New Yorker Crossword May 12 2025 Answers (5/12/25)

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The New Yorker Crossword May 12, 2025 Answers

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May 13 2025 Answers »

#	Clue
1A	Fuel produced by the breakdown of organic matter
7A	Volkswagen discontinued in the U.S. in 2022
13A	Prick
14A	Produce a chip off the old block?
15A	Contrary to customary ways
17A	___ Arantes do Nascimento, a.k.a. Pelé
18A	Indian Ocean sailing vessel
19A	Formed, briefly
20A	“Billion-Dollar Brain” author Deighton
21A	Certain PCs
23A	Course on Capri
24A	Installed, as tiles
26A	Enzyme suffix
27A	With pluck
28A	Rubens’s “Assumption of the Virgin” and “Descent from the Cross,” for two
31A	Ice Climber platform, briefly
32A	What a hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobe fears
34A	Performance-rights org. that competes with ASCAP
37A	Addendum to a statement such as “My violin teacher was instrumental in getting me into Juilliard”
41A	Lark’s singing rival in a Dryden poem
43A	N.S.F. component, for short
44A	Wine opener?
45A	Equally distant
46A	“Teach me the way I should go / For to ___ lift up my soul”: Psalm 143:8
48A	“The Eyes of Tammy Faye” ministry
49A	Very dry
50A	Ancient earth goddess
51A	Fracas
53A	Panelists at industry conferences
56A	Ones in pairs?
57A	Stirs
58A	Overnight booking
59A	Sow anew
1D	“So what?”
2D	Really annoyed
3D	Home of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
4D	Planning to, slangily
5D	___ Toy Barn (store in “Toy Story 2”)
6D	Process of creating characters’ backgrounds
7D	“Man, that was close”
8D	Bailed-out insurance giant
9D	Minnow’s home
10D	Minnesota governor Harold with nine unsuccessful Presidential runs
11D	Somewhat
12D	Length of many antibiotic prescriptions
13D	Valencian dish
14D	“___ asking?”
16D	Genie’s offer
22D	Cover for an exposed bolt end
23D	___ deux
25D	Vegetarian option at an Indian restaurant
27D	Drew’s role in “E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial”
29D	One with a lasso
30D	Stick in a makeup bag
33D	___-Cat
34D	Yap
35D	Incompetent governance
36D	Permeated
38D	Drain
39D	Crossed a threshold
40D	Stop overachieving, say
42D	Aboriginal
46D	Russian state-owned news agency
47D	Some desktops
50D	Part of one’s inheritance
52D	Portrayer of Carmela on “The Sopranos”
54D	French marshal under Napoleon
55D	File extension for an application

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