NYT Crossword March 2, 2025 Answers

Across

1A Town 3 4A "___ funny …" (the most exciting phrase to hear in science, per Isaac Asimov) 5 9A "Don't take offense," nowadays 7 16A N.Y.C. neighborhood where the Cronut was invented 3 19A Mid-voyage 3 20A Members of a tough crowd, perhaps 6 21A Some painkillers 7 22A Neighbor of Pakistan 3 23A Go-ahead responses 3 24A The humanities, traditionally 14 26A Move gingerly 3 27A H.S. exams taken for college credit 3 28A Hockey goal scored by deflecting an incoming puck 5 29A Follower of Robespierre, in 18th-century France 7 30A Winged pest 3 31A What a daredevil might go without 3 32A Binary pronoun options 7 34A Photographer Goldin 3 35A Expecting, informally 5 37A One of two, in this clue 7 39A Mafiosi 7 42A Armada vessel 6 43A Smidgen 3 44A One tapped by leadership? 3 45A Temper 4 46A Bit of smack talk 3 47A Sacred bird of Egyptian mythology 4 49A Go in circles 5 51A Taiwan-based tech giant 4 52A Formicary residents 4 54A Part of an underground network 4 55A Maritime hazard 3 56A It's simultaneously attractive and repulsive 5 58A Malty craft beer 6 60A Personal 3 61A Mont Blanc, par exemple 3 62A Like much limestone 3 63A Gender abbr. 3 64A Mama's mama 4 66A Warning letters before a link 4 68A Narrative arc 3 69A Athletic competitions 4 70A Band whose name is a rhyme scheme 3 71A Vaping implement 4 72A Oscar-winning Michelle 4 73A Modest bouquet 3 74A On the safe side, nautically 3 75A Derby entry 3 76A Comedian Philips 3 77A Pompous "I" 6 79A Makes mincemeat of 5 81A Verifiable 3 82A Actor Sebastian ___ of the "Avengers" movies 4 83A Capital of East Timor 4 84A Hurt badly 4 85A Packaging cords 5 87A Slippery 4 88A Sloth, e.g. 3 89A All-encompassing prefix 4 90A Goddess of the dawn 3 91A Site-seeing need? 3 92A ___ Rebellion (19th-century Chinese conflict) 6 95A Something to chew on 7 97A Is too overwhelmed with emotion to speak 7 101A Showy 5 102A Big name in fruit juice, or the first three letters of the fruit in it 3 103A What "E" on a gauge means 7 105A iPhone speaker? 3 106A Spinoff of a popular lecture series 3 107A Beers advertised with the slogan "La vida más fina" 7 110A Prop ___ 5 111A Actress Carrie of HBO's "The Leftovers" 3 112A Fighting 3 113A Tidy way to color … and where seven words are hiding in this puzzle? 14 115A Word on a shoppe sign 3 116A Nike's swoosh or McDonald's golden arches 3 117A Course with a name derived from the French word for "clear the table" 7 118A Filmmaker John who directed the "Thriller" music video 6 119A Equal 3 120A Not quite yet 3 121A Big name in Western wear 7 122A "Good grief!" 5 123A Some flight tracker data, for short 3

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1D Word after second or before split 6 2D Hard court tournament 6 3D What might fill you up after you fill up 14 4D Parliamentary conservatives 6 5D Cuisine style that's kept simmering at the table 6 6D Pantheon of Norse gods 5 7D Send 8 8D W-9 nine: Abbr. 3 9D Shortened name on a Pelicans jersey 4 10D Well-connected grp.? 4 11D Take a breather 9 12D Milliners' decorations 8 13D Stayed home for dinner 5 14D "Nebraska" actor Bruce 4 15D Shape of the border between yin and yang 3 16D Longtime host Robert of NPR's "All Things Considered" 6 17D Tries 6 18D Approximate weight of a subcompact car or a medium-size giraffe 6 20D Came clean? 6 25D Set new records, say, informally 4 33D ___ pants (loose-fitting garb) 5 35D American patriot Thomas 5 36D Author of the "Goosebumps" series 7 38D Gone by 4 40D Came (from) 8 41D Walks leisurely 6 42D Sydneysider's salutation 9 44D Two-point play in American football 6 47D "At a time like this, scorching ___, not convincing argument, is needed": Frederick Douglass 5 48D Super Mario character also known as King Koopa 6 49D ___ hook (device attached to a rope or cable) 9 50D Stillness 6 53D Star witness? 14 57D 16 years, for Little League Baseball 8 58D Risen from the ashes 6 59D Sloth, e.g. 6 63D Lead-in to a stark reality 6 65D Extreme pain 5 67D Line of questioning? 7 69D Saltwater 6 78D Letter-shaped dress style 5 79D Single-player and multiplayer, for two 9 80D Knight's need 5 82D Rockefeller Plaza muralist 4 84D Driver 8 86D Puns and anagrams, e.g. 8 91D Except if 6 92D Comes to 6 93D Retort that sounds like a "Star Wars" character 6 94D "Twister" star Bill 6 96D Encryption code, in computer science lingo 4 97D Spanish "when" 6 98D Virgil epic 6 99D Worn down 6 100D Some Bay Area athletes, familiarly 6 102D Following 5 104D Fun romance 5 107D Apt letters missing from "Te_h_ology r_view si_e" 4 108D Emperor with a statue outside the Colosseum 4 109D Memo header 4 113D Points the finger at 3 114D Popular wood for American whiskey barrels until a 20th-century blight 3