Daily Themed Crossword May 11, 2025 Answers
Every clue and answer from the May 11, 2025 grid, in puzzle order.
May 11, 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 | Secret agent | Show answer | 3 | |
| #2 | ___ and yang (Chinese philosophical concept) | Show answer | 3 | |
| #3 | Cash withdrawal site: Abbr. | Show answer | 3 | |
| #4 | Nat ___ Wild (TV channel) | Show answer | 3 | |
| #5 | ___ with the Wind (1939 film) | Show answer | 4 | |
| #6 | Pretend-ghost's scare | Show answer | 3 | |
| #7 | You're it! game | Show answer | 3 | |
| #8 | May Parker to Peter Parker | Show answer | 4 | |
| #9 | Small body of water in parks | Show answer | 4 | |
| #10 | (1/5) One fine morning an heiress returns from her shower only to find her diamond ___ (band) that she had set on the windowsill: stolen! | RING | 4 | |
| #11 | Ocean feature that a surfer may ride | Show answer | 4 | |
| #12 | Dubai's country: Abbr. | Show answer | 3 | |
| #13 | (2/5) Ann the maid says 'I was in the kitchen making a ___ (treat with icing) all morning and didn't have time to visit the mistress' chambers.' | CAKE | 4 | |
| #14 | Fashion ___ (trendsetter) | Show answer | 4 | |
| #15 | Mi ___ (Spanish lover's words) | Show answer | 4 | |
| #16 | (3/5) Lee the gardener says 'I had to ___ (trim) the lawn and ... Can't do that climbin' windows now can ya?' | Show answer | 3 | |
| #17 | ___ and tonic | Show answer | 3 | |
| #18 | Nigeria's continent for short | Show answer | 3 | |
| #19 | Up to the task | Show answer | 4 | |
| #20 | Mascara target | Show answer | 4 | |
| #21 | Three-___ (tissue thickness) | Show answer | 3 | |
| #22 | What lights your pants on fire? | Show answer | 3 | |
| #23 | Magazine copy | Show answer | 5 | |
| #24 | Pals for life: Abbr. | Show answer | 4 | |
| #25 | Weight to height ratio: Abbr. | Show answer | 3 | |
| #26 | Letter after O phonetically | Show answer | 3 | |
| #27 | Mary ___ little lamb ...: 2 wds. | Show answer | 4 | |
| #28 | Sushi grain | Show answer | 4 | |
| #29 | (4/5) A classic whodunit indeed! Was it the unassuming maid or the humble gardener? (see 43d for help) | Show answer | 3 | |
| #30 | Suffix with beat meaning a 1950s youth of the beat subculture | Show answer | 3 | |
| #31 | What's placed at an auction | Show answer | 3 | |
| #32 | Boulevards and avenues for short | Show answer | 3 | |
| #33 | ___-haw! (cowboy call) | Show answer | 3 | |
| #34 | ___ Men (2007 drama series) | Show answer | 3 | |
| #35 | ___ Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Beatles song) | Show answer | 3 | |
| #36 | Fruit of a tree mentioned in The Twelve Days of Christmas | Show answer | 4 | |
| #37 | ___ Bear (animated brown bear with a cap and tie) | Show answer | 4 | |
| #38 | ___ Belong With Me (Taylor Swift song) | Show answer | 3 | |
| #39 | Holiday ___ (vacation resort chain) | Show answer | 3 | |
| #40 | Tool to catch many fish in the sea | Show answer | 3 | |
| #41 | Go ___ and beyond (give a 110%) | Show answer | 5 | |
| #42 | Watch your ___ mister! (warning to a teen maybe) | Show answer | 4 | |
| #43 | Popular '60s dress style | Show answer | 3 | |
| #44 | Singer Lady ___ of Born This Way | Show answer | 4 | |
| #45 | India's neighbor with the capital Karachi for short | Show answer | 3 | |
| #46 | Teacher at a Catholic school perhaps | Show answer | 3 | |
| #47 | ___ and Peace (Leo Tolstoy novel) | Show answer | 3 | |
| #48 | The ___ has landed (Moon landing words) | Show answer | 5 | |
| #49 | Pros and ___ | Show answer | 4 | |
| #50 | ___ Believer (The Monkees' hit): 2 wds. | Show answer | 3 | |
| #51 | Corn holder | Show answer | 3 | |
| #52 | Hooter? | Show answer | 3 | |
| #53 | Soccer champion ___ Hamm | Show answer | 3 | |
| #54 | Advanced high-school classes | Show answer | 3 | |
| #55 | Viral illness | Show answer | 3 | |
| #56 | White bread alternative | Show answer | 3 | |
| #57 | Legolas for one | Show answer | 3 | |
| #58 | He/___ (pronouns) | Show answer | 3 | |
| #59 | Kinda suffix | Show answer | 3 | |
| #60 | Singer Elton John's title | Show answer | 3 | |
| #61 | Hell-___ (determined) // Root vegetable | Show answer | 4 | |
| #62 | Marshy wetlands // Lawyer's charges | Show answer | 4 | |
| #63 | (5/5) Lawn work? Laborious and hands-on. But to ___ (cook in oven) a treat requires time ... | Show answer | 4 | |
| #64 | Faux ___ (social blunder) // Texter's plea informally | Show answer | 3 | |
| #65 | ___ questions? (teacher's end-of-lesson ask) | Show answer | 3 | |
| #66 | ___ Hard (Bruce Willis movie) | Show answer | 3 | |
| #67 | Big Blue tech company: Abbr. | Show answer | 3 | |
| #68 | 1a's employer: Abbr. | Show answer | 3 | |
| #69 | Ed ___ n Eddy (old cartoon) | Show answer | 3 |
How the May 11, 2025 Grid Breaks Down
This is the Daily Themed Crossword main puzzle for May 11, 2025, a Sunday. It contains 69 clues, which is a little above the usual size for a daily grid. The longest answer is ISSUE at 5 letters; the shortest is 3.
Watch the clue wording on this one: 6 clues are flagged "Abbr.", meaning the answer is shortened rather than spelled out, and 2 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. There is also a mini crossword for May 11, 2025 with 10 clues. Away from the calendar, the game's 202 themed packs hold another 58,679 clues.
May 11, 2025 — Questions
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3 Tips for the May 11, 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 5 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.
There is a mini board for this date too
Daily Themed Crossword runs two boards a day. The mini crossword for May 11, 2025 is on its own page, and the two share a theme more often than not — solving one gives you a head start on the other.
Verified Answers, Not Guesses
How we verify this board
The 69 clue-and-answer pairs here were captured from the May 11, 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.
Last checked — Sep 9, 2026Daily Themed Crossword by the numbers
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.