NYT Crossword July 5, 2025 Answers

Across

1A Break off 4 5A French musician/composer ___ Tiersen 4 9A Come to 5 14A Kind of survivor 4 15A Name hidden in "disobedience" 4 16A Zhou of Chinese history 5 17A Yard, e.g. 4 18A Some stain preventers 10 20A Challenges for management 4 21A Oil smugglers? 10 22A Eerie phenomenon when a robot seems too lifelike 13 24A Newspaper in Boston or Miami 6 25A Bone, in Bologna 4 26A Neutralize bad karma, say 5 27A Bad guys 4 29A Michigan's ___ Marquette River (waterway named for a missionary) 4 33A It's nothing 3 34A *, to a typist 7 37A Babe, for one 3 38A Muscle named for its shape, for short 4 40A "What's the big ___?" 4 41A Getting in one guess, as Wordle 5 43A Fencing option 4 45A Like Brutalist architecture 6 46A Subject of the books "Jonathan Loved David" and "Take Back the Word" 13 50A Alley oops 10 51A Noble title 4 53A Rigid sort of interpreter 10 54A Gal(lic) pal 4 55A Glass production 5 56A Brendon of Panic! at the Disco 4 57A "99 Luftballons" singer 4 58A Blow out 5 59A Got a load of 4 60A Somewhat audible disparagements 4

Down

1D Careen wildly 4 2D Leave lost for words 9 3D Jewish bakery specialty 9 4D 3-D diagnostic test 7 5D One of the pillars of improv 6 6D Bedeck 5 7D Swell 5 8D It's a straight shot 9 9D Keeps greasing that squeaky wheel? 6 10D Blanket 7 11D Pain relief brand 5 12D Drew on a TV 5 13D Somewhat audible disparagement 4 19D Dance move that slid into English as "sashay" 6 23D They're not as sweet as porters 4 24D What may be raised at a meeting 4 27D Uniform shade 9 28D Could be certain? 3 30D Fortnite developer 9 31D Small-time 9 32D Like flans and frittatas 4 35D Earth : sun :: ___ : sol 6 36D Colloquial collective 4 39D Is on the brink, say 7 42D Radiator fluid 7 44D Squint to see 6 45D Very secure, in a way 6 46D Record-keeping device made of strings and knots 5 47D Complete 5 48D Like a perilous situation 5 49D Woman's name that becomes another woman's name if you reverse the third and fourth letters 5 50D Liquidy lump 4 52D Votes for 4