NYT Crossword Answers 06/16/25

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Across Clues

• 1 Three-player trick-taking game SKAT
• 5 Supermarket tabloids, informally RAGS
• 9 Walkways PATHS
• 14 Difficult air to see through HAZE
• 15 Dog biter FLEA
• 16 Greek theater ODEON
• 17 Pitchers’ stats ERAS
• 18 Short stiletto shoe KITTENHEEL
• 20 Voice below soprano ALTO
• 22 Locale for a person with a green thumb GARDEN
• 23 ‘N Sync bandmate of Justin Timberlake JOEYFATONE
• 26 Black Friday or Cyber Monday event SALE
• 29 Letters before a criminal’s alias AKA
• 30 Vaccine-approving org. FDA
• 31 Finger ? or what a finger dials on a phone DIGIT
• 32 “Affirmative!” YES
• 33 Floor model DEMO
• 35 Slanted edges, as on mirrors BEVELS
• 36 What a first crush might be dismissed as PUPPYLOVE
• 38 Author Louisa May ___ ALCOTT
• 41 Slugger Sammy SOSA
• 42 ___ de Janeiro RIO
• 45 Like cursive handwriting, typically LOOPY
• 46 Yahoo alternative AOL
• 47 Finish END
• 48 Cash dispensers ATMS
• 49 Spot that may be affected by a charley horse CALFMUSCLE
• 53 Bandit at sea PIRATE
• 55 Small case for needles ETUI
• 56 Movie marketed toward a primarily female audience, informally CHICKFLICK
• 60 West Point, in brief USMA
• 62 2015 Adele hit that won three Grammys HELLO
• 63 Adolescent woe ACNE
• 64 The first word of 18-, 23-, 36-, 49- or 56-Across is one BABY
• 65 Swords whose points were once dipped in dye before a duel EPEES
• 66 Squealed, as an informant SANG
• 67 ___ gin fizz SLOE

Vertical Clues

• 1 “Thar ___ blows!” SHE
• 2 Sing-along activity at a bar KARAOKE
• 3 Colorful shrubs in the genus Rhododendron AZALEAS
• 4 In an irritable mood TESTY
• 5 ___ Stadium, former D.C. sports venue RFK
• 6 Boxer who “stung like a bee” ALI
• 7 Outset GETGO
• 8 Lucifer SATAN
• 9 Setting for “Make Way for Ducklings” POND
• 10 Sticky stuff ADHESIVE
• 11 Like most first-year college students TEENAGE
• 12 Groundbreaking invention for ancient farmers? HOE
• 13 Longtime sketch comedy show, in brief SNL
• 19 Before, poetically ERE
• 21 Not working, as a police officer OFFDUTY
• 23 Bird whose name sounds like a letter of the alphabet JAY
• 24 Skilled ADEPT
• 25 Pack (down) TAMP
• 27 Rapper ___ Nas X LIL
• 28 U.F.O. crew ETS
• 31 Lower one’s estimation of DEVALUE
• 34 Yiddish laments OYS
• 35 ___ buddy BOSOM
• 36 Treat on a stick that you lick POPSICLE
• 37 Bread purchase LOAF
• 38 Styled after ALA
• 39 Parking place LOT
• 40 Put together, as a scrapbook COMPILE
• 42 Disengagement due to a conflict of interest RECUSAL
• 43 Left hanging between two stages INLIMBO
• 44 Praiseful poem ODE
• 49 Half-___ (coffee order) CAF
• 50 Bronze statue in Rockefeller Center ATLAS
• 51 High-end German camera brand LEICA
• 52 Things left after tearing checks out of checkbooks STUBS
• 54 Some bygone theaters RKOS
• 56 Revolutionary Guevara CHE
• 57 No-longer-cool way to say “cool” HEP
• 58 First channel to offer 24-hour reporting CNN
• 59 Beer barrel KEG
• 61 “Affirmative!” at sea AYE