASS→
55A
Places for scheming (5)
Starts with L, ends with SLAIRS→
57A
Fruit-flavored pop (8)
Starts with L, ends with ALIMESODA→
58A
Stop by (5)
Starts with E, ends with TENDAT→
59A
Laundry service, e.g. (7)
Starts with A, ends with YAMENITY→
60A
Film collectibles (5)
Starts with R, ends with SREELS→
Down
1D
Network on which "Gossip Girl" aired (5)
Starts with T, ends with WTHECW→
2D
Exterminator's target (5)
Starts with R, ends with HROACH→
3D
Snack made with celery sticks, peanut butter and raisins (10)
Starts with A, ends with GANTSONALOG→
4D
Band-Aid applier, perhaps (3)
Starts with M, ends with MMOM→
5D
Buying opportunity for select customers (7)
Starts with P, ends with EPRESALE→
6D
Completing a video game as fast as possible, say (8)
Starts with S, ends with NSPEEDRUN→
7D
Beyond comprehension (12)
Starts with M, ends with GMINDBOGGLING→
8D
QB stat: Abbr. (3)
Starts with A, ends with TATT→
9D
Wandering sort (7)
Starts with S, ends with RSTRAYER→
10D
It comes down hard (4)
Starts with H, ends with LHAIL→
11D
They're small and plucked (4)
Starts with U, ends with SUKES→
12D
Philippine money (4)
Starts with P, ends with OPESO→
14D
Beehive State flower (4)
Starts with S, ends with OSEGO→
16D
Classic pickup lines, familiarly (4)
Starts with R, ends with SREOS→
19D
Remark from a celebrity look-alike (12)
Starts with I, ends with TIGETTHATALOT→
22D
"Some rise by ___, and some by virtue fall": Shak. (3)
Starts with S, ends with NSIN→
23D
She-bear, in Spain (3)
Starts with O, ends with AOSA→
26D
Coolly disregard (10)
Starts with B, ends with EBRUSHASIDE→
27D
Loosen (4)
Starts with E, ends with EEASE→
28D
Tanners' stock (4)
Starts with D, ends with SDYES→
30D
Some epizoa (4)
Starts with L, ends with ELICE→
31D
Isaac Newton or Elton John, but not Olivia Newton-John (3)
Starts with S, ends with RSIR→
34D
Gentleman's agreement (8)
Starts with Y, ends with YYESMLADY→
37D
Tear with gusto (7)
Starts with R, ends with NRIPOPEN→
38D
French wine designation (3)
Starts with C, ends with UCRU→
40D
Truffula forest logger in "The Lorax" (7)
Starts with O, ends with RONCELER→
41D
Foreign title with a tilde (3)
Starts with S, ends with OSAO→
43D
Stops working (4)
Starts with D, ends with SDIES→
45D
Disney's ___ of Arendelle (4)
Starts with E, ends with AELSA→
46D
Pinkish orange (5)
Starts with C, ends with LCORAL→
47D
They're entertaining (5)
Starts with H, ends with SHOSTS→
48D
Española, por ejemplo (4)
Starts with I, ends with AISLA→
49D
Not read thoroughly (4)
Starts with S, ends with MSKIM→
50D
Variable in the Schrödinger equation (4)
Starts with T, ends with ETIME→
54D
Hit TV series with three spinoffs (3)
Starts with C, ends with ICSI→
56D
Suffix with oct- (3)
Starts with A, ends with EANE→
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How many clues are in the NYT Crossword for March 14, 2025?+
68 clues: 31 Across and 37 Down. The puzzle was constructed by Brandon Koppy and edited by Will Shortz.
What are some answers in today’s NYT Crossword?+
For example: Charlie Chaplin persona (TRAMP); Total (SMASHUP); Knight shtick? (HONOR).
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