NY Times Crossword Complete Solution: May 01, 2025
Our expert breakdown helps you solve the May 01 NYT crossword while expanding your vocabulary. Learn answer strategies and discover word connections.
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| NY Times Crossword Answers May 01, 2025 |
Across Clues and Answers (37)
Clue #1: 1. Schoolroom that serves as a studio
Clue #2: 7. Original airer of "Doctor Who"
Clue #3: 10. Covenant
Clue #4: 14. Give a lashing
Clue #5: 15. Whom Will Smith played in a 2001 sports biopic
Clue #6: 16. Son of Zeus and Hera
Clue #7: 17. Sweetener in some diet sodas
Clue #8: 18. *Cat breed named after an Indonesian island from which it didn't originate
Clue #9: 20. Places to carry out some takeout orders, for short?
Clue #10: 21. Light unit
Clue #11: 23. "Not in the ___!"
Antonyms: most
Clue #12: 24. *It's "read" as a stern warning
Clue #13: 26. *Relative of a snowboard
Clue #14: 28. ___ Men (group that won a Grammy Award in 2001 for Best Dance Recording)
Clue #15: 29. Old tone
Clue #16: 31. Is for the people?
Antonyms: differ
Clue #17: 32. Daffy Duck speaking feature
Clue #18: 34. "I wanna!"
Clue #19: 37. Brings up a prior topic … or a hint to making sense of the answers to this puzzle's starred clues
Clue #20: 41. Country that was home to the Ebla library, thought to be the world's first (2500 B.C.)
Clue #21: 42. Sheet music symbol
Clue #22: 44. Past-tense verb that's potentially confusing (but grammatically correct!) when written twice in a row
Antonyms: refuse, lack
Clue #23: 47. ___ salt (form of magnesium sulfate)
Clue #24: 50. Lead-in to -nautics
Clue #25: 52. *Carve out, in a way
Clue #26: 55. *Comedy club fare
Clue #27: 57. Columbus's birthplace
Clue #28: 58. "___ My Heart in San Francisco"
Clue #29: 60. Video game character speaking a gibberish language
Clue #30: 61. *Villain's expression
Clue #31: 63. Like does
Antonyms: androgynous, male
Clue #32: 65. ___ Mendoza, former first lady of Puerto Rico
Clue #33: 66. Onetime C.I.A. foe
Clue #34: 67. Like government secrets, occasionally
Clue #35: 68. Title friend of Marlin in an animated film
Clue #36: 69. Times Square ball drop setting, in brief
Clue #37: 70. Revered sorts
Across Clues and Answers (37)
Clue #1: 1. Soak up
Antonyms: emit
Clue #2: 2. Outcome of a hung jury
Clue #3: 3. "How stylish!"
Clue #4: 4. W.C.
Clue #5: 5. Not quite straight up
Clue #6: 6. Gorgeous ones, informally
Clue #7: 7. Film based on the 1983 children's novel "The Sheep-Pig"
Clue #8: 8. Some comforters for toddlers
Clue #9: 9. Modern prefix with normativity
Clue #10: 10. Dairy-less diet
Clue #11: 11. Singer Grande
Clue #12: 12. Turn into stars, say?
Clue #13: 13. Tswana for "fly"
Clue #14: 19. West ___ (furniture retailer)
Clue #15: 22. Trailblazing astronaut Jemison
Clue #16: 25. Refuge from the heat
Clue #17: 27. It's one foot long
Clue #18: 30. Calls for sympathy
Clue #19: 33. Snoop
Clue #20: 35. Big thing in fast food?
Clue #21: 36. Splendor
Clue #22: 38. Language that gave us "Saskatchewan"
Clue #23: 39. Piercings that might be felt while kissing
Clue #24: 40. Memento
Clue #25: 43. More delicate and weak
Antonyms: robust
Clue #26: 44. Who says "You're a wizard, Harry"
Clue #27: 45. Skin-care brand
Clue #28: 46. City that lends its name to a style of omelet
Clue #29: 48. Uplifting work
Clue #30: 49. Quiet
Clue #31: 51. Popping pills, say
Clue #32: 53. Racket-raising
Antonyms: quiet
Clue #33: 54. ___ pal
Clue #34: 56. Source of Andrew Carnegie's wealth
Clue #35: 59. Community associated with Out magazine
Clue #36: 62. President posthumously inducted in the World Golf Hall of Fame, informally
Clue #37: 64. Crackpot
Expert Solving Strategies
- Look for fill-in-the-blank clues first (they're often easiest)
- Watch for question marks indicating wordplay
- Check vowel patterns in partially solved words

