CHANGE OF VENUE
Across
- Horror film sound effect
- Street fleet
- sProduce with pentagonal pieces
- Jury, for instance
- Mob rule
- IGUANA CAR
- Urban official
- "To form __ perfect Union..."
- Windows forerunner
- Many motels, ostensibly
- GNOME TENOR
- Big name in bricks
- Country music star's memoirs
- First Japanese luxury line
- Ballet princess, after a sorcerer's curse
- Property crime
- What a feline pupil resembles
- Intern, for instance
- Blass contemporary
- Roosted
- SALAD LOVER
- Word after fast or fire
- Military moniker
- Adulterate
- Worst-case scenario
- TOT ARMIES
- Maine tourist mecca
- Falls noisily
- MLB rally spoilers
- Thing on some stalks
- "Be brave!"
- AIR TACO
- GLIB EMU
- Downgrade, perhaps
- Mimicking
- Compass reading
Down
- Part of federal loan company nicknames
- One home on the range
- Certain game's "I win!"
- Cause dread for
- City on the Channel
- To be, in Bolivia
- What makes mist moist
- Progress impediment
- Family Circus cartoonist
- "Of course," these days
- "Good thinking!"
- What accompanies much free digital content
- Peanut product
- Clergy member
- Don't just appear
- Salon specialty
- "This is my first day"
- Line dance
- Outer space prefix
- Academic overseer
- Goat quote
- Text-reading tech
- Semisolid
- Diamond datum
- Member of the grass family
- Roundup accessory
- Valvoline alternative
- FDR VP John __ Garner
- Metaphor for growth potential
- Spider-Man villain portrayer
- Hunk of ham
- Caped combatant
- Grande with Grammys
- Makeup mess
- Asked of
- Blog, essentially
- Something to shake
- '50s young toughs
- Curtis' Some Like It Hot partner
- Grad guy
About this puzzle
The Newsday Crossword for Friday, March 7, 2025 is titled “CHANGE OF VENUE” and was constructed by Winston Emmons. The puzzle features 76 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.