NYT Crossword February 6, 2025 Answers

Across

1A Damsel in distress in Donkey Kong 7 8A Preschool timeouts 4 12A Lawn covering 3 15A Sources of fine wool 7 16A Ijeoma ___, author of 2018's "So You Want to Talk About Race" 4 17A Air quality org. 3 18A Identity? 12 20A Mingle 3 21A Strikes down 6 22A Catherine ___, surviving wife of King Henry VIII 4 23A Platform that might update while you sleep 3 24A Closure 3 25A Deport? 10 28A Eschew carbs, maybe 4 30A NASA probe named for a Roman goddess 4 31A "No problemo" 6 32A Balance 6 34A Drags (in) 5 35A Arrange? 6 37A Canine? 6 39A Diminish, as trust 5 40A Sense of foreboding 6 42A Self-obsession 6 44A Darth Sidious, e.g., in the "Star Wars" universe 4 45A Machine learning fodder 4 49A Hiking? 10 51A Abraham Van Helsing and John Seward in "Dracula": Abbr. 3 52A Zelda console, in brief 3 53A ___ Lum a.k.a. Awkwafina 4 54A Sources of soft wool 6 57A Purge 3 58A Fledge? 12 60A Tire inflation abbr. 3 61A Leave a review of, as an Airbnb 4 62A Banquet hiree 7 63A Fuji, e.g.: Abbr. 3 64A "What ___?" 4 65A Most hip 7

Down

1D Deconstructed, in a way 6 2D Kamala Harris and Thurgood Marshall vis-à-vis Howard University 6 3D Benefit 6 4D Stick it out 4 5D Drink with a Frosted Lemonade variety 4 6D Capital ball club, familiarly 4 7D Medium strength? 3 8D "What's cookin'?" response 7 9D Clock radio feature 5 10D Rotten-smelling 6 11D "Your point being …?" 3 12D Submission to a record executive 8 13D Parts of a season 8 14D Become fuller, in a way 3 19D Serve hot takes 5 23D Paid no heed to 7 25D Fail to do something out of fear, with "out" 4 26D Wonks ... or a candy once owned by the Willy Wonka Candy Company 5 27D "Street Dreams" rapper 3 29D Obsequious sorts 7 30D #35 3 33D Smart-alecky 5 35D Ballpark player not wearing a uniform 8 36D Got a closer look 8 37D Org. that sells "Go Vegan and Nobody Gets Hurt" T-shirts 4 38D "Ni-i-ice!" 3 39D "Mice!" 3 40D Cost of doing business, maybe 7 41D Chinese "hello" 5 43D Rare type of rental car 6 46D ___ from afar 6 47D Remnants 6 48D Classify 6 50D Comes out of one's skin 5 54D "OMG, I'm dying over here" 4 55D Mother to Apollo and Artemis 4 56D One-footed jump 4 57D Record player speed, for short 3 58D Test for an M.B.A. seeker 3 59D Air quality org.? 3