NYT Crossword Answers 06/05/25

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Across Clues

• 1 Toggle on a digital clock AMPM
• 5 Leader of brothers ABBOT
• 10 Gillette razor ATRA
• 14 *Confirm to be true VERY
• 15 Like 2027 and 2029, but not 2025 PRIME
• 16 *Someone who knows how the sausage gets made? CHER
• 17 Works traditionally performed with musical accompaniment in ancient Greece ODES
• 18 Goliath TITAN
• 19 Coach’s charge TEAM
• 20 Rainwater clearer WIPER
• 22 Unwanted “ingredient” when assembling s’mores, say ASH
• 23 ___ love PUPPY
• 24 Mr. Spock, e.g. ALIEN
• 26 Clamorous AROAR
• 28 Cunning sort SLYFOX
• 30 “Finally!” ATLAST
• 33 Li’l belly TUM
• 34 *Formal expressions of praise TRIES
• 38 Diminutive suffix in Spanish ITO
• 39 Like some coffees and mob targets ICED
• 41 Nickname for Louis Armstrong SATCH
• 42 Activist Brockovich ERIN
• 43 Neighbor of “#” on a telephone keypad NINE
• 44 Supporting FOR
• 45 Stir up RILE
• 46 The Forbidden City’s Meridian ___ GATE
• 47 *One who’s conspicuously excellent STOUT
• 49 One standing near a pond, maybe REED
• 50 Animal symbol of innocence DOE
• 52 Biblical beast ASS
• 54 Stunning 17,000-year-old discovery in France’s Lascaux Cave ART
• 57 Companionship? ARK
• 59 A club might be seen on one ACE
• 60 General name on a Chinese menu TSO
• 63 Emphatic instruction for entering the answers to this puzzle’s 10 starred clues? NOIFSANDSORBUTS
• 67 Flat sign TOLET
• 68 Alley ___ OOP
• 69 Clichéd BANAL
• 70 Cluster in an archipelago ISLES
• 71 *Street urchins WAS
• 72 Professional writer of a sort STENO

Vertical Clues

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