NYT Crossword June 5, 2025 Answers

Across

1A Toggle on a digital clock 4 5A Leader of brothers 5 10A Gillette razor 4 14A *Confirm to be true 4 15A Like 2027 and 2029, but not 2025 5 16A *Someone who knows how the sausage gets made? 4 17A Works traditionally performed with musical accompaniment in ancient Greece 4 18A Goliath 5 19A Coach's charge 4 20A Rainwater clearer 5 22A Unwanted "ingredient" when assembling s'mores, say 3 23A ___ love 5 24A Mr. Spock, e.g. 5 26A Clamorous 5 28A Cunning sort 6 30A "Finally!" 6 33A Li'l belly 3 34A *Formal expressions of praise 5 38A Diminutive suffix in Spanish 3 39A Like some coffees and mob targets 4 41A Nickname for Louis Armstrong 5 42A Activist Brockovich 4 43A Neighbor of "#" on a telephone keypad 4 44A Supporting 3 45A Stir up 4 46A The Forbidden City's Meridian ___ 4 47A *One who's conspicuously excellent 5 49A One standing near a pond, maybe 4 50A Animal symbol of innocence 3 52A Biblical beast 3 54A Stunning 17,000-year-old discovery in France's Lascaux Cave 3 57A Companionship? 3 59A A club might be seen on one 3 60A General name on a Chinese menu 3 63A Emphatic instruction for entering the answers to this puzzle's 10 starred clues? 15 67A Flat sign 5 68A Alley ___ 3 69A Clichéd 5 70A Cluster in an archipelago 5 71A *Street urchins 3 72A Professional writer of a sort 5

Down

1D Proclaim 4 2D Lead-in to care 4 3D Necessity for a reservation, perhaps 10 4D Word that can redundantly follow "I" 6 5D Inclined 3 6D Actor Cox of "Succession" 5 7D *Armed thieves 4 8D Midwest city whose name consists of two interjections 5 9D This clue's number + one 3 10D Not approximate, say 6 11D Setting for a Laura Ingalls Wilder book series 10 12D Garner 4 13D Huge fan club, so to speak 4 21D "Blame It on ___" (1984 Michael Caine rom-com) 3 23D Shoot into the pocket, in snooker 3 25D Telephone no. add-ons 4 27D Hasty 4 28D *Removing lumps from, in a way 5 29D Saint in the Caribbean 5 31D Barrier to entry 5 32D *Like dress shirts, typically 5 35D Emergency item on a ship 4 36D Langston Hughes poem published during the Harlem Renaissance 4 37D Light shade 4 40D *Showed for the first time 4 42D *Buying a gallon of milk, picking up the laundry, etc. 4 47D Antidotes, perhaps 4 48D Food subject to internet debate over whether or not it's a sandwich 4 51D Kilns for hops 5 53D Neighbors of Croats 5 54D Not supporting 4 55D Down Under bounders 4 56D Cultivate 4 58D Have down 4 59D What Indiana Jones famously isn't fond of 4 60D Get ready to hit all the right notes? 4 61D 1970s tennis champ Smith 4 62D Home of the historic Oscarshall Palace 4 64D Cost of doing business, maybe 3 65D Doomed from the get-go, for short 3 66D Cave dweller 3