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SATURDAY STUMPER

Saturday, January 4, 2025 Constructed by Lester Ruff 72 clues
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Across

  1. Up now 5 ℓ
  2. Rob Roy, but not Tom Collins 4 ℓ
  3. Best Direction, Best Latin, etc. 4 ℓ
  4. Invented things 4 ℓ
  5. Diet denouement 3 ℓ
  6. Get smarter 5 ℓ
  7. Dessert descriptor 8 ℓ
  8. Firmware storage unit 3 ℓ
  9. What Steve Ballmer said was not "going to get any significant market share" (2007) 6 ℓ
  10. Legal __ 3 ℓ
  11. Sounds like 4 ℓ
  12. Walker venue 4 ℓ
  13. Rubs in 10 ℓ
  14. First name of the best-selling American author of the 20th century (as of 1970) 4 ℓ
  15. "Scream queen" since the '70s 10 ℓ
  16. They're often stored on roofs 4 ℓ
  17. Handle with care 4 ℓ
  18. Howls, yowls, growls... 5 ℓ
  19. Riot of miscellany 10 ℓ
  20. Score number 4 ℓ
  21. "Senor Burns" performer on The Simpsons (1995) 10 ℓ
  22. Ore crusher 4 ℓ
  23. "Surrounding" starter 4 ℓ
  24. Bag filler, or have in the bag 3 ℓ
  25. Michener book with a "Bulls" chapter 6 ℓ
  26. Ultimate 3 ℓ
  27. An interim Australian bioregion 8 ℓ
  28. What a lifeboat carries 5 ℓ
  29. Tempete dans un verre d'__ (fuss about trivialities) 3 ℓ
  30. Olympic VIP 4 ℓ
  31. PurSteam product 4 ℓ
  32. Extremely exciting event 10 ℓ
  33. Assemble for a session 3 ℓ
  34. Howl, yowl, growl... 3 ℓ
  35. Essence of much road work 3 ℓ
  36. Drippings on menus 3 ℓ
  37. "Inventive" name from Old Norse for "elf" 4 ℓ
  38. Doritos flavor 10 ℓ
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Down

  1. Musical starter 4 ℓ
  2. Sly spouse from the '70s 5 ℓ
  3. "Proven" asset 10 ℓ
  4. Makes a submission admission 10 ℓ
  5. Trial group 7 ℓ
  6. Heads for drivers 5 ℓ
  7. Drive-By Truckers' music 10 ℓ
  8. Italy's Microlino EV, e.g. 7 ℓ
  9. Visibility, in product names 3 ℓ
  10. Blood work 6 ℓ
  11. Particular Portuguese 7 ℓ
  12. Ease off 4 ℓ
  13. "Plebeian protector" paper nickname 4 ℓ
  14. Doesn't stay long 6 ℓ
  15. Agatha Christie and Iris Murdoch 5 ℓ
  16. Putting great effort 5 ℓ
  17. Dove into verse 4 ℓ
  18. Proves one's peccability 4 ℓ
  19. Name on the cover of The Pluto Files (2009) 4 ℓ
  20. Pecanlike 4 ℓ
  21. Block's 22-Across 3 ℓ
  22. It's thigh-high 4 ℓ
  23. Ciel d'__ (weather prevision) 4 ℓ
  24. Cambridge's region 10 ℓ
  25. She "pioneered screen" performance, per TCM 4 ℓ
  26. Where the site of Babe Ruth's dad's bar is today 10 ℓ
  27. Sistine Chapel artist before Michelangelo 10 ℓ
  28. Many a hybrid 3 ℓ
  29. __ apple 3 ℓ
  30. Debater of Biden in 2012 4 ℓ
  31. Name dropped by a Music City Hall of Famer 4 ℓ
  32. Either of a wedding gown duo 7 ℓ
  33. VW liftbacks 7 ℓ
  34. Part of immunology's MMRV 7 ℓ

About this puzzle

The Newsday Crossword for Saturday, January 4, 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.

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