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INSTRUMENTAL

Friday, April 4, 2025 Constructed by S.N. 74 clues
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Across

  1. Draw, as flies 7 ℓ
  2. Country folk 6 ℓ
  3. Impress mightily 3 ℓ
  4. Name on the cover of ...Red October 3 ℓ
  5. Bar bottle 3 ℓ
  6. Brass instrument 8 ℓ
  7. Cocoon contents 4 ℓ
  8. Declined slowly 4 ℓ
  9. Big East overseer 4 ℓ
  10. Extended "Anyway..." 3 ℓ
  11. Pair of instruments 14 ℓ
  12. "We can proceed" 6 ℓ
  13. Was of value to 7 ℓ
  14. Square, for one 6 ℓ
  15. Confounds 7 ℓ
  16. Store clerk's erstwhile device 7 ℓ
  17. "Grand old flag," per the song 6 ℓ
  18. Pair of instruments 14 ℓ
  19. Minestrone __ Milanese 4 ℓ
  20. Mountain peaks 4 ℓ
  21. IM Pei's US alma mater 3 ℓ
  22. Measure for Dr. Tyson 4 ℓ
  23. Brass instrument 8 ℓ
  24. Health ratio stat. 3 ℓ
  25. Nonstarter 3 ℓ
  26. '70s day-care subject 3 ℓ
  27. Home services website 4 ℓ
  28. Easygoing 4 ℓ
  29. Be a slacker 5 ℓ
  30. He could play all the Across-answer instruments, at age six 15 ℓ
  31. What commoners call queens 4 ℓ
  32. Break in the action 4 ℓ
  33. Is __ (likely will) 5 ℓ
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Down

  1. Name on the annual National Inventors Day proclamation 4 ℓ
  2. Struck hard 5 ℓ
  3. Pravda cofounder 5 ℓ
  4. Famed Southwestern fortress 5 ℓ
  5. Driving-home reward 3 ℓ
  6. Decide what's fair 3 ℓ
  7. Ruth's rookie team 6 ℓ
  8. Genetic attribute 5 ℓ
  9. What succeeded the pfennig 4 ℓ
  10. Subject of Mailer's The Fight 3 ℓ
  11. Some swim races 6 ℓ
  12. Hose-clamp fastener 5 ℓ
  13. Bumper neighbor 9 ℓ
  14. Ravioli relative 6 ℓ
  15. 5-Down, e.g. 6 ℓ
  16. Austrian Nobel physicist 5 ℓ
  17. Fruits, cutely 5 ℓ
  18. VCR pioneer 3 ℓ
  19. Sort of sculpture 5 ℓ
  20. Burglarizes 5 ℓ
  21. PC data format 5 ℓ
  22. Taylor Swift wore them for a while 4 ℓ
  23. Letters atop some newspaper pages 4 ℓ
  24. Be a pest 3 ℓ
  25. British novelist Weldon 3 ℓ
  26. Compromise obstacle, often 3 ℓ
  27. Network that turned 100 in '24 3 ℓ
  28. Witch craft 5 ℓ
  29. Scripts are written for them 4 ℓ
  30. High-priority 4 ℓ
  31. Bubble up 4 ℓ
  32. Part of many a taqueria's name 4 ℓ
  33. Quartet in Monopoly 4 ℓ
  34. Easy to manage 4 ℓ
  35. Bifurcated 5 ℓ
  36. What some 24-Down prevent 3 ℓ
  37. What the planet's axis does 4 ℓ
  38. Purchase incentive 9 ℓ
  39. Dr. Watson exclamation 4 ℓ
  40. Sit suddenly 4 ℓ
  41. Golden bear of cartoons 4 ℓ

About this puzzle

The Newsday Crossword for Friday, April 4, 2025 is titled “INSTRUMENTAL” and was constructed by S.N.. The puzzle features 74 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.

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