NYT Crossword May 18, 2025 Answers

Across

1A Verso's counterpart 5 6A Alternative to an onion bagel 5 11A Jai ___ 4 15A Where the Pilgrims first landed in the New World 4 19A Skating gold medalist Oksana 5 20A Host 5 21A Quick look 4 22A Has a tab open, say 4 23A Hip-hop's "Puba" and "Daddy I.U."? 11 25A Station near Madison Square Garden, for short 4 26A Fleet 4 27A Hung around 8 28A Remove from the champagne bucket? 10 30A "Just kidding!" 3 31A Feeling rash? 5 34A Hip-hop artist with the 2019 hit "My Type" 8 35A Crisis involving cartels 7 39A Goes "Vroom!" 5 41A Royal title 4 42A Casting a total brat in the school play? 14 45A Some govt. securities 6 49A ___-tempered 4 50A "Super cool!" 4 51A Get ready to take a shot 3 53A Ship propeller 5 54A French for "from" 3 55A Release 4 57A Dante's guide in the "Inferno" 6 60A Singer Del Rey 4 61A "The score upon which reality is written," per Henry Miller 5 62A Apps might be seen on one 4 63A Sediment, e.g. 7 65A "The co-star of 'Duck Soup' has to be sore after that!"? 19 69A Anonymous guy 7 70A Pauperism, so to speak 4 71A Author of the 2020 memoir "Cubed" 5 72A Lots 4 73A "Because I'm the boss!" 6 75A Pinged online 4 76A Condition for which Luvox may be prescribed, in brief 3 79A "Wonder Woman" star 5 81A Mountain ___ 3 82A Late singer Payne of One Direction 4 84A Modern home of where cuneiform writing originated 4 85A Way up or way down 6 87A "How long have beavers blocked this river?"? 14 92A "As ___ …" 4 94A Earthenware pots 5 95A Was comparable to 7 96A Apparel feature that a bandeau lacks 8 100A Function in the role of 5 102A Monk's title 3 103A Be crazy about Chicago trains with broken A.C.s? 10 105A Much in quantity 8 109A Baseball family name 4 110A Actor Jared 4 111A Metric in a competitive family business? 11 114A Prince, e.g. 4 115A In ___ parentis 4 116A Blow 5 117A Designer Hilfiger 5 118A Lays turf on 4 119A Little twerp 4 120A Trunk 5 121A Head of Slytherin House in the Harry Potter books 5

Down

1D Subject of the 2018 biopic "On the Basis of Sex," familiarly 3 2D Noble title 4 3D "Ci vediamo in giro!" 4 4D Getting ready to listen 8 5D Historic district of a city 7 6D Gnarly problem, so to speak 4 7D Architect of Hong Kong's Bank of China Tower 5 8D Certain hallucinatory experience 8 9D Directed 3 10D Last word of James Joyce's "Ulysses" 3 11D Dad, in Korean 4 12D Ingredients in some potato soups 5 13D Son of Aphrodite 6 14D "You don't have to tell me" 7 15D Time for a pick-me-up, humorously 12 16D Lie ahead 5 17D Joe of "Home Alone" 5 18D First name in perfumes 5 24D Label anew 5 28D Banks from Los Angeles 4 29D Maidenhair and others 5 32D Common dog command 4 33D Chance 3 35D Hit up on Instagram, informally 4 36D Overnight party with light shows and "cuddle puddles" 4 37D Luau strings 4 38D Rock group with the 1992 hit "Creep" 9 40D Harum-___ (reckless) 6 43D Untrue 5 44D Notaro of comedy 3 46D Drag-and-drop disposal icon 5 47D Start of a counting rhyme 5 48D Hit with a smack 4 52D Time in a Shakespeare title 9 55D Former Israeli P.M. Olmert 4 56D Platform for Safari and FaceTime 5 57D Borderline 5 58D "Need You Tonight" band, 1987 4 59D Leave alone 5 61D Arbiters of taste 12 62D Polite term of address 4 64D Stamp on an invoice 4 65D Implied 5 66D Valerie Harper title role 5 67D One of three immortal elders in "A Wrinkle in Time" 6 68D Dickens's ___ Heep 5 69D Bouts 4 74D Tree whose name sounds like a pronoun 3 76D Word with history or hygiene 4 77D Shut up 4 78D Threw out of a contest, informally 4 80D Philosopher's pursuit 5 82D Exam with an argumentative writing section, in brief 4 83D "You know, I can't quite remember" 8 84D "Oh geez, the answer was staring me in the face!" 8 86D Goes through screen after screen 7 88D "Sadly …" 4 89D Special attention, for short 3 90D Made nice 5 91D Wading birds 7 93D Publicly bash 6 96D Doldrums 5 97D Lumberjacks' competition 5 98D Walk around, maybe 5 99D Where one might pick up litter 5 101D Oozes 5 104D Burgle 4 106D About 4 107D West Point inst. 4 108D Fanfare 4 111D Like a diamond in a ring 3 112D Queer identity, in brief 3 113D 12/31 3