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SATURDAY STUMPER

Saturday, May 24, 2025 Constructed by Kate Chin Park 70 clues
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Across

  1. Not easy to see 8 ℓ
  2. Mix's opposite 6 ℓ
  3. Longtime Planetary Society CEO 3 ℓ
  4. Look wonderful? 4 ℓ
  5. Digital contents displays 5 ℓ
  6. Early '90s Adobe innovation 3 ℓ
  7. Pricey auction items 7 ℓ
  8. Slants differently 7 ℓ
  9. Set in stone 7 ℓ
  10. State that's above suspicion? 8 ℓ
  11. Recruit 6 ℓ
  12. Electrons' exits 6 ℓ
  13. Defining performance 8 ℓ
  14. What pros have 6 ℓ
  15. Gave officially 8 ℓ
  16. Mixing easily 8 ℓ
  17. Approaching capacity 6 ℓ
  18. Self-confident expression 8 ℓ
  19. When Muslim men muster 6 ℓ
  20. Most remote region 7 ℓ
  21. Compels to complete 7 ℓ
  22. Expert's 10-second-or-so sprint 7 ℓ
  23. Pithy peak? 3 ℓ
  24. Put on a petite pedestal 4 ℓ
  25. Family man 5 ℓ
  26. Glam rock era accessory 3 ℓ
  27. Evinces aggression 6 ℓ
  28. Part of bird words 3 ℓ
  29. Lagoon dweller 4 ℓ
  30. Container to dispense with 7 ℓ
  31. Unresolved 7 ℓ
  32. Awl cousin 6 ℓ
  33. Quasi-opposite of astro- 3 ℓ
  34. Needle work 4 ℓ
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Down

  1. Comment proffered by scoffers 4 ℓ
  2. Check out in a small space 5 ℓ
  3. Reached back for 10 ℓ
  4. Senior surviving American car make (c. 2000) 10 ℓ
  5. Hurried home horizontally 4 ℓ
  6. Presenting cross words 5 ℓ
  7. Making possible 9 ℓ
  8. Festival with ancestor veneration 3 ℓ
  9. Payer for advice 6 ℓ
  10. Dwelling 5 ℓ
  11. "Free" products of cell metabolism 8 ℓ
  12. Caviar is sold in them 4 ℓ
  13. Animated evil uncle 4 ℓ
  14. A __ de noche (at nightfall) 4 ℓ
  15. Striking skill 6 ℓ
  16. Carrier of the first transatlantic air mail (1939) 5 ℓ
  17. Put back on 5 ℓ
  18. Ice plane? 5 ℓ
  19. Tan kin 4 ℓ
  20. Begin giving out 4 ℓ
  21. Presenting cross words 4 ℓ
  22. Price to play 4 ℓ
  23. Not too tiny 4 ℓ
  24. Setting for the '25 Oscars 3 ℓ
  25. Tex-Mex staple 5 ℓ
  26. Product broken before bagging 3 ℓ
  27. It includes 70 min. of math 4 ℓ
  28. Never again 10 ℓ
  29. Handout for all comers 10 ℓ
  30. Baum's Mother Goose in __ 5 ℓ
  31. Coral reef, for instance 5 ℓ
  32. What you won't want in your hot dogs 9 ℓ
  33. Ranks from the Fr. for "servants" 4 ℓ
  34. Traditional plastic now sold in paper 8 ℓ
  35. "On her lover's arm she __": Tennyson 5 ℓ
  36. Attribute 3 ℓ

About this puzzle

The Newsday Crossword for Saturday, May 24, 2025 is titled “SATURDAY STUMPER” and was constructed by Kate Chin Park. 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 May 24 2025 Answers