USA Today Crossword hints and answers for June 15, 2026
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Clues79
Across40
Down39
DayMonday
Today’s USA Today 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
Feel the effects of leg day (4)
Starts with A, ends with EACHE→
5A
School adjacent to Sunset Blvd. (4)
Starts with U, ends with AUCLA→
9A
Tops with spaghetti straps (5)
Starts with C, ends with SCAMIS→
14A
Liverpool lad (4)
Starts with C, ends with PCHAP→
15A
Hardly rosy (4)
Starts with G, ends with MGRIM→
16A
Business report visual (5)
Starts with C, ends with TCHART→
17A
Car part that can be made into a swing (4)
Starts with T, ends with ETIRE→
18A
"Wish I'd thought of that!" (10)
Starts with G, ends with AGENIUSIDEA→
20A
Santa's assistants (5)
Starts with E, ends with SELVES→
22A
Throws in the mix (4)
Starts with A, ends with SADDS→
23A
Itsy-bitsy (4)
Starts with T, ends with YTINY→
24A
"Mudbound" director Rees (3)
Starts with D, ends with EDEE→
25A
___-Seltzer (4)
Starts with A, ends with AALKA→
27A
Short breaks (6)
Starts with P, ends with SPAUSES→
29A
Beast on some Kyrgyz stamps (4)
Starts with Y, ends with IYETI→
31A
House that "always wins" (6)
Starts with C, ends with OCASINO→
33A
Big-horned farm animals (4)
Starts with R, ends with SRAMS→
35A
You, in many psalms (4)
Starts with T, ends with UTHOU→
37A
Private or general (4)
Starts with R, ends with KRANK→
39A
The best of the best (5)
Starts with E, ends with EELITE→
41A
Rounded hairstyles (5)
Starts with A, ends with SAFROS→
43A
Float like a buoy (3)
Starts with B, ends with BBOB→
45A
More qualified (5)
Starts with A, ends with RABLER→
46A
Degrees for some painters (4)
Starts with M, ends with SMFAS→
47A
Prefix for "space" (4)
Starts with A, ends with OAERO→
48A
LeBron James' team (6)
Starts with L, ends with SLAKERS→
50A
Key left of F1 (3)
Starts with E, ends with CESC→
51A
___ off (angry) (4)
Starts with T, ends with DTEED→
52A
Cathedral recess (4)
Starts with A, ends with EAPSE→
54A
Off the right path (6)
Starts with A, ends with YASTRAY→
56A
Yearly book of facts (7)
Starts with A, ends with CALMANAC→
60A
Miss, in Spanish (Abbr.) (4)
Starts with S, ends with ASRTA→
61A
Show such as "Euphoria" (9)
Starts with T, ends with ATEENDRAMA→
63A
High points (5)
Starts with A, ends with SACMES→
67A
"Gilmore Girls" actor Czuchry (4)
Starts with M, ends with TMATT→
68A
Garden eastward in Genesis (4)
Starts with E, ends with NEDEN→
69A
"You had to be ___" (5)
Starts with T, ends with ETHERE→
70A
Places to get peels (4)
Starts with S, ends with SSPAS→
71A
Pronoun on a drag stage (3)
Starts with S, ends with ESHE→
72A
Car type (5)
Starts with S, ends with NSEDAN→
Down
1D
Made a scene? (5)
Starts with A, ends with DACTED→
2D
Country with 3,999 miles of coastline (5)
Starts with C, ends with ECHILE→
3D
First openly gay man elected to public office in California (10)
Starts with H, ends with KHARVEYMILK→
4D
Fencing blade with no right-of-way rules (4)
Starts with E, ends with EEPEE→
5D
Fuzzy slippers brand (3)
Starts with U, ends with GUGG→
6D
Spooky floorboard sound (5)
Starts with C, ends with KCREAK→
7D
Lawyer who co-argued in favor of Roe v. Wade (11)
Starts with L, ends with ELINDACOFFEE→
9D
Includes on an email (3)
Starts with C, ends with SCCS→
10D
Fish often served rare (7)
Starts with A, ends with AAHITUNA→
11D
"Make You Mine" singer (11)
Starts with M, ends with RMADISONBEER→
12D
Leader of Red Velvet (5)
Starts with I, ends with EIRENE→
13D
Sticks around (5)
Starts with S, ends with SSTAYS→
19D
Letter carriers' org. (4)
Starts with U, ends with SUSPS→
21D
Plopped onto a pouf (3)
Starts with S, ends with TSAT→
26D
Like Hanukkah candles after sundown (3)
Starts with L, ends with TLIT→
28D
Broadcasts (4)
Starts with A, ends with SAIRS→
30D
Cosmetician Lauder (5)
Starts with E, ends with EESTEE→
32D
Ethereal glows (5)
Starts with A, ends with SAURAS→
33D
Genuine (4)
Starts with R, ends with LREAL→
34D
"Machete" star Jessica (4)
Starts with A, ends with AALBA→
36D
Meat that might be spiral-cut (3)
Starts with H, ends with MHAM→
38D
The "K" of K-Town (5)
Starts with K, ends with AKOREA→
40D
Task you might "run" (6)
Starts with E, ends with DERRAND→
42D
One of 11 for "Titanic" (5)
Starts with O, ends with ROSCAR→
44D
Hair fullness (4)
Starts with B, ends with YBODY→
47D
Embassy staffer (7)
Starts with A, ends with EATTACHE→
49D
/, in bowling (5)
Starts with S, ends with ESPARE→
53D
Boatloads (5)
Starts with S, ends with SSCADS→
55D
Data tracked in fantasy leagues (5)
Starts with S, ends with SSTATS→
56D
Devices first installed at Barclays in 1967 (4)
Starts with A, ends with SATMS→
57D
Big jump (4)
Starts with L, ends with PLEAP→
58D
Like a story about a story (4)
Starts with M, ends with AMETA→
59D
___ on a log (healthy snack) (4)
Starts with A, ends with SANTS→
60D
Rational (4)
Starts with S, ends with ESANE→
62D
"Nothing special" (3)
Starts with M, ends with HMEH→
64D
Pre-___ student (3)
Starts with M, ends with DMED→
65D
Distinct period (3)
Starts with E, ends with AERA→
66D
Rep.'s colleague (3)
Starts with S, ends with NSEN→
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How many clues are in the USA Today Crossword for June 15, 2026?+
79 clues: 40 Across and 39 Down.
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For example: Feel the effects of leg day (ACHE); School adjacent to Sunset Blvd. (UCLA); Tops with spaghetti straps (CAMIS).
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