Vi's 2025 Crossword Challenge

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Across
  1. 2. Phoebe judged this book for listeners (and it wasn’t criminal)
  2. 4. Finely ground green tea you can now make at home
  3. 6. Shane’s beard (what colour is her jacket?)
  4. 7. Bear, Bottoms actor ____ Edebiri
  5. 13. Gracie’s down under opener: Felt ______ you
  6. 14. This included the (very slow) return of a cinematic sloth
  7. 18. The winning pretty summer team (finally)!
  8. 19. Smoke and Stack spent seven years there
  9. 20. 'I did the butcher, I did the baker I did the home and the family ____'
  10. 23. DCC signature routine
  11. 24. Josh Holloway, when he’s ‘Lost’ on a strange island
  12. 25. Down under dancing star (November)
  13. 28. Trash panda = Toronto: ______ = Brisbane (urban pest)
  14. 32. Where Joni longed to be while sitting in a park in Paris?
  15. 33. Who adopted an Ar-hentinian accent and appeared in public?
  16. 35. Hawaii’s most famous driver (he could have chosen Muhammed)
  17. 37. She championed chimps (remember the jet lag?)
  18. 38. What's waiting for you, Billy J?
  19. 39. Where Kate might run from Vecna
  20. 43. Where did Bob D knock tunefully?
  21. 45. Carpenter’s Irish flame
  22. 46. ‘Super’ show rapper (was there a dis?)
  23. 48. Jane Hopper
  24. 50. Rockefeller Centre sighting who has all she needs ‘underneath the tree’
  25. 51. Grammy album of the year (Is it Texas? Is it hold ‘em?)
  26. 53. What the world seems to do when you’ve had too much wine
  27. 54. Sydney who got in trouble for wearing jeans
Down
  1. 1. This part of the week got freakier
  2. 3. Singer/songwriter with a haunting sound (Boy, she is a genius!)
  3. 5. They hopped in a field. We stopped the car.
  4. 6. What alarm never rings for Davy?
  5. 8. Tony winner for Burr
  6. 9. Swift’s new life (3 October 2025)
  7. 10. Bestie with a brand new belt (don’t make her mad!)
  8. 11. Aimee Lou ______ She played Chelsea in Thailand
  9. 12. Jonathan loved by People
  10. 15. Dasot ____ Ilgop
  11. 16. As it was, he ran the Berlin marathon as Sted Sarandos
  12. 17. Viral furry gremlin doll
  13. 21. ______ Gregory Okonma (Chromakopia creator)
  14. 22. ‘Large’ London tourist attraction (See and hear it from the bridge)
  15. 26. Minecraft meme that caused chaos in cinemas
  16. 27. What Tiffany thinks
  17. 29. What made Stevie afraid during a landslide?
  18. 30. Host cancelled (uncancelled) by Trump
  19. 31. Dictionary.com's 2025 Word of the Year (But what does it mean? Also, it’s two words!)
  20. 34. Bennie’s got ______ and a mohair suit
  21. 36. ‘Lady peaceful, lady happy’ show
  22. 40. There were spider webs of euphoria when these lip sync battlers got engaged
  23. 41. She rephrased ‘Warm to leave’ and had a hit
  24. 42. Tim who learned guitar and ping pong for work
  25. 44. Alternative form of a gene, arising by mutation
  26. 47. Dean, Frank, Sammy, Joey and Peter’s Las Vegas gang: The ___ Pack (Bogart started it)
  27. 49. Who thinks Dominic is a cheating no-goodnik?
  28. 52. Justin’s favourite singing astronaut