Daily Themed Crossword May 4, 2025 Answers
Every clue and answer from the May 4, 2025 grid, in puzzle order.
May 4, 2025 — All 69 Clues
Listed in the order they appear in the grid. Tap COPY to take an answer with you.
| # | Clue | Answer | Letters | Copy |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | ___-tac-toe | Show answer | 3 | |
| #2 | Drink slowly like coffee | Show answer | 3 | |
| #3 | Shivering sound | Show answer | 3 | |
| #4 | Lennon's beloved Yoko ___ | Show answer | 3 | |
| #5 | Chip off the ___ block | Show answer | 3 | |
| #6 | Vowels between a and u | Show answer | 3 | |
| #7 | A hop ___ and a jump | Show answer | 4 | |
| #8 | Met ___ (annual fashion event) | Show answer | 4 | |
| #9 | Raggedy doll whose brother is Andy | Show answer | 3 | |
| #10 | Title for a noblewoman ... or with 19a a spotted insect | Show answer | 4 | |
| #11 | Computer program glitch ... or with 17a a spotted insect | Show answer | 3 | |
| #12 | How Do You Sleep? singer ___ Smith | Show answer | 3 | |
| #13 | ___ are you? (question of identity) | Show answer | 3 | |
| #14 | Meadow growth ... or with 26a a jumping insect | Show answer | 5 | |
| #15 | Large bin for grain ... or with 23a a jumping insect | Show answer | 6 | |
| #16 | Long stretch of time | Show answer | 3 | |
| #17 | Sonny & ___ (American folk rock duo) | Show answer | 4 | |
| #18 | TikTok or Instagram for short | Show answer | 3 | |
| #19 | Tell Mama singer ___ James | Show answer | 4 | |
| #20 | Where ships dock | Show answer | 4 | |
| #21 | Photographer's need for short | Show answer | 3 | |
| #22 | Share a boundary with (anagram of tuba) | Show answer | 4 | |
| #23 | Acorn's tree form | Show answer | 3 | |
| #24 | Baton Rouge campus: Abbr. | Show answer | 3 | |
| #25 | Common ending letters in barn and yearn | Show answer | 3 | |
| #26 | Hawaiian floral necklace | Show answer | 3 | |
| #27 | Film that's a commercial disaster | Show answer | 4 | |
| #28 | B or B+ as a grade | Show answer | 4 | |
| #29 | Card game named after a number | Show answer | 3 | |
| #30 | What a dragon breathes out ... or with 55a a glowing insect | Show answer | 4 | |
| #31 | What birds do ... or with 54a a glowing insect | Show answer | 3 | |
| #32 | ___ voyage! (Happy journey!) | Show answer | 3 | |
| #33 | IRS collection | Show answer | 3 | |
| #34 | Attorney's charge | Show answer | 3 | |
| #35 | How-___ (instruction manuals) | Show answer | 3 | |
| #36 | Writing fluid in a pen | Show answer | 3 | |
| #37 | Spiral shape like a spring (rhymes with foil) | Show answer | 4 | |
| #38 | And ___ new chapter begins ...: 2 wds. | Show answer | 3 | |
| #39 | ___ Be There For You (Friends theme song) | Show answer | 3 | |
| #40 | Holding hands in the park e.g.: Abbr. | Show answer | 3 | |
| #41 | Synonym for boyfriend | Show answer | 4 | |
| #42 | Saturn's feature | Show answer | 4 | |
| #43 | ___ Weasley of Harry Potter | Show answer | 3 | |
| #44 | This too shall ___ | Show answer | 4 | |
| #45 | Treadmill's site for short | Show answer | 3 | |
| #46 | ___ Auto (former Volkswagen slogan) | Show answer | 3 | |
| #47 | Hit on the head (rhymes with top) | Show answer | 3 | |
| #48 | Cry on a water slide perhaps | Show answer | 4 | |
| #49 | Genre for The Conjuring | Show answer | 6 | |
| #50 | Golly ___ whiz! | Show answer | 3 | |
| #51 | Decay as a banana | Show answer | 3 | |
| #52 | Common ending to pant and giant ... or with 42d a digging insect | Show answer | 3 | |
| #53 | Group of wolves | Show answer | 4 | |
| #54 | Anti-pollution organization: Abbr. | Show answer | 3 | |
| #55 | Engine speed letters | Show answer | 3 | |
| #56 | Brain of the computer: Abbr. | Show answer | 3 | |
| #57 | Opposite of 46a | Show answer | 3 | |
| #58 | ___ in apple (speller's clarification): 2 wds. | Show answer | 3 | |
