NYT Crossword Answers 05/20/25

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Across Clues

• 1 Bit or byte UNIT
• 5 Laundry collectors BINS
• 9 Good thing to bring to a competition AGAME
• 14 Comedian Trevor with the memoir “Born a Crime” NOAH
• 15 Give off EMIT
• 16 Ring-tailed primate LEMUR
• 17 Consistent with party policy ONMESSAGE
• 19 Court colleague of Kagan and Kavanaugh ALITO
• 20 “Eye on the ball,” “Get under it!,” “I got it!,” etc. CATCHPHRASES
• 22 Like some ground balls ONEHOP
• 25 CPR pro EMT
• 26 Queen of Olympus HERA
• 27 Pet rescue grp. ASPCA
• 31 Minnesota congresswoman Ilhan OMAR
• 35 Mink, ferret, stoat, etc. WEASELWORDS
• 38 Indiana or Independence, in D.C. AVE
• 39 Detroit dud of the 1950s EDSEL
• 40 Wall St. debut IPO
• 41 “You’re just too complimentary!” AWGEE
• 43 4G ___ (letters on a cellphone screen) LTE
• 44 “Ta-da,” “All done,” “There you have it,” etc. FINISHLINES
• 47 Poet Byron, for one LORD
• 49 Like pound cake DENSE
• 50 Bird whose name sounds like a hip-hop dance move NENE
• 51 Employ USE
• 53 Crafters’ knives XACTOS
• 55 Yield, Stop, Dead End, etc. SIGNLANGUAGE
• 61 Tennis champ Naomi OSAKA
• 62 Freighter CARGOSHIP
• 66 On the up and up LEGIT
• 67 Too ALSO
• 68 Vibe AURA
• 69 College V.I.P.s DEANS
• 70 Cryptanalyst Turing ALAN
• 71 What spring may bring THAW

Vertical Clues

• 1 Card game shout UNO
• 2 Oui’s opposite NON
• 3 Response to “Who’s going?” IAM
• 4 Action film climax one might “cut to,” in a saying THECHASE
• 5 Closest confidant BESTPAL
• 6 Apple all-in-one IMAC
• 7 Walt Whitman’s “As the Time Draws ___” NIGH
• 8 Call repeated in an aerobics class STEP
• 9 Wake-up call ALARM
• 10 Dessert served with the query “Cono o coppetta?” in Italy GELATO
• 11 Somme friends AMIS
• 12 Silence on Zoom MUTE
• 13 Cherubic Greek god EROS
• 18 ___ Paulo, Brazil SAO
• 21 Circle at the top of a stick figure HEAD
• 22 “Such is life!” OHWELL
• 23 Must NEEDTO
• 24 Chalk accompanier ERASER
• 28 Consumers of hogwash SWINE
• 29 Stop by POPIN
• 30 Hybridize CROSS
• 32 Souvenir for a refrigerator MAGNET
• 33 Moisturizer brand AVEENO
• 34 ___ Pieces REESES
• 36 Fey figure of folklore ELF
• 37 Khan who founded Khan Academy SAL
• 42 Flinches in response to WINCESAT
• 45 Brainstorm IDEA
• 46 Utah, geometrically speaking HEXAGON
• 48 What “America runs on,” in a franchise slogan DUNKIN
• 52 Bed supports SLATS
• 54 “Give it ___” AGO
• 55 Auctioned off, e.g. SOLD
• 56 “Oh, OK” ISEE
• 57 Crazy (about) GAGA
• 58 March Madness org. NCAA
• 59 Chutzpah GALL
• 60 ___ Major URSA
• 63 “What’d you say?” HUH
• 64 Public radio host Glass IRA
• 65 Where to find a kitten’s “toe beans” PAW