NYT Crossword January 17, 2025 Answers

Across

1A Introductory course 5 6A Exchange letters 3 9A Venue for the sale of the town of Buford, Wyo., in 2012 (price: $900,000) 4 13A What you might get after being taken for a ride 10 16A Hint 4 17A Jörmungandr, in Norse mythology 10 18A ___ option 4 19A Narrow passage: Abbr. 3 20A Affixes, in a way 4 21A Unprincipled 6 23A Midrange performer 4 24A Shattering results 6 25A So-so at best 13 29A Buff marsh resident 5 30A Budget alternative 5 31A Saucer contents, in brief 3 34A Industrial Revolution and others 4 35A First Pixar film with a female protagonist 5 36A Fulminate 4 37A Cubby hole? 3 38A Playwright/screenwriter Douglas Carter ___ 5 39A First capital of Alaska 5 40A One method of payment 13 43A Pickle 6 44A Actress Melissa Joan ___ 4 45A Sauce made of seeds 6 46A Company behind Sonic the Hedgehog 4 47A Blubber 3 50A 2011 hit by Jay-Z and Kanye West that samples a 1966 soul performance 4 51A Very 10 54A Bit of a subway station wall 4 55A "That'll do" 10 56A Split things, sometimes 4 57A Some printer purchases, for short 3 58A Ping maker 5

Down

1D Work (out) 4 2D Provide crooked support for 4 3D Shakespearean counterpart to Logan on "Succession" 4 4D Ready to fight 3 5D Bead 7 6D "Take your time!" 11 7D Worst possible circumstances, with "the" 4 8D Horizontal line, in Chinese writing 3 9D "More!" 6 10D Positions of governance 10 11D It shows the lay of the land 5 12D Big whoop 4 14D Borg who co-founded the Institute for Women in Technology 5 15D Kenneth who wrote "The Wind in the Willows" 7 22D Speedy shark 4 23D Father of Phobos and Deimos 4 24D Features of some monks and punks 11 25D It's a must 4 26D Fantasy creature 4 27D Relative minor? 10 28D Way of looking at things 5 32D ___ bar 4 33D Louver 4 35D Alarm sound option on a smartphone 7 36D Hoot 4 38D Milling byproduct 4 39D Unfortunate twists 7 41D Blooms for van Gogh 6 42D Quarter back? 5 43D Smooth kind of finish 5 45D Schlep 4 46D Point on a bus route 4 47D Floor 4 48D ___ Tokarczuk, winner of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature 4 49D Big name in paint 4 52D "How gorgeous!" 3 53D Adverb much used by Goldilocks 3