NYT Crossword Answers 05/09/25

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Across Clues

• 1 Walks softly PADS
• 5 Impossible to contact by ordinary means OFFTHEGRID
• 15 “___, sing America” ITOO
• 16 Feature focused on investigation and resolution CRIMEDRAMA
• 17 Turf LAND
• 18 Downward-facing dog? CANISMAJOR
• 19 ___ text (label for a screen reader) ALT
• 20 ___ Robert Jr., 2020 Gold Glove Award winner LUIS
• 21 Encrust CAKE
• 22 What might be caught Red-handed? FLYBALL
• 24 Cracker topper BRIE
• 27 Raise HOIST
• 28 Popular vacation spot SEASHORE
• 32 Talks up TOUTS
• 33 It’s not worth what it seems PLAYMONEY
• 34 Kick out OUST
• 35 Roughly 62% of its claimed territory is in Antarctica CHILE
• 36 Fine-textured wood used in musical instruments PEAR
• 37 Unfettered flow of goods FREETRADE
• 39 It might turn up a turnip SPADE
• 40 Software clients USERBASE
• 41 Minuscule TEENY
• 42 “That’s my opinion, too” SAME
• 43 Components of some makeovers HAIRDOS
• 45 Boatload SLEW
• 48 First-rate, in slang BOSS
• 49 R&B’s ___ Hill DRU
• 50 “Be kind!” HAVEAHEART
• 54 First name of the first Black woman to win a Nobel Prize in Literature TONI
• 55 What holding one’s thumb up might indicate INEEDARIDE
• 56 “How could ___?” INOT
• 57 Cooking byproduct sometimes called “liquid gold” PASTAWATER
• 58 Rescues, maybe PETS

Vertical Clues

• 1 Fragrant rice dish PILAF
• 2 Day and night ATALLHOURS
• 3 “Must I spell it out further?” DONTYOUSEE
• 4 Turf SOD
• 5 Like practices associated with pentacles OCCULT
• 6 Enfeebled FRAIL
• 7 Some scuba diving gear FINS
• 8 “OMG, I didn’t need to know that!” TMI
• 9 “She’s everything. ___ just Ken” (2023 movie tagline) HES
• 10 Genre heard at many raves, for short EDM
• 11 Pioneer in computer science who has a college at Yale named after her GRACEHOPPER
• 12 Asian royal RAJA
• 13 “Don’t worry about me” IMOK
• 14 Have the audacity DARE
• 20 Colleen LASS
• 23 Emotionally complex, in a way BITTERSWEET
• 24 James Baldwin’s “If ___ Street Could Talk” BEALE
• 25 One-named singer in the 2023 hit “Prada” RAYE
• 26 What one might subscribe to ISM
• 28 “I’ll let that ___ ?” SLIDE
• 29 Not to be repeated ONEANDDONE
• 30 Seeking comment? READYORNOT
• 31 Title heroine who says “I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will; which I now exert to leave you” EYRE
• 32 Stir-fry protein option TOFU
• 33 This, too, shall pass PHASE
• 35 Squeeze CRAM
• 38 Not yet final, in brief TBA
• 39 Number of kings en España named Felipe SEIS
• 41 Position at a food company TASTER
• 43 Throng HORDE
• 44 Boardroom group SUITS
• 45 Mail SHIP
• 46 Superboy’s crush LANA
• 47 Holiday lead-ins EVES
• 48 Entice BAIT
• 51 Antidiscrimination legis. of 1990 ADA
• 52 ___ flakes (fruity Chinese snack) HAW
• 53 Long period ERA
• 54 What a boat shouldn’t do TIP