NYT Crossword hints and answer for February 23, 2025
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Clues140
Across65
Down75
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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
Dazzling display (5)
Starts with E, ends with TECLAT→
6A
Tech giant based in Cupertino, Calif. (5)
Starts with A, ends with EAPPLE→
11A
Plant with bugs? (3)
Starts with S, ends with YSPY→
14A
Formation of rugby players (5)
Starts with S, ends with MSCRUM→
19A
Queendom in the Bible (5)
Starts with S, ends with ASHEBA→
20A
Hint at L.G.B.T.Q.+ story lines to generate buzz (9)
Starts with Q, ends with TQUEERBAIT→
22A
Give an address (5)
Starts with O, ends with EORATE→
23A
What a tight deadline might require … or what's found in 30-Across? (15)
Starts with Q, ends with DQUICKTURNAROUND→
25A
Viennese "please" (5)
Starts with B, ends with EBITTE→
26A
Attacked (7)
Starts with M, ends with RMADEWAR→
27A
Do perfectly (3)
Starts with A, ends with EACE→
28A
Hound or dog (6)
Starts with P, ends with RPESTER→
29A
What's-___-name (3)
Starts with H, ends with SHIS→
30A
Question when leaving a grocery store, perhaps (13)
Starts with W, ends with KWHEREDIDIPARK→
34A
Inaugural (6)
Starts with M, ends with NMAIDEN→
38A
Unwanted event at a speakeasy (4)
Starts with R, ends with DRAID→
39A
Spot for a pin (3)
Starts with M, ends with TMAT→
40A
Lyricist Gershwin (3)
Starts with I, ends with AIRA→
41A
Halls that may have glass ceilings (5)
Starts with A, ends with AATRIA→
42A
Improvise (6)
Starts with W, ends with TWINGIT→
44A
"Everything ___ Changed" (Taylor Swift song) (3)
Starts with H, ends with SHAS→
45A
Scheme (4)
Starts with P, ends with TPLOT→
46A
Tolerate misbehavior … or what's found in 56-Across? (15)
Starts with L, ends with YLOOKTHEOTHERWAY→
49A
Collectors of signatures? (5)
Starts with C, ends with SCASTS→
50A
___ of Cleves, wife of Henry VIII (4)
Starts with A, ends with EANNE→
51A
Newspaper section (4)
Starts with A, ends with SARTS→
52A
Tuna variety (3)
Starts with A, ends with IAHI→
53A
Word with lock or pocket (3)
Starts with A, ends with RAIR→
54A
Second printings, e.g. (8)
Starts with R, ends with SREISSUES→
56A
Source of some public funding (12)
Starts with F, ends with TFEDERALGRANT→
62A
Boiling state (3)
Starts with I, ends with EIRE→
63A
Author of the 1964 artist's book "Grapefruit" (3)
Starts with O, ends with OONO→
64A
Legal tender (5)
Starts with M, ends with YMONEY→
65A
When doubled, a dance (3)
Starts with C, ends with NCAN→
66A
Home of the Sugarloaf Cable Car, informally (3)
Starts with R, ends with ORIO→
67A
Totally the wrong way … or what's found in 79-Across? (12)
Starts with A, ends with SASSBACKWARDS→
70A
"Really! Check for yourself!" (8)
Starts with I, ends with TITSAFACT→
72A
Radar gun inits. (3)
Starts with M, ends with HMPH→
73A
Philosophy (3)
Starts with I, ends with MISM→
74A
It may be on the chopping block (4)
Starts with L, ends with NLOIN→
75A
"Uh-huh, whatever you say!" (4)
Starts with I, ends with TIBET→
76A
Distorts (5)
Starts with S, ends with SSKEWS→
79A
"It'd be my pleasure" (15)
Starts with I, ends with EIMHAPPYTOOBLIGE→
84A
1/96 of a pint: Abbr. (3)
Starts with T, ends with PTSP→
85A
It comes with a hefty bill (6)
