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New York Times Crossword January 21 2025 Answers

Tuesday puzzle · 78 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 78 clues from the New York Times Crossword for January 21 2025. Stuck on one? Click the clue to reveal its verified answer, plus every other answer that clue has had across every publisher in our database.

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Across

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Gobble51 AcrossReveal answer → English pop duo with the 1984 hit "Last Christmas"46 AcrossReveal answer → First book after the four Gospels410 AcrossReveal answer → Slicker, as a winter road514 AcrossReveal answer → Name of Sporty Spice in the Spice Girls415 AcrossReveal answer → TV host Trevor with the memoir "Born a Crime"416 AcrossReveal answer → Convenient source of tinctures and tonics1517 AcrossReveal answer → Bit of workout apparel, informally320 AcrossReveal answer → Dish with a Cantonese counterpart called egg foo yong821 AcrossReveal answer → Tool that may be used as a hoe322 AcrossReveal answer → Needs for in vitro fertilization325 AcrossReveal answer → Prefix with liberal327 AcrossReveal answer → Actor McShane328 AcrossReveal answer → Singer of "Despacito," which has more than eight billion views on YouTube929 AcrossReveal answer → Exploitative ones532 AcrossReveal answer → Mardi Gras follower434 AcrossReveal answer → Fish also called a nishikigoi335 AcrossReveal answer → Surreptitiously let in on an email336 AcrossReveal answer → Popular camp activity … or, literally, what the circles are creating four times in this puzzle1337 AcrossReveal answer → Kettle component342 AcrossReveal answer → Figure painted by Warhol343 AcrossReveal answer → Skip out of a party444 AcrossReveal answer → Canine welcomes546 AcrossReveal answer → Item with hinged legs949 AcrossReveal answer → Salt Lake City-to-Minneapolis dir.351 AcrossReveal answer → ___ Jordan, a.k.a. the Green Lantern352 AcrossReveal answer → Neither's partner354 AcrossReveal answer → Word after phone or, modernly, Zoom355 AcrossReveal answer → Piece of blackboard chalk, geometrically856 AcrossReveal answer → Stir-fry accessory359 AcrossReveal answer → "That's not even the half of it ..."1561 AcrossReveal answer → Body personified by the Greek Titan Selene466 AcrossReveal answer → Walkie-talkie word467 AcrossReveal answer → Cultivates, in a way568 AcrossReveal answer → So, so, so long469 AcrossReveal answer → "Barbie" actor Michael470 AcrossReveal answer → Like Pittsburgh's Canton Avenue, famously571 AcrossReveal answer →

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[as printed!]31 DownReveal answer → Cpl. or sgt.32 DownReveal answer → Word with open or central33 DownReveal answer → Monthly budget item44 DownReveal answer → No longer burdened by65 DownReveal answer → Nuke, for one36 DownReveal answer → Hoagie47 DownReveal answer → Reunion attendees68 DownReveal answer → Janis Joplin's "Me and Bobby ___"59 DownReveal answer → It may be a chip or two410 DownReveal answer → Playground pathogen611 DownReveal answer → Dental detritus612 DownReveal answer → Glosses613 DownReveal answer → Annulled, as a license718 DownReveal answer → Sit non-ergonomically619 DownReveal answer → 100%322 DownReveal answer → Union requirements423 DownReveal answer → Brass component424 DownReveal answer → In a bit, to a poet426 DownReveal answer → Celery component530 DownReveal answer → Greek letter that represents summation531 DownReveal answer → Marine photographer's aid533 DownReveal answer → Hang with the boys, slangily736 DownReveal answer → God whose avatars restore cosmic order638 DownReveal answer → Net439 DownReveal answer → Catches in the act440 DownReveal answer → Rummikub piece441 DownReveal answer → Superman foe ___ Luthor345 DownReveal answer → "2 ___ 1" (Spice Girls song)646 DownReveal answer → "O.K. ... moving on!"647 DownReveal answer → Have as support648 DownReveal answer → Use an ax on, perhaps649 DownReveal answer → Military force650 DownReveal answer → Like some committees553 DownReveal answer → + or – bits457 DownReveal answer → One vacationing in a camper, informally458 DownReveal answer → Bagpiper's wear460 DownReveal answer → Big time362 DownReveal answer → Fawn's mother363 DownReveal answer → Lamb's mother364 DownReveal answer → Snake created by Medusa's blood, in myth365 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the New York Times crossword published on Tuesday, January 21, 2025. Answers are checked against the completed grid before publishing and live on each clue's own page, so you only see the solutions you ask for. If a clue looks familiar, open it — the same wording often runs in other puzzles with a different answer, and the clue page shows every version we have on record.