NYT Crossword May 9, 2025 Answers

Across

1A Walks softly 4 5A Impossible to contact by ordinary means 10 15A "___, sing America" 4 16A Feature focused on investigation and resolution 10 17A Turf 4 18A Downward-facing dog? 10 19A ___ text (label for a screen reader) 3 20A ___ Robert Jr., 2020 Gold Glove Award winner 4 21A Encrust 4 22A What might be caught Red-handed? 7 24A Cracker topper 4 27A Raise 5 28A Popular vacation spot 8 32A Talks up 5 33A It's not worth what it seems 9 34A Kick out 4 35A Roughly 62% of its claimed territory is in Antarctica 5 36A Fine-textured wood used in musical instruments 4 37A Unfettered flow of goods 9 39A It might turn up a turnip 5 40A Software clients 8 41A Minuscule 5 42A "That's my opinion, too" 4 43A Components of some makeovers 7 45A Boatload 4 48A First-rate, in slang 4 49A R&B's ___ Hill 3 50A "Be kind!" 10 54A First name of the first Black woman to win a Nobel Prize in Literature 4 55A What holding one's thumb up might indicate 10 56A "How could ___?" 4 57A Cooking byproduct sometimes called "liquid gold" 10 58A Rescues, maybe 4

Down

1D Fragrant rice dish 5 2D Day and night 10 3D "Must I spell it out further?" 10 4D Turf 3 5D Like practices associated with pentacles 6 6D Enfeebled 5 7D Some scuba diving gear 4 8D "OMG, I didn't need to know that!" 3 9D "She's everything. ___ just Ken" (2023 movie tagline) 3 10D Genre heard at many raves, for short 3 11D Pioneer in computer science who has a college at Yale named after her 11 12D Asian royal 4 13D "Don't worry about me" 4 14D Have the audacity 4 20D Colleen 4 23D Emotionally complex, in a way 11 24D James Baldwin's "If ___ Street Could Talk" 5 25D One-named singer in the 2023 hit "Prada" 4 26D What one might subscribe to 3 28D "I'll let that ___ …" 5 29D Not to be repeated 10 30D Seeking comment? 10 31D Title heroine who says "I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will; which I now exert to leave you" 4 32D Stir-fry protein option 4 33D This, too, shall pass 5 35D Squeeze 4 38D Not yet final, in brief 3 39D Number of kings en España named Felipe 4 41D Position at a food company 6 43D Throng 5 44D Boardroom group 5 45D Mail 4 46D Superboy's crush 4 47D Holiday lead-ins 4 48D Entice 4 51D Antidiscrimination legis. of 1990 3 52D ___ flakes (fruity Chinese snack) 3 53D Long period 3 54D What a boat shouldn't do 3