NYT Crossword April 24, 2025 Answers

Across

1A "Interview With the Vampire" and "Prince of Thorns" 5 6A "Borat" and "This Is Spinal Tap" 8 14A Like some experimental music 6 16A Deferential 8 17A Valentine's Day sentiment 6 18A More than a mere grudge 8 19A They might be all over the map 6 21A Animal known for freezing under pressure 4 22A Noted criminal extradited to the U.S. in 2017 7 25A Locale for a cochlea 3 28A Deadpan 3 29A "You Come ___" (Robert Frost collection) 3 30A ___ Holden, U.S. soccer player-turned-commentator 3 31A Kind of cucumber that isn't a vegetable 3 33A Dither 5 35A "Lady Bird" and "Stand By Me" 7 39A Actress ___ Taylor-Joy 4 40A Bundle of paper or grain 5 41A Some 4 44A – 7 46A Eponymous Italian designer Mario 5 47A Prefix with soul or classical 3 48A Spanish letter before te 3 50A One of many listed on the back of a tour shirt 3 51A Atlanta sch. 3 54A "Get that away from me!" 3 56A Grid lines, perhaps 7 58A Mythical forge locale 4 60A Get 6 62A Second calling? 8 65A Items that gather lather 6 69A Person with the shift after a long one of yours 8 70A 1980s New York mayor 6 71A – 8 72A – 5

Down

1D Dollop 3 2D Verb that sounds like a number ... and is a letter backward 3 3D CD follower 3 4D Potato turnover 5 5D – 7 6D "Outta my way!" 4 7D Overly big 5 8D One of 10 in a millennium: Abbr. 3 9D Josh 3 10D Put to work 4 11D Like some socks and chess players 5 12D Return to a PC keyboard? 5 13D – 5 15D Sprang (at) 5 20D "Nice one, you got me" 6 22D Singer James 4 23D Selection at the butcher's 4 24D "The Thursday Murder Club" and "A Killer Sundae" 5 26D Cher's catchphrase in "Clueless" 4 27D The Knights of ___, shadowy side group in "Star Wars" 3 32D Food thickener 4 34D One-named singer who's a former member of One Direction 4 36D Poetic contraction that omits a "v" 3 37D Might, to Shakespeare 6 38D – 5 40D Stash 4 42D Button added to Apple's Messages app in 2022 4 43D Jokesters 4 45D Go out with 3 46D "Downton Abbey" and "Shogun" 7 49D Far from fresh 5 51D Mixing thematic elements and tropes … or a feature of this puzzle? 5 52D Dave ___, seven-time All-Star pitcher for the Blue Jays 5 53D Mr. Reed, to Jane Eyre 5 55D People celebrated worldwide on March 8 5 57D Skinny white mushroom 5 59D Similar 4 61D Floating mass 4 63D Subject of Homer's loathing on "The Simpsons" 3 64D Bird-related prefix 3 66D One of "them" 3 67D Sports org. that now includes U.C. Berkeley and Stanford, strangely enough 3 68D "There ___ Goes" (1988 hit by the La's) 3