The Crossword Puzzle Answers for 05/09/2025. The May 09 2025 Puzzle Answers are listed below in such order that they are easy to find.
The puzzles get harder and harder to solve and more complex as the week passes You can search by clue name, number or direction for example for 2 Across clue just type '2A' or '2D' for 2nd down clue.
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- Across
- 1a Walks softlyPADS
- 5a Impossible to contact by ordinary meansOFFTHEGRID
- 15a “___, sing America”ITOO
- 16a Feature focused on investigation and resolutionCRIMEDRAMA
- 17a TurfLAND
- 18a Downward-facing dog?CANISMAJOR
- 19a ___ text (label for a screen reader)ALT
- 20a ___ Robert Jr., 2020 Gold Glove Award winnerLUIS
- 21a EncrustCAKE
- 22a What might be caught Red-handed?FLYBALL
- 24a Cracker topperBRIE
- 27a RaiseHOIST
- 28a Popular vacation spotSEASHORE
- 32a Talks upTOUTS
- 33a It’s not worth what it seemsPLAYMONEY
- 34a Kick outOUST
- 35a Roughly 62% of its claimed territory is in AntarcticaCHILE
- 36a Fine-textured wood used in musical instrumentsPEAR
- 37a Unfettered flow of goodsFREETRADE
- 39a It might turn up a turnipSPADE
- 40a Software clientsUSERBASE
- 41a MinusculeTEENY
- 42a “That’s my opinion, too”SAME
- 43a Components of some makeoversHAIRDOS
- 45a BoatloadSLEW
- 48a First-rate, in slangBOSS
- 49a R&B’s ___ HillDRU
- 50a “Be kind!”HAVEAHEART
- 54a First name of the first Black woman to win a Nobel Prize in LiteratureTONI
- 55a What holding one’s thumb up might indicateINEEDARIDE
- 56a “How could ___?”INOT
- 57a Cooking byproduct sometimes called “liquid gold”PASTAWATER
- 58a Rescues, maybePETS
- Down
- 1d Fragrant rice dishPILAF
- 2d Day and nightATALLHOURS
- 3d “Must I spell it out further?”DONTYOUSEE
- 4d TurfSOD
- 5d Like practices associated with pentaclesOCCULT
- 6d EnfeebledFRAIL
- 7d Some scuba diving gearFINS
- 8d “OMG, I didn’t need to know that!”TMI
- 9d “She’s everything. ___ just Ken” (2023 movie tagline)HES
- 10d Genre heard at many raves, for shortEDM
- 11d Pioneer in computer science who has a college at Yale named after herGRACEHOPPER
- 12d Asian royalRAJA
- 13d “Don’t worry about me”IMOK
- 14d Have the audacityDARE
- 20d ColleenLASS
- 23d Emotionally complex, in a wayBITTERSWEET
- 24d James Baldwin’s “If ___ Street Could Talk”BEALE
- 25d One-named singer in the 2023 hit “Prada”RAYE
- 26d What one might subscribe toISM
- 28d “I’ll let that ___ ?”SLIDE
- 29d Not to be repeatedONEANDDONE
- 30d Seeking comment?READYORNOT
- 31d 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
- 32d Stir-fry protein optionTOFU
- 33d This, too, shall passPHASE
- 35d SqueezeCRAM
- 38d Not yet final, in briefTBA
- 39d Number of kings en España named FelipeSEIS
- 41d Position at a food companyTASTER
- 43d ThrongHORDE
- 44d Boardroom groupSUITS
- 45d MailSHIP
- 46d Superboy’s crushLANA
- 47d Holiday lead-insEVES
- 48d EnticeBAIT
- 51d Antidiscrimination legis. of 1990ADA
- 52d ___ flakes (fruity Chinese snack)HAW
- 53d Long periodERA
- 54d What a boat shouldn’t doTIP