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GOTCHA: A collection of catches

Sunday, January 26, 2025 Constructed by Billie Truitt 142 clues
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Across

  1. Tart-tasting fruits 6 ℓ
  2. Dog show org. 3 ℓ
  3. Recedes gradually 4 ℓ
  4. __ Lee cakes 4 ℓ
  5. Common polar surface 6 ℓ
  6. From way back 5 ℓ
  7. Health insurance giant 5 ℓ
  8. Spoil your manicure 10 ℓ
  9. Genealogy record 10 ℓ
  10. Stairway posts 6 ℓ
  11. Quake 5 ℓ
  12. Squeaky sound 5 ℓ
  13. To be: Lat. 4 ℓ
  14. Leather punch 3 ℓ
  15. As compared to 4 ℓ
  16. Quick look 6 ℓ
  17. Garden product syllable 3 ℓ
  18. What the TSA is part of 3 ℓ
  19. Cut (off) 3 ℓ
  20. Most like meadows 9 ℓ
  21. Did some web browsing 12 ℓ
  22. Archaeologist's interest 5 ℓ
  23. Tenth president 5 ℓ
  24. Parts of paragraphs 9 ℓ
  25. Middlemarch author 5 ℓ
  26. Swamp hopper 4 ℓ
  27. Personal resources 6 ℓ
  28. Bedside light 4 ℓ
  29. Grp. of cops or keglers 3 ℓ
  30. Vessel vacation 6 ℓ
  31. Nook for nestling 10 ℓ
  32. What a tee hasn't 11 ℓ
  33. Food plan 4 ℓ
  34. Sony co-founder Morita 4 ℓ
  35. Group of sled dogs 4 ℓ
  36. Author Emile 4 ℓ
  37. Nile queen, for short 4 ℓ
  38. Just slightly 6 ℓ
  39. Home of St. Paul 4 ℓ
  40. Class rank nos. 4 ℓ
  41. Symbolic warning 4 ℓ
  42. Riles up 6 ℓ
  43. Dangerous fly 6 ℓ
  44. With 86-Down, Chinese dinner 3 ℓ
  45. Catch sight of 4 ℓ
  46. Supervisor 4 ℓ
  47. Bona fide 4 ℓ
  48. Supermodel Banks 4 ℓ
  49. Barrie bad guy 11 ℓ
  50. New Haven student 3 ℓ
  51. "Forward!" in Florence 6 ℓ
  52. Something taken to the curb 10 ℓ
  53. Bucks 6 ℓ
  54. Test-drive vehicle 4 ℓ
  55. Road reversals, informally 4 ℓ
  56. Aussie exports 5 ℓ
  57. Have some 9 ℓ
  58. Raise a glass to 5 ℓ
  59. Sugarcane, for instance 5 ℓ
  60. "Not another word!" 12 ℓ
  61. Corp. alias 3 ℓ
  62. Cetacean vocalization 9 ℓ
  63. Guileful 3 ℓ
  64. Bottom line 3 ℓ
  65. Whispered summons 4 ℓ
  66. Upper level of execs 6 ℓ
  67. Coop group 4 ℓ
  68. B'way purchase 3 ℓ
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Down

  1. Prepare to skate 6 ℓ
  2. Italian endearment 4 ℓ
  3. Typists' targets 9 ℓ
  4. Have a go at 7 ℓ
  5. Course of greens 5 ℓ
  6. Spill a secret 4 ℓ
  7. Dutch South African 4 ℓ
  8. Poet Pound 4 ℓ
  9. Add more lubricant to 5 ℓ
  10. Footnote phrase 6 ℓ
  11. More pouty 6 ℓ
  12. Sound asleep 3 ℓ
  13. ESPN media partner 4 ℓ
  14. Makeshift knife 4 ℓ
  15. Patsy 7 ℓ
  16. Many, many 6 ℓ
  17. NASA affirmative 3 ℓ
  18. Wizard of Oz transportation 7 ℓ
  19. Virtuous person 5 ℓ
  20. Come up short 7 ℓ
  21. Very little power 7 ℓ
  22. Abundant meal 5 ℓ
  23. Tear to pieces 4 ℓ
  24. Bestow 5 ℓ
  25. Per item 4 ℓ
  26. Just manages, with "out" 4 ℓ
  27. Thin curtains 6 ℓ
  28. Spraying lightly 9 ℓ
  29. Otherwise 4 ℓ
  30. Pop music category 4 ℓ
  31. Musical liability 6 ℓ
  32. Sandy stuff 4 ℓ
  33. Puts the pedal to the metal 6 ℓ
  34. Do so-so on an exam 5 ℓ
  35. Parisian salt 3 ℓ
  36. Takes back 7 ℓ
  37. See 117-Across 7 ℓ
  38. NBC 91-Down since '75 3 ℓ
  39. Thinly scattered 6 ℓ
  40. Hinders 6 ℓ
  41. Oval pill 6 ℓ
  42. Weekly program 6 ℓ
  43. Sidestep 5 ℓ
  44. Hard-to-like person 5 ℓ
  45. Very long time 4 ℓ
  46. "Amscray!" 4 ℓ
  47. Artisans' website 4 ℓ
  48. Tide table term 4 ℓ
  49. What patches cover 4 ℓ
  50. Sooner Stater 4 ℓ
  51. Video recorder, for short 3 ℓ
  52. Sweater size, for short 3 ℓ
  53. Sound unhappy 3 ℓ
  54. Waiting-room reading 3 ℓ
  55. "To be specific..." 6 ℓ
  56. Evil spirits 6 ℓ
  57. Physicist Ohm 5 ℓ
  58. Within reach 6 ℓ
  59. Frequent ave. crossers 3 ℓ
  60. Being bet 7 ℓ
  61. Possible 14-Down ingredient 4 ℓ
  62. Devoured 3 ℓ
  63. Bodies of methods 7 ℓ
  64. Readied a bow 7 ℓ
  65. Research rooms 4 ℓ
  66. Minor squabble 4 ℓ
  67. Taco's exterior 5 ℓ
  68. Up to 5 ℓ
  69. Remote button 4 ℓ
  70. Jeopardy! answer starter 5 ℓ
  71. Library patron 4 ℓ
  72. Sign of healing 4 ℓ
  73. Ludicrous 5 ℓ
  74. Historic city of Jordan 5 ℓ

About this puzzle

The Newsday Crossword for Sunday, January 26, 2025 is titled “GOTCHA: A collection of catches” and was constructed by Billie Truitt. The puzzle features 142 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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