NYT Crossword Answers 04/17/25

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Across Clues

• 1 ___ bowl (healthful dish) ACAI
• 5 Cellular protein ACTIN
• 10 Give out EMIT
• 14 Expels BANS
• 15 Mars with bars BRUNO
• 16 Cold-blooded kind of monster GILA
• 17 “And so ?” ERGO
• 18 Common back-to-school purchases LUNCHBOXES
• 20 Bit of ballet wear TOESHOE
• 22 2013 movie co-starring Scarlett Johansson in which she is never seen HER
• 23 “Going Back to Cali” rapper, 1998 LLCOOLJ
• 25 *Abigail Adams or Eleanor Roosevelt, informally LOTUS
• 29 *Red denizen of Sesame Street ELM
• 30 Advocates for ESPOUSES
• 33 Animal with luxurious fur SABLE
• 36 Consumer protection agcy. FTC
• 37 Muse of memory MNEME
• 38 See 64-Across TREES
• 39 *Hasty ASH
• 40 Become fixed SETIN
• 41 Santa ___ (hot winds) ANAS
• 42 What three is CROWD
• 44 “Hmm, I don’t think so” UHNO
• 45 *”The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a ___ to be kindled”: Plutarch FIR
• 46 Eliot protagonist MARNER
• 47 *Pickle or asparagus unit PEAR
• 48 Bog FEN
• 49 Placed in an air fryer instead of a microwave, say CRISPED
• 51 State with 1,350 miles of coastline (second-most after Alaska): Abbr. FLA
• 52 *Small, embedded program APPLE
• 54 São ___, most populous city in the Southern Hemisphere PAULO
• 56 Toward that place, quaintly THITHER
• 58 Ancient Rome and Persia EMPIRES
• 61 Own POSSESS
• 62 Comforts SOLACES
• 63 Almost half of Scandinavians SWEDES
• 64 What you can’t see due to the 38-Across in this puzzle? FOREST

Vertical Clues

• 1 Help with a crime ABET
• 2 Apt name for a December baby CAROL
• 3 Early investor ANGEL
• 4 Literally, “equal legs” ISOSCELES
• 5 Like many a plant in spring ABLOOM
• 6 Draconian CRUEL
• 7 Large cask for beer or wine TUN
• 8 Crawl (along) INCH
• 9 What a bad assistant might be NOHELP
• 10 Teamwork inhibitor EGO
• 11 Word with cake or trail MIX
• 12 Spot dans la Seine ILE
• 13 Many Ph.D. students TAS
• 19 Some Halloween “transports” BROOMS
• 21 Plot problems HOLES
• 24 ABC’s first program broadcast in color, with “The” JETSONS
• 26 Refurbish, as an old piano TUNEUP
• 27 What one may have to do to destroy a Death Star USETHEFORCE
• 28 Original and influential SEMINAL
• 31 Big name in soft drinks SCHWEPPES
• 32 ___ Presidenta, term of address for Mexico’s leader beginning in 2024 SENORA
• 33 Wizard’s weapon, maybe STAFF
• 34 “___ the Doughnut,” start of a children’s book series ARNIE
• 35 Classic French sauce BEARNAISE
• 36 Horseshoe enthusiasts? FARRIERS
• 42 Like one who might have to hoof it CARLESS
• 43 Aspire to DREAMOF
• 46 John ___, author of “Annals of the Former World” MCPHEE
• 50 Brand of oversize Lego bricks DUPLO
• 53 Veteran’s affliction, in brief PTSD
• 55 Yarn spinner LIAR
• 56 Does a certain prank on, informally TPS
• 57 ___-to HOW
• 59 Some M.I.T. grads, in brief EES
• 60 The last one flew in 10/03 SST