NYT Crossword April 12, 2025 Answers

Across

1A "You're on!" 7 8A "You really think?" 6 14A "Ha! Better luck next time!" 8 16A Base ruling 6 17A Game box info 8 18A Choir supporters 6 19A Authorization to enter 4 20A Get on the board 5 22A In case 4 23A Wayne's co-star in 1966's "El Dorado" 4 24A Missile type 4 28A ___ factor 3 29A Educational method with mixed-age classrooms 10 31A Sublime genre 3 32A Another name for Princess Diana of Themyscira 11 33A Many of them have mascots 7 35A Activity that Simba practices in "The Lion King" 7 36A "Like, seriously?!" 11 38A Co. tech leader 3 39A Smoke without fire, maybe 10 40A Hilton hotel chain 3 41A How some sit by 4 42A Pool shooters 4 43A Inclusion in a love letter, maybe 4 44A Take forcibly 5 46A You might want to sit down for this 4 47A What might be thrown for a loop? 6 50A Some diva performances 8 54A Like, yesterday 6 55A Prosciutto or salami 8 56A Noted quintet 6 57A Flings 7

Down

1D ___ word 3 2D Dress (up) 3 3D Portrayer of a noted sitcom boss 11 4D Threatened 6 5D Flex, so to speak 5 6D Onetime first name at Springfield Elementary 4 7D Sale indicator 3 8D Setting for some scenes in "The King and I" 10 9D Next in line 4 10D One with a taxing job 8 11D Temperature gauge, at times 3 12D Start to charge? 3 13D What ties lead to, for short 3 15D Improv tenet 6 21D Party people? 8 22D Frantically 7 23D Gamers' purchases 8 25D Tension cutter 11 26D Plant energy source 7 27D Outback howler 5 29D Mortars for grinding Mexican spices 10 30D One of seven in a holiday song 4 31D Genre for Amazing Stories magazine, informally 5 32D Fall off 4 34D Cakewalks 8 37D Like hat hair 6 40D Rousing battle cry 6 43D Like larceny that's not grand 5 45D Campaign for office 4 46D Bad kind of insider 4 47D Dominican Republic's ___ Américas International Airport 3 48D Did amazingly, in slang 3 49D Curmudgeonly boss on TV's "Parks and Recreation" 3 51D Mesh 3 52D Ol' buddy ol' ___ 3 53D It's a real mess 3