Tech giant based in Cupertino, Calif. Crossword Clue
Looking for the answer to “Tech giant based in Cupertino, Calif.” from the New York Times crossword of February 23, 2025? It has 5 letters. Flip the tiles one at a time, try a hint first, or look through the rest of that puzzle.
Crossword answer
NEW YORK TIMES, FEBRUARY 23, 2025
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APPLE is the answer to “Tech giant based in Cupertino, Calif.”. It means an edible fruit.
Hints
Three clues to the answer, gentle first. Open one at a time.
Hint 1 Meaning
An edible fruit.
Hint 2 Anagram
Its letters, scrambled: PEPAL.
Hint 3 Another clue
It has also been clued as “They have many i-opening products”.
More clues from the New York Times (February 23, 2025)
Across
- 1. Dazzling display5 letters, starts with EECLAT
- 6. Tech giant based in Cupertino, Calif.5 letters, starts with AAPPLE
- 11. Plant with bugs?3 letters, starts with SSPY
- 14. Formation of rugby players5 letters, starts with SSCRUM
- 19. Queendom in the Bible5 letters, starts with SSHEBA
- 20. Hint at L.G.B.T.Q.+ story lines to generate buzz9 letters, starts with QQUEERBAIT
- 22. Give an address5 letters, starts with OORATE
- 23. What a tight deadline might require … or what's found in 30-Across?15 letters, starts with QQUICKTURNAROUND
- 25. Viennese "please"5 letters, starts with BBITTE
- 26. Attacked7 letters, starts with MMADEWAR
- 27. Do perfectly3 letters, starts with AACE
- 28. Hound or dog6 letters, starts with PPESTER
- 29. What's-___-name3 letters, starts with HHIS
- 30. Question when leaving a grocery store, perhaps13 letters, starts with WWHEREDIDIPARK
- 34. Inaugural6 letters, starts with MMAIDEN
- 38. Unwanted event at a speakeasy4 letters, starts with RRAID
- 39. Spot for a pin3 letters, starts with MMAT
- 40. Lyricist Gershwin3 letters, starts with IIRA
- 41. Halls that may have glass ceilings5 letters, starts with AATRIA
- 42. Improvise6 letters, starts with WWINGIT
- 44. "Everything ___ Changed" (Taylor Swift song)3 letters, starts with HHAS
- 45. Scheme4 letters, starts with PPLOT
- 46. Tolerate misbehavior … or what's found in 56-Across?15 letters, starts with LLOOKTHEOTHERWAY
- 49. Collectors of signatures?5 letters, starts with CCASTS
- 50. ___ of Cleves, wife of Henry VIII4 letters, starts with AANNE
- 51. Newspaper section4 letters, starts with AARTS
- 52. Tuna variety3 letters, starts with AAHI
- 53. Word with lock or pocket3 letters, starts with AAIR
- 54. Second printings, e.g.8 letters, starts with RREISSUES
- 56. Source of some public funding12 letters, starts with FFEDERALGRANT
- 62. Boiling state3 letters, starts with IIRE
- 63. Author of the 1964 artist's book "Grapefruit"3 letters, starts with OONO
- 64. Legal tender5 letters, starts with MMONEY
- 65. When doubled, a dance3 letters, starts with CCAN
- 66. Home of the Sugarloaf Cable Car, informally3 letters, starts with RRIO
- 67. Totally the wrong way … or what's found in 79-Across?12 letters, starts with AASSBACKWARDS
- 70. "Really! Check for yourself!"8 letters, starts with IITSAFACT
- 72. Radar gun inits.3 letters, starts with MMPH
- 73. Philosophy3 letters, starts with IISM
- 74. It may be on the chopping block4 letters, starts with LLOIN
- 75. "Uh-huh, whatever you say!"4 letters, starts with IIBET
- 76. Distorts5 letters, starts with SSKEWS
- 79. "It'd be my pleasure"15 letters, starts with IIMHAPPYTOOBLIGE
- 83. Mates4 letters, starts with PPALS
- 84. 1/96 of a pint: Abbr.3 letters, starts with TTSP
- 85. It comes with a hefty bill6 letters, starts with TTOUCAN
- 86. Happen over and over5 letters, starts with RRECUR
- 87. Beehive State athlete3 letters, starts with UUTE
- 88. Coalesce3 letters, starts with GGEL
- 89. 11, literally4 letters, starts with OONES
- 90. Occasions for self-indulgence6 letters, starts with MMEDAYS
- 91. Completely change one's position … or what's found in 104-Across?13 letters, starts with RREVERSECOURSE
- 96. Intimidate3 letters, starts with CCOW
- 97. Wild goats of the Alps6 letters, starts with IIBEXES
- 98. Delta hub: Abbr.3 letters, starts with AATL
- 99. Reality competition show with quickfire challenges7 letters, starts with TTOPCHEF
- 103. Smidgen5 letters, starts with OOUNCE
- 104. Gift-wrapping supplies15 letters, starts with SSCOTCHTAPEROLLS
- 109. Formal "you," in Uruguay5 letters, starts with UUSTED
- 110. Americans who live in their own time zone9 letters, starts with HHAWAIIANS
- 111. Many a piece of writing by Joan Didion5 letters, starts with EESSAY
- 112. In a bashful manner5 letters, starts with SSHYLY
- 113. Sweetie3 letters, starts with HHON
- 114. Part of a wheel5 letters, starts with SSPOKE
- 115. Detaches from a source of dependence5 letters, starts with WWEANS
Down
- 1. Lawyer's title: Abbr.3 letters, starts with EESQ
