NYT Crossword April 17, 2025 Answers

Across

1A ___ bowl (healthful dish) 4 5A Cellular protein 5 10A Give out 4 14A Expels 4 15A Mars with bars 5 16A Cold-blooded kind of monster 4 17A "And so …" 4 18A Common back-to-school purchases 10 20A Bit of ballet wear 7 22A 2013 movie co-starring Scarlett Johansson in which she is never seen 3 23A "Going Back to Cali" rapper, 1998 7 25A *Abigail Adams or Eleanor Roosevelt, informally 5 29A *Red denizen of Sesame Street 3 30A Advocates for 8 33A Animal with luxurious fur 5 36A Consumer protection agcy. 3 37A Muse of memory 5 38A See 64-Across 5 39A *Hasty 3 40A Become fixed 5 41A Santa ___ (hot winds) 4 42A What three is 5 44A "Hmm, I don't think so" 4 45A *"The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a ___ to be kindled": Plutarch 3 46A Eliot protagonist 6 47A *Pickle or asparagus unit 4 48A Bog 3 49A Placed in an air fryer instead of a microwave, say 7 51A State with 1,350 miles of coastline (second-most after Alaska): Abbr. 3 52A *Small, embedded program 5 54A São ___, most populous city in the Southern Hemisphere 5 56A Toward that place, quaintly 7 58A Ancient Rome and Persia 7 61A Own 7 62A Comforts 7 63A Almost half of Scandinavians 6 64A What you can't see due to the 38-Across in this puzzle? 6

Down

1D Help with a crime 4 2D Apt name for a December baby 5 3D Early investor 5 4D Literally, "equal legs" 9 5D Like many a plant in spring 6 6D Draconian 5 7D Large cask for beer or wine 3 8D Crawl (along) 4 9D What a bad assistant might be 6 10D Teamwork inhibitor 3 11D Word with cake or trail 3 12D Spot dans la Seine 3 13D Many Ph.D. students 3 19D Some Halloween "transports" 6 21D Plot problems 5 24D ABC's first program broadcast in color, with "The" 7 26D Refurbish, as an old piano 6 27D What one may have to do to destroy a Death Star 11 28D Original and influential 7 31D Big name in soft drinks 9 32D ___ Presidenta, term of address for Mexico's leader beginning in 2024 6 33D Wizard's weapon, maybe 5 34D "___ the Doughnut," start of a children's book series 5 35D Classic French sauce 9 36D Horseshoe enthusiasts? 8 42D Like one who might have to hoof it 7 43D Aspire to 7 46D John ___, author of "Annals of the Former World" 6 50D Brand of oversize Lego bricks 5 53D Veteran's affliction, in brief 4 55D Yarn spinner 4 56D Does a certain prank on, informally 3 57D ___-to 3 59D Some M.I.T. grads, in brief 3 60D The last one flew in 10/03 3