NYT Crossword Answers 01/18/25

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Across Clues

• 1 Famous palindrome starterAMANAPLANACANAL
• 16 “Is there more?”CARETOELABORATE
• 17 It can be infectious after ThanksgivingCHRISTMASSPIRIT
• 18 Coloring sometimes confused with dunROAN
• 19 Female rapper with the 2008 hit “Paper Planes”MIA
• 20 Makes a moveACTS
• 21 Lead-in to day, way or moreANY
• 22 Love interest of Peter in the “Spider-Man” universeGWEN
• 24 Informal prepositionTIL
• 26 Fish with a shy-sounding nameKOI
• 27 It’s the wordMUM
• 28 ___-CatSNO
• 31 One of 12 for Katharine HepburnOSCARNOMINATION
• 37 Dish that’s different from its cousins by the inclusion of potatoesSPANISHOMELETTE
• 38 Catchers of wavesSATELLITEDISHES
• 39 Vein outputORE
• 40 Constellation with the star RegulusLEO
• 41 Informal hookupsIVS
• 42 Half a candy bar?KAT
• 43 ReasonableSANE
• 45 Initials for a 20th-century president (and his wife)LBJ
• 48 Avian symbol of good fortune in Celtic cultureWREN
• 51 ThroneCAN
• 52 UncoverBARE
• 53 Hit 1976 album whose title track won the Grammy for Record of the YearHOTELCALIFORNIA
• 58 Yogi Berra or Joe DiMaggio, e.g.ITALIANAMERICAN
• 59 Sent out feelers, so to speakTESTEDTHEWATERS

Vertical Clues

• 1 City that’s the “heart of Africa’s art scene,” per National GeographicACCRA
• 2 Capital and second-largest city of MinorcaMAHON
• 3 RangeARRAY
• 4 How to turn down a HamburgerNEIN
• 5 They share keys with 2’sATS
• 6 Nursery purchasePOT
• 7 “I can handle this!”LEMME
• 8 ___ LeRoy Locke, “Father of the Harlem Renaissance”ALAIN
• 9 Org. with a climate research programNASA
• 10 Required safety feature on cars, in briefABS
• 11 13-Down, e.g.COP
• 12 It preceded Calibri as Microsoft’s default fontARIAL
• 13 Kilo finderNARC
• 14 Plugging awayATIT
• 15 Some do-oversLETS
• 22 Chest-beating sortGORILLA
• 23 Kate who won an Academy Award for “The Reader”WINSLET
• 24 On the right radio frequencyTUNEDIN
• 25 Cry after a close shaveIMALIVE
• 26 Memorable title role of a 1941 filmKANE
• 27 Handy person?MIME
• 28 Dark Lord of the ___ (“Star Wars” title)SITH
• 29 Pay attention toNOTE
• 30 Stack of Monopoly billsONES
• 31 Scapola o femoreOSSO
• 32 Go a couple of roundsSPAR
• 33 ___ Tiernan, author of the “Immortal Beloved” trilogyCATE
• 34 Largest tributary of the MississippiOHIO
• 35 WisecrackMOT
• 36 Novelist GerritsenTESS
• 42 Showed respect or submission, in a wayKNELT
• 43 Arabic for “prayer”SALAH
• 44 Netflix categoryANIME
• 45 Long weaponLANCE
• 46 Pipe materialBRIAR
• 47 Jimmy Carter was the first president regularly seen in theseJEANS
• 48 Slightest amountWHIT
• 49 ___ learningROTE
• 50 Some travelers’ concerns, in briefETAS
• 51 LingoCANT
• 52 Person partial to humour?BRIT
• 54 Golfer’s concernLIE
• 55 ScoundrelCAD
• 56 HandfulFEW
• 57 ___ pro nobisORA