NYT Crossword January 25, 2025 Answers

Across

1A Undesirable airplane seatmate 10 11A Sound from a hedge clipper 4 15A "This is a waste of my time" 10 16A Strike one! 4 17A Body shops? 10 18A "Combats ___ tes défenseurs!" ("La Marseillaise" line) 4 19A Poet Bradstreet 4 20A Abbr. in some job titles 4 21A Coward of the theater world 4 22A Largest U.S. union, with about three million members, in brief 3 23A Funding source for the Great Wall of China 7 26A Org. in 2015's "Bridge of Spies" 3 27A Brass 4 28A Felt in the Christmas spirit? 7 30A "The Way," in Islam 6 33A A, B, and C, but not T and V 8 34A Under control 5 35A One working on a column? 3 36A Sight in Monet's "Boating on the River Epte" 5 37A Current events 8 39A Spreads 6 40A Novel technology? 7 41A Jam 4 42A Old atlas inits. 3 43A In the 80s or 90s, say 7 45A Take another direction 3 48A It's fit for a king 4 50A Classic novel of the South Seas 4 51A Some photomontage art 4 52A ___ Mountains, Kyrgyz/Tajik border range 4 53A They'll show you a thing or two 10 56A Weight of an adult elephant, very imprecisely 4 57A Initiative 10 58A Segments of curling matches 4 59A Holders of orbs 10

Down

1D "Ugh, that's the worst!" 5 2D It passes through many Swiss banks 5 3D Loy of filmdom 5 4D Thing of interest? 4 5D Foe in a 1932 Australian "war" 3 6D "Cheap Thrills" pop star 3 7D Clutches 6 8D Job that might require a fence 5 9D Aeschylus trilogy of tragedies 8 10D The forest, in a metaphor 7 11D Extend across 4 12D Number at filling stations? 9 13D "Oh-h-h-h, that makes sense" 9 14D They support many student movements 9 23D Joined a union 7 24D ___ nage (cooked in a broth) 3 25D Certain something 7 27D "Barbie" director Gerwig 5 29D Asian grocery chain 5 30D Consumed with grief? 9 31D Where locks are picked? 9 32D S&P 500 part 9 33D Some corp. execs 3 35D Confirmation, e.g. 8 38D Ardent supporter 7 39D Place whose name has an appropriate final vowel sound 3 41D Reproductive cells 6 44D Dispatch (toward) 5 45D ___ Smith, "The Autograph Man" novelist 5 46D Namely 5 47D Sublimation products 5 49D Indicator of deflation 4 51D Long-bladed thrusting dagger 4 54D Miracle-___ 3 55D Lines at a grocery store 3