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NYT Crossword — July 1, 2025

Tuesday’s 15 × 15 puzzle, 74 clues. The full solution is below — answers stay masked until you reveal them, one clue or all at once.

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37 clues

1Potato chip, to Brits

6Boxing call, informally

9Award you can wear

14Tower of ___ (mathematical puzzle with disks)

15Cash in Kyoto

16Deliver a TED talk, say

17"Stop!," during roughhousing

18Something found in a plum, but not a pear

19Situated long-term

20*Most "wasabi" at sushi bars, in actuality

23*Fruit whose name is also a synonym for a grouch

24Said "speaking of which," say

31Take a seat unceremoniously, with "down"

35Contest before a final, informally

36Bathroom, to Brits

37Handle, as a tough piece of information

41Domain suffix that most civilians can't register

42"___ a free country"

43Omnivorous fish of the Amazon

44Info from someone who's on the way

45Like Nickelodeon's Mutant Ninja Turtles

47Widens, as a pupil

49Make yawn, say

50Concluding part

51Electronically produced echo effect

53"Fine, I guess"

56"Dead serious," in modern lingo

58___ of the valley

60Rapper ___ Sweatshirt

61Bring together

63Counterpart of Dreyer's east of the Rockies

64Actress Thompson of "Selma" and "Creed"

65Powdered sugar, for a gingerbread house

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37 clues

1"Crazy Rich Asians" director Jon M. ___

21985 Kurosawa epic that is a retelling of "King Lear"

4Beverage holder that's typically red

5Capital of South Dakota

6Characteristically laid-back

7Actress Knightley

8Dispensed from a keg

9Like some homes and phones

10Items on a blackboard tray

11Recipe smidgen, as of salt

13Was ahead in a race

22They result in two baseball outs, for short

25Mexican dish of corn on the cob with toppings

26*Fruit from a bush, much used in pies and jams

28Like the foods that answer the starred clues, despite how their names start

29Be overdramatic

30High-maintenance stars

33"Gattaca" co-star Thurman

34Word after wedding or rubber

37Tire on the back of a jeep

38*Little tuber used to make Spanish horchata

39*Garbanzo, by another name

40Heavenly headwear

46"Great Expectations" and "The Great Gatsby," for two

51There might be a fork in it

52Barbecue discard

53"Overnight" breakfast option

54Muppet who posts on social media in the third person

55Stand next to a club?

57Gender prefix

59Tree whose name sounds like a pronoun

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Stats & info

Tuesday, Jul 1, 2025

15×15

Grid size

74

Total entries

44/181

Black / letter cells

4.9

Avg entry length

11 ltrs

Longest entry

Easy

Tuesday difficulty

PuzzleThe Crossword

PublishedJul 1, 2025

DayTuesday

ThemeUntitled

ConstructorAdam Aaronson and Michael Garbus

EditorWill Shortz

Clue split37 across · 37 down

Longest entries

20A*Most "wasabi" at sushi bars, in actuality11 ltrs 26D*Fruit from a bush, much used in pies and jams10 ltrs 28DLike the foods that answer the starred clues, despite how their names start10 ltrs 23A*Fruit whose name is also a synonym for a grouch9 ltrs 38D*Little tuber used to make Spanish horchata8 ltrs

Tuesday sits one notch above Monday, usually with a light theme and a few playful clues. This grid has 44 black squares and averages 4.9 letters per entry.