NYT Crossword Answers 05/18/25

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Across Clues

• 1 Verso’s counterpart RECTO
• 6 Alternative to an onion bagel BIALY
• 11 Jai ___ ALAI
• 15 Where the Pilgrims first landed in the New World CAPE
• 19 Skating gold medalist Oksana BAIUL
• 20 Host EMCEE
• 21 Quick look PEEK
• 22 Has a tab open, say OWES
• 23 Hip-hop’s “Puba” and “Daddy I.U.”? GRANDRAPIDS
• 25 Station near Madison Square Garden, for short PENN
• 26 Fleet FAST
• 27 Hung around LOITERED
• 28 Remove from the champagne bucket? TAKEOFFICE
• 30 “Just kidding!” NOT
• 31 Feeling rash? ITCHY
• 34 Hip-hop artist with the 2019 hit “My Type” SAWEETIE
• 35 Crisis involving cartels DRUGWAR
• 39 Goes “Vroom!” ROARS
• 41 Royal title SIRE
• 42 Casting a total brat in the school play? MAKINGANIMPACT
• 45 Some govt. securities TNOTES
• 49 ___-tempered EVEN
• 50 “Super cool!” DOPE
• 51 Get ready to take a shot AIM
• 53 Ship propeller SCREW
• 54 French for “from” DES
• 55 Release EMIT
• 57 Dante’s guide in the “Inferno” VIRGIL
• 60 Singer Del Rey LANA
• 61 “The score upon which reality is written,” per Henry Miller CHAOS
• 62 Apps might be seen on one MENU
• 63 Sediment, e.g. DEPOSIT
• 65 “The co-star of ‘Duck Soup’ has to be sore after that!”? GROUCHOMARXMUSTACHE
• 69 Anonymous guy JOHNDOE
• 70 Pauperism, so to speak RAGS
• 71 Author of the 2020 memoir “Cubed” RUBIK
• 72 Lots ATON
• 73 “Because I’m the boss!” SAYSME
• 75 Pinged online IMED
• 76 Condition for which Luvox may be prescribed, in brief OCD
• 79 “Wonder Woman” star GADOT
• 81 Mountain ___ DEW
• 82 Late singer Payne of One Direction LIAM
• 84 Modern home of where cuneiform writing originated IRAQ
• 85 Way up or way down STAIRS
• 87 “How long have beavers blocked this river?”? WHATSTHEDAMAGE
• 92 “As ___ ?” SUCH
• 94 Earthenware pots OLLAS
• 95 Was comparable to RIVALED
• 96 Apparel feature that a bandeau lacks BRASTRAP
• 100 Function in the role of ACTAS
• 102 Monk’s title DOM
• 103 Be crazy about Chicago trains with broken A.C.s? LOVEHOTELS
• 105 Much in quantity BEAUCOUP
• 109 Baseball family name ALOU
• 110 Actor Jared LETO
• 111 Metric in a competitive family business? SALESPERSON
• 114 Prince, e.g. HEIR
• 115 In ___ parentis LOCO
• 116 Blow ERUPT
• 117 Designer Hilfiger TOMMY
• 118 Lays turf on SODS
• 119 Little twerp SNOT
• 120 Trunk TORSO
• 121 Head of Slytherin House in the Harry Potter books SNAPE

Vertical Clues

• 1 Subject of the 2018 biopic “On the Basis of Sex,” familiarly RBG
• 2 Noble title EARL
• 3 “Ci vediamo in giro!” CIAO
• 4 Getting ready to listen TUNINGIN
• 5 Historic district of a city OLDTOWN
• 6 Gnarly problem, so to speak BEAR
• 7 Architect of Hong Kong’s Bank of China Tower IMPEI
• 8 Certain hallucinatory experience ACIDTRIP
• 9 Directed LED
• 10 Last word of James Joyce’s “Ulysses” YES
• 11 Dad, in Korean APPA
• 12 Ingredients in some potato soups LEEKS
• 13 Son of Aphrodite AENEAS
• 14 “You don’t have to tell me” IKNOWIT
• 15 Time for a pick-me-up, humorously COFFEEOCLOCK
• 16 Lie ahead AWAIT
• 17 Joe of “Home Alone” PESCI
• 18 First name in perfumes ESTEE
• 24 Label anew RETAG
• 28 Banks from Los Angeles TYRA
• 29 Maidenhair and others FERNS
• 32 Common dog command COME
• 33 Chance HAP
• 35 Hit up on Instagram, informally DMED
• 36 Overnight party with light shows and “cuddle puddles” RAVE
• 37 Luau strings UKES
• 38 Rock group with the 1992 hit “Creep” RADIOHEAD
• 40 Harum-___ (reckless) SCARUM
• 43 Untrue NOTSO
• 44 Notaro of comedy TIG
• 46 Drag-and-drop disposal icon TRASH
• 47 Start of a counting rhyme EENIE
• 48 Hit with a smack SWAT
• 52 Time in a Shakespeare title MIDSUMMER
• 55 Former Israeli P.M. Olmert EHUD
• 56 Platform for Safari and FaceTime MACOS
• 57 Borderline VERGE
• 58 “Need You Tonight” band, 1987 INXS
• 59 Leave alone LETBE
• 61 Arbiters of taste CONNOISSEURS
• 62 Polite term of address MAAM
• 64 Stamp on an invoice PAID
• 65 Implied GOTAT
• 66 Valerie Harper title role RHODA
• 67 One of three immortal elders in “A Wrinkle in Time” MRSWHO
• 68 Dickens’s ___ Heep URIAH
• 69 Bouts JAGS
• 74 Tree whose name sounds like a pronoun YEW
• 76 Word with history or hygiene ORAL
• 77 Shut up CAGE
• 78 Threw out of a contest, informally DQED
• 80 Philosopher’s pursuit TRUTH
• 82 Exam with an argumentative writing section, in brief LSAT
• 83 “You know, I can’t quite remember” ITSABLUR
• 84 “Oh geez, the answer was staring me in the face!” IMAMORON
• 86 Goes through screen after screen SCROLLS
• 88 “Sadly ?” ALAS
• 89 Special attention, for short TLC
• 90 Made nice DIDUP
• 91 Wading birds AVOCETS
• 93 Publicly bash HATEON
• 96 Doldrums BLAHS
• 97 Lumberjacks’ competition ROLEO
• 98 Walk around, maybe AVOID
• 99 Where one might pick up litter PETCO
• 101 Oozes SEEPS
• 104 Burgle LOOT
• 106 About ASTO
• 107 West Point inst. USMA
• 108 Fanfare POMP
• 111 Like a diamond in a ring SET
• 112 Queer identity, in brief ARO
• 113 12/31 NYE