Starts with T, ends with NTOUCAN→
86A
Happen over and over (5)
Starts with R, ends with RRECUR→
87A
Beehive State athlete (3)
Starts with U, ends with EUTE→
88A
Coalesce (3)
Starts with G, ends with LGEL→
89A
11, literally (4)
Starts with O, ends with SONES→
90A
Occasions for self-indulgence (6)
Starts with M, ends with SMEDAYS→
91A
Completely change one's position … or what's found in 104-Across? (13)
Starts with R, ends with EREVERSECOURSE→
96A
Intimidate (3)
Starts with C, ends with WCOW→
97A
Wild goats of the Alps (6)
Starts with I, ends with SIBEXES→
98A
Delta hub: Abbr. (3)
Starts with A, ends with LATL→
99A
Reality competition show with quickfire challenges (7)
Starts with T, ends with FTOPCHEF→
103A
Smidgen (5)
Starts with O, ends with EOUNCE→
104A
Gift-wrapping supplies (15)
Starts with S, ends with SSCOTCHTAPEROLLS→
109A
Formal "you," in Uruguay (5)
Starts with U, ends with DUSTED→
110A
Americans who live in their own time zone (9)
Starts with H, ends with SHAWAIIANS→
111A
Many a piece of writing by Joan Didion (5)
Starts with E, ends with YESSAY→
112A
In a bashful manner (5)
Starts with S, ends with YSHYLY→
113A
Sweetie (3)
Starts with H, ends with NHON→
114A
Part of a wheel (5)
Starts with S, ends with ESPOKE→
115A
Detaches from a source of dependence (5)
Starts with W, ends with SWEANS→
Down
1D
Lawyer's title: Abbr. (3)
Starts with E, ends with QESQ→
2D
Fish bait (4)
Starts with C, ends with MCHUM→
3D
Leader of filmdom's Rebel Alliance (4)
Starts with L, ends with ALEIA→
4D
Options on some tests (4)
Starts with A, ends with DABCD→
5D
Receive severe criticism (8)
Starts with T, ends with TTAKEHEAT→
6D
Blue-green shades (5)
Starts with A, ends with SAQUAS→
7D
Sound of a smooth-running engine (4)
Starts with P, ends with RPURR→
8D
Pig's digs (3)
Starts with P, ends with NPEN→
9D
Locale where clovers bloom (3)
Starts with L, ends with ALEA→
10D
Forget to finish writing a clue, mayb (3)
Starts with E, ends with RERR→
11D
Secret ___ (5)
Starts with S, ends with ESAUCE→
12D
Felt longing (for) (5)
Starts with P, ends with DPINED→
13D
Since Jan. 1 (3)
Starts with Y, ends with DYTD→
14D
"C'est la vie" (6)
Starts with S, ends with TSOBEIT→
15D
Potato chip, to a Brit (5)
Starts with C, ends with PCRISP→
16D
Coiffure parts that are sometimes braided (8)
Starts with R, ends with SRATTAILS→
17D
Complete nonsense (8)
Starts with U, ends with TUTTERROT→
18D
Small mongooses (8)
Starts with M, ends with SMEERKATS→
21D
Creature that sounds like a snooze (4)
Starts with B, ends with RBOAR→
24D
Scarlett Johansson, Rami Malek or Vin Diesel (did you know?) (4)
Starts with T, ends with NTWIN→
28D
PalmPilots, e.g., for short (4)
Starts with P, ends with SPDAS→
30D
Wish list items (5)
Starts with W, ends with SWANTS→
31D
Like some heels and hopes (4)
Starts with H, ends with HHIGH→
32D
Marriage equality activist Windsor, familiarly (4)
Starts with E, ends with EEDIE→
33D
"Perhaps. That's something that interests me" (4)
Starts with I, ends with YIMAY→
34D
Disease that was the subject of the second Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1902) (7)
Starts with M, ends with AMALARIA→
35D
Yom Kippur observers, e.g. (7)
Starts with A, ends with SATONERS→
36D
Amusingly incongruous outcomes (7)
