"Stay still!"

Latest answer — March 22, 2025

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  1. 1Style of Duchamp's so-called "readymades"
  2. 5Overlook?
  3. 9Voted for
  4. 14___ blue (original team color of the Chelsea Football Club)
  5. 15Royal adversary
  6. 16Accident reminders
  7. 17It's not as random as it seems
  8. 20Elevated, as a ballet movement
  9. 21Long-lived being in Buddhist cosmology
  10. 22Dish sometimes served with lomi-lomi salmon
  11. 23Telepathic connections
  12. 26Ashanti Anderson's "___ to Black Skin"
  13. 27Surrealist painter Carrington
  14. 29Set units
  15. 31Modern initialism for Black dialect
  16. 32On the topic of
  17. 37"Colors" rapper (1988)
  18. 38[Here we go again]
  19. 39Classic Langston Hughes poem quoted on a wall of the National Museum of African American History and Culture
  20. 40"Enough!"
  21. 42Like the Muddy Waters album "At Newport 1960"
  22. 43Excellent, average or bad, depending on the context
  23. 44Ornate water heater
  24. 46The Wildcats of the Big 12 Conf.
  25. 48Massive hockey arena in St. Petersburg, Russia
  26. 51PC discourse?
  27. 52Pop
  28. 53Company that owns Words With Friends
  29. 56Plot device in some suspense thrillers
  30. 60English actress Bamber
  31. 61Cream alternative
  32. 62Angled for attention?: Abbr.
  33. 63Collection in an herbarium, say
  34. 64This is unreal!
  35. 65Bird whose diet includes berries that grow on lava

Down

  1. 1Style influenced by Cubism, informally
  2. 2Volumes
  3. 3"Stay still!"
  4. 4___ of Bourbon, grandmother of Mary, Queen of Scots
  5. 5Car seen in the opening scene of "Dazed and Confused"
  6. 6Shoemaker's tool
  7. 7"The Ballad of Reading Gaol" poet
  8. 8Show obeisance, in a way
  9. 9They protect some software purchases
  10. 10Snicker bit
  11. 11Prelude to good news
  12. 12Rose
  13. 13Australian actress Davis
  14. 18The Aces of Triple-A baseball
  15. 19Early Netflix offering
  16. 24Annual Atlanta gathering of sci-fi/gaming fans
  17. 25One of la familia
  18. 27Bébé's breakfast
  19. 28Per
  20. 30The "magic" in some mushrooms
  21. 33Configurations of locks
  22. 34Wife of Mikhail Gorbachev
  23. 35Cosmic explosion
  24. 36Concert ending?
  25. 41Links in a certain chain
  26. 45Way-out fun?
  27. 46They come with strings attached
  28. 47Cry before a shot
  29. 49Pentagon quintet
  30. 50Fix (up)
  31. 542023 Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of J. Edgar Hoover
  32. 55Up to something?
  33. 57You might sit for one
  34. 58Certain plan for the future, in brief
  35. 59Close-lipped

The answer to “"Stay still!"” in the New York Times crossword is DONTMOVEAMUSCLE — a 15-letter word. It most recently appeared in the New York Times crossword on March 22, 2025, a Saturday puzzle, at 3-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.

“"Stay still!"” answer

DONTMOVEAMUSCLE (15 letters)

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Why the answer is DONTMOVEAMUSCLE

DONTMOVEAMUSCLE is the 15-letter solution that fits ""Stay still!"" in the NYT Crossword crossword on March 22, 2025 (3-Down). Use the letter tiles above if you'd rather reveal it one letter at a time.

When else has “"Stay still!"” appeared?

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March 22, 2025 (most recent) → DONTMOVEAMUSCLE. We haven't indexed another appearance of this exact clue yet.

Frequently asked questions

What is the answer to “"Stay still!"”?

The answer is DONTMOVEAMUSCLE, a 15-letter word. It most recently appeared in the New York Times crossword on March 22, 2025.

How many letters is the answer to “"Stay still!"”?

15 letters: DONTMOVEAMUSCLE.

When did this clue appear?

Most recently in the New York Times crossword on March 22, 2025 (a Saturday puzzle), at 3-Down.

Can “"Stay still!"” 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 22, 2025 is on the NYT Crossword answers page, with every clue and answer from that puzzle.

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