Newsday Crossword May 2, 2025 Answers
By Billie Truitt · Edited by Stan Newman
Every answer for the Newsday Crossword from May 2, 2025, organized by Across and Down. Tap any clue for its answer and past appearances.
Across
Criticize strongly4 Aeneid setting4 Rt. hands5 Wrap alternative4 Sedan seizure4 Change slightly5 Short-music suffix4 Be compliant4 Be a nuisance to5 Start of a quote13 Parodies7 How soccer games may end6 HP products3 Start a type of flight8 Shade of purple5 Stagecoach pullers4 Zilch3 Hue and cry3 Middle of quote7 A Rocky Mtn. state3 Dallas cager3 Apropos of4 "Alternatively..."5 Where South Africa's foreign embassies are8 Bigger copy, briefly3 Source of oil and seeds6 Fifty Shades of Grey author7 End of the quote13 Hot and bubbling5 Ship of myth4 Creative formation4 Cafe handout5 Cake cross-section4 Big name in astrophysics4 "Sample this"5 Decoration recipient4 Liverpool lockup4Down
Shoots forth5 Loose of limb5 Possible brunch starting time5 Proprietor pair, perhaps7 Military might6 Puzzle with drawings5 Austrian-based trade group4 Fluctuate repeatedly4 Plato's hometown6 Attempt to smack6 Mood-stabilizing hormone9 Pothole filler3 Sun's setting3 New Mexico state flower5 "Cruise Capital of the World"5 "Don't mind __"5 Key near D5 Baseball great who spoke the quote5 Trout habitat4 Room brighteners5 Challenge intro5 Romance reading9 Novelist Morrison4 Kiln operator5 Masked warrior5 Starting to peel off7 South Pacific resort isle6 Scramble cousin6 Animal del zodiaco6 Landscaping tool5 Mythical sorceress5 "Farm" follower of song5 Farmers market booth5 Solemn statement4 R&B singer India.__4 Pretense3 Shut out3Frequently Asked Questions
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