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NYT Crossword Answers Jun 18, 2025

Complete answer list for the June 18, 2025 New York Times Crossword. Across and Down, every clue, every answer — plus the full grid below.

By Eli CothamEdited by Will ShortzGrid 15×1574 clues

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Across 37

  1. 1Near ↗NIGH
  2. 5Fashion's Jimmy whose surname aptly rhymes with "shoe" ↗CHOO
  3. 9Squeak remover ↗LUBE
  4. 13Look bad? ↗OGLE
  5. 14Not his ↗HERS
  6. 15"By Jove!" ↗ISAY
  7. 16Offset, as something on a scale ↗COUNTERBALANCE
  8. 19It might be swiped for cash ↗ATMCARD
  9. 20Org. that was a frequent James Bond foe ↗KGB
  10. 21Mo. setting ↗CST
  11. 23M.L.B.'er in a blue-and-orange uniform ↗NYMET
  12. 24Gad about at a banquet ↗TABLEHOP
  13. 26John or Jane of anonymity ↗DOE
  14. 27Bite at a bar ↗TAPA
  15. 30Job security, for some ↗TENURE
  16. 31Not just my ↗OUR
  17. 32Mind-boggling designs ↗OPART
  18. 34Like hand-me-downs ↗USED
  19. 35Rely on the hospitality of friends for lodging ↗COUCHSURF
  20. 38"Star Wars" species on Tatooine ↗JAWA
  21. 41Sentiment on el Día de San Valentín ↗TEAMO
  22. 42Card ↗WIT
  23. 45Brewer Coors ↗ADOLPH
  24. 48Once, once ↗ERST
  25. 49Perfect serve ↗ACE
  26. 50Hit the pubs ↗BARCRAWL
  27. 52Had ↗OWNED
  28. 54Bygone initials at JFK ↗SST
  29. 55"Mr. Blue Sky" band, in brief ↗ELO
  30. 56Be afraid to ↗DARENOT
  31. 58Rainy-day game for children, whose play is punnily suggested by 16-, 24-, 35- and 50-Across ↗THEFLOORISLAVA
  32. 61Capital on the Baltic Sea ↗RIGA
  33. 62Went through channels? ↗SWAM
  34. 63Medicinal name in the shampoo aisle ↗TGEL
  35. 64Short first step ↗ATOB
  36. 65Takes up, as some new pants ↗HEMS
  37. 66Pennsylvania city or its county ↗YORK

Down 37

  1. 1"Impossible!" ↗NOCANDO
  2. 2"Ha ha ha!," on April Fools' Day ↗IGOTYOU
  3. 3Not so happy ↗GLUMMER
  4. 4Therefore ↗HENCE
  5. 5Acting Oscar winner inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame ↗CHER
  6. 6What's rounded up in a roundup ↗HERD
  7. 7Earth or sun, for example ↗ORB
  8. 8Home to the oldest Buddhist temple in Japan (built in A.D. 593) ↗OSAKA
  9. 9Likely (to) ↗LIABLE
  10. 10SEAL's org. ↗USN
  11. 11Wine god of myth ↗BACCHUS
  12. 12House with a long-unmowed lawn, e.g. ↗EYESORE
  13. 17Anchor or heart, maybe ↗TATTOO
  14. 18Letters before Q, sometimes ↗LGBT
  15. 22"Decorated," as a house for Halloween ↗TPED
  16. 24North Carolina athlete ↗TARHEEL
  17. 25Broadway's "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is ___" ↗ENUF
  18. 28"The Simpsons" shopkeeper ↗APU
  19. 29What a handshake may lead to ↗PACT
  20. 33Ruling title that dates back to the Byzantine Empire ↗TSAR
  21. 35Course that may follow trig ↗CALC
  22. 36Verbal hesitations ↗UMS
  23. 37Chopper parts ↗ROTORS
  24. 38Pokes in the ring ↗JABS
  25. 392019 Brad Pitt sci-fi thriller ↗ADASTRA
  26. 40"I don't care what that cost!" ↗WORTHIT
  27. 42"You in?" ↗WANNAGO
  28. 43Freeze up ↗ICEOVER
  29. 44The first one was delivered in 1984 ↗TEDTALK
  30. 46Like a house built in a day, say ↗PREFAB
  31. 47Long way to go? ↗HALL
  32. 51"Sound" of a point sailing over someone's head ↗WOOSH
  33. 53Eudora ___, Pulitzer winner for "The Optimist's Daughter" ↗WELTY
  34. 56Small amount of whiskey ↗DRAM
  35. 57Goals ↗AIMS
  36. 59It's not you, it's me ↗EGO
  37. 60"You ___ me!" ↗OWE