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NYT Crossword — June 3, 2025

Tuesday’s 15 × 15 puzzle, 74 clues. The full solution is below — answers stay masked until you reveal them, one clue or all at once.

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Across

35 clues

1Angry Birds and Snapchat, for two

5Session at the pool

9Cheery goodbyes

15Goal of some bodybuilding exercises

17Place to keep safe during an emergency

20Input for a fax machine

22Hosp. hookups

25Ref. work with definitions for "colour" and "aluminium"

26Expensive theater boxes

27Andy Warhol's "Campbell's Soup Cans," e.g.

29Each star on the American flag represents one

31Layer that a hovercraft floats on

33Sound heard in a stalactite cave

37Sings nonsense syllables

38Pointy-eared inhabitant of Middle-earth

39Mexican marinade

40Grp. sending radio signals into space

41Measure of how much sky is visible

43Alternatives to essays

46Secondary area of study

48Modern filmmaking tech, for short

49Texting format, in brief

50Easily awakened individual ... whose bed may feature a 20-, 31- and 41-Across?

54Plastic bit on the end of a shoelace

55Disappointing awards season outcome for a critically successful movie

60Villainous hideout

61Documentation for a foreign traveler

63Smooth as ___

64Word with floor or flight

Down

39 clues

1Electric guitar attachment

2Vegetable often added to fried rice

4Hits the slopes

5Mean ___ (rough urban area)

6Sought the favor of

7How tied games may be settled, informally

9It may be left holding the bag

10Site of an apocalyptic final battle in the Bible

11Brownish shade

12Stubborn animals

13Prognosticator

18Where most songs use their titular lyrics

21Custardy dessert

23Raise, as a concern

24Jack who ate no fat

28Zorro, Superman or Indiana Jones

29Grain storehouses

30Vegan protein source

32"___ if I know!"

35Skyscraper construction piece

36Long Beach, Charleston and Baltimore

41Pixar film that revived the song "Life Is a Highway"

42Place for boxers to exercise

46Alt-rock band They ___ Be Giants

47Shelter in a chilly landscape

48"The Ten Commandments" director ___ B. DeMille

50Lad's counterpart

51Online chuckles

52Actor Morales

53Invitation initialism

57Country with the most Olympic medals

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Stats & info

Tuesday, Jun 3, 2025

15×15

Grid size

74

Total entries

36/189

Black / letter cells

5.1

Avg entry length

12 ltrs

Longest entry

Easy

Tuesday difficulty

PuzzleThe Crossword

PublishedJun 3, 2025

DayTuesday

ThemeUntitled

ConstructorBoaz Moser

EditorWill Shortz

Clue split35 across · 39 down

Longest entries

20AInput for a fax machine12 ltrs 50AEasily awakened individual ... whose bed may feature a 20-, 31- and 41-Across?12 ltrs 31ALayer that a hovercraft floats on10 ltrs 41AMeasure of how much sky is visible10 ltrs 10DSite of an apocalyptic final battle in the Bible10 ltrs

Tuesday sits one notch above Monday, usually with a light theme and a few playful clues. This grid has 36 black squares and averages 5.1 letters per entry.