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NYT Crossword — June 30, 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

39 clues

1Guitar accessory

5Inventor Nikola with a car named after him

10Garment for Dracula

14Big Stuf cookie

15Exchange of negative commercials

16Certain draft picks?

17"My heavens!"

19Bout enders, for short

20Shift, Tab and Return

21Nine-digit ID

22Nickname for Haydn or Hemingway

23Crescent moon, for instance

25"Hold it right there!"

28Bay Area airport code

30Great Lakes tribe

31Walk heavily, as through muck or snow

33___ Alamos, N.M.

35Beast that brays

36Classic Robert De Niro line in "Taxi Driver" … or a hint for 17-, 25-, 51- and 61-Across

43"Fiddlesticks!"

45George Jetson's dog

48Timothy Leary's drug of choice

51"Absolutely, positively not!"

55No longer on one's plate

57Sheepish look, maybe

58Murmur during a massage

60"___ we forget"

61"I'm done with you"

65Italy's Villa d'___

67"Hello, sailor!"

68Eye annoyance

69Carne ___ (grilled dish)

70Aloha State goose

Down

39 clues

2"Where the Wild Things ___"

4Moves like molasses

5Art town NNE of Santa Fe

6End of a school's email address

7Nothing-but-net sound

9Sporting event venue

10Counterpart of a dog lover

11Base that dissolves in water

12Magazine with a celebrity on almost every cover

13Pieces of 1,000 words or so

18Soapmaking supplies

23Comfy clothes for sleepytime

24"___ camoly!"

25Cashmere or angora

26Where eggs hatch

32Buyer's protection

34Mighty Mighty Bosstones music genre

35"No ifs, ___ or buts"

37Ancient city fooled by a horse

38Not being used

39A milk drinker may have one

44Confession in a confessional

45They're right at 90°

49Hand out hands

52___ the Hutt ("Star Wars" villain)

53"Now I remember!"

54The so-called "Princess of Power"

59Crumbly cheese in a Greek salad

62Gave sustenance to

63Particle that's either positive or negative

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Stats & info

Monday, Jun 30, 2025

15×15

Grid size

78

Total entries

40/185

Black / letter cells

4.7

Avg entry length

13 ltrs

Longest entry

Easiest

Monday difficulty

PuzzleThe Crossword

PublishedJun 30, 2025

DayMonday

ThemeUntitled

ConstructorDena R. Verkuil and Andrea Carla Michaels

EditorWill Shortz

Clue split39 across · 39 down

Longest entries

36AClassic Robert De Niro line in "Taxi Driver" … or a hint for 17-, 25-, 51- and 61-Across13 ltrs 17A"My heavens!"10 ltrs 61A"I'm done with you"10 ltrs 25A"Hold it right there!"9 ltrs 51A"Absolutely, positively not!"9 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.