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NYT Crossword — July 5, 2025

Saturday’s 15 × 15 puzzle, 68 clues. The full solution is below — answers stay masked until you reveal them, one clue or all at once.

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35 clues

5French musician/composer ___ Tiersen

14Kind of survivor

15Name hidden in "disobedience"

16Zhou of Chinese history

18Some stain preventers

20Challenges for management

21Oil smugglers?

22Eerie phenomenon when a robot seems too lifelike

24Newspaper in Boston or Miami

25Bone, in Bologna

26Neutralize bad karma, say

29Michigan's ___ Marquette River (waterway named for a missionary)

34*, to a typist

37Babe, for one

38Muscle named for its shape, for short

40"What's the big ___?"

41Getting in one guess, as Wordle

43Fencing option

45Like Brutalist architecture

46Subject of the books "Jonathan Loved David" and "Take Back the Word"

53Rigid sort of interpreter

55Glass production

56Brendon of Panic! at the Disco

57"99 Luftballons" singer

59Got a load of

60Somewhat audible disparagements

Down

33 clues

2Leave lost for words

3Jewish bakery specialty

43-D diagnostic test

5One of the pillars of improv

8It's a straight shot

9Keeps greasing that squeaky wheel?

11Pain relief brand

13Somewhat audible disparagement

19Dance move that slid into English as "sashay"

23They're not as sweet as porters

24What may be raised at a meeting

27Uniform shade

28Could be certain?

30Fortnite developer

32Like flans and frittatas

35Earth : sun :: ___ : sol

36Colloquial collective

39Is on the brink, say

42Radiator fluid

44Squint to see

45Very secure, in a way

46Record-keeping device made of strings and knots

48Like a perilous situation

49Woman's name that becomes another woman's name if you reverse the third and fourth letters

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Stats & info

Saturday, Jul 5, 2025

15×15

Grid size

68

Total entries

32/193

Black / letter cells

5.7

Avg entry length

13 ltrs

Longest entry

Hardest

Saturday difficulty

PuzzleThe Crossword

PublishedJul 5, 2025

DaySaturday

ThemeThemeless

ConstructorTracy Bennett

EditorWill Shortz

Clue split35 across · 33 down

Longest entries

22AEerie phenomenon when a robot seems too lifelike13 ltrs 46ASubject of the books "Jonathan Loved David" and "Take Back the Word"13 ltrs 18ASome stain preventers10 ltrs 21AOil smugglers?10 ltrs 50AAlley oops10 ltrs

Saturday is the hardest grid of the week, themeless and clued as obliquely as the editor allows. This grid has 32 black squares and averages 5.7 letters per entry.