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NYT Crossword — June 18, 2026

Thursday’s 15 × 15 puzzle, 70 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

1Prepares for offspring

10Supplier to Wile E. Coyote

14Employee after working hours, on "Severance"

16Horse with a muted coat

22"Goosebumps" author

23Adrenaline surge providers

25Bit of Yahtzee equipment

27Word rhymed with "flash" in "A Visit From St. Nicholas"

28Obnoxiously blingy

30"___ Been to the Mountaintop" (M.L.K. Jr. speech)

31Feminine sides

38Alfred ___, co-creator of the original I.Q. test

39Rents out again

40Mix-___ (ice cream shop supply)

41Like shipping that's not quite overnight

43Downfall of the boy in 2018's "Beautiful Boy," in brief

47Total after costs

49"Next one's on me"

52Mind-reading scan, in a way

531,000,000,000 years, in astronomy

57Relative of Hindi

58Follower of "4" on a love note

59Start of a selection process

60They might be seeded

61Some yellow-green sodas, informally

62Bob with the Silver Bullet Band

Down

35 clues

1Argon, krypton and xenon, informally

2Moon of Jupiter that has a liquid ocean under its surface

3Absolut alternatives

4Hermana de la madre

5"The ___ is wither'd from the lake": Keats

6Bona fide numbskull

7Big name in archery equipment

8Fuyumi ___, author of the "Twelve Kingdoms" fantasy novels

9Colas in the "cola wars"

10Former governor Schwarzenegger, informally

11Occur at the same time

12Skillful move

19Chemical agent used to make frosted glass

24The terrible twos, for one

25"Use at your own risk" and "Not professional advice," for two

26"Of the foot" prefix

29Rose (up), in dialect

32___ Lion, Penn State mascot

34Nonspecific response to "Who's there?"

35Like pickles and some potato salads

36Chill way to take things

37Kid-lit character who says "It’s not much of a tail, but I'm sort of attached to it"

38Where many things get tossed

42Follower of quick or dim

52What time did in fun times

54Traditional parka material

55Boston's Mass ___

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Stats & info

Thursday, Jun 18, 2026

15×15

Grid size

70

Total entries

30/195

Black / letter cells

5.6

Avg entry length

15 ltrs

Longest entry

Tricky

Thursday difficulty

PuzzleThe Crossword

PublishedJun 18, 2026

DayThursday

ThemeUntitled

ConstructorScott Hogan

EditorWill Shortz

Clue split35 across · 35 down

Longest entries

17ABro?15 ltrs 54AAle?15 ltrs 35ASit?13 ltrs 6DBona fide numbskull11 ltrs 25D"Use at your own risk" and "Not professional advice," for two11 ltrs

Thursday is the gimmick day: rebus squares, reversed entries and other tricks are fair game. This grid has 30 black squares and averages 5.6 letters per entry.