New Yorker Crossword May 28 2025 Answers (5/28/25)

Our New Yorker Crossword May 28, 2025 answers guide should help you finish today’s crossword if you’ve found yourself stuck on a crossword clue.

The New Yorker Crossword May 28, 2025 Answers

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#	Clue
1A	Disparaging term for a newspaper
4A	Business with massage tables
7A	“The Lion King” protagonist
12A	Throat-clearing sound
14A	“No further discussion needed”
16A	“S.N.L.” alum Davidson
17A	Search by digging through a mess
18A	___ sauce (condiment often served with fish and chips)
20A	South Asian flatbread that’s thinner than naan
21A	Badges worn on lanyards, for example
22A	Skin-related
24A	Like a Siberian winter
26A	One of these days
31A	U.A.E. capital ___ Dhabi
33A	Means of reaching a walkup apartment
34A	Factual
35A	___ tale (unlikely story)
37A	New Deal prez
38A	Pointy features for Bluey or Bugs Bunny
39A	Singing voice higher than tenor
40A	Word chanted to coax someone into addressing the room
43A	“Psych!”
44A	Sports coinage for an impressively catastrophic performance
47A	Cab or plane charge
48A	Spring flowers associated with the Netherlands
50A	Soccer spectator’s shout
53A	Shelter seen in some Native-led pipeline protests
55A	“Gentlemen Prefer Blondes” star Marilyn
57A	Reservations about something
60A	Southwestern river for which a “monster” is named
61A	“Seems that way!”
62A	Make changes to a document
63A	Versatility, for an actor
64A	Slime
65A	Helms and Sheeran, for two
1D	Breathlessly attentive
2D	In the lead
3D	Accomplish things
4D	___-Caps (chocolate candy sprinkled with white dots)
5D	___ People’s Campaign (1968 movement for economic justice)
6D	What might cause someone to text “no!” instead of “np!”
7D	Like a piercing sound
8D	Lead-in meaning “equal”
9D	Hawaiian island where tourism has contributed to a water shortage
10D	Predicament
11D	Throws in
13D	D.C. transportation system
14D	Off course
15D	Reptilian nickname for University of Florida athletes
19D	Famous ___ (cookie brand)
23D	Foliage-following activity
25D	Field in the top right corner of a check
27D	Contract addition listing a celebrity’s dressing-room requirements
28D	Theme of a parade with lots of blue-pink-and-white flags
29D	Banknote in Brussels or Berlin
30D	Conserve one’s energy
31D	Slightly
32D	Indonesian island where tourism has contributed to a water shortage
36D	Bread baker’s creation
40D	Make a concerted effort
41D	Accident-prone
42D	Angel’s glowing headpiece
45D	Social criticism couched in comedy
46D	Barely burn
49D	State of matter that’s denser than liquid or gas
50D	Character played by Michael K. Williams on “The Wire”
51D	“Dance the Night” singer Dua
52D	“Baseball Tonight” channel
54D	“What’s gotten ___ you?”
56D	Wolfs down
58D	___ gift (dumpster-fire plushie or portrait printed on a potato, e.g.)
59D	“Yeah ___!” (2024 hip-hop hit whose title references the artist’s nickname)

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