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SATURDAY STUMPER

Saturday, April 19, 2025 Constructed by Lester Ruff 72 clues
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Across

  1. Support staff 5 ℓ
  2. Cause for compensation 4 ℓ
  3. They're not big trouble 4 ℓ
  4. Topographical depression 4 ℓ
  5. Make calls 3 ℓ
  6. A., in full 4 ℓ
  7. Suspension bridge supports 6 ℓ
  8. Whom "the pipes are calling" in song 5 ℓ
  9. Swimmer in water gardens 7 ℓ
  10. Highly adaptable 7 ℓ
  11. It's ignored in Alphabetisierung 4 ℓ
  12. Merchant of Venice conclusion 10 ℓ
  13. Chain with nuggets 4 ℓ
  14. Much Mozart music 10 ℓ
  15. Don't drop 4 ℓ
  16. Gets fixed 4 ℓ
  17. Passed out 5 ℓ
  18. Now, for short 10 ℓ
  19. Sound of sudden excitement 4 ℓ
  20. Land with little land 10 ℓ
  21. As recently as 4 ℓ
  22. One spying or prying 7 ℓ
  23. Stick to glide with 7 ℓ
  24. Go through 5 ℓ
  25. No longer free 6 ℓ
  26. Word from the Latin for "husk" 3 ℓ
  27. Be like a hot dog 4 ℓ
  28. To be broken, often 4 ℓ
  29. Frustration exclamation 6 ℓ
  30. Official Olympics sports drink 8 ℓ
  31. Old Testament opposite of "rend" 3 ℓ
  32. Homophone of Morse's VTB 3 ℓ
  33. An Epistle 7 ℓ
  34. Provides for permanently 6 ℓ
  35. '90s rival of Crystal Pepsi 8 ℓ
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Down

  1. What fills holes in outdoor walls 4 ℓ
  2. Amused oneself 5 ℓ
  3. Now less like shorts, as slacks 10 ℓ
  4. Unavailing explanation 10 ℓ
  5. Queens and kings, say 7 ℓ
  6. Is after 5 ℓ
  7. USCG Seaman Recruit peers 4 ℓ
  8. Possessivo femminile 3 ℓ
  9. "Then..." 6 ℓ
  10. Breaks off 5 ℓ
  11. Going somewhere 7 ℓ
  12. Much Miami Beach architecture 4 ℓ
  13. "This one's mine!" 4 ℓ
  14. Quacks not ducky 6 ℓ
  15. Ganders 5 ℓ
  16. Statuesque cylinders 5 ℓ
  17. What many charge all the time 5 ℓ
  18. Name in monorails 4 ℓ
  19. Much less than a scourge 4 ℓ
  20. Exceptionally 4 ℓ
  21. Where people first ate pomelos 4 ℓ
  22. Handle it 4 ℓ
  23. __ suit 3 ℓ
  24. Explanation's brief beginning 4 ℓ
  25. Support staffer 6 ℓ
  26. Deluged with depositions 7 ℓ
  27. Attention-getter 4 ℓ
  28. Not easy at all 10 ℓ
  29. "Serious about running wear" sloganeer 10 ℓ
  30. Lose integrity 3 ℓ
  31. "The __ homage of thoughts unspoken": Longfellow 6 ℓ
  32. Betake oneself 3 ℓ
  33. Like tykes 3 ℓ
  34. It filled tanks of Model T's 4 ℓ
  35. Round number 3 ℓ
  36. On-site work perk 7 ℓ
  37. Proximate 7 ℓ

About this puzzle

The Newsday Crossword for Saturday, April 19, 2025 is titled “SATURDAY STUMPER” and was constructed by Lester Ruff. The puzzle features 72 clues arranged in a 21×21 grid — the standard format for Sunday-size puzzles.

Click any clue above to view its dedicated answer page, which includes letter-by-letter analysis, the puzzle context, and a history of every other Newsday puzzle the same clue or answer has appeared in. To see the complete grid filled in with every answer, use the “Reveal grid” button at the top of the grid.

The Newsday Crossword is published daily by Newsday on Long Island and edited by Stan Newman. Difficulty builds across the week from a gentle Monday introduction up to Saturday’s legendary themeless Stumper. The official puzzle is available on the Newsday Games site. For other days, browse the complete Newsday Crossword archive indexed by date.

Newsday SATURDAY STUMPER Crossword April 19 2025 Answers