- 2. Fish bait4 letters, starts with CCHUM
- 3. Leader of filmdom's Rebel Alliance4 letters, starts with LLEIA
- 4. Options on some tests4 letters, starts with AABCD
- 5. Receive severe criticism8 letters, starts with TTAKEHEAT
- 6. Blue-green shades5 letters, starts with AAQUAS
- 7. Sound of a smooth-running engine4 letters, starts with PPURR
- 8. Pig's digs3 letters, starts with PPEN
- 9. Locale where clovers bloom3 letters, starts with LLEA
- 10. Forget to finish writing a clue, mayb3 letters, starts with EERR
- 11. Secret ___5 letters, starts with SSAUCE
- 12. Felt longing (for)5 letters, starts with PPINED
- 13. Since Jan. 13 letters, starts with YYTD
- 14. "C'est la vie"6 letters, starts with SSOBEIT
- 15. Potato chip, to a Brit5 letters, starts with CCRISP
- 16. Coiffure parts that are sometimes braided8 letters, starts with RRATTAILS
- 17. Complete nonsense8 letters, starts with UUTTERROT
- 18. Small mongooses8 letters, starts with MMEERKATS
- 21. Creature that sounds like a snooze4 letters, starts with BBOAR
- 24. Scarlett Johansson, Rami Malek or Vin Diesel (did you know?)4 letters, starts with TTWIN
- 28. PalmPilots, e.g., for short4 letters, starts with PPDAS
- 30. Wish list items5 letters, starts with WWANTS
- 31. Like some heels and hopes4 letters, starts with HHIGH
- 32. Marriage equality activist Windsor, familiarly4 letters, starts with EEDIE
- 33. "Perhaps. That's something that interests me"4 letters, starts with IIMAY
- 34. Disease that was the subject of the second Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1902)7 letters, starts with MMALARIA
- 35. Yom Kippur observers, e.g.7 letters, starts with AATONERS
- 36. Amusingly incongruous outcomes7 letters, starts with IIRONIES
- 37. Flood preventers5 letters, starts with DDIKES
- 38. Hoots5 letters, starts with RRIOTS
- 42. "Don't worry about us"6 letters, starts with WWEREOK
- 43. Lines of work6 letters, starts with TTRADES
- 44. What locks are made of4 letters, starts with HHAIR
- 45. Catherine ___, wife of Henry VIII4 letters, starts with PPARR
- 47. Horse's behind6 letters, starts with HHAUNCH
- 48. Protein powder ingredient4 letters, starts with WWHEY
- 49. Aetna alternative5 letters, starts with CCIGNA
- 53. "Unfortunately, that's incorrect"6 letters, starts with AALASNO
- 55. Many long-running TV shows5 letters, starts with SSOAPS
- 56. Word processing selection6 letters, starts with FFORMAT
- 57. Close3 letters, starts with EEND
- 58. Director's directive6 letters, starts with AACTION
- 59. Most common coffee bean variety7 letters, starts with AARABICA
- 60. Love interest in a Hallmark movie, maybe7 letters, starts with NNICEGUY
- 61. Walks unsteadily7 letters, starts with TTOTTERS
- 64. "Monster ___" (1962 #1 song)4 letters, starts with MMASH
- 68. i5 and X54 letters, starts with BBMWS
- 69. Fraidy-cat4 letters, starts with WWIMP
- 70. Soupçons5 letters, starts with IIOTAS
- 71. Organized in a cabinet, say5 letters, starts with FFILED
- 74. School before l'université5 letters, starts with LLYCEE
- 76. Not to be relied upon8 letters, starts with SSPURIOUS
- 77. Singer whose 1985 song “Running Up That Hill” became a top 10 hit in 2022 after being featured on “Stranger Things”8 letters, starts with KKATEBUSH
- 78. 110, facetiously8 letters, starts with EELEVENTY
- 79. Barbuda or Barbados4 letters, starts with IISLE
- 80. Shoddy4 letters, starts with PPOOR
- 81. Most dad jokes4 letters, starts with PPUNS
- 82. Nickname for Milwaukee's baseball team8 letters, starts with BBREWCREW
- 84. Ocean in "Ocean's Eleven"4 letters, starts with TTESS
- 88. Like King Midas, notably6 letters, starts with GGREEDY
- 90. Have a pity party4 letters, starts with MMOPE
- 92. Google Sheets alternative5 letters, starts with EEXCEL
- 93. Supply at the Hershey Company5 letters, starts with CCACAO
- 94. City near Disney World, informally5 letters, starts with OOTOWN
- 95. ___ Beauty4 letters, starts with UULTA
- 96. Small wood5 letters, starts with CCOPSE
- 99. Fail ignominiously, as at the box office4 letters, starts with TTANK
- 100. Rip off4 letters, starts with HHOSE
- 101. "Lohengrin" soprano4 letters, starts with EELSA
- 102. Custardy treat4 letters, starts with FFLAN
- 104. "Quiet!"3 letters, starts with SSHH
- 105. Gender identity prefix3 letters, starts with CCIS
- 106. With it3 letters, starts with HHIP
- 107. Confucian concept3 letters, starts with TTAO
- 108. Part of iOS: Abbr.3 letters, starts with SSYS
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Questions
What is the answer to “Tech giant based in Cupertino, Calif.”?
APPLE, 5 letters: an edible fruit.
When was “Tech giant based in Cupertino, Calif.” last seen in a crossword?
In the New York Times crossword of February 23, 2025.
How many letters does the answer have?
5 letters, starting with A.