NYT Crossword May 1, 2025 Answers

Across

1A Schoolroom that serves as a studio 6 7A Original airer of "Doctor Who" 3 10A Covenant 4 14A Give a lashing 6 15A Whom Will Smith played in a 2001 sports biopic 3 16A Son of Zeus and Hera 4 17A Sweetener in some diet sodas 6 18A *Cat breed named after an Indonesian island from which it didn't originate 8 20A Places to carry out some takeout orders, for short? 3 21A Light unit 5 23A "Not in the ___!" 5 24A *It's "read" as a stern warning 7 26A *Relative of a snowboard 7 28A ___ Men (group that won a Grammy Award in 2001 for Best Dance Recording) 4 29A Old tone 5 31A Is for the people? 3 32A Daffy Duck speaking feature 4 34A "I wanna!" 5 37A Brings up a prior topic … or a hint to making sense of the answers to this puzzle's starred clues 11 41A Country that was home to the Ebla library, thought to be the world's first (2500 B.C.) 5 42A Sheet music symbol 4 44A Past-tense verb that's potentially confusing (but grammatically correct!) when written twice in a row 3 47A ___ salt (form of magnesium sulfate) 5 50A Lead-in to -nautics 4 52A *Carve out, in a way 7 55A *Comedy club fare 7 57A Columbus's birthplace 5 58A "___ My Heart in San Francisco" 5 60A Video game character speaking a gibberish language 3 61A *Villain's expression 8 63A Like does 6 65A ___ Mendoza, former first lady of Puerto Rico 4 66A Onetime C.I.A. foe 3 67A Like government secrets, occasionally 6 68A Title friend of Marlin in an animated film 4 69A Times Square ball drop setting, in brief 3 70A Revered sorts 6

Down

1D Soak up 6 2D Outcome of a hung jury 7 3D "How stylish!" 8 4D W.C. 3 5D Not quite straight up 5 6D Gorgeous ones, informally 6 7D Film based on the 1983 children's novel "The Sheep-Pig" 4 8D Some comforters for toddlers 8 9D Modern prefix with normativity 3 10D Dairy-less diet 5 11D Singer Grande 6 12D Turn into stars, say? 6 13D Tswana for "fly" 6 19D West ___ (furniture retailer) 3 22D Trailblazing astronaut Jemison 3 25D Refuge from the heat 5 27D It's one foot long 4 30D Calls for sympathy 5 33D Snoop 3 35D Big thing in fast food? 3 36D Splendor 5 38D Language that gave us "Saskatchewan" 4 39D Piercings that might be felt while kissing 8 40D Memento 8 43D More delicate and weak 7 44D Who says "You're a wizard, Harry" 6 45D Skin-care brand 6 46D City that lends its name to a style of omelet 6 48D Uplifting work 3 49D Quiet 6 51D Popping pills, say 6 53D Racket-raising 5 54D ___ pal 3 56D Source of Andrew Carnegie's wealth 5 59D Community associated with Out magazine 4 62D President posthumously inducted in the World Golf Hall of Fame, informally 3 64D Crackpot 3