NYT Crossword June 18, 2026 Answers

Across

1A Prepares for offspring 5 6A Hack 4 10A Supplier to Wile E. Coyote 4 14A Employee after working hours, on "Severance" 5 15A Sole 4 16A Horse with a muted coat 4 17A Bro? 15 20A "ur funny" 3 21A Essence 4 22A "Goosebumps" author 5 23A Adrenaline surge providers 7 25A Bit of Yahtzee equipment 7 27A Word rhymed with "flash" in "A Visit From St. Nicholas" 4 28A Obnoxiously blingy 6 30A "___ Been to the Mountaintop" (M.L.K. Jr. speech) 3 31A Feminine sides 6 33A Gave a hand 5 35A Sit? 13 38A Alfred ___, co-creator of the original I.Q. test 5 39A Rents out again 6 40A Mix-___ (ice cream shop supply) 3 41A Like shipping that's not quite overnight 6 43A Downfall of the boy in 2018's "Beautiful Boy," in brief 4 47A Total after costs 7 49A "Next one's on me" 7 51A [So heavy!] 5 52A Mind-reading scan, in a way 4 53A 1,000,000,000 years, in astronomy 3 54A Ale? 15 57A Relative of Hindi 4 58A Follower of "4" on a love note 4 59A Start of a selection process 5 60A They might be seeded 4 61A Some yellow-green sodas, informally 4 62A Bob with the Silver Bullet Band 5

Down

1D Argon, krypton and xenon, informally 6 2D Moon of Jupiter that has a liquid ocean under its surface 6 3D Absolut alternatives 6 4D Hermana de la madre 3 5D "The ___ is wither'd from the lake": Keats 5 6D Bona fide numbskull 11 7D Big name in archery equipment 4 8D Fuyumi ___, author of the "Twelve Kingdoms" fantasy novels 3 9D Colas in the "cola wars" 6 10D Former governor Schwarzenegger, informally 5 11D Occur at the same time 8 12D Skillful move 8 13D Lit. course 3 18D Improvise 6 19D Chemical agent used to make frosted glass 7 24D The terrible twos, for one 5 25D "Use at your own risk" and "Not professional advice," for two 11 26D "Of the foot" prefix 3 29D Rose (up), in dialect 5 32D ___ Lion, Penn State mascot 7 34D Nonspecific response to "Who's there?" 5 35D Like pickles and some potato salads 8 36D Chill way to take things 8 37D Kid-lit character who says "It’s not much of a tail, but I'm sort of attached to it" 6 38D Where many things get tossed 3 42D Follower of quick or dim 6 44D Checking out 6 45D $2 coin, eh? 6 46D Drive 6 48D Masters 5 50D Cellar stock 5 52D What time did in fun times 4 54D Traditional parka material 3 55D Boston's Mass ___ 3 56D 1.0 G.P.A. 3