Newsday Crossword

MAKING ENDS MEET: While saving space

Sunday, April 13, 2025 Constructed by Gary M. Larson 144 clues
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Across

  1. Retail transaction 4 ℓ
  2. Shrubby wasteland 5 ℓ
  3. Get __ for (become comfortable with) 5 ℓ
  4. "Cool" rapper 4 ℓ
  5. Belittles 6 ℓ
  6. Elvis-era sound systems 5 ℓ
  7. Constructs 6 ℓ
  8. Tennis Grand Slam city 5 ℓ
  9. Jokes you haven't heard before 7 ℓ
  10. Predicaments 7 ℓ
  11. Bleak assessment 6 ℓ
  12. Venerable beer brand 5 ℓ
  13. Honor Thy Father author 6 ℓ
  14. Secured, as gift wrapping 5 ℓ
  15. Shortest-name Great Lake 4 ℓ
  16. Starry, woolly beast 5 ℓ
  17. DC water watcher 3 ℓ
  18. What an email folder is for 4 ℓ
  19. Southwestern creek 3 ℓ
  20. Murder, She Wrote star 12 ℓ
  21. Yodeler's perch 3 ℓ
  22. Fleecy boot 3 ℓ
  23. Bygone Seattle hoopsters 6 ℓ
  24. Lecterns 5 ℓ
  25. Horse handler 5 ℓ
  26. NFL kickoff elevator 3 ℓ
  27. Henri's head 4 ℓ
  28. Parts of a smiley face emoticon 6 ℓ
  29. River spanners 7 ℓ
  30. Nautical direction 4 ℓ
  31. Missteps 6 ℓ
  32. Lettuce variety 7 ℓ
  33. Castro colleague 7 ℓ
  34. The A-team 9 ℓ
  35. Requiring careful input, as passwords 11 ℓ
  36. Large atlas section 4 ℓ
  37. Sharp river bend 5 ℓ
  38. Oath-taking book 5 ℓ
  39. Gondolier's propeller 4 ℓ
  40. Young hooter 5 ℓ
  41. How air fresheners may smell 5 ℓ
  42. Escape in a rush 4 ℓ
  43. Duel tool 4 ℓ
  44. Wonderland bird 4 ℓ
  45. Surface shine 5 ℓ
  46. Prolong a gaze 5 ℓ
  47. Tops with turf 4 ℓ
  48. Hymn performers 9 ℓ
  49. "La Mer" composer 11 ℓ
  50. Advil alternative 7 ℓ
  51. "Pressure" appliances 7 ℓ
  52. Dislike a lot 6 ℓ
  53. '70s tennis star 4 ℓ
  54. Farthest orbital distance from the moon 7 ℓ
  55. Gondolier's workplace 6 ℓ
  56. Infant 4 ℓ
  57. Garfield cartoonist 5 ℓ
  58. Prefix meaning "modern" 3 ℓ
  59. Designer Lauren 5 ℓ
  60. Cruise accommodations 6 ℓ
  61. National Gratitude Mo. 3 ℓ
  62. "I'm impressed!" 3 ℓ
  63. The "not good" cholesterol 3 ℓ
  64. Seeing a UFO, perhaps 12 ℓ
  65. Egyptian goddess 4 ℓ
  66. Novelist Deighton 3 ℓ
  67. Wryly amusing 5 ℓ
  68. Without plans 4 ℓ
  69. Mentally quick 5 ℓ

Down

  1. Kangaroo pouch, e.g. 3 ℓ
  2. Rd. without traffic lights 3 ℓ
  3. Lean-__ (sheds) 3 ℓ
  4. Belly muscles 3 ℓ
  5. Jump for joy 5 ℓ
  6. Rail-riding wanderers 6 ℓ
  7. Intro, in journalese 4 ℓ
  8. Hebrew month 4 ℓ
  9. Sold in Web auctions 6 ℓ
  10. Laundry challenge 5 ℓ
  11. Blond shade 3 ℓ
  12. Lucy of Elementary 3 ℓ
  13. Lobe adornments 8 ℓ
  14. Samsung Galaxy rival 6 ℓ
  15. Sam who sang "You Send Me" 5 ℓ
  16. Author Wiesel 4 ℓ
  17. Guam, to the US 4 ℓ
  18. "Easy as" letters 3 ℓ
  19. Back street 5 ℓ
  20. W-2 addressee 3 ℓ
  21. __ corpus 6 ℓ
  22. Jurist's attire 4 ℓ
  23. Sandbox bucket 4 ℓ
  24. Fertilizer compound 7 ℓ
  25. Web merchant 7 ℓ
  26. Twosomes 5 ℓ
  27. Italian 57-Down 5 ℓ
  28. Cease-fire 5 ℓ
  29. Toaster waffle name 4 ℓ
  30. Slightly 4 ℓ
  31. Common Sense author 5 ℓ
  32. Stock up on 5 ℓ
  33. Scornful smile 5 ℓ
  34. Bonded using metal 8 ℓ
  35. Ward staff 6 ℓ
  36. Music score symbol 4 ℓ
  37. Remark's motive 5 ℓ
  38. Porker's plaints 6 ℓ
  39. Dire situations 6 ℓ
  40. Yacht spot 6 ℓ
  41. Made public 5 ℓ
  42. 33-Across contemporary 5 ℓ
  43. S-shaped moldings 5 ℓ
  44. Sign-__ (farewells) 4 ℓ
  45. Bigwigs, briefly 4 ℓ
  46. Venus de __ 4 ℓ
  47. Squabbling 4 ℓ
  48. Prefix for thermal 3 ℓ
  49. Homer Simpson's neighbor 3 ℓ
  50. Nasdaq debut 3 ℓ
  51. Gear tooth 3 ℓ
  52. Leather tool 3 ℓ
  53. __-mo replay 3 ℓ
  54. Watch carefully 3 ℓ
  55. Cushiony seating 5 ℓ
  56. Salad green 6 ℓ
  57. Polio vaccine developer 5 ℓ
  58. Made like sandals 7 ℓ
  59. Tiny sprouter 7 ℓ
  60. Shaggy herder 13 ℓ
  61. Harmony, for short 4 ℓ
  62. Buzzfeed.com, for instance 13 ℓ
  63. "__ porridge hot..." 5 ℓ
  64. Month before mai 5 ℓ
  65. Leaves in a rush 5 ℓ
  66. Genesis sibling 4 ℓ
  67. Cast a ballot 4 ℓ
  68. Two of Henry VIII's six 5 ℓ
  69. Thickens, as cream 5 ℓ
  70. Underside of an eave 6 ℓ
  71. Loblike 5 ℓ
  72. Pasteur vaccine target 6 ℓ
  73. Exodus author 4 ℓ
  74. Response to "Gracias" 6 ℓ
  75. Stand-up material 4 ℓ

About this puzzle

The Newsday Crossword for Sunday, April 13, 2025 is titled “MAKING ENDS MEET: While saving space” and was constructed by Gary M. Larson. The puzzle features 144 clues arranged in a 21×21 grid — the standard format for Sunday-size puzzles.

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