NYT Crossword hints and answer for March 22, 2025
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Clues70
Across35
Down35
ConstructorKatie Hoody
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
Style of Duchamp's so-called "readymades" (4)
Starts with D, ends with ADADA→
5A
Overlook? (4)
Starts with G, ends with KGAWK→
9A
Voted for (5)
Starts with C, ends with ECHOSE→
14A
___ blue (original team color of the Chelsea Football Club) (4)
Starts with E, ends with NETON→
15A
Royal adversary (4)
Starts with T, ends with NTWIN→
16A
Accident reminders (5)
Starts with D, ends with SDENTS→
17A
It's not as random as it seems (15)
Starts with C, ends with SCONTROLLEDCHAOS→
20A
Elevated, as a ballet movement (5)
Starts with O, ends with EONTOE→
21A
Long-lived being in Buddhist cosmology (4)
Starts with D, ends with ADEVA→
22A
Dish sometimes served with lomi-lomi salmon (3)
Starts with P, ends with IPOI→
23A
Telepathic connections (9)
Starts with M, ends with SMINDMELDS→
26A
Ashanti Anderson's "___ to Black Skin" (3)
Starts with O, ends with EODE→
27A
Surrealist painter Carrington (7)
Starts with L, ends with ALEONORA→
29A
Set units (4)
Starts with R, ends with SREPS→
31A
Modern initialism for Black dialect (4)
Starts with A, ends with EAAVE→
32A
On the topic of (10)
Starts with A, ends with GADDRESSING→
37A
"Colors" rapper (1988) (4)
Starts with I, ends with TICET→
38A
[Here we go again] (5)
Starts with G, ends with NGROAN→
39A
40A
"Enough!" (10)
Starts with T, ends with TTHATDOESIT→
42A
Like the Muddy Waters album "At Newport 1960" (4)
Starts with L, ends with ELIVE→
43A
Excellent, average or bad, depending on the context (4)
Starts with M, ends with NMEAN→
44A
Ornate water heater (7)
Starts with S, ends with RSAMOVAR→
46A
The Wildcats of the Big 12 Conf. (3)
Starts with K, ends with UKSU→
48A
Massive hockey arena in St. Petersburg, Russia (9)
Starts with I, ends with EICEPALACE→
51A
PC discourse? (3)
Starts with I, ends with SIMS→
53A
Company that owns Words With Friends (5)
Starts with Z, ends with AZYNGA→
56A
Plot device in some suspense thrillers (15)
Starts with T, ends with BTICKINGTIMEBOMB→
60A
English actress Bamber (5)
Starts with E, ends with EELLIE→
61A
Cream alternative (4)
Starts with E, ends with UECRU→
62A
Angled for attention?: Abbr. (4)
Starts with I, ends with LITAL→
63A
Collection in an herbarium, say (5)
Starts with S, ends with SSEEDS→
64A
This is unreal! (4)
Starts with S, ends with MSHAM→
65A
Bird whose diet includes berries that grow on lava (4)
Starts with N, ends with ENENE→
Down
1D
Style influenced by Cubism, informally (4)
Starts with D, ends with ODECO→
2D
Volumes (4)
Starts with A, ends with NATON→
3D
"Stay still!" (15)
Starts with D, ends with EDONTMOVEAMUSCLE→
4D
___ of Bourbon, grandmother of Mary, Queen of Scots (10)
Starts with A, ends with EANTOINETTE→
5D
Car seen in the opening scene of "Dazed and Confused" (3)
Starts with G, ends with OGTO→
6D
Shoemaker's tool (3)
Starts with A, ends with LAWL→
7D
"The Ballad of Reading Gaol" poet (5)
Starts with W, ends with EWILDE→
8D
Show obeisance, in a way (5)
Starts with K, ends with LKNEEL→
9D
They protect some software purchases (7)
Starts with C, ends with SCDCASES→
10D
Snicker bit (3)
Starts with H, ends with HHEH→
11D
Prelude to good news (15)
Starts with O, ends with EONAPOSITIVENOTE→
13D
Australian actress Davis (5)
Starts with E, ends with EESSIE→
18D
The Aces of Triple-A baseball (4)
Starts with R, ends with ORENO→
19D
Early Netflix offering (9)
Starts with D, ends with LDVDRENTAL→
24D
Annual Atlanta gathering of sci-fi/gaming fans (9)
Starts with D, ends with NDRAGONCON→
25D
One of la familia (5)
Starts with M, ends with EMADRE→
27D
Bébé's breakfast (4)
Starts with L, ends with TLAIT→
30D
The "magic" in some mushrooms (10)
Starts with P, ends with NPSILOCYBIN→
33D
Configurations of locks (3)
Starts with D, ends with SDOS→
34D
Wife of Mikhail Gorbachev (5)
Starts with R, ends with ARAISA→
35D
Cosmic explosion (4)
Starts with N, ends with ANOVA→
36D
Concert ending? (4)
Starts with G, ends with RGOER→
41D
Links in a certain chain (7)
Starts with D, ends with SDAISIES→
45D
Way-out fun? (4)
Starts with M, ends with EMAZE→
46D
They come with strings attached (5)
Starts with K, ends with SKITES→
47D
Cry before a shot (5)
Starts with S, ends with ESMILE→
49D
Pentagon quintet (5)
Starts with E, ends with SEDGES→
50D
Fix (up) (5)
Starts with P, ends with HPATCH→
54D
2023 Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of J. Edgar Hoover (4)
Starts with G, ends with NGMAN→
55D
Up to something? (4)
Starts with A, ends with EABLE→
57D
You might sit for one (3)
Starts with K, ends with DKID→
58D
Certain plan for the future, in brief (3)
Starts with I, ends with AIRA→
59D
Close-lipped (3)
Starts with M, ends with MMUM→
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How many clues are in the NYT Crossword for March 22, 2025?+
70 clues: 35 Across and 35 Down. The puzzle was constructed by Katie Hoody and edited by Will Shortz.
What are some answers in today’s NYT Crossword?+
For example: Style of Duchamp's so-called "readymades" (DADA); Overlook? (GAWK); Voted for (CHOSE).
What time does the NYT Crossword come out?+
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