Dryer detritus

Latest answer — March 23, 2025

38 Down

Scroll down for rest of crossword answers

NYT Crossword

This clue's Sunday, March 23, 2025 appearance

Tap a square to reveal a letter.

Or reveal one clue at a time with the Hint and Answer buttons below.

Across

  1. 1Capital of Western Australia
  2. 6Doomed Ethiopian princess
  3. 10Do some basic math
  4. 13Heats to just below a boil, as milk
  5. 19Setting for 6-Across
  6. 20Higher in rank?
  7. 22"Here!"
  8. 23Stay in one's lane?
  9. 25One place to redeem tickets
  10. 26One might be custom-printed
  11. 27Target
  12. 28Brings in
  13. 30Vehicle in 2020's "Nomadland"
  14. 31Like bread more suitable for panzanella
  15. 33Canada's ___ Nova National Park
  16. 35It follows Oktober
  17. 36CliffsNotes version of Holmes and Watson stories?
  18. 42Morales of the "Mission: Impossible" franchise
  19. 45Wedding cake features
  20. 46Knack
  21. 47"When do you need this patched up?," "Do you have the missing button?," etc.?
  22. 51Hockey player who wears #1, traditionally
  23. 53___ milk
  24. 54Slightest amount
  25. 55Pentagon div.
  26. 56Figure on a Wyoming license plate
  27. 60Straightens up
  28. 62Neptune, e.g.
  29. 65Weapon/fashion accessory for animation's Sailor Moon
  30. 66Apt name for a car salesman?
  31. 67Best impression of a Springfield patriarch?
  32. 71Start to wear
  33. 72Where you might walk down the aisle
  34. 74The "K" of 15-Down
  35. 75Support on a lease
  36. 77Temporarily banish, as a college roommate
  37. 79Planks can build them
  38. 80Wire holder
  39. 82Get along in years
  40. 84Vivid shade of yellow
  41. 86Headline about a falsely incriminated person casting a ballot?
  42. 89Beautifully emotive
  43. 91Exudes
  44. 92"___ we forget ..."
  45. 93Delivered a nasty insult with perfect timing?
  46. 99Word after cash or read
  47. 100Toiled on a longship, maybe
  48. 101"Lawrence of Arabia" star
  49. 104Cut short
  50. 105Grain used in Italian cuisine
  51. 107Turns inside out
  52. 111Bit of concert stage equipment
  53. 113Liqueur in a spritz
  54. 115Classic breakup excuse ... or a phonetic hint to 23-, 36-, 47-, 67-, 86- and 93-Across
  55. 118Claim in a courtroom
  56. 119Dartmouth's colorful nickname
  57. 1202010 comedy inspired by "The Scarlet Letter"
  58. 121"Too bad for me!"
  59. 122Mo. known for political surprises
  60. 123Common conjunctions
  61. 124Rule the ___

Down

  1. 1Wine whose name is the first half of its country of origin
  2. 2Dueling weapons
  3. 3Electric appliance button
  4. 4Arm muscle, informally
  5. 5Big pain
  6. 6Noted family of New York City's Gilded Age
  7. 7"If you ask me ...," to texters
  8. 8Alternative to a citronella candle
  9. 9___ mater
  10. 10Sign at a gas station
  11. 11Use a Clorox wipe on, say
  12. 12Gloomy
  13. 13Laurel of Laurel and Hardy
  14. 14They fill up a lot
  15. 15Org. that awards the "Paw of Courage" for canine heroism
  16. 16Retain
  17. 17Told some jokes, say
  18. 18Surgical aids
  19. 21Literature
  20. 24Before now
  21. 29One celebrating Ethiopian Christmas (Jan. 7)
  22. 32In the thick of
  23. 34Mag staffers
  24. 35It might have "-GUEST" in its name
  25. 37Big name in elevators
  26. 38Dryer detritus
  27. 39Victory symbol
  28. 40Soft mineral
  29. 41"Middlemarch" author
  30. 42___ pop (hybrid music genre)
  31. 43Birthplace of Starbucks
  32. 44Skeptical of big government, say
  33. 48Yalie
  34. 49Ecosystem for an estimated 25% of all marine species
  35. 50Corrective eye surgery
  36. 51Kind of boot
  37. 52"Hamilton" co-star Leslie ___ Jr.
  38. 55"Matilda" author
  39. 57Darts or billiards
  40. 58Ambrosia salad ingredients
  41. 59"Woo-hoo!"
  42. 61Suffice
  43. 62IDs that will never start 000 or 666: Abbr.
  44. 63Summertime in Versailles
  45. 64Designer's specialty
  46. 66Photo ___
  47. 68Warm, in a sense
  48. 69Disc jockey : deejay :: nonbinary : ___
  49. 70Feature of a yurt, but not a teepee
  50. 73Thrill
  51. 76Camera choice, in brief
  52. 78Oklahoma's "Wheat Capital"
  53. 80Red part of rhubarb
  54. 81Philippine currency
  55. 83Summer setting in Somerset, for short
  56. 85Jackson or Jackman
  57. 86Nullifying
  58. 87Parts of baby wts.
  59. 88Member of a choir
  60. 89Impressive array
  61. 90Crude cavity
  62. 91Pablo Neruda's "___ to My Socks"
  63. 93Polite "I'll pass"
  64. 94Gummy candy company
  65. 95Like the Kama Sutra
  66. 96Dunderheads
  67. 97Caesar's addressing?
  68. 98More intrusive
  69. 102Dogie catcher
  70. 103Angela Lansbury was nominated for 18 of them (winning none)
  71. 105Obscures
  72. 106Some six-packs
  73. 108Director Ephron
  74. 109Powerful engine
  75. 110Kept watch on
  76. 112Bog deposit
  77. 114___ Speedwagon
  78. 116Army rank above cpl.
  79. 117Principle behind yin and yang

