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New York Times Crossword May 1 2025 Answers

Thursday puzzle · 74 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 74 clues from the New York Times Crossword for May 1 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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Schoolroom that serves as a studio61 AcrossReveal answer → Original airer of "Doctor Who"37 AcrossReveal answer → Covenant410 AcrossReveal answer → Give a lashing614 AcrossReveal answer → Whom Will Smith played in a 2001 sports biopic315 AcrossReveal answer → Son of Zeus and Hera416 AcrossReveal answer → Sweetener in some diet sodas617 AcrossReveal answer → *Cat breed named after an Indonesian island from which it didn't originate818 AcrossReveal answer → Places to carry out some takeout orders, for short?320 AcrossReveal answer → Light unit521 AcrossReveal answer → "Not in the ___!"523 AcrossReveal answer → *It's "read" as a stern warning724 AcrossReveal answer → *Relative of a snowboard726 AcrossReveal answer → ___ Men (group that won a Grammy Award in 2001 for Best Dance Recording)428 AcrossReveal answer → Old tone529 AcrossReveal answer → Is for the people?331 AcrossReveal answer → Daffy Duck speaking feature432 AcrossReveal answer → "I wanna!"534 AcrossReveal answer → Brings up a prior topic … or a hint to making sense of the answers to this puzzle's starred clues1137 AcrossReveal answer → Country that was home to the Ebla library, thought to be the world's first (2500 B.C.)541 AcrossReveal answer → Sheet music symbol442 AcrossReveal answer → Past-tense verb that's potentially confusing (but grammatically correct!) when written twice in a row344 AcrossReveal answer → ___ salt (form of magnesium sulfate)547 AcrossReveal answer → Lead-in to -nautics450 AcrossReveal answer → *Carve out, in a way752 AcrossReveal answer → *Comedy club fare755 AcrossReveal answer → Columbus's birthplace557 AcrossReveal answer → "___ My Heart in San Francisco"558 AcrossReveal answer → Video game character speaking a gibberish language360 AcrossReveal answer → *Villain's expression861 AcrossReveal answer → Like does663 AcrossReveal answer → ___ Mendoza, former first lady of Puerto Rico465 AcrossReveal answer → Onetime C.I.A. foe366 AcrossReveal answer → Like government secrets, occasionally667 AcrossReveal answer → Title friend of Marlin in an animated film468 AcrossReveal answer → Times Square ball drop setting, in brief369 AcrossReveal answer → Revered sorts670 AcrossReveal answer →

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Soak up61 DownReveal answer → Outcome of a hung jury72 DownReveal answer → "How stylish!"83 DownReveal answer → W.C.34 DownReveal answer → Not quite straight up55 DownReveal answer → Gorgeous ones, informally66 DownReveal answer → Film based on the 1983 children's novel "The Sheep-Pig"47 DownReveal answer → Some comforters for toddlers88 DownReveal answer → Modern prefix with normativity39 DownReveal answer → Dairy-less diet510 DownReveal answer → Singer Grande611 DownReveal answer → Turn into stars, say?612 DownReveal answer → Tswana for "fly"613 DownReveal answer → West ___ (furniture retailer)319 DownReveal answer → Trailblazing astronaut Jemison322 DownReveal answer → Refuge from the heat525 DownReveal answer → It's one foot long427 DownReveal answer → Calls for sympathy530 DownReveal answer → Snoop333 DownReveal answer → Big thing in fast food?335 DownReveal answer → Splendor536 DownReveal answer → Language that gave us "Saskatchewan"438 DownReveal answer → Piercings that might be felt while kissing839 DownReveal answer → Memento840 DownReveal answer → More delicate and weak743 DownReveal answer → Who says "You're a wizard, Harry"644 DownReveal answer → Skin-care brand645 DownReveal answer → City that lends its name to a style of omelet646 DownReveal answer → Uplifting work348 DownReveal answer → Quiet649 DownReveal answer → Popping pills, say651 DownReveal answer → Racket-raising553 DownReveal answer → ___ pal354 DownReveal answer → Source of Andrew Carnegie's wealth556 DownReveal answer → Community associated with Out magazine459 DownReveal answer → President posthumously inducted in the World Golf Hall of Fame, informally362 DownReveal answer → Crackpot364 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the New York Times crossword published on Thursday, May 1, 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.