New York Times Crossword May 18 2025 Answers

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Below are all 138 clues from the New York Times Crossword for May 18 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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Verso's counterpart51 AcrossReveal answer → Alternative to an onion bagel56 AcrossReveal answer → Jai ___411 AcrossReveal answer → Where the Pilgrims first landed in the New World415 AcrossReveal answer → Skating gold medalist Oksana519 AcrossReveal answer → Host520 AcrossReveal answer → Quick look421 AcrossReveal answer → Has a tab open, say422 AcrossReveal answer → Hip-hop's "Puba" and "Daddy I.U."?1123 AcrossReveal answer → Station near Madison Square Garden, for short425 AcrossReveal answer → Fleet426 AcrossReveal answer → Hung around827 AcrossReveal answer → Remove from the champagne bucket?1028 AcrossReveal answer → "Just kidding!"330 AcrossReveal answer → Feeling rash?531 AcrossReveal answer → Hip-hop artist with the 2019 hit "My Type"834 AcrossReveal answer → Crisis involving cartels735 AcrossReveal answer → Goes "Vroom!"539 AcrossReveal answer → Royal title441 AcrossReveal answer → Casting a total brat in the school play?1442 AcrossReveal answer → Some govt. securities645 AcrossReveal answer → ___-tempered449 AcrossReveal answer → "Super cool!"450 AcrossReveal answer → Get ready to take a shot351 AcrossReveal answer → Ship propeller553 AcrossReveal answer → French for "from"354 AcrossReveal answer → Release455 AcrossReveal answer → Dante's guide in the "Inferno"657 AcrossReveal answer → Singer Del Rey460 AcrossReveal answer → "The score upon which reality is written," per Henry Miller561 AcrossReveal answer → Apps might be seen on one462 AcrossReveal answer → Sediment, e.g.763 AcrossReveal answer → "The co-star of 'Duck Soup' has to be sore after that!"?1965 AcrossReveal answer → Anonymous guy769 AcrossReveal answer → Pauperism, so to speak470 AcrossReveal answer → Author of the 2020 memoir "Cubed"571 AcrossReveal answer → Lots472 AcrossReveal answer → "Because I'm the boss!"673 AcrossReveal answer → Pinged online475 AcrossReveal answer → Condition for which Luvox may be prescribed, in brief376 AcrossReveal answer → "Wonder Woman" star579 AcrossReveal answer → Mountain ___381 AcrossReveal answer → Late singer Payne of One Direction482 AcrossReveal answer → Modern home of where cuneiform writing originated484 AcrossReveal answer → Way up or way down685 AcrossReveal answer → "How long have beavers blocked this river?"?1487 AcrossReveal answer → "As ___ …"492 AcrossReveal answer → Earthenware pots594 AcrossReveal answer → Was comparable to795 AcrossReveal answer → Apparel feature that a bandeau lacks896 AcrossReveal answer → Function in the role of5100 AcrossReveal answer → Monk's title3102 AcrossReveal answer → Be crazy about Chicago trains with broken A.C.s?10103 AcrossReveal answer → Much in quantity8105 AcrossReveal answer → Baseball family name4109 AcrossReveal answer → Actor Jared4110 AcrossReveal answer → Metric in a competitive family business?11111 AcrossReveal answer → Prince, e.g.4114 AcrossReveal answer → In ___ parentis4115 AcrossReveal answer → Blow5116 AcrossReveal answer → Designer Hilfiger5117 AcrossReveal answer → Lays turf on4118 AcrossReveal answer → Little twerp4119 AcrossReveal answer → Trunk5120 AcrossReveal answer → Head of Slytherin House in the Harry Potter books5121 AcrossReveal answer →

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Subject of the 2018 biopic "On the Basis of Sex," familiarly31 DownReveal answer → Noble title42 DownReveal answer → "Ci vediamo in giro!"43 DownReveal answer → Getting ready to listen84 DownReveal answer → Historic district of a city75 DownReveal answer → Gnarly problem, so to speak46 DownReveal answer → Architect of Hong Kong's Bank of China Tower57 DownReveal answer → Certain hallucinatory experience88 DownReveal answer → Directed39 DownReveal answer → Last word of James Joyce's "Ulysses"310 DownReveal answer → Dad, in Korean411 DownReveal answer → Ingredients in some potato soups512 DownReveal answer → Son of Aphrodite613 DownReveal answer → "You don't have to tell me"714 DownReveal answer → Time for a pick-me-up, humorously1215 DownReveal answer → Lie ahead516 DownReveal answer → Joe of "Home Alone"517 DownReveal answer → First name in perfumes518 DownReveal answer → Label anew524 DownReveal answer → Banks from Los Angeles428 DownReveal answer → Maidenhair and others529 DownReveal answer → Common dog command432 DownReveal answer → Chance333 DownReveal answer → Hit up on Instagram, informally435 DownReveal answer → Overnight party with light shows and "cuddle puddles"436 DownReveal answer → Luau strings437 DownReveal answer → Rock group with the 1992 hit "Creep"938 DownReveal answer → Harum-___ (reckless)640 DownReveal answer → Untrue543 DownReveal answer → Notaro of comedy344 DownReveal answer → Drag-and-drop disposal icon546 DownReveal answer → Start of a counting rhyme547 DownReveal answer → Hit with a smack448 DownReveal answer → Time in a Shakespeare title952 DownReveal answer → Former Israeli P.M. Olmert455 DownReveal answer → Platform for Safari and FaceTime556 DownReveal answer → Borderline557 DownReveal answer → "Need You Tonight" band, 1987458 DownReveal answer → Leave alone559 DownReveal answer → Arbiters of taste1261 DownReveal answer → Polite term of address462 DownReveal answer → Stamp on an invoice464 DownReveal answer → Implied565 DownReveal answer → Valerie Harper title role566 DownReveal answer → One of three immortal elders in "A Wrinkle in Time"667 DownReveal answer → Dickens's ___ Heep568 DownReveal answer → Bouts469 DownReveal answer → Tree whose name sounds like a pronoun374 DownReveal answer → Word with history or hygiene476 DownReveal answer → Shut up477 DownReveal answer → Threw out of a contest, informally478 DownReveal answer → Philosopher's pursuit580 DownReveal answer → Exam with an argumentative writing section, in brief482 DownReveal answer → "You know, I can't quite remember"883 DownReveal answer → "Oh geez, the answer was staring me in the face!"884 DownReveal answer → Goes through screen after screen786 DownReveal answer → "Sadly …"488 DownReveal answer → Special attention, for short389 DownReveal answer → Made nice590 DownReveal answer → Wading birds791 DownReveal answer → Publicly bash693 DownReveal answer → Doldrums596 DownReveal answer → Lumberjacks' competition597 DownReveal answer → Walk around, maybe598 DownReveal answer → Where one might pick up litter599 DownReveal answer → Oozes5101 DownReveal answer → Burgle4104 DownReveal answer → About4106 DownReveal answer → West Point inst.4107 DownReveal answer → Fanfare4108 DownReveal answer → Like a diamond in a ring3111 DownReveal answer → Queer identity, in brief3112 DownReveal answer → 12/313113 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the New York Times crossword published on Sunday, May 18, 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.