NYT Crossword Answers 06/18/25

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Across Clues

• 1 Near NIGH
• 5 Fashion’s Jimmy whose surname aptly rhymes with “shoe” CHOO
• 9 Squeak remover LUBE
• 13 Look bad? OGLE
• 14 Not his HERS
• 15 “By Jove!” ISAY
• 16 Offset, as something on a scale COUNTERBALANCE
• 19 It might be swiped for cash ATMCARD
• 20 Org. that was a frequent James Bond foe KGB
• 21 Mo. setting CST
• 23 M.L.B.’er in a blue-and-orange uniform NYMET
• 24 Gad about at a banquet TABLEHOP
• 26 John or Jane of anonymity DOE
• 27 Bite at a bar TAPA
• 30 Job security, for some TENURE
• 31 Not just my OUR
• 32 Mind-boggling designs OPART
• 34 Like hand-me-downs USED
• 35 Rely on the hospitality of friends for lodging COUCHSURF
• 38 “Star Wars” species on Tatooine JAWA
• 41 Sentiment on el Día de San Valentín TEAMO
• 42 Card WIT
• 45 Brewer Coors ADOLPH
• 48 Once, once ERST
• 49 Perfect serve ACE
• 50 Hit the pubs BARCRAWL
• 52 Had OWNED
• 54 Bygone initials at JFK SST
• 55 “Mr. Blue Sky” band, in brief ELO
• 56 Be afraid to DARENOT
• 58 Rainy-day game for children, whose play is punnily suggested by 16-, 24-, 35- and 50-Across THEFLOORISLAVA
• 61 Capital on the Baltic Sea RIGA
• 62 Went through channels? SWAM
• 63 Medicinal name in the shampoo aisle TGEL
• 64 Short first step ATOB
• 65 Takes up, as some new pants HEMS
• 66 Pennsylvania city or its county YORK

Vertical Clues

• 1 “Impossible!” NOCANDO
• 2 “Ha ha ha!,” on April Fools’ Day IGOTYOU
• 3 Not so happy GLUMMER
• 4 Therefore HENCE
• 5 Acting Oscar winner inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame CHER
• 6 What’s rounded up in a roundup HERD
• 7 Earth or sun, for example ORB
• 8 Home to the oldest Buddhist temple in Japan (built in A.D. 593) OSAKA
• 9 Likely (to) LIABLE
• 10 SEAL’s org. USN
• 11 Wine god of myth BACCHUS
• 12 House with a long-unmowed lawn, e.g. EYESORE
• 17 Anchor or heart, maybe TATTOO
• 18 Letters before Q, sometimes LGBT
• 22 “Decorated,” as a house for Halloween TPED
• 24 North Carolina athlete TARHEEL
• 25 Broadway’s “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is ___” ENUF
• 28 “The Simpsons” shopkeeper APU
• 29 What a handshake may lead to PACT
• 33 Ruling title that dates back to the Byzantine Empire TSAR
• 35 Course that may follow trig CALC
• 36 Verbal hesitations UMS
• 37 Chopper parts ROTORS
• 38 Pokes in the ring JABS
• 39 2019 Brad Pitt sci-fi thriller ADASTRA
• 40 “I don’t care what that cost!” WORTHIT
• 42 “You in?” WANNAGO
• 43 Freeze up ICEOVER
• 44 The first one was delivered in 1984 TEDTALK
• 46 Like a house built in a day, say PREFAB
• 47 Long way to go? HALL
• 51 “Sound” of a point sailing over someone’s head WOOSH
• 53 Eudora ___, Pulitzer winner for “The Optimist’s Daughter” WELTY
• 56 Small amount of whiskey DRAM
• 57 Goals AIMS
• 59 It’s not you, it’s me EGO
• 60 “You ___ me!” OWE