NYT Crossword hints and answer for June 4, 2025
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Clues77
Across37
Down40
ConstructorDanna Rosenberg
Today’s NYT Crossword clues, hints & answers
Every clue from this puzzle with a hint and the answer behind separate buttons, so you only see what you need. Click a clue for its own page.
Across
1A
Going ___ (4)
Starts with A, ends with TATIT→
5A
Clarifying words (6)
Starts with T, ends with STHATIS→
11A
Student's concern, in brief (3)
Starts with G, ends with AGPA→
14A
Girl in Jefferson Airplane's "White Rabbit" (5)
Starts with A, ends with EALICE→
15A
Use a Sharpie on, perhaps (6)
Starts with R, ends with TREDACT→
16A
Undefeated boxer Laila (3)
Starts with A, ends with IALI→
17A
Platinum-selling singer who co-starred in the films "Moonlight" and "Hidden Figures" (12)
Starts with J, ends with EJANELLEMONAE→
19A
Family transport (3)
Starts with V, ends with NVAN→
20A
Certain chain movie theaters (4)
Starts with A, ends with SAMCS→
21A
Egyptian snake (3)
Starts with A, ends with PASP→
22A
Proof (or disproof) of paternity (7)
Starts with D, ends with TDNATEST→
24A
Corkscrew-shaped pasta (6)
Starts with R, ends with IROTINI→
26A
Lion's home (7)
Starts with D, ends with TDETROIT→
27A
"Creature" that might "attack" a small child (13)
Starts with T, ends with RTICKLEMONSTER→
31A
Shed tears (3)
Starts with S, ends with BSOB→
34A
Like snow leopards and giant pandas (5)
Starts with A, ends with NASIAN→
35A
King of Norway and Sweden from 1844 to 1859 (6)
Starts with O, ends with IOSCARI→
36A
Only known warm-blooded fish (4)
Starts with O, ends with HOPAH→
38A
Not much (4)
Starts with A, ends with DATAD→
40A
Like fine wine and cheese (4)
Starts with A, ends with DAGED→
41A
The aughts, e.g. (6)
Starts with D, ends with EDECADE→
44A
"Für ___" (Beethoven dedication) (5)
Starts with E, ends with EELISE→
47A
Wordsworth's "Intimations of Immortality," e.g. (3)
Starts with O, ends with EODE→
48A
Homing devices? (13)
Starts with A, ends with SANKLEMONITORS→
51A
Done without much care, informally (7)
Starts with H, ends with SHALFASS→
52A
Something not to quit, they say (6)
Starts with D, ends with BDAYJOB→
56A
Excels at school (7)
Starts with G, ends with AGETSANA→
57A
Year in Rio (3)
Starts with A, ends with OANO→
59A
Cool, in slang (4)
Starts with D, ends with EDOPE→
60A
Bit of light (3)
Starts with R, ends with YRAY→
61A
What to do when life gives you the proverbial items hidden in 17-, 27- and 48-Across (12)
Starts with M, ends with EMAKELEMONADE→
64A
Experiencing little to no amorous attraction, informally (3)
Starts with A, ends with OARO→
65A
List ender (6)
Starts with E, ends with IETALII→
66A
Kind of sax (5)
Starts with T, ends with RTENOR→
67A
A/C measure (3)
Starts with B, ends with UBTU→
68A
"Not so!," e.g. (6)
Starts with D, ends with LDENIAL→
69A
Line up, in a way (4)
Starts with S, ends with CSYNC→
Down
1D
Unforgettable place? (5)
Starts with A, ends with OALAMO→
2D
Bit of color (5)
Starts with T, ends with TTINCT→
3D
Seals the deal, informally (6)
Starts with I, ends with TICESIT→
4D
Business card abbr. (3)
Starts with T, ends with LTEL→
5D
"Chic" modifier (4)
Starts with T, ends with STRES→
6D
Rope fiber (4)
Starts with H, ends with PHEMP→
8D
Partners often work in this (6)
Starts with T, ends with MTANDEM→
9D
"Oh yeah? Watch me!" (7)
Starts with I, ends with OICANTOO→
10D
The "S" of T.S. Eliot (7)
Starts with S, ends with SSTEARNS→
11D
Tried something new, perhaps (9)
Starts with G, ends with OGAVEITAGO→
12D
Drunk out of one's mind (9)
Starts with P, ends with DPLASTERED→
13D
Is not, informally (4)
Starts with A, ends with TAINT→
14D
Cracked, as a door (4)
Starts with A, ends with RAJAR→
18D
Pastor's flock (5)
Starts with L, ends with SLAICS→
23D
Puccini opera (5)
Starts with T, ends with ATOSCA→
25D
Actress Vardalos (3)
Starts with N, ends with ANIA→
26D
North American peak named by the Koyukon Athabascans (6)
Starts with D, ends with IDENALI→
28D
Rio maker (3)
Starts with K, ends with AKIA→
29D
Gets darker, say (6)
Starts with L, ends with SLATENS→
30D
Carousel, e.g. (4)
Starts with R, ends with ERIDE→
31D
Drink with a straw (4)
Starts with S, ends with ASODA→
32D
Kind of surgery (9)
Starts with O, ends with TOPENHEART→
33D
Remark that may immediately follow an insult or a compliment (9)
Starts with B, ends with UBACKATYOU→
37D
They might be decked in December (5)
Starts with H, ends with SHALLS→
39D
Morse bit (3)
Starts with D, ends with TDIT→
42D
Maligned (7)
Starts with D, ends with DDEFAMED→
43D
Send off (7)
Starts with E, ends with EEMANATE→
45D
Twin city in the Bible (5)
Starts with S, ends with MSODOM→
46D
Notable time period (3)
Starts with E, ends with AERA→
49D
Resident of Japan's third-largest city (6)
Starts with O, ends with NOSAKAN→
50D
Host of the 2000 Olympics (6)
Starts with S, ends with YSYDNEY→
53D
Two-syllable woman's name that becomes a one-syllable woman's name if you drop the last letter (5)
Starts with J, ends with NJOANN→
54D
Film portmanteau, informally (5)
Starts with O, ends with COPDOC→
55D
"Divine medicine," per the Greek physician Paracelsus (4)
Starts with B, ends with RBEER→
56D
Snatch (4)
Starts with G, ends with BGRAB→
57D
Actress Shawkat of "Arrested Development" (4)
Starts with A, ends with AALIA→
58D
Astrophysicist ___ deGrasse Tyson (4)
Starts with N, ends with LNEIL→
62D
Certain Ivy Leaguer (3)
Starts with E, ends with IELI→
63D
Tense parts of sports matches, for short (3)
Starts with O, ends with SOTS→
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How many clues are in the NYT Crossword for June 4, 2025?+
77 clues: 37 Across and 40 Down. The puzzle was constructed by Danna Rosenberg and edited by Will Shortz.
What are some answers in today’s NYT Crossword?+
For example: Going ___ (ATIT); Clarifying words (THATIS); Student's concern, in brief (GPA).
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