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New York Times Crossword May 9 2025 Answers

Friday puzzle · 72 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 72 clues from the New York Times Crossword for May 9 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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ClueLetters#Answer
Walks softly41 AcrossReveal answer → Impossible to contact by ordinary means105 AcrossReveal answer → "___, sing America"415 AcrossReveal answer → Feature focused on investigation and resolution1016 AcrossReveal answer → Turf417 AcrossReveal answer → Downward-facing dog?1018 AcrossReveal answer → ___ text (label for a screen reader)319 AcrossReveal answer → ___ Robert Jr., 2020 Gold Glove Award winner420 AcrossReveal answer → Encrust421 AcrossReveal answer → What might be caught Red-handed?722 AcrossReveal answer → Cracker topper424 AcrossReveal answer → Raise527 AcrossReveal answer → Popular vacation spot828 AcrossReveal answer → Talks up532 AcrossReveal answer → It's not worth what it seems933 AcrossReveal answer → Kick out434 AcrossReveal answer → Roughly 62% of its claimed territory is in Antarctica535 AcrossReveal answer → Fine-textured wood used in musical instruments436 AcrossReveal answer → Unfettered flow of goods937 AcrossReveal answer → It might turn up a turnip539 AcrossReveal answer → Software clients840 AcrossReveal answer → Minuscule541 AcrossReveal answer → "That's my opinion, too"442 AcrossReveal answer → Components of some makeovers743 AcrossReveal answer → Boatload445 AcrossReveal answer → First-rate, in slang448 AcrossReveal answer → R&B's ___ Hill349 AcrossReveal answer → "Be kind!"1050 AcrossReveal answer → First name of the first Black woman to win a Nobel Prize in Literature454 AcrossReveal answer → What holding one's thumb up might indicate1055 AcrossReveal answer → "How could ___?"456 AcrossReveal answer → Cooking byproduct sometimes called "liquid gold"1057 AcrossReveal answer → Rescues, maybe458 AcrossReveal answer →

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Fragrant rice dish51 DownReveal answer → Day and night102 DownReveal answer → "Must I spell it out further?"103 DownReveal answer → Turf34 DownReveal answer → Like practices associated with pentacles65 DownReveal answer → Enfeebled56 DownReveal answer → Some scuba diving gear47 DownReveal answer → "OMG, I didn't need to know that!"38 DownReveal answer → "She's everything. ___ just Ken" (2023 movie tagline)39 DownReveal answer → Genre heard at many raves, for short310 DownReveal answer → Pioneer in computer science who has a college at Yale named after her1111 DownReveal answer → Asian royal412 DownReveal answer → "Don't worry about me"413 DownReveal answer → Have the audacity414 DownReveal answer → Colleen420 DownReveal answer → Emotionally complex, in a way1123 DownReveal answer → James Baldwin's "If ___ Street Could Talk"524 DownReveal answer → One-named singer in the 2023 hit "Prada"425 DownReveal answer → What one might subscribe to326 DownReveal answer → "I'll let that ___ …"528 DownReveal answer → Not to be repeated1029 DownReveal answer → Seeking comment?1030 DownReveal answer → Title heroine who says "I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will; which I now exert to leave you"431 DownReveal answer → Stir-fry protein option432 DownReveal answer → This, too, shall pass533 DownReveal answer → Squeeze435 DownReveal answer → Not yet final, in brief338 DownReveal answer → Number of kings en España named Felipe439 DownReveal answer → Position at a food company641 DownReveal answer → Throng543 DownReveal answer → Boardroom group544 DownReveal answer → Mail445 DownReveal answer → Superboy's crush446 DownReveal answer → Holiday lead-ins447 DownReveal answer → Entice448 DownReveal answer → Antidiscrimination legis. of 1990351 DownReveal answer → ___ flakes (fruity Chinese snack)352 DownReveal answer → Long period353 DownReveal answer → What a boat shouldn't do354 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the New York Times crossword published on Friday, May 9, 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.