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The Crossword Clues, Hints & Answers for January 24, 2025

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Friday, January 24, 2025

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This archive page covers the The Crossword from Friday, January 24, 2025. The daily crossword is the classic: a 15×15 grid on weekdays and a larger Sunday puzzle, with difficulty rising from a gentle Monday to a fiendish Saturday. Hints come first and the solution stays hidden until you ask for it.

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Thursday, January 23, 2025

across

1. Tavern regular: BARFLY
7. Bit of haunted house décor: COBWEB
13. Remove some bugs from: DELOUSE
14. Beethoven work initially dedicated to Napoleon: EROICA
15. Classic line from the Dick and Jane series: SEESPOTRUN
16. Hiring practice at a family business, say: NEPOTISM
17. Like many shots in soccer: ONGOAL
18. Suppose: ASSUME
19. One might be worthy or formidable: FOE
20. Years of decline: DOTAGE
23. Pilots' chronicles: LOGS
25. "___ plaisir!": AVEC
27. Where people amass for Mass: NAVE
28. Bee-dazzler?: PETAL
29. Adequate: SOSO
30. Hurdle for a future Ph.D.: GRE
31. E, in a musical mnemonic: EVERY
32. Land whose name meant "between two rivers": MESOPOTAMIA
36. Gets up: RISES
39. Grp. with a lot of intelligence: NSA
40. Painter Bob who said "We don't make mistakes. We have happy accidents": ROSS
44. Advocacy org. that gained prominence in 1980s New York City: ACTUP
45. Eastern currency: YUAN
46. Word repeated in a children's game: DUCK
47. Laura of "Jurassic Park": DERN
48. Structure with smoke flaps: TEEPEE
50. Prefix with color and county: TRI
51. "Snow Falling on ___," 1994 mystery novel set in Washington State: CEDARS
53. Bank assessment: ATMFEE
55. Sichuan bean curd dish: MAPOTOFU
56. Obstacles for a driver ... or what this puzzle's circled squares represent: POTHOLES
58. "When in the course of human ___ …" (start of the Declaration of Independence): EVENTS
59. "You're kidding yourself!": DREAMON
60. Hate: DETEST
61. In the interim: FORNOW

down

1. Singers who co-starred in the 1978 film "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band": BEEGEES
2. Too: ALSO
3. Either of two diverging in a Robert Frost poem: ROPOTAD
4. Horse-racing measurements: FURLONGS
5. Football powerhouse in the S.E.C.: LSU
6. Eastern currency: YEN
7. Perfume ecclesiastically: CENSE
8. Unrefined metal sources: ORES
9. Sunset in the West?: BOPOTULEVARD
10. Motion-sensing gaming device: WIIMOTE
11. Popeye's creator: ECSEGAR
12. "Kapow!": BAM
13. All over again: DENOVO
15. Lounges, e.g.: SOFAS
18. Bit of biographical data: AGE
21. ___ chips, snack from Hawaii: TARO
22. Way: AVEPOTNUE
24. Vulpine: SLY
26. Fall apart mentally: COMEUNDONE
28. Canadian province where "Anne of Green Gables" is set: Abbr.: PEI
33. Special reading ability, for short: ESP
34. "And make it snappy!": ASAP
35. Hall & Oates hit with the opening lyric "She'll only come out at night": MANEATER
36. Beyond cool: RAD
37. Geologic formation from glacial melting: ICECAVE
38. Word with clothes or cleaner: STREPOTET
41. Discharge of water, e.g.: OUTFLOW
42. Filter: SCREEN
43. Heavens: SKIES
45. "You rang?": YES
48. Arrangement for an heir, perhaps: TRUST
49. Literary husband of Zeena Frome: ETHAN
52. Early p.m. times, in brief: AFTS
54. Steamed dumpling in Tibetan cuisine: MOMO
55. ___ school: MED
56. Common download: PDF
57. Metal para una medalla olímpica: ORO

Hints and full breakdown for Jan 23

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How the week is built

Monday and Tuesday: straightforward definitions and familiar answers. These are the best days to learn.
Wednesday: a step up, often with a playful theme.
Thursday: the trick day, with rebus squares (several letters in one square) and answers that turn corners or skip squares.
Friday and Saturday: themeless and tough, with sly clues and long open sections.
Sunday: a bigger 21×21 grid with a theme, about as hard as a Wednesday or Thursday.

Crossword-solving habits worth building

Learn the common fill. Short vowel-heavy words such as ERA, OREO, ALOE and ETNA appear constantly because they help constructors connect sections.
Read clue signals. "?" means wordplay, "Abbr." means an abbreviation, "e.g." means an example of a category, and a foreign word in the clue hints at a foreign answer.
Find the theme. The longest answers usually share a gimmick; the title (on Sundays) or a "revealer" clue explains it.
Erase without fear. When crossings don't work, the wrong letter is usually in the answer you were most confident about.
Use targeted help. Reveal one letter here, or try our crossword solver with a pattern like ?R?S?.

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Which day is the hardest?

Saturday is generally the hardest, followed by Friday. Sunday is larger but closer to midweek difficulty.

Can I see past crossword answers?

Yes. Each date we have covered is in the crossword archive.