NYT Crossword June 8, 2026 Answers

Across

1A Deer sir? 4 5A Free trial version 4 9A Caspian or Mediterranean 3 12A Designer ___ Boss 4 13A Typographical embellishment 5 14A Go across 4 15A "Su-u-ure" 4 16A Something green in a greenhouse 5 17A Half ___ (when the minute hand points down) 4 18A Popular board game adapted from India [1] 9 20A They quickly spread online 5 21A "Soldier, stop!" 4 22A Page (through) 4 23A Challenge for student drivers [2] 15 30A Metals in mines 4 31A Actor Stonestreet of "Modern Family" 4 32A Apt zodiac sign for Bert Lahr, who played the Cowardly Lion 3 33A Vitality 3 34A Scoundrel's deeds 7 37A A pair 3 38A Card game whose name is something players cry 3 39A Assistant 4 40A Anthropologist Margaret 4 41A Never stop having fun [3] 15 46A "___ the night before Christmas …" 4 47A Word repeated in "___ ye, ___ ye!" 4 48A Cube maker Erno 5 50A Of the highest importance … or, when parsed differently, what each bracketed number in the clues indicates? 9 55A World's largest country with a four-letter name 4 56A Underpinning 5 57A Home of Columbus 4 58A A single time 4 59A Up in the air 5 60A Zero 4 61A "What a shame!" 3 62A Test the weight of 4 63A Backyard storage space 4

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1D Steamer or cruiser 4 2D Oom-pah instrument 4 3D Follower of New or teen 4 4D Hidden snags 7 5D Key to the right of "+" and "=" on a Mac keyboard 6 6D What Taylor Swift calls the stages of her career 4 7D 5x5-square crossword 4 8D Frequently, in poetry 3 9D Email winnower 10 10D Effortlessness 4 11D Tiny hill builders 4 13D Characterize? 5 14D Orate 5 19D Nickname akin to Harry 3 20D Compassion 5 22D Den 4 23D Short-term kind of store 5 24D Sports locale 5 25D Give a debriefing (to) 10 26D Prime use for a crowbar 5 27D Opposite of post- 3 28D Starting to learn 5 29D "Oh boy!" 5 34D Watercraft for an Inuit 5 35D Small bites 4 36D Accessibility law inits. 3 40D Leaves stranded 7 42D Strong string 5 43D What misers take to an extreme 6 44D Bread maker's supply 5 45D ___ Beesly, character who has the last line in the finale of "The Office" 3 48D Civil uprising 4 49D Caterer's containers 4 50D Whitish 4 51D Starting, timewise 4 52D "This looks like trouble!" 4 53D Number in a nonet 4 54D Follower of pointy or pigeon 4 56D Expression of contempt 3