NYT CROSSWORD • MONDAY, JUNE 16, 2025
NYT Crossword Answers Jun 16, 2025
Complete answer list for the June 16, 2025 New York Times Crossword. Across and Down, every clue, every answer — plus the full grid below.
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Across 37
- 1Three-player trick-taking game ↗SKAT
- 5Supermarket tabloids, informally ↗RAGS
- 9Walkways ↗PATHS
- 14Difficult air to see through ↗HAZE
- 15Dog biter ↗FLEA
- 16Greek theater ↗ODEON
- 17Pitchers' stats ↗ERAS
- 18Short stiletto shoe ↗KITTENHEEL
- 20Voice below soprano ↗ALTO
- 22Locale for a person with a green thumb ↗GARDEN
- 23'N Sync bandmate of Justin Timberlake ↗JOEYFATONE
- 26Black Friday or Cyber Monday event ↗SALE
- 29Letters before a criminal's alias ↗AKA
- 30Vaccine-approving org. ↗FDA
- 31Finger … or what a finger dials on a phone ↗DIGIT
- 32"Affirmative!" ↗YES
- 33Floor model ↗DEMO
- 35Slanted edges, as on mirrors ↗BEVELS
- 36What a first crush might be dismissed as ↗PUPPYLOVE
- 38Author Louisa May ___ ↗ALCOTT
- 41Slugger Sammy ↗SOSA
- 42___ de Janeiro ↗RIO
- 45Like cursive handwriting, typically ↗LOOPY
- 46Yahoo alternative ↗AOL
- 47Finish ↗END
- 48Cash dispensers ↗ATMS
- 49Spot that may be affected by a charley horse ↗CALFMUSCLE
- 53Bandit at sea ↗PIRATE
- 55Small case for needles ↗ETUI
- 56Movie marketed toward a primarily female audience, informally ↗CHICKFLICK
- 60West Point, in brief ↗USMA
- 622015 Adele hit that won three Grammys ↗HELLO
- 63Adolescent woe ↗ACNE
- 64The first word of 18-, 23-, 36-, 49- or 56-Across is one ↗BABY
- 65Swords whose points were once dipped in dye before a duel ↗EPEES
- 66Squealed, as an informant ↗SANG
- 67___ gin fizz ↗SLOE
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- 1"Thar ___ blows!" ↗SHE
- 2Sing-along activity at a bar ↗KARAOKE
- 3Colorful shrubs in the genus Rhododendron ↗AZALEAS
- 4In an irritable mood ↗TESTY
- 5___ Stadium, former D.C. sports venue ↗RFK
- 6Boxer who "stung like a bee" ↗ALI
- 7Outset ↗GETGO
- 8Lucifer ↗SATAN
- 9Setting for "Make Way for Ducklings" ↗POND
- 10Sticky stuff ↗ADHESIVE
- 11Like most first-year college students ↗TEENAGE
- 12Groundbreaking invention for ancient farmers? ↗HOE
- 13Longtime sketch comedy show, in brief ↗SNL
- 19Before, poetically ↗ERE
- 21Not working, as a police officer ↗OFFDUTY
- 23Bird whose name sounds like a letter of the alphabet ↗JAY
- 24Skilled ↗ADEPT
- 25Pack (down) ↗TAMP
- 27Rapper ___ Nas X ↗LIL
- 28U.F.O. crew ↗ETS
- 31Lower one's estimation of ↗DEVALUE
- 34Yiddish laments ↗OYS
- 35___ buddy ↗BOSOM
- 36Treat on a stick that you lick ↗POPSICLE
- 37Bread purchase ↗LOAF
- 38Styled after ↗ALA
- 39Parking place ↗LOT
- 40Put together, as a scrapbook ↗COMPILE
- 42Disengagement due to a conflict of interest ↗RECUSAL
- 43Left hanging between two stages ↗INLIMBO
- 44Praiseful poem ↗ODE
- 49Half-___ (coffee order) ↗CAF
- 50Bronze statue in Rockefeller Center ↗ATLAS
- 51High-end German camera brand ↗LEICA
- 52Things left after tearing checks out of checkbooks ↗STUBS
- 54Some bygone theaters ↗RKOS
- 56Revolutionary Guevara ↗CHE
- 57No-longer-cool way to say "cool" ↗HEP
- 58First channel to offer 24-hour reporting ↗CNN
- 59Beer barrel ↗KEG
- 61"Affirmative!" at sea ↗AYE