Starts with I, ends with SIRONIES→
37D
Flood preventers (5)
Starts with D, ends with SDIKES→
42D
"Don't worry about us" (6)
Starts with W, ends with KWEREOK→
43D
Lines of work (6)
Starts with T, ends with STRADES→
44D
What locks are made of (4)
Starts with H, ends with RHAIR→
45D
Catherine ___, wife of Henry VIII (4)
Starts with P, ends with RPARR→
47D
Horse's behind (6)
Starts with H, ends with HHAUNCH→
48D
Protein powder ingredient (4)
Starts with W, ends with YWHEY→
49D
Aetna alternative (5)
Starts with C, ends with ACIGNA→
53D
"Unfortunately, that's incorrect" (6)
Starts with A, ends with OALASNO→
55D
Many long-running TV shows (5)
Starts with S, ends with SSOAPS→
56D
Word processing selection (6)
Starts with F, ends with TFORMAT→
58D
Director's directive (6)
Starts with A, ends with NACTION→
59D
Most common coffee bean variety (7)
Starts with A, ends with AARABICA→
60D
Love interest in a Hallmark movie, maybe (7)
Starts with N, ends with YNICEGUY→
61D
Walks unsteadily (7)
Starts with T, ends with STOTTERS→
64D
"Monster ___" (1962 #1 song) (4)
Starts with M, ends with HMASH→
68D
i5 and X5 (4)
Starts with B, ends with SBMWS→
69D
Fraidy-cat (4)
Starts with W, ends with PWIMP→
70D
Soupçons (5)
Starts with I, ends with SIOTAS→
71D
Organized in a cabinet, say (5)
Starts with F, ends with DFILED→
74D
School before l'université (5)
Starts with L, ends with ELYCEE→
76D
Not to be relied upon (8)
Starts with S, ends with SSPURIOUS→
77D
78D
110, facetiously (8)
Starts with E, ends with YELEVENTY→
79D
Barbuda or Barbados (4)
Starts with I, ends with EISLE→
80D
Shoddy (4)
Starts with P, ends with RPOOR→
81D
Most dad jokes (4)
Starts with P, ends with SPUNS→
82D
Nickname for Milwaukee's baseball team (8)
Starts with B, ends with WBREWCREW→
84D
Ocean in "Ocean's Eleven" (4)
Starts with T, ends with STESS→
88D
Like King Midas, notably (6)
Starts with G, ends with YGREEDY→
90D
Have a pity party (4)
Starts with M, ends with EMOPE→
92D
Google Sheets alternative (5)
Starts with E, ends with LEXCEL→
93D
Supply at the Hershey Company (5)
Starts with C, ends with OCACAO→
94D
City near Disney World, informally (5)
Starts with O, ends with NOTOWN→
95D
___ Beauty (4)
Starts with U, ends with AULTA→
96D
Small wood (5)
Starts with C, ends with ECOPSE→
99D
Fail ignominiously, as at the box office (4)
Starts with T, ends with KTANK→
100D
Rip off (4)
Starts with H, ends with EHOSE→
101D
"Lohengrin" soprano (4)
Starts with E, ends with AELSA→
102D
Custardy treat (4)
Starts with F, ends with NFLAN→
104D
"Quiet!" (3)
Starts with S, ends with HSHH→
105D
Gender identity prefix (3)
Starts with C, ends with SCIS→
106D
With it (3)
Starts with H, ends with PHIP→
107D
Confucian concept (3)
Starts with T, ends with OTAO→
108D
Part of iOS: Abbr. (3)
Starts with S, ends with SSYS→
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How many clues are in the NYT Crossword for February 23, 2025?+
140 clues: 65 Across and 75 Down. The puzzle was constructed by Daniel Grinberg and Rafael Musa and edited by Will Shortz.
What are some answers in today’s NYT Crossword?+
For example: Dazzling display (ECLAT); Tech giant based in Cupertino, Calif. (APPLE); Plant with bugs? (SPY).
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