NYT Crossword June 18, 2025 Answers

Across

1A Near 4 5A Fashion's Jimmy whose surname aptly rhymes with "shoe" 4 9A Squeak remover 4 13A Look bad? 4 14A Not his 4 15A "By Jove!" 4 16A Offset, as something on a scale 14 19A It might be swiped for cash 7 20A Org. that was a frequent James Bond foe 3 21A Mo. setting 3 23A M.L.B.'er in a blue-and-orange uniform 5 24A Gad about at a banquet 8 26A John or Jane of anonymity 3 27A Bite at a bar 4 30A Job security, for some 6 31A Not just my 3 32A Mind-boggling designs 5 34A Like hand-me-downs 4 35A Rely on the hospitality of friends for lodging 9 38A "Star Wars" species on Tatooine 4 41A Sentiment on el Día de San Valentín 5 42A Card 3 45A Brewer Coors 6 48A Once, once 4 49A Perfect serve 3 50A Hit the pubs 8 52A Had 5 54A Bygone initials at JFK 3 55A "Mr. Blue Sky" band, in brief 3 56A Be afraid to 7 58A Rainy-day game for children, whose play is punnily suggested by 16-, 24-, 35- and 50-Across 14 61A Capital on the Baltic Sea 4 62A Went through channels? 4 63A Medicinal name in the shampoo aisle 4 64A Short first step 4 65A Takes up, as some new pants 4 66A Pennsylvania city or its county 4

Down

1D "Impossible!" 7 2D "Ha ha ha!," on April Fools' Day 7 3D Not so happy 7 4D Therefore 5 5D Acting Oscar winner inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame 4 6D What's rounded up in a roundup 4 7D Earth or sun, for example 3 8D Home to the oldest Buddhist temple in Japan (built in A.D. 593) 5 9D Likely (to) 6 10D SEAL's org. 3 11D Wine god of myth 7 12D House with a long-unmowed lawn, e.g. 7 17D Anchor or heart, maybe 6 18D Letters before Q, sometimes 4 22D "Decorated," as a house for Halloween 4 24D North Carolina athlete 7 25D Broadway's "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is ___" 4 28D "The Simpsons" shopkeeper 3 29D What a handshake may lead to 4 33D Ruling title that dates back to the Byzantine Empire 4 35D Course that may follow trig 4 36D Verbal hesitations 3 37D Chopper parts 6 38D Pokes in the ring 4 39D 2019 Brad Pitt sci-fi thriller 7 40D "I don't care what that cost!" 7 42D "You in?" 7 43D Freeze up 7 44D The first one was delivered in 1984 7 46D Like a house built in a day, say 6 47D Long way to go? 4 51D "Sound" of a point sailing over someone's head 5 53D Eudora ___, Pulitzer winner for "The Optimist's Daughter" 5 56D Small amount of whiskey 4 57D Goals 4 59D It's not you, it's me 3 60D "You ___ me!" 3