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NYT Crossword — June 24, 2026

Wednesday’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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39 clues

1Retro kind of hairstyle

6Pinkglow pineapples and GloFish, for short

10Article of apparel often worn with sandals

14Ancient Greek marketplace

15Symphony site

17"Sleigh's loaded and ready! How are you feeling, Santa?"

21Like cotton candy

25"I'm at the bakery – what kind of doughnut do you want?"

30Fire … or a firefighter's tool

31Kind of dairy-free milk developed in the 1990s

32Stubborn beast

34Uplifting coverage?

36Hand-held radios used by the speakers of the italicized clues and their answers?

41"___ Brown You've Got a Lovely Daughter" (1965 #1 hit)

42Governor Walz, who ran with Kamala Harris

43Teacher's pest

44Fish with a Kohaku variety

45They're cover-ups!

49"What's tomorrow's chemistry exam about again?"

54Pastry that often has a fluted edge

56Look before you do this

58Deg. for an entrepreneur

59Jonathan Van ___ ("Queer Eye" co-star)

60"Before you go, what animal crosses the road in that old joke?"

63What postseason games can't end in

65Citrus-based sauce in Japanese cuisine

66Big name in e-commerce

67Sign of things to come

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1Kind of pants worn on a rainy day, perhaps

5Approves a Venmo request, perhaps

6Storied graverobber

8World Cup cheer

9Camera type, for short

10Workout program that's a portmanteau of two different sports

11Grizzly or black bear (but typically not a panda)

12A satisfying meal, informally

24Important creatures in Inuit culture

26Popular fast-fashion brand

33Paul who's been inducted twice into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

34Band whose spelled-out name translates to "Bulletproof Boy Scouts"

35Put in the cross hairs

36"Whew! Our journey is over!"

37Makes aware (of)

38Children's author Carle

39A little foxy?

44Goals for boxers, in brief

46Sportswriter Shelburne

47Marketing team's goal with a new product launch, informally

48Pygmalion's Galatea, for one

50Like a commanding lead?

51Dark yellowish-green

52Thanksgiving pie nut

53One in a Himalayan herd

57Salt-N-___, "Shoop" group

60One who holds a company's purse strings, in brief

61One who's yukking it up

62French identification

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Stats & info

Wednesday, Jun 24, 2026

15×15

Grid size

78

Total entries

38/187

Black / letter cells

4.8

Avg entry length

13 ltrs

Longest entry

Medium

Wednesday difficulty

PuzzleThe Crossword

PublishedJun 24, 2026

DayWednesday

ThemeUntitled

ConstructorKevin Curry and Zhou Zhang

EditorWill Shortz

Clue split39 across · 39 down

Longest entries

36AHand-held radios used by the speakers of the italicized clues and their answers?13 ltrs 17A"Sleigh's loaded and ready! How are you feeling, Santa?"10 ltrs 25A"I'm at the bakery – what kind of doughnut do you want?"10 ltrs 49A"What's tomorrow's chemistry exam about again?"10 ltrs 60A"Before you go, what animal crosses the road in that old joke?"10 ltrs

Wednesday is the midweek pivot, where themes get denser and clues start bending the surface reading. This grid has 38 black squares and averages 4.8 letters per entry.