NYT Crossword hints and answer for May 1, 2025
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Clues74
Across37
Down37
ConstructorAidan Deshong and Adam Levav
Today’s NYT Crossword clues, hints & answers
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Across
1A
Schoolroom that serves as a studio (6)
Starts with A, ends with BARTLAB→
7A
Original airer of "Doctor Who" (3)
Starts with B, ends with CBBC→
10A
Covenant (4)
Starts with P, ends with TPACT→
14A
Give a lashing (6)
Starts with B, ends with EBERATE→
15A
Whom Will Smith played in a 2001 sports biopic (3)
Starts with A, ends with IALI→
16A
Son of Zeus and Hera (4)
Starts with A, ends with SARES→
17A
Sweetener in some diet sodas (6)
Starts with S, ends with ASTEVIA→
18A
*Cat breed named after an Indonesian island from which it didn't originate (8)
Starts with B, ends with EBASELINE→
20A
Places to carry out some takeout orders, for short? (3)
Starts with O, ends with SORS→
21A
Light unit (5)
Starts with L, ends with NLUMEN→
23A
"Not in the ___!" (5)
Starts with L, ends with TLEAST→
24A
*It's "read" as a stern warning (7)
Starts with R, ends with ARICOTTA→
26A
*Relative of a snowboard (7)
Starts with K, ends with SKIMONOS→
28A
___ Men (group that won a Grammy Award in 2001 for Best Dance Recording) (4)
Starts with B, ends with ABAHA→
29A
Old tone (5)
Starts with S, ends with ASEPIA→
31A
Is for the people? (3)
Starts with A, ends with EARE→
32A
Daffy Duck speaking feature (4)
Starts with L, ends with PLISP→
34A
"I wanna!" (5)
Starts with L, ends with ELEMME→
37A
41A
Country that was home to the Ebla library, thought to be the world's first (2500 B.C.) (5)
Starts with S, ends with ASYRIA→
42A
Sheet music symbol (4)
Starts with C, ends with FCLEF→
44A
47A
___ salt (form of magnesium sulfate) (5)
Starts with E, ends with MEPSOM→
50A
Lead-in to -nautics (4)
Starts with A, ends with OAERO→
52A
*Carve out, in a way (7)
Starts with A, ends with RAVENGER→
55A
*Comedy club fare (7)
Starts with D, ends with NDUSTPAN→
57A
Columbus's birthplace (5)
Starts with G, ends with AGENOA→
58A
"___ My Heart in San Francisco" (5)
Starts with I, ends with TILEFT→
60A
Video game character speaking a gibberish language (3)
Starts with S, ends with MSIM→
61A
*Villain's expression (8)
Starts with R, ends with GREVILING→
63A
Like does (6)
Starts with F, ends with EFEMALE→
65A
___ Mendoza, former first lady of Puerto Rico (4)
Starts with I, ends with SINES→
66A
Onetime C.I.A. foe (3)
Starts with K, ends with BKGB→
67A
Like government secrets, occasionally (6)
Starts with L, ends with DLEAKED→
68A
Title friend of Marlin in an animated film (4)
Starts with D, ends with YDORY→
69A
Times Square ball drop setting, in brief (3)
Starts with E, ends with TEST→
70A
Revered sorts (6)
Starts with E, ends with SELDERS→
Down
1D
Soak up (6)
Starts with A, ends with BABSORB→
2D
Outcome of a hung jury (7)
Starts with R, ends with LRETRIAL→
3D
"How stylish!" (8)
Starts with T, ends with CTRESCHIC→
5D
Not quite straight up (5)
Starts with A, ends with TATILT→
6D
Gorgeous ones, informally (6)
Starts with B, ends with SBEAUTS→
7D
Film based on the 1983 children's novel "The Sheep-Pig" (4)
Starts with B, ends with EBABE→
8D
Some comforters for toddlers (8)
Starts with B, ends with SBLANKIES→
9D
Modern prefix with normativity (3)
Starts with C, ends with SCIS→
10D
Dairy-less diet (5)
Starts with P, ends with OPALEO→
11D
Singer Grande (6)
Starts with A, ends with AARIANA→
12D
Turn into stars, say? (6)
Starts with C, ends with RCENSOR→
13D
Tswana for "fly" (6)
Starts with T, ends with ETSETSE→
19D
West ___ (furniture retailer) (3)
Starts with E, ends with MELM→
22D
Trailblazing astronaut Jemison (3)
Starts with M, ends with EMAE→
25D
Refuge from the heat (5)
Starts with O, ends with SOASIS→
27D
It's one foot long (4)
Starts with I, ends with BIAMB→
30D
Calls for sympathy (5)
Starts with P, ends with SPLEAS→
35D
Big thing in fast food? (3)
Starts with M, ends with CMAC→
36D
Splendor (5)
Starts with E, ends with TECLAT→
38D
Language that gave us "Saskatchewan" (4)
Starts with C, ends with ECREE→
39D
Piercings that might be felt while kissing (8)
Starts with L, ends with SLIPRINGS→
40D
Memento (8)
Starts with K, ends with EKEEPSAKE→
43D
More delicate and weak (7)
Starts with F, ends with RFRAILER→
44D
Who says "You're a wizard, Harry" (6)
Starts with H, ends with DHAGRID→
45D
Skin-care brand (6)
Starts with A, ends with OAVEENO→
46D
City that lends its name to a style of omelet (6)
Starts with D, ends with RDENVER→
48D
Uplifting work (3)
Starts with O, ends with EODE→
51D
Popping pills, say (6)
Starts with O, ends with SONMEDS→
53D
Racket-raising (5)
Starts with N, ends with YNOISY→
54D
___ pal (3)
Starts with G, ends with LGAL→
56D
Source of Andrew Carnegie's wealth (5)
Starts with S, ends with LSTEEL→
59D
Community associated with Out magazine (4)
Starts with L, ends with TLGBT→
62D
President posthumously inducted in the World Golf Hall of Fame, informally (3)
Starts with I, ends with EIKE→
64D
Crackpot (3)
Starts with M, ends with DMAD→
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How many clues are in the NYT Crossword for May 1, 2025?+
74 clues: 37 Across and 37 Down. The puzzle was constructed by Aidan Deshong and Adam Levav and edited by Will Shortz.
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For example: Schoolroom that serves as a studio (ARTLAB); Original airer of "Doctor Who" (BBC); Covenant (PACT).
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