Crossword clues, hints, and answers

Across

  1. 1. Capital of Western Australia — Answer: PERTH
  2. 6. Doomed Ethiopian princess — Answer: AIDA
  3. 10. Do some basic math — Answer: ADD
  4. 13. Heats to just below a boil, as milk — Answer: SCALDS
  5. 19. Setting for 6-Across — Answer: OPERA
  6. 20. Higher in rank? — Answer: SMELLIER
  7. 22. "Here!" — Answer: TAKEIT
  8. 23. Stay in one's lane? — Answer: RESISTTHEMERGE
  9. 25. One place to redeem tickets — Answer: ARCADE
  10. 26. One might be custom-printed — Answer: TEE
  11. 27. Target — Answer: SHOOTAT
  12. 28. Brings in — Answer: EARNS. Hint: Think about how you might gain a reward for your hard work! 💰
  13. 30. Vehicle in 2020's "Nomadland" — Answer: VAN
  14. 31. Like bread more suitable for panzanella — Answer: STALER
  15. 33. Canada's ___ Nova National Park — Answer: TERRA
  16. 35. It follows Oktober — Answer: FEST
  17. 36. CliffsNotes version of Holmes and Watson stories? — Answer: MENSOLVEDMYSTERIES
  18. 42. Morales of the "Mission: Impossible" franchise — Answer: ESAI
  19. 45. Wedding cake features — Answer: TIERS
  20. 46. Knack — Answer: TALENT. Hint: A natural gift for doing something especially well is this. 🎯
  21. 47. "When do you need this patched up?," "Do you have the missing button?," etc.? — Answer: MENDERLINES
  22. 51. Hockey player who wears #1, traditionally — Answer: GOALIE
  23. 53. ___ milk — Answer: OAT. Hint: Think of the creamy, plant-based milk that baristas often steam for lattes. 🥛
  24. 54. Slightest amount — Answer: LEAST
  25. 55. Pentagon div. — Answer: DOD
  26. 56. Figure on a Wyoming license plate — Answer: COWBOY
  27. 60. Straightens up — Answer: TIDIES
  28. 62. Neptune, e.g. — Answer: SEAGOD
  29. 65. Weapon/fashion accessory for animation's Sailor Moon — Answer: TIARA
  30. 66. Apt name for a car salesman? — Answer: OTTO
  31. 67. Best impression of a Springfield patriarch? — Answer: FINESTHOMER
  32. 71. Start to wear — Answer: FRAY
  33. 72. Where you might walk down the aisle — Answer: PLANE
  34. 74. The "K" of 15-Down — Answer: KENNEL
  35. 75. Support on a lease — Answer: COSIGN
  36. 77. Temporarily banish, as a college roommate — Answer: SEXILE
  37. 79. Planks can build them — Answer: ABS
  38. 80. Wire holder — Answer: SPOOL
  39. 82. Get along in years — Answer: AGE
  40. 84. Vivid shade of yellow — Answer: CANARY
  41. 86. Headline about a falsely incriminated person casting a ballot? — Answer: VOTERFRAMED
  42. 89. Beautifully emotive — Answer: POETIC
  43. 91. Exudes — Answer: OOZES
  44. 92. "___ we forget ..." — Answer: LEST
  45. 93. Delivered a nasty insult with perfect timing? — Answer: NAILEDTHEDISMOMENT
  46. 99. Word after cash or read — Answer: ONLY
  47. 100. Toiled on a longship, maybe — Answer: OARED
  48. 101. "Lawrence of Arabia" star — Answer: OTOOLE
  49. 104. Cut short — Answer: MOW
  50. 105. Grain used in Italian cuisine — Answer: FARRO
  51. 107. Turns inside out — Answer: INVERTS
  52. 111. Bit of concert stage equipment — Answer: AMP
  53. 113. Liqueur in a spritz — Answer: APEROL
  54. 115. Classic breakup excuse ... or a phonetic hint to 23-, 36-, 47-, 67-, 86- and 93-Across — Answer: ITSNOTYOUITSME
  55. 118. Claim in a courtroom — Answer: ALLEGE
  56. 119. Dartmouth's colorful nickname — Answer: BIGGREEN
  57. 120. 2010 comedy inspired by "The Scarlet Letter" — Answer: EASYA
  58. 121. "Too bad for me!" — Answer: MYLOSS
  59. 122. Mo. known for political surprises — Answer: OCT
  60. 123. Common conjunctions — Answer: ANDS
  61. 124. Rule the ___ — Answer: ROOST

