NYT Crossword June 7, 2025 Answers

Across

1A Collect 5 6A Shortening for bakers 3 9A Triangular bones that fuse in adulthood 5 14A Assembles 15 17A "You didn't fool me" 15 18A ___-Assyrian Empire, once the world's strongest military power 3 19A Annoyance in the middle of a season, perhaps 7 20A Top suit 3 21A Generational disconnects 4 23A First Muppet to appear on the Billboard Hot 100 5 24A Takes the field? 4 25A Package filler, often 4 27A Yahoo rival 3 28A Leaves aside? 4 29A Spiral-shelled mollusks 7 31A Spanish city that's home to the Alhambra 7 34A Declining late in life 6 35A Beef cut in Santa Maria-style barbecue 6 36A Likely lobby locale in D.C. 7 38A Restaurant option that lacks options 7 39A Makes haste 4 40A In-network grp. 3 42A Channel 4 43A Phisher's collection, for short 4 44A Doozy 5 46A What one of the letters in the luxury conglomerate LVMH stands for 4 48A Baseball's "Master Melvin" 3 49A Corruption below deck, perhaps 7 51A ___-ace (queer identity) 3 52A Colorful knit top with Scottish origins 15 55A Board game variant used as a last-resort tiebreaker 15 56A Fumes 5 57A Are, in Spanish 3 58A Couldn't not 5

Down

1D Natural process we all go through 5 2D Leave everything behind 15 3D Never ever 15 4D ___Believes Cup, annual women's soccer tournament 3 5D Finalizes, with "up" 4 6D Some concerning forecasts, in weather-speak 7 7D Coffee rings, e.g. 6 8D Campaign activity 7 9D Directive in many a stovetop recipe 4 10D N.L. East rival of NYM 3 11D Like Junior Mints and Raisinets 15 12D What a retrospective aims to produce 15 13D One side in ancient Greece's Battle of the 300 Champions 5 15D Mature 4 16D "Euphoria" synonym that, like "Euphoria," is also the name of a hit TV show 4 22D Sendups 7 24D "Bare" bottom? 7 26D Infiltrators of a sort 5 28D Medicare component 5 29D Oft-repeated bit of onomatopoeia 3 30D Once named 3 32D Pike, for instance: Abbr. 3 33D Longtime animated TV character who hasn't had a speaking role since 2017 3 37D One's parents, in modern slang 7 38D Stops digging 7 41D Got by 6 43D Change seats? 5 44D "Better sound through research" brand 4 45D Gown go-with 4 47D Core location 5 49D Freaks (out) 4 50D Lighting, sound production, etc. 4 53D Unprocessed 3 54D ___ moment 3