Our New Yorker Crossword May 20, 2025 answers guide should help you finish today’s crossword if you’ve found yourself stuck on a crossword clue.
The New Yorker Crossword May 20, 2025 Answers
If you need help solving the New Yorker Crossword on 5/20/25, we’ve listed all of the crossword clues below so you can find the answer(s) you need. You can search for the clue and then select the appropriate clue to get the answer. We have done it this way so that if you’re just looking for a handful of clues, you won’t spoil other ones you’re working on!
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| # |
Clue |
| 1A |
Tepid display of approval |
| 9A |
Seized vehicles, briefly |
| 14A |
Like chili with half a poblano in it, maybe |
| 15A |
Way station in many a fantasy video game |
| 16A |
“You would be correct!” |
| 17A |
Take too far |
| 18A |
Metric ___ |
| 19A |
Hush-hush org. |
| 20A |
Franchise that had locations in Miami, New York, and Vegas |
| 21A |
Unconscious mannerism |
| 22A |
Smart-___ |
| 24A |
Dissenting votes |
| 26A |
Movie with an Oscar-winning screenplay by Diablo Cody |
| 27A |
Widely disliked clock adjustment: Abbr. |
| 28A |
“The Godfather” actor James |
| 29A |
Big name in the film industry? |
| 30A |
Mental image? |
| 33A |
The “U” of GUI |
| 34A |
“Mein ___” (song that Liza Minnelli performed in a vest, hat, and garters) |
| 35A |
Culture passed from person to person, often through spoken word |
| 40A |
Area of specialization |
| 41A |
Most popular male baby name of the twenty-tens, per the S.S.A. |
| 42A |
“The Simpsons” neighbor Flanders |
| 44A |
Words to a backstabber |
| 45A |
Provocative quality |
| 46A |
Brand known for its pore strips |
| 48A |
Cheese partner |
| 49A |
Manhattan part |
| 50A |
Masago, for example |
| 52A |
G.P.S., informally |
| 53A |
Pum’kin |
| 55A |
Baby carrier at Mardi Gras? |
| 57A |
Scout groups |
| 58A |
“None for me, thanks” |
| 59A |
Certain Ivy Leaguer |
| 60A |
“Don’t worry about it!” |
| 1D |
“She’s ___ Have It” (1986 Spike Lee joint) |
| 2D |
Listening to a looped clip of classical music, perhaps |
| 3D |
Most bare-bones, as prose or a budget |
| 4D |
Marbling in meat |
| 5D |
Sound heard when the toast is ready? |
| 6D |
Back muscles, familiarly |
| 7D |
Pop star with the No. 1 hit “We Can’t Be Friends (Wait for Your Love)” |
| 8D |
Monthly discomfort, for short |
| 9D |
Musician Shankar |
| 10D |
Eden evictee |
| 11D |
Bother |
| 12D |
Like first and second, but not one and two |
| 13D |
Syrupy, frozen treat |
| 15D |
Pass from across the room, say |
| 20D |
2016 Tony Award winner for the lead performance in “A Color Purple” |
| 23D |
Tentacle-faced monster of horror fiction |
| 25D |
Ooh and ___ |
| 26D |
Fool, in pro-wrestling slang |
| 28D |
Provider of a prompt |
| 29D |
___ Noelle (daughter of Katie Holmes) |
| 31D |
Lead-in meaning “bone” |
| 32D |
“Little Women” sister |
| 35D |
Exhausted way to run |
| 36D |
Kosovo-born singer of “R.I.P.” |
| 37D |
“Be chill—he’s looking this way!” |
| 38D |
Doug the Pug, e.g. |
| 39D |
Recent arrival |
| 43D |
Ducklings’ dads |
| 45D |
Covered things in peekaboo |
| 46D |
Give rise to |
| 47D |
Odds’ opposites |
| 49D |
Ready for plucking |
| 51D |
White bills in Monopoly |
| 54D |
Bit of brightness in a garden pond |
| 55D |
Cousins and such |
| 56D |
Pixar’s Holley Shiftwell or Miles Axlerod |
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