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SATURDAY STUMPER

Saturday, January 18, 2025 Constructed by Lester Ruff 70 clues
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Across

  1. (Without) even 8 ℓ
  2. Plant procedure 5 ℓ
  3. First musical act with a permanent retail store (Carnaby Street, since 2020) 9 ℓ
  4. Ready when you are 5 ℓ
  5. Word from Latin for "yield" 4 ℓ
  6. Marginalia 5 ℓ
  7. High-spirited 4 ℓ
  8. Six-film supervillain/spy (from 2010) 3 ℓ
  9. Website with a Find Your Brush Match page 5 ℓ
  10. Cardinal cousins 5 ℓ
  11. Threw off or took in 6 ℓ
  12. Tony winner (1951) for Grace Kelly's Oscar role (1954) 8 ℓ
  13. Set forth formally 6 ℓ
  14. Atingle 8 ℓ
  15. Ladybug adornment 5 ℓ
  16. High and dry 8 ℓ
  17. Pinterest recycling suggestions 8 ℓ
  18. Approach exhaustion 6 ℓ
  19. Fixer-upper 8 ℓ
  20. Kid-lit pessimist 6 ℓ
  21. Be off 3 ℓ
  22. Movement's moral 5 ℓ
  23. Bolts or bars 5 ℓ
  24. Part of every Julian month 4 ℓ
  25. California map word near Bruno 5 ℓ
  26. Fulfilling an order 4 ℓ
  27. Try before you buy, say 5 ℓ
  28. Certain Miniature/Miniature mix 9 ℓ
  29. Attempting to follow 3 ℓ
  30. What some fight like 4 ℓ
  31. Himalayan center 3 ℓ
  32. Live wire? 15 ℓ
  33. Overdramatic one 3 ℓ
  34. Alternatively briefly 4 ℓ
  35. It's sorta like -like 3 ℓ
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Down

  1. Japan/Korea separator 6 ℓ
  2. Literally, "little cake" 8 ℓ
  3. Thrash about 8 ℓ
  4. Subject-changing intro 6 ℓ
  5. Repents of 4 ℓ
  6. U. administration 3 ℓ
  7. Blow things up 15 ℓ
  8. Stages surrounded by seats 6 ℓ
  9. Women's group 5 ℓ
  10. Obligation evidence 4 ℓ
  11. It's above Betty Ford on 2024 stamps 3 ℓ
  12. Bowling pins, informally 6 ℓ
  13. Maker of Crispy Crinkles and Crispy Shoestrings 6 ℓ
  14. Unload on 6 ℓ
  15. Get rather hot 6 ℓ
  16. Alternate 6 ℓ
  17. Corresponds 6 ℓ
  18. Coins with a leek, thistle and shamrock 6 ℓ
  19. Tress distress 5 ℓ
  20. Source for red or yellow food coloring 4 ℓ
  21. It may be headed by a figurehead 4 ℓ
  22. Mouth mirror buyer 3 ℓ
  23. __ ears 3 ℓ
  24. Williams-Sonoma furniture division 7 ℓ
  25. Falsetto snicker 5 ℓ
  26. Brit's tom turkey 4 ℓ
  27. Participant a la reunion 5 ℓ
  28. Founder of a UK poetry prize (1953) 5 ℓ
  29. Resort not far from Mount Snow 5 ℓ
  30. Peter O'Toole's Ratatouille voice 5 ℓ
  31. Is left 8 ℓ
  32. Entertainment since radio days 7 ℓ
  33. Purchase for a pagoda 4 ℓ
  34. "Class dismissed" 5 ℓ
  35. Can't wait for 8 ℓ

About this puzzle

The Newsday Crossword for Saturday, January 18, 2025 is titled “SATURDAY STUMPER” and was constructed by Lester Ruff. The puzzle features 70 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 January 18 2025 Answers