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NYT Crossword June 18 2025 Answers

Deborah Simmons ✓Solving & explaining puzzles since 1998 · Updated June 18 2025

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Every answer from the Wednesday, June 18 2025 New York Times Crossword, checked and verified against the published NYT solution. Select a clue for the full explanation.

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Across

1Near4 lettersSee answer ›5Fashion's Jimmy whose surname aptly rhymes with "shoe"4 lettersSee answer ›9Squeak remover4 lettersSee answer ›13Look bad?4 lettersSee answer ›14Not his4 lettersSee answer ›15"By Jove!"4 lettersSee answer ›16Offset, as something on a scale14 lettersSee answer ›19It might be swiped for cash7 lettersSee answer ›20Org. that was a frequent James Bond foe3 lettersSee answer ›21Mo. setting3 lettersSee answer ›23M.L.B.'er in a blue-and-orange uniform5 lettersSee answer ›24Gad about at a banquet8 lettersSee answer ›26John or Jane of anonymity3 lettersSee answer ›27Bite at a bar4 lettersSee answer ›30Job security, for some6 lettersSee answer ›31Not just my3 lettersSee answer ›32Mind-boggling designs5 lettersSee answer ›34Like hand-me-downs4 lettersSee answer ›35Rely on the hospitality of friends for lodging9 lettersSee answer ›38"Star Wars" species on Tatooine4 lettersSee answer ›41Sentiment on el Día de San Valentín5 lettersSee answer ›42Card3 lettersSee answer ›45Brewer Coors6 lettersSee answer ›48Once, once4 lettersSee answer ›49Perfect serve3 lettersSee answer ›50Hit the pubs8 lettersSee answer ›52Had5 lettersSee answer ›54Bygone initials at JFK3 lettersSee answer ›55"Mr. Blue Sky" band, in brief3 lettersSee answer ›56Be afraid to7 lettersSee answer ›58Rainy-day game for children, whose play is punnily suggested by 16-, 24-, 35- and 50-Across14 lettersSee answer ›61Capital on the Baltic Sea4 lettersSee answer ›62Went through channels?4 lettersSee answer ›63Medicinal name in the shampoo aisle4 lettersSee answer ›64Short first step4 lettersSee answer ›65Takes up, as some new pants4 lettersSee answer ›66Pennsylvania city or its county4 lettersSee answer ›

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1"Impossible!"7 lettersSee answer ›2"Ha ha ha!," on April Fools' Day7 lettersSee answer ›3Not so happy7 lettersSee answer ›4Therefore5 lettersSee answer ›5Acting Oscar winner inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame4 lettersSee answer ›6What's rounded up in a roundup4 lettersSee answer ›7Earth or sun, for example3 lettersSee answer ›8Home to the oldest Buddhist temple in Japan (built in A.D. 593)5 lettersSee answer ›9Likely (to)6 lettersSee answer ›10SEAL's org.3 lettersSee answer ›11Wine god of myth7 lettersSee answer ›12House with a long-unmowed lawn, e.g.7 lettersSee answer ›17Anchor or heart, maybe6 lettersSee answer ›18Letters before Q, sometimes4 lettersSee answer ›22"Decorated," as a house for Halloween4 lettersSee answer ›24North Carolina athlete7 lettersSee answer ›25Broadway's "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is ___"4 lettersSee answer ›28"The Simpsons" shopkeeper3 lettersSee answer ›29What a handshake may lead to4 lettersSee answer ›33Ruling title that dates back to the Byzantine Empire4 lettersSee answer ›35Course that may follow trig4 lettersSee answer ›36Verbal hesitations3 lettersSee answer ›37Chopper parts6 lettersSee answer ›38Pokes in the ring4 lettersSee answer ›392019 Brad Pitt sci-fi thriller7 lettersSee answer ›40"I don't care what that cost!"7 lettersSee answer ›42"You in?"7 lettersSee answer ›43Freeze up7 lettersSee answer ›44The first one was delivered in 19847 lettersSee answer ›46Like a house built in a day, say6 lettersSee answer ›47Long way to go?4 lettersSee answer ›51"Sound" of a point sailing over someone's head5 lettersSee answer ›53Eudora ___, Pulitzer winner for "The Optimist's Daughter"5 lettersSee answer ›56Small amount of whiskey4 lettersSee answer ›57Goals4 lettersSee answer ›59It's not you, it's me3 lettersSee answer ›60"You ___ me!"3 lettersSee answer ›