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NYT Crossword — June 1, 2025

Sunday’s 21 × 21 puzzle, 140 clues. The full solution is below — answers stay masked until you reveal them, one clue or all at once.

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Across

66 clues

1Warm shade of brown

15"In that case …"

19Warm shade of white

20Leader of the world's smallest country

21Vice follower

22Cambodian cash

28"___, so good!" (furniture store pun)

29Example of industry in Proverbs 6:6-9

30They might be ripe for changing

31Polish language

33Camera inits.

35Coerced (into)

37Magicians' cries

42Bridge support

43Suffers the cost

44Substance adapted to lab use by Fanny Hesse in 1881

47Kind of policy that encourages transparency from leadership

49"OMG, enough!"

51Northwestern abode

58One "M" of the M.M.R. vaccine

60Inflation meas.

61"Paradise ___"

64Big Apple airport code

69Obvious choice

73Org. enabled by the 16th Amendment

76On

79Home of Morehouse College

87One may be fawning

88European capital through which the Akerselva flows

91Pod or husk, botanically

94Word after game or floor

96Sweden joined it in 2024

103Peddled things

104Hawaiian song of farewell

105Meas. roughly equivalent to 10 billion 12-Downs

106Bit of equipment for a vault

109Surveillance org.

113Give for free

117ROYAL PERMIT

121Number after zwei

124Confident bearing

127Hot things, briefly

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74 clues

1Unlikely fliers, in a saying

2First name in stunts

3Obstacle course element

4"Is that all you have to tell me?"

5Big Apple media inits.

6Park known as a "permanent world's fair"

7Take things easy

9___ sauce (condiment also called nitsume)

10Nonspeaking character in "Frozen"

12Piece of work?

15"In case my message isn't landing …"

16It might begin with a false alarm

17Fortuneteller

18Early automaker

24Egyptian fertility goddess

25Muffler material, maybe

32Fantasy role-playing game, for short

36Way out of town, perhaps

37Author's assistant

38Loss of the ability to read

39Is so inclined

40Narrow the gap with, competitively

41Branching diagram

43Some collared shirts

46Figures in some storied abductions, for short

48Regional divisions in Russia

50It may be dropped for effect

52Lose progress, in a way

53Members of a priestly caste of ancient Persia

57Rudely revel in victory, say

59Japanese honorific

63Two-version marketing experiments

67Puzzlemaker Rubik

68Fiddler's skill

70Wyoming's Cheyenne Frontier Days, e.g.

71What you will

72Brand with cup sizes from "minis" to "world's largest"

75Rock's Ocasek

78Small songbird

79Oft-skipped podcast parts

81Accessory in a Jane Fonda workout video

82He's a head of the pack

84French upper house

86Faux gardener, so to speak

89Butter substitute

93Popular food fish or its genus name

95Fundamental building block of DNA

97Green often found in mixed greens

100Revealer of "the man behind the curtain"

101Center of mass?

102Site with a "Clothing, Shoes & Accessories" section

103Fairy tale villain

106Clears of snow, say

107Conventions: Abbr.

108Trillion: Prefix

110Runner on runners

114Slobbery cartoon pet

115Arizona's third-largest city

116Early education option, for short

118Desirable formation for ducks

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Stats & info

Sunday, Jun 1, 2025

21×21

Grid size

140

Total entries

71/370

Black / letter cells

5.3

Avg entry length

21 ltrs

Longest entry

Themed

Sunday difficulty

PuzzleThe Crossword

PublishedJun 1, 2025

DaySunday

ThemeMaking Arrangements

ConstructorSam Brody

EditorWill Shortz

Clue split66 across · 74 down

Longest entries

23ALEGAL NICETY21 ltrs 117AROYAL PERMIT21 ltrs 39AEARTH13 ltrs 55AGLIBNESS13 ltrs 83ARESIST13 ltrs

Sunday is the big one, a 21 by 21 grid built around a named theme rather than raw difficulty. This grid has 71 black squares and averages 5.3 letters per entry.