| #59 | Like a bodybuilder's physique | Show answer | 4 | |
| #60 | Oscar-winning director Lee of Life of Pi | Show answer | 3 | |
| #61 | King of the jungle ... or with 25d a digging insect | Show answer | 4 | |
| #62 | Pyramid's highest point | Show answer | 4 | |
| #63 | ___ dub (rhyming heart sounds) | Show answer | 3 | |
| #64 | Ambient music composer Brian ___ | Show answer | 3 | |
| #65 | Ignited as a scented candle | Show answer | 3 | |
| #66 | Would you like to order soup ___ salad?: 2 wds. | Show answer | 3 | |
| #67 | Word with spring or season | Show answer | 3 | |
| #68 | Soccer chant in a Spanish stadium | Show answer | 3 | |
| #69 | Item in the hair care aisle | Show answer | 3 |
How the May 4, 2025 Grid Breaks Down
This is the Daily Themed Crossword main puzzle for May 4, 2025, a Sunday. It contains 69 clues, which is a little above the usual size for a daily grid. The longest answer is HOPPER at 6 letters; the shortest is 3.
Watch the clue wording on this one: 4 clues are flagged "Abbr.", meaning the answer is shortened rather than spelled out, and 3 clues carry a "wds." flag, so the answer runs several words together with no spaces. Those markers are reliable in this game and are the quickest way to fix a letter count before you commit to an entry.
Neighbouring dates are linked above, and the 2025 archive holds every daily puzzle from that year. Away from the calendar, the game's 202 themed packs hold another 58,679 clues.
May 4, 2025 — Questions
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3 Tips for the May 4, 2025 Crossword
The theme is a clue in itself
Daily Themed Crossword builds each board around one idea, and the themed entries are usually the longest answers on the grid. This board carries 69 clues with answers from 3 to 6 letters — work out what the long ones have in common and the rest of the grid opens up around them.
Short fills are where the crossings come from
Three- and four-letter answers are the cheapest squares on the board and they feed letters into every long entry they touch. When a themed answer will not come, fill the short ones around it first rather than staring at the clue.
Keep the streak going
The 2025 archive holds every board from this year, and nothing is removed once published. Older boards are the cheapest practice there is, because the clue style repeats even when the answers do not.
Verified Answers, Not Guesses
How we verify this board
The 69 clue-and-answer pairs here were captured from the May 4, 2025 crossword on the day it ran, with the clue wording stored exactly as the game showed it and every answer length-checked against its slot. Dated boards are never rewritten after publication.
Reviewed by Nadia Okonkwo, Crossword and Clue Editor at Puzzle Solved. The full checking routine is in the methodology, and the standards every page is held to are in the editorial policy.
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How to Solve a Daily Themed Crossword
How the daily and mini grids are built, and the order that solves them.
Read the theme before the clues
Daily Themed Crossword builds every puzzle around one idea, and the long entries almost always belong to it. Knowing the theme turns those from cold clues into a guessing game with a very short list.
Fill the short crossings first
Three and four letter answers use the most predictable vocabulary in the whole grid. Each one you place hands letters to the long clues for free, which is a better use of the first minute than staring at the hardest entry.
Abbreviations are signposted
A clue ending in "Abbr." or containing its own abbreviation is telling you the answer is short and clipped. The same goes for "Hyph." and "2 wds." — the clue format is half the answer.