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NYT Crossword — June 25, 2026

Thursday’s 15 × 15 puzzle, 76 clues. The full solution is below — answers stay masked until you reveal them, one clue or all at once.

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Across

34 clues

1Some terminals

7Gamer's state of invincibility enabled by a cheat code

14Listens to, as a radio station

16Achieves success for the first time

17*They may result in people wrongly being sent to jail

18*Bonny young girl

19Spanner of 11 time zones

20Klondike territory

22Copacabana locale

23*Exercise experts

26Bit of improv

28One end of a playground "telephone"

30Wish for a romantic pairing between, in modern lingo

33"Thor: Ragnarok" actress Thompson

35*Advocate of women's equality

38Tower in the water

39Hi-fi spinners

43*"Let's pick up the pace!"

46Preschooler's wheels

48Trivia contest venues

49Restaurant icon McDonald

51Breakfast that may be prepared overnight

54*Some online courses

58"The Matrix" character

60N.C.A.A. basketball powerhouse, informally

62Cantina freebie

63With 65-Across, market no-no … or a hint to entering the answers to the starred clues

65See 63-Across

69Melted adhesive

71Removes a curse?

Down

42 clues

2Front-line hero during the 2020 pandemic

3"We're live!" studio sign

5Spanish pronoun

6The Science Kid, in children's television

8Some McFlurry ingredients

9Knocked back a few

11Analyze excessively

12Slicer's place

13ExxonMobil brand

15"Bye Bye Bye" boy band

21Falcons' grp.

24Congressional divide

25Like purchases made while playing freemium games

27Distinctive doctrine

29Point of writing

31"So that's how it is"

32Organizer of an after-school event, in brief

33You might go on tiptoe in this

34Consequences of compliments

36Sharansky who wrote the memoir "Fear No Evil"

37Country rocker Steve with the album "Exit 0"

38Medicinal amt.

40Paul McCartney, for one

44Org. that hires cryptanalysts

45Minor municipality

47Conventioneer's passport

50First grade of high school, typically

52Old royal house

56Preceding time

57Solomonic figures

59Grandson of Eve

61Get a lode of these!

64Words sealed with a kiss

67W.N.B.A.'s Dream, on scoreboards

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Stats & info

Thursday, Jun 25, 2026

15×15

Grid size

76

Total entries

37/188

Black / letter cells

4.9

Avg entry length

9 ltrs

Longest entry

Tricky

Thursday difficulty

PuzzleThe Crossword

PublishedJun 25, 2026

DayThursday

ThemeUntitled

ConstructorTarun Krishnamurthy

EditorWill Shortz

Clue split34 across · 42 down

Longest entries

11DAnalyze excessively9 ltrs 34DConsequences of compliments9 ltrs 23A*Exercise experts8 ltrs 35A*Advocate of women's equality8 ltrs 43A*"Let's pick up the pace!"8 ltrs

Thursday is the gimmick day: rebus squares, reversed entries and other tricks are fair game. This grid has 37 black squares and averages 4.9 letters per entry.