NYT Crossword June 5, 2026 Answers

Across

1A Adjusts, as text 6 7A [Get away!] 3 10A Lecture setting 4 14A "Can anyone explain this?!" 15 17A "Let me try to explain …" 15 18A Gal pal 3 19A Appeal in defense 4 20A Coat on a tip? 6 21A Round striker 4 22A Where 22-Across is 4 23A Pilots' tools 6 26A Grocery stores? 8 30A Seaweed-based gels 5 31A Strikes out on one's own 9 32A So-called "Champagne of Spain" 4 33A ___ Hoffmann, 1981 Nobel Prize-winning chemist 5 34A Fuss 4 35A Targets of some regulations 9 37A Something a toddler might grow out of 5 38A Fuji, e.g. 8 39A Energizes 6 40A Something you can see right through 4 41A Not so rich, so to speak 4 42A Remit, say 6 45A New wave band with the 1979 album "Duty Now for the Future" 4 46A Destination 3 49A Provide proactive help, in a way 15 52A "Keep me out of it" 15 53A Opposite of "stay silent" 4 54A "___ y plata" (Montana's motto) 3 55A Southwestern dwellings 6

Down

1D Triage pros 4 2D Dorado fish, informally 4 3D Scrapes (out) 4 4D Just out 3 5D Attire that may snap on 7 6D Does up, in a way 6 7D Big do 4 8D Studio behind "Notorious" and "Nocturne" 3 9D Came out of bankruptcy, say 8 10D What might give a hand in a casino? 11 11D Opposed 4 12D Deity with a temple in Pompeii 4 13D Actor Gilliam of "The Wire" 4 15D Attitude 4 16D Some athleisure bottoms 6 21D Modern water sport 11 22D Summons 5 23D 500 competitor 5 24D Top form 5 25D Biblical shepherd-turned-king 5 26D Kind of figure 5 27D I I I 5 28D ___ Neal, co-star of TV's "The Hughleys" 5 29D Painful spots 5 31D People not to argue with, they say 5 33D Forcibly halve 8 36D Dash 6 37D Small marsupial whose name is spelled using only the letters of TROP 7 39D Biblical verb 6 41D Blue side, with "the" 4 42D Med. diagnostics 4 43D Maker of the Q3 4 44D ___ a secret 4 45D Movie villain who is a member of SPECTRE 4 46D Pioneering civil rights activist ___ Arnold Hedgeman 4 47D Forbidden subject in Islamic art 4 48D Row houses, to Brits 4 50D Canal entry 3 51D Med. diagnostic 3