NYT Crossword June 6, 2025 Answers

Welcome to the complete solution for the New York Times Crossword published Friday, June 6, 2025. Widely regarded as the pinnacle of American crosswords, today's puzzle continues the NYT tradition of clever wordplay and cultural references.

NYT Crossword June 6, 2025 Answers

This NYT puzzle from June 6, 2025 contains 66 total clues—31 across and 35 down. Below you'll find every clue with its answer and helpful hints. If you're working on a different date, check our NYT crossword archive.

Across Clues

#	Clue	Answer
1A	Novelist Patchett	ANN
4A	Adviser to an acting president?	DRAMACOACH
14A	Mouthful for the foulmouthed	SOAP
16A	Average guy	JOE
17A	One of two ingredients used to make chapati	ATTA
18A	"You know your voices carry, right?!"	IVEGOTEARS
19A	Neutralize, so to speak	DOIN
20A	Milestone for a baby	FIRSTWORDS
21A	Formally selects	ANOINTS
23A	Dance specialty	TAP
24A	Keep from being touched, in a way	ENCASE
25A	Seek out	SOLICIT
29A	Runaway hit	SMASH
30A	Meme of the star of "John Wick" looking downcast	SADKEANU
31A	Row crosser: Abbr.	COL
32A	___ Núñez de Balboa, Isthmus of Panama explorer	VASCO
34A	Means of taking a trip	LSD
35A	Cultural draw of Shanghai's M50 district	ARTSCENE
38A	Prove otherwise	BELIE
40A	Some Halloween mischief	DEVILRY
41A	Not very animated	STOLID
43A	Culture center?	LAB
44A	Point guard's crafty maneuver	HOPSTEP
46A	Flavor enhancer in many pho recipes	BONEMARROW
51A	"And ... done!"	TADA
52A	Split without warning	UPANDLEAVE
53A	One may be picked up in the gym	ODOR
54A	Support when building bridges	CANTILEVER
55A	Litter pickup area?	NAPE
56A	Overly warm welcome, maybe	SLOPPYKISS
57A	"You can count on me"	IWILL

Down Clues

#	Clue	Answer
1D	Adjective on taco truck menus	ASADA
2D	"That's my absolute limit!"	NOTONEMORE
3D	Big game medium	NATIONALTV
4D	Snow fence accumulations	DRIFTS
5D	Perfect writing?	REVISE
6D	New ___	YORK
7D	Tavern vessels	MUGS
8D	Mountains of work ahead	ALOTTODO
9D	A model way to work?	CATWALK
10D	Dessert with a black-and-white filling	OREOPIE
11D	Mostly closed	AJAR
12D	Part of a hammock	CORD
13D	BP rival	HESS
15D	Fails to keep cool	PANICS
22D	"Hmm ... hard pass"	NAH
25D	Source of a cephalopod's defensive ink	SAC
26D	Punch out, say	CALLITADAY
27D	Privileged figures, perhaps?	INSIDEDOPE
28D	Sass, informally	TUDE
29D	Bucketful	SCAD
30D	Sioux Falls-to-Sioux City dir.	SSE
32D	How many consent	VERBALLY
33D	"Whichever one you want"	ANY
36D	Cupboard component	DOOR
37D	Seafood cookout bowlful	CLAMDIP
38D	Charles Mingus specialty	BOP
39D	___ Howard, Yankee who was the 1963 A.L. M.V.P.	ELSTON
41D	Propels, like a shuffleboard disk	SHOVES
42D	Lookout positions	TOWERS
45D	Cuts (down)	PARES
46D	2003 and 2021 Super Bowl champs, informally	BUCS
47D	Milky resource found in the outback	OPAL
48D	Onetime iPod offering	NANO
49D	Be very funky	REEK
50D	Noted name in raga performance	RAVI

The New York Times Crossword has been published since 1942 and is widely considered the gold standard of American crosswords. The puzzle follows a weekly difficulty progression: Monday is the easiest, building up to Saturday's notoriously challenging grid. Sunday features a larger puzzle with Thursday-level difficulty. Edited by Will Shortz since 1993, the NYT crossword has launched countless constructors' careers and remains the most prestigious venue in crossword publishing.

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