NYT CROSSWORD • THURSDAY, JUNE 5, 2025

NYT Crossword Answers Jun 5, 2025

Complete answer list for the June 5, 2025 New York Times Crossword. Across and Down, every clue, every answer — plus the full grid below.

By Timothy GaetzEdited by Will ShortzGrid 15×1582 clues

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The Grid

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Across 41

  1. 1Toggle on a digital clock ↗AMPM
  2. 5Leader of brothers ↗ABBOT
  3. 10Gillette razor ↗ATRA
  4. 14*Confirm to be true ↗VERY
  5. 15Like 2027 and 2029, but not 2025 ↗PRIME
  6. 16*Someone who knows how the sausage gets made? ↗CHER
  7. 17Works traditionally performed with musical accompaniment in ancient Greece ↗ODES
  8. 18Goliath ↗TITAN
  9. 19Coach's charge ↗TEAM
  10. 20Rainwater clearer ↗WIPER
  11. 22Unwanted "ingredient" when assembling s'mores, say ↗ASH
  12. 23___ love ↗PUPPY
  13. 24Mr. Spock, e.g. ↗ALIEN
  14. 26Clamorous ↗AROAR
  15. 28Cunning sort ↗SLYFOX
  16. 30"Finally!" ↗ATLAST
  17. 33Li'l belly ↗TUM
  18. 34*Formal expressions of praise ↗TRIES
  19. 38Diminutive suffix in Spanish ↗ITO
  20. 39Like some coffees and mob targets ↗ICED
  21. 41Nickname for Louis Armstrong ↗SATCH
  22. 42Activist Brockovich ↗ERIN
  23. 43Neighbor of "#" on a telephone keypad ↗NINE
  24. 44Supporting ↗FOR
  25. 45Stir up ↗RILE
  26. 46The Forbidden City's Meridian ___ ↗GATE
  27. 47*One who's conspicuously excellent ↗STOUT
  28. 49One standing near a pond, maybe ↗REED
  29. 50Animal symbol of innocence ↗DOE
  30. 52Biblical beast ↗ASS
  31. 54Stunning 17,000-year-old discovery in France's Lascaux Cave ↗ART
  32. 57Companionship? ↗ARK
  33. 59A club might be seen on one ↗ACE
  34. 60General name on a Chinese menu ↗TSO
  35. 63Emphatic instruction for entering the answers to this puzzle's 10 starred clues? ↗NOIFSANDSORBUTS
  36. 67Flat sign ↗TOLET
  37. 68Alley ___ ↗OOP
  38. 69Clichéd ↗BANAL
  39. 70Cluster in an archipelago ↗ISLES
  40. 71*Street urchins ↗WAS
  41. 72Professional writer of a sort ↗STENO

Down 41

  1. 1Proclaim ↗AVOW
  2. 2Lead-in to care ↗MEDI
  3. 3Necessity for a reservation, perhaps ↗PREPAYMENT
  4. 4Word that can redundantly follow "I" ↗MYSELF
  5. 5Inclined ↗APT
  6. 6Actor Cox of "Succession" ↗BRIAN
  7. 7*Armed thieves ↗BITS
  8. 8Midwest city whose name consists of two interjections ↗OMAHA
  9. 9This clue's number + one ↗TEN
  10. 10Not approximate, say ↗ACTUAL
  11. 11Setting for a Laura Ingalls Wilder book series ↗THEPRAIRIE
  12. 12Garner ↗REAP
  13. 13Huge fan club, so to speak ↗ARMY
  14. 21"Blame It on ___" (1984 Michael Caine rom-com) ↗RIO
  15. 23Shoot into the pocket, in snooker ↗POT
  16. 25Telephone no. add-ons ↗EXTS
  17. 27Hasty ↗RASH
  18. 28*Removing lumps from, in a way ↗STING
  19. 29Saint in the Caribbean ↗LUCIA
  20. 31Barrier to entry ↗STILE
  21. 32*Like dress shirts, typically ↗TONED
  22. 35Emergency item on a ship ↗RAFT
  23. 36Langston Hughes poem published during the Harlem Renaissance ↗ITOO
  24. 37Light shade ↗ECRU
  25. 40*Showed for the first time ↗DEED
  26. 42*Buying a gallon of milk, picking up the laundry, etc. ↗ERRS
  27. 47Antidotes, perhaps ↗SERA
  28. 48Food subject to internet debate over whether or not it's a sandwich ↗TACO
  29. 51Kilns for hops ↗OASTS
  30. 53Neighbors of Croats ↗SERBS
  31. 54Not supporting ↗ANTI
  32. 55Down Under bounders ↗ROOS
  33. 56Cultivate ↗TILL
  34. 58Have down ↗KNOW
  35. 59What Indiana Jones famously isn't fond of ↗ASPS
  36. 60Get ready to hit all the right notes? ↗TUNE
  37. 611970s tennis champ Smith ↗STAN
  38. 62Home of the historic Oscarshall Palace ↗OSLO
  39. 64Cost of doing business, maybe ↗FEE
  40. 65Doomed from the get-go, for short ↗DOA
  41. 66Cave dweller ↗BAT