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The full solution for the NY Times Crossword puzzle on Wednesday February 12, 2025 is displayed below.
| 1 Mineral that shimmers | MICA |
| 5 Bat around, as a kitten might | PAWAT |
| 10 Composer Stravinsky | IGOR |
| 14 Like much graffiti: Abbr. | ANON |
| 15 Belittle | ABASE |
| 16 Emperor named an enemy of the state in A.D. 68 | NERO |
| 17 Not admit | DENY |
| 18 Aboveboard | LEGIT |
| 19 Neighbor of Indonesia, on a Risk board | SIAM |
| 20 The | DEFINITEARTICLE |
| 23 Knocked off | DIDIN |
| 24 City that was a rival of ancient Sparta | ARGOS |
| 25 Big mo. for eggnog sales | DEC |
| 26 Cover story? | FIB |
| 29 Lee who directed "Gemini Man" | ANG |
| 30 Talks frankly | SPEAKSONESPIECE |
| 36 Screen play? | PASS |
| 37 Singsong refrain | TRALA |
| 38 Heating pad target | ACHE |
| 39 Lead-in to -gram or -graph | EPI |
| 40 Pep rally cry | RAH |
| 41 Cousin of Inc. | LLC |
| 43 Doll who debuted in swim trunks | KEN |
| 44 Success against all odds | CINDERELLASTORY |
| 48 Either of two for Mozart's Queen of the Night | OPERAARIA |
| 49 "Take THAT!" | BOOM |
| 52 Flowing slowly | SEEPY |
| 53 "Should that happen …" | IFSO |
| 57 Builders of 25,000+ miles of roads in South America | INCAS |
| 59 TV's DeGeneres | ELLEN |
| 60 With 63-Across, where some journalism is located ... or how to interpret the ends of 20-, 30- and 44-Across vis-Ã -vis the shaded squares | BEHINDA |
| 63 See 60-Across | PAYWALL |
| 65 Exhaustion from work | BURNOUT |
| 66 Without much hope | BLEAKLY |
| 67 Green sauces | PESTOS |
| 68 Features of coins which make them harder to counterfeit | RIDGES |
| 1 Road safety org. | MADD |
| 2 "___ to Know" (1999 Marc Anthony hit) | INEED |
| 3 Tells private things | CONFIDESIN |
| 4 "How will we ever get out of this mess?" | ANYIDEAS |
| 5 Satirist Michael | PALIN |
| 6 Drive for, maybe | ABET |
| 7 ___ gap | WAGE |
| 8 It's east of the Urals | ASIA |
| 9 Half of octo- | TETRA |
| 10 Presidential seal, for one | INSIGNIA |
| 11 Lizard mascot with a Cockney accent | GEICOGECKO |
| 12 Some campus grilling events? | ORALS |
| 13 Spanish Steps locale | ROME |
| 21 Small cut | NICK |
| 22 Where a wedge may be used | TRAP |
| 26 Not to go | FORHERE |
| 27 ___ flash | INA |
| 28 When to wave the white flag | BELLLAP |
| 30 Guideline, in brief | SPEC |
| 31 Big ___ (longtime Red Sox nickname) | PAPI |
| 32 Some looks into space | STARES |
| 33 ___ cap | SALARY |
| 34 Sole one-named Best Actress Oscar winner | CHER |
| 35 Wee | EENY |
| 40 One leg curl, e.g. | REP |
| 42 CBS drama for 15 seasons | CSI |
| 45 Realms | DOMAINS |
| 46 Ka ___ (southernmost point in the U.S.) | LAE |
| 47 Sign of a hound's happiness | TAILWAG |
| 49 Kind of lettuce | BIBB |
| 50 Top | ONEUP |
| 51 Shade in a barren landscape | OCHRE |
| 54 Undependable sort | FLAKE |
| 55 Gives up the goods? | SELLS |
| 56 "Above us ___ sky" ("Imagine" lyric) | ONLY |
| 58 Pesky little brat | SNOT |
| 59 Observed | EYED |
| 61 Pop music's Wham! or Erasure | DUO |
| 62 Email signs | ATS |
| 63 Inexpensive beer, informally | PBR |
| 64 Two-time Oscar winner Mahershala ___ | ALI |