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NYT Crossword June 25 2025 Answers

Deborah Simmons ✓Solving & explaining puzzles since 1998 · Updated June 25 2025

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Every answer from the Wednesday, June 25 2025 New York Times Crossword, checked and verified against the published NYT solution. Select a clue for the full explanation.

Constructed by Ben Zimmer and Zach Sherwin · Edited by Will Shortz

Across

1Besmirch3 lettersSee answer ›4Sound of a bass drum5 lettersSee answer ›9"Challenge accepted!"5 lettersSee answer ›14TV newswoman Cabrera3 lettersSee answer ›15Drive back5 lettersSee answer ›16Like avaricious eyes5 lettersSee answer ›17Historic agreement of 121510 lettersSee answer ›19Wear on earth?5 lettersSee answer ›20"Through the fog it came" in Part I of Coleridge's "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"9 lettersSee answer ›21Big name in Dadaism3 lettersSee answer ›22Lets borrow7 lettersSee answer ›23"Dream a Little Dream of Me" singer of 1968, familiarly8 lettersSee answer ›27What silken tofu may replace in vegan recipes3 lettersSee answer ›28Frog's friend in an easy-reader classic4 lettersSee answer ›30Ethnic group of Rwanda4 lettersSee answer ›31California ___ (abstaining from everything but cannabis, say)5 lettersSee answer ›34Formally forces out6 lettersSee answer ›36Onomatopoetic breakfast trio14 lettersSee answer ›39Facility for outpatients6 lettersSee answer ›40Yorkshire metropolis5 lettersSee answer ›41Delay deciding, informally4 lettersSee answer ›42Olympic blade4 lettersSee answer ›44Olympic "blade"3 lettersSee answer ›47907, for a high one8 lettersSee answer ›49Bit of gear for Vermeer7 lettersSee answer ›53Bad bug3 lettersSee answer ›542008 romantic drama starring Joaquin Phoenix and Gwyneth Paltrow9 lettersSee answer ›56Concern for an Allied ship5 lettersSee answer ›58Incentive to stay indoors on a sweltering day, informally … or a hint to four squares in this puzzle9 lettersSee answer ›59"Cheers" in Chiapas5 lettersSee answer ›60Bird-related5 lettersSee answer ›61Simu ___, portrayer of Rival Ken in "Barbie"3 lettersSee answer ›62"Ergo …"5 lettersSee answer ›63Flashy fish5 lettersSee answer ›64A person's soul mate, with "the"3 lettersSee answer ›

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1Tex-Mex treat6 lettersSee answer ›2Like a clock with hands6 lettersSee answer ›3Miscellaneous collection6 lettersSee answer ›4Expansive parcels6 lettersSee answer ›5Love, in emoji-speak5 lettersSee answer ›6Tool for removing a tree stump8 lettersSee answer ›7M.L.B. team that retired Strawberry's #184 lettersSee answer ›8Substance in stars and neon signs6 lettersSee answer ›9Flanged girder5 lettersSee answer ›10Healthful snack brand10 lettersSee answer ›11Home to the Museum of the Portuguese Language8 lettersSee answer ›12"That's unexpected …"3 lettersSee answer ›13Bill promoting science education3 lettersSee answer ›18One of the Bobbsey twins, in children's literature3 lettersSee answer ›24Top-selling musical artist of the 2010s5 lettersSee answer ›25Part of a dance4 lettersSee answer ›26Questionable, in modern lingo3 lettersSee answer ›29Source of prophecy6 lettersSee answer ›31Popular stocking stuffer?10 lettersSee answer ›32Nail polish brand with a MillenniYUM shade3 lettersSee answer ›33Quietly added to a thread5 lettersSee answer ›35Marked, in a way3 lettersSee answer ›36Legato notation, in music4 lettersSee answer ›37Tripled, then tripled again8 lettersSee answer ›38"Don't let up. You've got this!"8 lettersSee answer ›39Tax prep pro3 lettersSee answer ›43Acquisition that may solve a mouse problem6 lettersSee answer ›44Opera with a baritone Iago6 lettersSee answer ›45"Quickest way to Harlem," in song6 lettersSee answer ›46Former stray, often6 lettersSee answer ›48Get the edge over5 lettersSee answer ›50Rite place at the rite time?5 lettersSee answer ›51___ Doone (cookie brand)5 lettersSee answer ›52First lady of Italy?3 lettersSee answer ›55"___ got some difficult days ahead": Martin Luther King Jr.4 lettersSee answer ›56Team for gymnasts Biles and Chiles3 lettersSee answer ›57Blacklist3 lettersSee answer ›