NYT Crossword June 6, 2025 Answers

Across

1A Novelist Patchett 3 4A Adviser to an acting president? 10 14A Mouthful for the foulmouthed 4 16A Average guy 10 17A One of two ingredients used to make chapati 4 18A "You know your voices carry, right?!" 10 19A Neutralize, so to speak 4 20A Milestone for a baby 10 21A Formally selects 7 23A Dance specialty 3 24A Keep from being touched, in a way 6 25A Seek out 7 29A Runaway hit 5 30A Meme of the star of "John Wick" looking downcast 8 31A Row crosser: Abbr. 3 32A ___ Núñez de Balboa, Isthmus of Panama explorer 5 34A Means of taking a trip 3 35A Cultural draw of Shanghai's M50 district 8 38A Prove otherwise 5 40A Some Halloween mischief 7 41A Not very animated 6 43A Culture center? 3 44A Point guard's crafty maneuver 7 46A Flavor enhancer in many pho recipes 10 51A "And ... done!" 4 52A Split without warning 10 53A One may be picked up in the gym 4 54A Support when building bridges 10 55A Litter pickup area? 4 56A Overly warm welcome, maybe 10 57A "You can count on me" 3

Down

1D Adjective on taco truck menus 5 2D "That's my absolute limit!" 10 3D Big game medium 10 4D Snow fence accumulations 6 5D Perfect writing? 6 6D New ___ 4 7D Tavern vessels 4 8D Mountains of work ahead 8 9D A model way to work? 7 10D Dessert with a black-and-white filling 7 11D Mostly closed 4 12D Part of a hammock 4 13D BP rival 4 15D Fails to keep cool 6 22D "Hmm ... hard pass" 3 25D Source of a cephalopod's defensive ink 3 26D Punch out, say 10 27D Privileged figures, perhaps? 10 28D Sass, informally 4 29D Bucketful 4 30D Sioux Falls-to-Sioux City dir. 3 32D How many consent 8 33D "Whichever one you want" 3 36D Cupboard component 7 37D Seafood cookout bowlful 7 38D Charles Mingus specialty 3 39D ___ Howard, Yankee who was the 1963 A.L. M.V.P. 6 41D Propels, like a shuffleboard disk 6 42D Lookout positions 6 45D Cuts (down) 5 46D 2003 and 2021 Super Bowl champs, informally 4 47D Milky resource found in the outback 4 48D Onetime iPod offering 4 49D Be very funky 4 50D Noted name in raga performance 4