NYT Crossword Answers 04/24/25

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Across Clues

• 1 “Interview With the Vampire” and “Prince of Thorns” DARKF
• 6 “Borat” and “This Is Spinal Tap” MOCKUMEN
• 14 Like some experimental music ATONAL
• 16 Deferential OBEISANT
• 17 Valentine’s Day sentiment BEMINE
• 18 More than a mere grudge VENDETTA
• 19 They might be all over the map STATES
• 21 Animal known for freezing under pressure DEER
• 22 Noted criminal extradited to the U.S. in 2017 ELCHAPO
• 25 Locale for a cochlea EAR
• 28 Deadpan DRY
• 29 “You Come ___” (Robert Frost collection) TOO
• 30 ___ Holden, U.S. soccer player-turned-commentator STU
• 31 Kind of cucumber that isn’t a vegetable SEA
• 33 Dither TIZZY
• 35 “Lady Bird” and “Stand By Me” COMINGO
• 39 Actress ___ Taylor-Joy ANYA
• 40 Bundle of paper or grain SHEAF
• 41 Some AFEW
• 44 ? MYSTERY
• 46 Eponymous Italian designer Mario PRADA
• 47 Prefix with soul or classical NEO
• 48 Spanish letter before te ESE
• 50 One of many listed on the back of a tour shirt GIG
• 51 Atlanta sch. GSU
• 54 “Get that away from me!” EWW
• 56 Grid lines, perhaps STREETS
• 58 Mythical forge locale ETNA
• 60 Get OBTAIN
• 62 Second calling? NICKNAME
• 65 Items that gather lather LOOFAS
• 69 Person with the shift after a long one of yours RELIEVER
• 70 1980s New York mayor EDKOCH
• 71 ? EBENDING
• 72 ? PIECE

Vertical Clues

• 1 Dollop DAB
• 2 Verb that sounds like a number … and is a letter backward ATE
• 3 CD follower ROM
• 4 Potato turnover KNISH
• 5 ? FANTASY
• 6 “Outta my way!” MOVE
• 7 Overly big OBESE
• 8 One of 10 in a millennium: Abbr. CEN
• 9 Josh KID
• 10 Put to work USED
• 11 Like some socks and chess players MATED
• 12 Return to a PC keyboard? ENTER
• 13 ? NTARY
• 15 Sprang (at) LEAPT
• 20 “Nice one, you got me” TOUCHE
• 22 Singer James ETTA
• 23 Selection at the butcher’s LOIN
• 24 “The Thursday Murder Club” and “A Killer Sundae” COZYM
• 26 Cher’s catchphrase in “Clueless” ASIF
• 27 The Knights of ___, shadowy side group in “Star Wars” REN
• 32 Food thickener AGAR
• 34 One-named singer who’s a former member of One Direction ZAYN
• 36 Poetic contraction that omits a “v” OER
• 37 Might, to Shakespeare MAYEST
• 38 ? OFAGE
• 40 Stash STOW
• 42 Button added to Apple’s Messages app in 2022 EDIT
• 43 Jokesters WAGS
• 45 Go out with SEE
• 46 “Downton Abbey” and “Shogun” PERIODP
• 49 Far from fresh STALE
• 51 Mixing thematic elements and tropes ? or a feature of this puzzle? GENRE
• 52 Dave ___, seven-time All-Star pitcher for the Blue Jays STIEB
• 53 Mr. Reed, to Jane Eyre UNCLE
• 55 People celebrated worldwide on March 8 WOMEN
• 57 Skinny white mushroom ENOKI
• 59 Similar AKIN
• 61 Floating mass BERG
• 63 Subject of Homer’s loathing on “The Simpsons” NED
• 64 Bird-related prefix AVI
• 66 One of “them” FOE
• 67 Sports org. that now includes U.C. Berkeley and Stanford, strangely enough ACC
• 68 “There ___ Goes” (1988 hit by the La’s) SHE