Down

  1. 1. Wine whose name is the first half of its country of origin — Answer: PORT
  2. 2. Dueling weapons — Answer: EPEES
  3. 3. Electric appliance button — Answer: RESET
  4. 4. Arm muscle, informally — Answer: TRI
  5. 5. Big pain — Answer: HASSLE
  6. 6. Noted family of New York City's Gilded Age — Answer: ASTORS
  7. 7. "If you ask me ...," to texters — Answer: IMHO
  8. 8. Alternative to a citronella candle — Answer: DEET
  9. 9. ___ mater — Answer: ALMA
  10. 10. Sign at a gas station — Answer: AIR
  11. 11. Use a Clorox wipe on, say — Answer: DEGERM
  12. 12. Gloomy — Answer: DREARY
  13. 13. Laurel of Laurel and Hardy — Answer: STAN
  14. 14. They fill up a lot — Answer: CARS
  15. 15. Org. that awards the "Paw of Courage" for canine heroism — Answer: AKC
  16. 16. Retain — Answer: LEAVEIN
  17. 17. Told some jokes, say — Answer: DIDASET
  18. 18. Surgical aids — Answer: STENTS
  19. 21. Literature — Answer: LETTERS
  20. 24. Before now — Answer: THEN
  21. 29. One celebrating Ethiopian Christmas (Jan. 7) — Answer: RASTA
  22. 32. In the thick of — Answer: AMID
  23. 34. Mag staffers — Answer: EDS
  24. 35. It might have "-GUEST" in its name — Answer: FREEWIFI
  25. 37. Big name in elevators — Answer: OTIS
  26. 38. Dryer detritus — Answer: LINT
  27. 39. Victory symbol — Answer: VEE
  28. 40. Soft mineral — Answer: TALC. Hint: This powdery mineral is commonly found in cosmetics and baby powder. 🧴
  29. 41. "Middlemarch" author — Answer: ELIOT
  30. 42. ___ pop (hybrid music genre) — Answer: EMO
  31. 43. Birthplace of Starbucks — Answer: SEATTLE
  32. 44. Skeptical of big government, say — Answer: ANTITAX
  33. 48. Yalie — Answer: ELI
  34. 49. Ecosystem for an estimated 25% of all marine species — Answer: REEF
  35. 50. Corrective eye surgery — Answer: LASIK
  36. 51. Kind of boot — Answer: GOGO
  37. 52. "Hamilton" co-star Leslie ___ Jr. — Answer: ODOM
  38. 55. "Matilda" author — Answer: DAHL
  39. 57. Darts or billiards — Answer: BARGAME
  40. 58. Ambrosia salad ingredients — Answer: ORANGES
  41. 59. "Woo-hoo!" — Answer: YAY
  42. 61. Suffice — Answer: DONICELY
  43. 62. IDs that will never start 000 or 666: Abbr. — Answer: SSNS
  44. 63. Summertime in Versailles — Answer: ETE
  45. 64. Designer's specialty — Answer: DECOR
  46. 66. Photo ___ — Answer: OPS. Hint: Think about the behind-the-scenes magic of capturing moments! 📸
  47. 68. Warm, in a sense — Answer: NEAR
  48. 69. Disc jockey : deejay :: nonbinary : ___ — Answer: ENBY
  49. 70. Feature of a yurt, but not a teepee — Answer: ROOF
  50. 73. Thrill — Answer: ELATE
  51. 76. Camera choice, in brief — Answer: SLR
  52. 78. Oklahoma's "Wheat Capital" — Answer: ENID
  53. 80. Red part of rhubarb — Answer: STEM
  54. 81. Philippine currency — Answer: PESO
  55. 83. Summer setting in Somerset, for short — Answer: EDT
  56. 85. Jackson or Jackman — Answer: ACTOR
  57. 86. Nullifying — Answer: VOIDING
  58. 87. Parts of baby wts. — Answer: OZS
  59. 88. Member of a choir — Answer: ALTO
  60. 89. Impressive array — Answer: PANOPLY
  61. 90. Crude cavity — Answer: OILWELL
  62. 91. Pablo Neruda's "___ to My Socks" — Answer: ODE
  63. 93. Polite "I'll pass" — Answer: NOMAAM
  64. 94. Gummy candy company — Answer: HARIBO
  65. 95. Like the Kama Sutra — Answer: EROTIC
  66. 96. Dunderheads — Answer: MORONS
  67. 97. Caesar's addressing? — Answer: ETTU
  68. 98. More intrusive — Answer: NOSIER
  69. 102. Dogie catcher — Answer: LASSO
  70. 103. Angela Lansbury was nominated for 18 of them (winning none) — Answer: EMMYS
  71. 105. Obscures — Answer: FOGS
  72. 106. Some six-packs — Answer: ALES
  73. 108. Director Ephron — Answer: NORA
  74. 109. Powerful engine — Answer: VTEN
  75. 110. Kept watch on — Answer: EYED
  76. 112. Bog deposit — Answer: PEAT
  77. 114. ___ Speedwagon — Answer: REO
  78. 116. Army rank above cpl. — Answer: SGT
  79. 117. Principle behind yin and yang — Answer: TAO

