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NYT Crossword — June 16, 2025

Monday’s 15 × 15 puzzle, 78 clues. The full solution is below — answers stay masked until you reveal them, one clue or all at once.

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Across

37 clues

1Three-player trick-taking game

5Supermarket tabloids, informally

14Difficult air to see through

16Greek theater

17Pitchers' stats

18Short stiletto shoe

20Voice below soprano

22Locale for a person with a green thumb

23'N Sync bandmate of Justin Timberlake

26Black Friday or Cyber Monday event

29Letters before a criminal's alias

30Vaccine-approving org.

31Finger … or what a finger dials on a phone

32"Affirmative!"

35Slanted edges, as on mirrors

36What a first crush might be dismissed as

38Author Louisa May ___

41Slugger Sammy

42___ de Janeiro

45Like cursive handwriting, typically

46Yahoo alternative

48Cash dispensers

49Spot that may be affected by a charley horse

53Bandit at sea

55Small case for needles

56Movie marketed toward a primarily female audience, informally

60West Point, in brief

622015 Adele hit that won three Grammys

63Adolescent woe

64The first word of 18-, 23-, 36-, 49- or 56-Across is one

65Swords whose points were once dipped in dye before a duel

66Squealed, as an informant

Down

41 clues

1"Thar ___ blows!"

2Sing-along activity at a bar

3Colorful shrubs in the genus Rhododendron

4In an irritable mood

5___ Stadium, former D.C. sports venue

6Boxer who "stung like a bee"

9Setting for "Make Way for Ducklings"

11Like most first-year college students

12Groundbreaking invention for ancient farmers?

13Longtime sketch comedy show, in brief

19Before, poetically

21Not working, as a police officer

23Bird whose name sounds like a letter of the alphabet

27Rapper ___ Nas X

31Lower one's estimation of

34Yiddish laments

36Treat on a stick that you lick

37Bread purchase

39Parking place

40Put together, as a scrapbook

42Disengagement due to a conflict of interest

43Left hanging between two stages

44Praiseful poem

49Half-___ (coffee order)

50Bronze statue in Rockefeller Center

51High-end German camera brand

52Things left after tearing checks out of checkbooks

54Some bygone theaters

56Revolutionary Guevara

57No-longer-cool way to say "cool"

58First channel to offer 24-hour reporting

61"Affirmative!" at sea

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Stats & info

Monday, Jun 16, 2025

15×15

Grid size

78

Total entries

40/185

Black / letter cells

4.7

Avg entry length

10 ltrs

Longest entry

Easiest

Monday difficulty

PuzzleThe Crossword

PublishedJun 16, 2025

DayMonday

ThemeUntitled

ConstructorJill Rafaloff and Michelle Sontarp

EditorWill Shortz

Clue split37 across · 41 down

Longest entries

18AShort stiletto shoe10 ltrs 23A'N Sync bandmate of Justin Timberlake10 ltrs 49ASpot that may be affected by a charley horse10 ltrs 56AMovie marketed toward a primarily female audience, informally10 ltrs 36AWhat a first crush might be dismissed as9 ltrs

Monday grids are the gentlest of the week: straightforward definitions, familiar fill and almost no wordplay. This grid has 40 black squares and averages 4.7 letters per entry.