NYT Crossword hints and answer for April 24, 2025
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Clues78
Across35
Down43
ConstructorKathleen Duncan
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
"Interview With the Vampire" and "Prince of Thorns" (5)
Starts with D, ends with FDARKF→
6A
"Borat" and "This Is Spinal Tap" (8)
Starts with M, ends with NMOCKUMEN→
14A
Like some experimental music (6)
Starts with A, ends with LATONAL→
16A
Deferential (8)
Starts with O, ends with TOBEISANT→
17A
Valentine's Day sentiment (6)
Starts with B, ends with EBEMINE→
18A
More than a mere grudge (8)
Starts with V, ends with AVENDETTA→
19A
They might be all over the map (6)
Starts with S, ends with SSTATES→
21A
Animal known for freezing under pressure (4)
Starts with D, ends with RDEER→
22A
Noted criminal extradited to the U.S. in 2017 (7)
Starts with E, ends with OELCHAPO→
25A
Locale for a cochlea (3)
Starts with E, ends with REAR→
28A
Deadpan (3)
Starts with D, ends with YDRY→
29A
"You Come ___" (Robert Frost collection) (3)
Starts with T, ends with OTOO→
30A
___ Holden, U.S. soccer player-turned-commentator (3)
Starts with S, ends with USTU→
31A
Kind of cucumber that isn't a vegetable (3)
Starts with S, ends with ASEA→
33A
Dither (5)
Starts with T, ends with YTIZZY→
35A
"Lady Bird" and "Stand By Me" (7)
Starts with C, ends with OCOMINGO→
39A
Actress ___ Taylor-Joy (4)
Starts with A, ends with AANYA→
40A
Bundle of paper or grain (5)
Starts with S, ends with FSHEAF→
46A
Eponymous Italian designer Mario (5)
Starts with P, ends with APRADA→
47A
Prefix with soul or classical (3)
Starts with N, ends with ONEO→
48A
Spanish letter before te (3)
Starts with E, ends with EESE→
50A
One of many listed on the back of a tour shirt (3)
Starts with G, ends with GGIG→
51A
Atlanta sch. (3)
Starts with G, ends with UGSU→
54A
"Get that away from me!" (3)
Starts with E, ends with WEWW→
56A
Grid lines, perhaps (7)
Starts with S, ends with SSTREETS→
58A
Mythical forge locale (4)
Starts with E, ends with AETNA→
62A
Second calling? (8)
Starts with N, ends with ENICKNAME→
65A
Items that gather lather (6)
Starts with L, ends with SLOOFAS→
69A
Person with the shift after a long one of yours (8)
Starts with R, ends with RRELIEVER→
70A
1980s New York mayor (6)
Starts with E, ends with HEDKOCH→
Down
1D
Dollop (3)
Starts with D, ends with BDAB→
2D
Verb that sounds like a number ... and is a letter backward (3)
Starts with A, ends with EATE→
3D
CD follower (3)
Starts with R, ends with MROM→
4D
Potato turnover (5)
Starts with K, ends with HKNISH→
6D
"Outta my way!" (4)
Starts with M, ends with EMOVE→
7D
Overly big (5)
Starts with O, ends with EOBESE→
8D
One of 10 in a millennium: Abbr. (3)
Starts with C, ends with NCEN→
10D
Put to work (4)
Starts with U, ends with DUSED→
11D
Like some socks and chess players (5)
Starts with M, ends with DMATED→
12D
Return to a PC keyboard? (5)
Starts with E, ends with RENTER→
15D
Sprang (at) (5)
Starts with L, ends with TLEAPT→
20D
"Nice one, you got me" (6)
Starts with T, ends with ETOUCHE→
22D
Singer James (4)
Starts with E, ends with AETTA→
23D
Selection at the butcher's (4)
Starts with L, ends with NLOIN→
24D
"The Thursday Murder Club" and "A Killer Sundae" (5)
Starts with C, ends with MCOZYM→
26D
Cher's catchphrase in "Clueless" (4)
Starts with A, ends with FASIF→
27D
The Knights of ___, shadowy side group in "Star Wars" (3)
Starts with R, ends with NREN→
32D
Food thickener (4)
Starts with A, ends with RAGAR→
34D
One-named singer who's a former member of One Direction (4)
Starts with Z, ends with NZAYN→
36D
Poetic contraction that omits a "v" (3)
Starts with O, ends with ROER→
37D
Might, to Shakespeare (6)
Starts with M, ends with TMAYEST→
42D
Button added to Apple's Messages app in 2022 (4)
Starts with E, ends with TEDIT→
43D
Jokesters (4)
Starts with W, ends with SWAGS→
45D
Go out with (3)
Starts with S, ends with ESEE→
46D
"Downton Abbey" and "Shogun" (7)
Starts with P, ends with PPERIODP→
49D
Far from fresh (5)
Starts with S, ends with ESTALE→
51D
Mixing thematic elements and tropes … or a feature of this puzzle? (5)
Starts with G, ends with EGENRE→
52D
Dave ___, seven-time All-Star pitcher for the Blue Jays (5)
Starts with S, ends with BSTIEB→
53D
Mr. Reed, to Jane Eyre (5)
Starts with U, ends with EUNCLE→
55D
People celebrated worldwide on March 8 (5)
Starts with W, ends with NWOMEN→
57D
Skinny white mushroom (5)
Starts with E, ends with IENOKI→
59D
Similar (4)
Starts with A, ends with NAKIN→
61D
Floating mass (4)
Starts with B, ends with GBERG→
63D
Subject of Homer's loathing on "The Simpsons" (3)
Starts with N, ends with DNED→
64D
Bird-related prefix (3)
Starts with A, ends with IAVI→
66D
One of "them" (3)
Starts with F, ends with EFOE→
67D
Sports org. that now includes U.C. Berkeley and Stanford, strangely enough (3)
Starts with A, ends with CACC→
68D
"There ___ Goes" (1988 hit by the La's) (3)
Starts with S, ends with ESHE→
How to solve the NYT Crossword
Fill the grid so that every Across and Down answer matches its clue. Numbered squares mark where answers begin. Theme answers, usually the longest entries, share a twist that the puzzle's title or a revealer clue explains. Thursday puzzles are known for rebus squares and other tricks that bend the normal rules.
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NYT Crossword tips for tomorrow
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How many clues are in the NYT Crossword for April 24, 2025?+
78 clues: 35 Across and 43 Down. The puzzle was constructed by Kathleen Duncan and edited by Will Shortz.
What are some answers in today’s NYT Crossword?+
For example: "Interview With the Vampire" and "Prince of Thorns" (DARKF); "Borat" and "This Is Spinal Tap" (MOCKUMEN); Like some experimental music (ATONAL).
What time does the NYT Crossword come out?+
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