Recent NYT Crossword Answers

The last 7 days of solutions

NYT Crossword 22 March 2025NYT Crossword 21 March 2025NYT Crossword 20 March 2025NYT Crossword 19 March 2025NYT Crossword 18 March 2025NYT Crossword 17 March 2025NYT Crossword 16 March 2025

The answer to “Dryer detritus” in the New York Times crossword is LINT — a 4-letter word. It most recently appeared in the New York Times crossword on March 23, 2025, a Sunday puzzle, at 38-Down. Below you'll find why that fill fits, every other answer we've recorded for this clue, and links into the puzzle it came from.

“Dryer detritus” answer

LINT (4 letters)

Reveal the solution one letter at a time with the tiles above if you'd rather nudge yourself toward it than see the whole word at once. Just want it outright? The answer is LINT.

Why the answer is LINT

LINT is the 4-letter solution that fits "Dryer detritus" in the NYT Crossword crossword on March 23, 2025 (38-Down). Use the letter tiles above if you'd rather reveal it one letter at a time.

When else has “Dryer detritus” appeared?

New York Times reuses clues across dates, sometimes with a different answer depending on the grid. Here's where this exact clue has shown up, and what the answer was each time — handy when you're checking whether today's fill is the only one.

March 23, 2025 (most recent) → LINT. We haven't indexed another appearance of this exact clue yet.

More clues from the NYT Crossword on March 23, 2025

Stuck elsewhere in the grid? Here are some of the crossing and nearby clues from the same puzzle — tap any for its answer and explanation.

Want every clue in one place? The full New York Times answer list for March 23, 2025 is on that day's grid page, and today's live NYT Crossword answers are always one tap from the today page.

About the NYT Crossword

The New York Times crossword, edited by Will Shortz, is the most famous daily puzzle in the United States. It runs a 15×15 grid Monday through Saturday and a larger 21×21 grid on Sunday, and its difficulty deliberately ramps through the week: Monday is the most approachable, Saturday the toughest, with Thursday often reserved for a trick or twist like rebus squares. This page covers a Sunday puzzle. A straight-definition entry is the kind of solid mid-grid answer that anchors the trickier crossings around it. Because the NYT reuses short, crossing-friendly words regularly, seeing them once makes them easier to spot next time.

Frequently asked questions

What is the answer to “Dryer detritus”?

The answer is LINT, a 4-letter word. It most recently appeared in the New York Times crossword on March 23, 2025.

How many letters is the answer to “Dryer detritus”?

4 letters: LINT.

When did this clue appear?

Most recently in the New York Times crossword on March 23, 2025 (a Sunday puzzle), at 38-Down.

Can “Dryer detritus” have a different answer?

Yes — New York Times sometimes reuses a clue with a different solution to fit the grid. The answers we've recorded for each date it appeared are listed above when available.

Where can I find the rest of this day's NYT Crossword answers?

The full grid for March 23, 2025 is on the NYT Crossword answers page, with every clue and answer from that puzzle.

Crossword Clues

Looking up a clue? Jump into today's answers and clue help from top puzzles.