NYT Crossword hints and answer for June 5, 2025
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Clues82
Across41
Down41
ConstructorTimothy Gaetz
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
Toggle on a digital clock (4)
Starts with A, ends with MAMPM→
5A
Leader of brothers (5)
Starts with A, ends with TABBOT→
10A
Gillette razor (4)
Starts with A, ends with AATRA→
14A
*Confirm to be true (4)
Starts with V, ends with YVERY→
15A
Like 2027 and 2029, but not 2025 (5)
Starts with P, ends with EPRIME→
16A
*Someone who knows how the sausage gets made? (4)
Starts with C, ends with RCHER→
17A
Works traditionally performed with musical accompaniment in ancient Greece (4)
Starts with O, ends with SODES→
18A
Goliath (5)
Starts with T, ends with NTITAN→
19A
Coach's charge (4)
Starts with T, ends with MTEAM→
20A
Rainwater clearer (5)
Starts with W, ends with RWIPER→
22A
Unwanted "ingredient" when assembling s'mores, say (3)
Starts with A, ends with HASH→
23A
___ love (5)
Starts with P, ends with YPUPPY→
24A
Mr. Spock, e.g. (5)
Starts with A, ends with NALIEN→
26A
Clamorous (5)
Starts with A, ends with RAROAR→
28A
Cunning sort (6)
Starts with S, ends with XSLYFOX→
30A
"Finally!" (6)
Starts with A, ends with TATLAST→
33A
Li'l belly (3)
Starts with T, ends with MTUM→
34A
*Formal expressions of praise (5)
Starts with T, ends with STRIES→
38A
Diminutive suffix in Spanish (3)
Starts with I, ends with OITO→
39A
Like some coffees and mob targets (4)
Starts with I, ends with DICED→
41A
Nickname for Louis Armstrong (5)
Starts with S, ends with HSATCH→
42A
Activist Brockovich (4)
Starts with E, ends with NERIN→
43A
Neighbor of "#" on a telephone keypad (4)
Starts with N, ends with ENINE→
44A
Supporting (3)
Starts with F, ends with RFOR→
45A
Stir up (4)
Starts with R, ends with ERILE→
46A
The Forbidden City's Meridian ___ (4)
Starts with G, ends with EGATE→
47A
*One who's conspicuously excellent (5)
Starts with S, ends with TSTOUT→
49A
One standing near a pond, maybe (4)
Starts with R, ends with DREED→
50A
Animal symbol of innocence (3)
Starts with D, ends with EDOE→
52A
Biblical beast (3)
Starts with A, ends with SASS→
54A
Stunning 17,000-year-old discovery in France's Lascaux Cave (3)
Starts with A, ends with TART→
57A
Companionship? (3)
Starts with A, ends with KARK→
59A
A club might be seen on one (3)
Starts with A, ends with EACE→
60A
General name on a Chinese menu (3)
Starts with T, ends with OTSO→
63A
Emphatic instruction for entering the answers to this puzzle's 10 starred clues? (15)
Starts with N, ends with SNOIFSANDSORBUTS→
67A
Flat sign (5)
Starts with T, ends with TTOLET→
68A
Alley ___ (3)
Starts with O, ends with POOP→
69A
Clichéd (5)
Starts with B, ends with LBANAL→
70A
Cluster in an archipelago (5)
Starts with I, ends with SISLES→
71A
*Street urchins (3)
Starts with W, ends with SWAS→
72A
Professional writer of a sort (5)
Starts with S, ends with OSTENO→
Down
1D
Proclaim (4)
Starts with A, ends with WAVOW→
2D
Lead-in to care (4)
Starts with M, ends with IMEDI→
3D
Necessity for a reservation, perhaps (10)
Starts with P, ends with TPREPAYMENT→
4D
Word that can redundantly follow "I" (6)
Starts with M, ends with FMYSELF→
5D
Inclined (3)
Starts with A, ends with TAPT→
6D
Actor Cox of "Succession" (5)
Starts with B, ends with NBRIAN→
7D
*Armed thieves (4)
Starts with B, ends with SBITS→
8D
Midwest city whose name consists of two interjections (5)
Starts with O, ends with AOMAHA→
9D
This clue's number + one (3)
Starts with T, ends with NTEN→
10D
Not approximate, say (6)
Starts with A, ends with LACTUAL→
11D
Setting for a Laura Ingalls Wilder book series (10)
Starts with T, ends with ETHEPRAIRIE→
12D
Garner (4)
Starts with R, ends with PREAP→
13D
Huge fan club, so to speak (4)
Starts with A, ends with YARMY→
21D
"Blame It on ___" (1984 Michael Caine rom-com) (3)
Starts with R, ends with ORIO→
23D
Shoot into the pocket, in snooker (3)
Starts with P, ends with TPOT→
25D
Telephone no. add-ons (4)
Starts with E, ends with SEXTS→
28D
*Removing lumps from, in a way (5)
Starts with S, ends with GSTING→
29D
Saint in the Caribbean (5)
Starts with L, ends with ALUCIA→
31D
Barrier to entry (5)
Starts with S, ends with ESTILE→
32D
*Like dress shirts, typically (5)
Starts with T, ends with DTONED→
35D
Emergency item on a ship (4)
Starts with R, ends with TRAFT→
36D
Langston Hughes poem published during the Harlem Renaissance (4)
Starts with I, ends with OITOO→
37D
Light shade (4)
Starts with E, ends with UECRU→
40D
*Showed for the first time (4)
Starts with D, ends with DDEED→
42D
*Buying a gallon of milk, picking up the laundry, etc. (4)
Starts with E, ends with SERRS→
47D
Antidotes, perhaps (4)
Starts with S, ends with ASERA→
48D
Food subject to internet debate over whether or not it's a sandwich (4)
Starts with T, ends with OTACO→
51D
Kilns for hops (5)
Starts with O, ends with SOASTS→
53D
Neighbors of Croats (5)
Starts with S, ends with SSERBS→
54D
Not supporting (4)
Starts with A, ends with IANTI→
55D
Down Under bounders (4)
Starts with R, ends with SROOS→
56D
Cultivate (4)
Starts with T, ends with LTILL→
58D
Have down (4)
Starts with K, ends with WKNOW→
59D
What Indiana Jones famously isn't fond of (4)
Starts with A, ends with SASPS→
60D
Get ready to hit all the right notes? (4)
Starts with T, ends with ETUNE→
61D
1970s tennis champ Smith (4)
Starts with S, ends with NSTAN→
62D
Home of the historic Oscarshall Palace (4)
Starts with O, ends with OOSLO→
64D
Cost of doing business, maybe (3)
Starts with F, ends with EFEE→
65D
Doomed from the get-go, for short (3)
Starts with D, ends with ADOA→
66D
Cave dweller (3)
Starts with B, ends with TBAT→
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How many clues are in the NYT Crossword for June 5, 2025?+
82 clues: 41 Across and 41 Down. The puzzle was constructed by Timothy Gaetz and edited by Will Shortz.
What are some answers in today’s NYT Crossword?+
For example: Toggle on a digital clock (AMPM); Leader of brothers (ABBOT); Gillette razor (ATRA).
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