NYT Crossword April 9, 2025 Answers

Across

1A Septet with the #1 albums "Be" and "Map of the Soul: 7" 3 4A Sorghum relative 6 10A Dried chili pepper 5 15A Like a limbo bar, after a few rounds 3 16A "Seinfeld" role for Julia Louis-Dreyfus 6 17A Seating option at a diner 5 18A Magritte's "Ceci n'est pas ___ pipe" 3 19A Three-star review of a cocktail shaker? 12 21A "Toodle-oo!" 6 23A Thurman of "Kill Bill" 3 24A Sell/buy-back agreement, for short 4 25A Three-star review of Battleship? 9 28A Diamond stat 3 30A Shipshape 4 31A Spike of cinema 3 32A Tax-related 6 36A A good one is bright 4 37A Sea ___ 3 38A Pens 7 39A Piece of bread dipped in gravy 3 40A Three-star review of a no-stress class? 8 42A Actress Vardalos 3 43A Apt rhyme for "fiddle" 7 45A Clear, as dishes 3 46A Like a step in the right direction? 4 47A Sign that there's no turning back 6 48A Sign on a park bench, maybe 3 49A S.F. commuter train system 4 50A AOL, e.g., in brief 3 51A Three-star review of Tulsa? 9 54A Subject line abbr. 4 57A Drop down 3 59A Source of smoke for a model volcano 6 60A Three-star review of the Friday before Easter? 12 64A Title in Spain: Abbr. 3 65A Opposite of forward? 5 66A Starbucks drink made with olive oil 6 67A M&M color replaced in 1995 3 68A ___ manager 5 69A Spiff up 6 70A Nickname that drops -art 3

Down

1D React to flirtation, say 5 2D "You're getting too excited" 10 3D Sugar 10 4D "No man has a good enough ___ to be a successful liar": Lincoln 6 5D Pelvis bone 5 6D Hardly strict 3 7D Bluff, e.g. 3 8D Ultimate purpose 6 9D Length for a pregnancy or presidency 4 10D They might be made of steel, hyperbolically 3 11D Cultivate 7 12D Actor Sprouse of "Riverdale" 4 13D Address opener 4 14D Extremely 4 20D Talking-tos 7 22D Sage-colored sage 4 26D Words of defeat 5 27D Puts on a patch, say 4 29D "Fine, I'll ___" 4 33D Ones getting good marks? 10 34D Stereotypical monocle wearer 10 35D Hurdle for a future "Esq." 4 36D That ___ say 4 37D Odysseus' captor 7 38D Touches 5 40D Smartphone predecessors, in brief 4 41D Perform a felonious favor for 4 44D Fall off 7 46D Very doable 4 48D Squirm 6 49D LeVar who hosted TV's "Reading Rainbow" for 23 years 6 52D Where Jewish singles might mingle 5 53D Reeves of "Point Break" 5 54D City seen in Instagram? 4 55D "Piggies" 4 56D At most 4 58D Gobs 4 61D Pub. that predicted it would take one to 10 million years to invent a flying machine, two months before the first airplane flight 3 62D Stephen of "The Crying Game" 3 63D Urging at the start of a meal 3