SPEAKING VOLUMES
Across
- Go round and round
- Noteworthy periods
- Lasting mark
- Full-time athletes
- States one's views
- Paris tower designer
- Run __ (be raging)
- Person controlling film actors' volumes
- Needless fuss
- Speed competition
- Color of limes
- Back of the neck
- Manicurist's concerns
- Defrost
- Great joy
- Golfer's target
- French fashion magazine
- Text-message button
- "If I __ you..."
- Pebble or boulder
- Fallen to the bottom of the sea
- Thailand's continent
- 88-key instrument
- __ colada cocktail
- Cashew or pistachio
- Person working with volumes of mail
- Red-headed Norse explorer
- Hang down loosely
- Prefix like atmo-
- Fully prepared
- Diamonds, hearts, and spades
- Person shelving bound volumes
- Nonverbal communication: Abbr.
- Verse of praise
- Longtime color TV brand
- Person calculating volumes of atoms
- Elephant tusk material
Down
- This-for-that exchange
- Glide on a rink
- Declare void
- Regretting
- Sixth sense, for short
- Buy more of
- Actress Hathaway
- Barbecue briquette
- Butter in a box
- Least cluttered
- Colorful part of the eye
- Mexican money
- Prophetic signs
- "Famous Potatoes" state
- __ point (center of attention)
- Singing star from London
- Farm soil
- Clarinet accessory
- Unlock
- Story that might be "tall"
- Astronaut Armstrong
- Russia's __ Mountains
- Woolly mother
- Divide evenly
- Greek god of war
- Reality TV judge DioGuardi
- Neither's partner
- Memo's "immediately"
- Thick with vegetation
- "Pad" flower in a pond
- Assist in wrongdoing
- Lane of Superman stories
- Employee badges
- Laundry appliance
- Farmland measure
- Negative votes
- "Eau de" liquid
- Angry states
- Letters on sunblock bottles
- Apple's music player
- Minnesota NFL team
About this puzzle
The Newsday Crossword for Wednesday, May 7, 2025 is titled “SPEAKING VOLUMES” and was constructed by C.J. Tan. The puzzle features 78 clues arranged in a 21×21 grid — the standard format for Sunday-size puzzles.
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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.