POUR IT ON
Across
- Searches for prey
- Elegant celebration
- Auto fuel
- Tangy topping for ribs
- Historical period
- Corncob covering
- Humorous TV series
- Begin to droop
- Meditative exercise
- Creative notion
- Sweet topping for pancakes
- Revise one's writing
- Stylishly flashy, for short
- Hen's perch
- At this place
- Mark above a "j"
- Dad's sisters
- Underway, to Sherlock
- Living room seating
- Fiendish
- Spicy yellow topping for franks
- Christmas carol
- Canary or hamster
- Near-failing grade
- China's continent
- __ and hearty (in good shape)
- Be untruthful
- Topping for leafy greens
- Inexperienced with
- Corrosion of iron
- Cow comment
- Stare awkwardly
- Very long time period
- Complete a plane flight
- Wise __ owl
- "Drink" suffix for lemon
- Overcharge greatly
Down
- "Very funny!"
- "__ well that ends well"
- In __ of (instead of)
- Shakespeare's river
- Magic lamp residents
- Jockeys' seats
- The Sahara's continent: Abbr.
- "Billy" farm animal
- Letters after R
- Native American ax
- "It wasn't me!"
- Sci-fi vehicles, for short
- Evolved into
- Ten Commandments verb
- Sound of relief
- Doing nothing
- Rip (apart)
- Rotisserie rod
- "Straight __ the rocks?"
- Sudden burst of wind
- Building's rental units: Abbr.
- "Without further __..."
- Mrs., in Mexico
- Cavalry horse
- Dropped-egg sound
- Light fog
- Pie __ mode
- Mirror's reflection
- Underground drain system
- Plane without a pilot
- Go jogging
- __ of the above ("other" choice)
- "IN __ WE TRUST" (motto on money)
- Nothing, in Spain
- Yak it up
- __ de Cologne
- Compliment to a raffle winner
- "Aviation" prefix for dynamic
- Defrauded
- Tire pressure-checking device
- Adjective ending for danger
About this puzzle
The Newsday Crossword for Monday, May 5, 2025 is titled “POUR IT ON” and was constructed by Guilherme Gilioli. The puzzle features 78 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.