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NYT Crossword — June 5, 2025

Thursday’s 15 × 15 puzzle, 82 clues. The full solution is below — answers stay masked until you reveal them, one clue or all at once.

0 of 82 revealed

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2M

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5A

6B

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8O

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15P

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17O

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18T

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19T

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20W

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21R

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24A

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30A

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31S

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44F

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46G

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47S

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50D

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52A

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54A

55R

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58K

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60T

61S

62O

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65D

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66B

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69B

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70I

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Across

41 clues

1Toggle on a digital clock

5Leader of brothers

10Gillette razor

14*Confirm to be true

15Like 2027 and 2029, but not 2025

16*Someone who knows how the sausage gets made?

17Works traditionally performed with musical accompaniment in ancient Greece

19Coach's charge

20Rainwater clearer

22Unwanted "ingredient" when assembling s'mores, say

24Mr. Spock, e.g.

34*Formal expressions of praise

38Diminutive suffix in Spanish

39Like some coffees and mob targets

41Nickname for Louis Armstrong

42Activist Brockovich

43Neighbor of "#" on a telephone keypad

46The Forbidden City's Meridian ___

47*One who's conspicuously excellent

49One standing near a pond, maybe

50Animal symbol of innocence

52Biblical beast

54Stunning 17,000-year-old discovery in France's Lascaux Cave

57Companionship?

59A club might be seen on one

60General name on a Chinese menu

63Emphatic instruction for entering the answers to this puzzle's 10 starred clues?

70Cluster in an archipelago

71*Street urchins

72Professional writer of a sort

Down

41 clues

2Lead-in to care

3Necessity for a reservation, perhaps

4Word that can redundantly follow "I"

6Actor Cox of "Succession"

7*Armed thieves

8Midwest city whose name consists of two interjections

9This clue's number + one

10Not approximate, say

11Setting for a Laura Ingalls Wilder book series

13Huge fan club, so to speak

21"Blame It on ___" (1984 Michael Caine rom-com)

23Shoot into the pocket, in snooker

25Telephone no. add-ons

28*Removing lumps from, in a way

29Saint in the Caribbean

31Barrier to entry

32*Like dress shirts, typically

35Emergency item on a ship

36Langston Hughes poem published during the Harlem Renaissance

40*Showed for the first time

42*Buying a gallon of milk, picking up the laundry, etc.

47Antidotes, perhaps

48Food subject to internet debate over whether or not it's a sandwich

51Kilns for hops

53Neighbors of Croats

54Not supporting

55Down Under bounders

59What Indiana Jones famously isn't fond of

60Get ready to hit all the right notes?

611970s tennis champ Smith

62Home of the historic Oscarshall Palace

64Cost of doing business, maybe

65Doomed from the get-go, for short

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Stats & info

Thursday, Jun 5, 2025

15×15

Grid size

82

Total entries

44/181

Black / letter cells

4.4

Avg entry length

15 ltrs

Longest entry

Tricky

Thursday difficulty

PuzzleThe Crossword

PublishedJun 5, 2025

DayThursday

ThemeUntitled

ConstructorTimothy Gaetz

EditorWill Shortz

Clue split41 across · 41 down

Longest entries

63AEmphatic instruction for entering the answers to this puzzle's 10 starred clues?15 ltrs 3DNecessity for a reservation, perhaps10 ltrs 11DSetting for a Laura Ingalls Wilder book series10 ltrs 28ACunning sort6 ltrs 30A"Finally!"6 ltrs

Thursday is the gimmick day: rebus squares, reversed entries and other tricks are fair game. This grid has 44 black squares and averages 4.4 letters per entry.