The full solution for the NY Times June 26 2025 Crossword puzzle is displayed below. This puzzle was authored by Simeon Seigel and edited by Will Shortz.
Across Clues
- 1 “You stink, ump!” BOO
- 4 Hoppy brew, for short IPA
- 7 Bygone jeans brand whose name means “happiness” in Hebrew SASSON
- 13 757 or 767 JETLINER
- 15 Recess ALCOVE
- 16 Bell for the telephone, for one PATENTEE
- 17 Secured by a slip MOORED
- 18 John Lennon’s middle name after 1969 ONO
- 19 Hurricane / Nor’easter HORNBLOWER
- 21 “The ability to be ill-at-ease inconspicuously,” per Earl Wilson POISE
- 23 Downed ATE
- 24 Eponymous Belgian town SPA
- 26 ___ chic TRES
- 29 Bell location, often STEEPLE
- 32 Must give OWEITTO
- 35 Erupting with noise AROAR
- 36 Pundit / Tsar PORTAUTHORITY
- 39 Author who predicted electric submarines 15 years before they were invented VERNE
- 40 Down state SADNESS
- 41 Forces offshore ARMADAS
- 44 Word with six or sea DEEP
- 45 Casual refusal NAH
- 46 Some roadside accommodations, in brief RVS
- 48 It’s a fact! DATUM
- 52 Cleaver / Dagger CORDCUTTER
- 57 Onetime Japanese P.M. Shinzo ___ ABE
- 58 Cocktail of tequila, lime juice and grapefruit soda PALOMA
- 59 They try to admit the worst first, informally ERNURSES
- 61 Got things going OPENED
- 62 Travelers in covered wagons PIONEERS
- 63 Marquis name? DESADE
- 64 Brillo competitor SOS
- 65 Choice words ? which are necessary to interpret the answers to 19-, 36- and 52-Across and 10- and 33-Down ORS
Vertical Clues
- 1 Original name for “bingo,” after the bits used to cover the playing cards BEANO
- 2 First Holy Roman emperor to be called “the Great” OTTOI
- 3 “Hurray!” OLE
- 4 Loving INTO
- 5 Part of a jury pool PEER
- 6 Boxing site ARENA
- 7 Baby fish with pink, coho and sockeye varieties SAMLET
- 8 Potato, in Indian cuisine ALOO
- 9 Boat with broad, square ends SCOW
- 10 Sees / Espies SORESPOTS
- 11 Takes a role too far OVERPLAYS
- 12 Governor Lamont of Connecticut NED
- 13 Music export from Tokyo, informally JPOP
- 14 Like looks from mom and dad, say INHERITED
- 20 Music export from Seoul BTS
- 22 Breast plates? STERNA
- 25 Atmospheric prefix AER
- 27 Info found, appropriately, in “ticket agent” ETA
- 28 Apt nickname for a gumbo chef STU
- 30 Kind of average EARNEDRUN
- 31 City up the coast from Cleveland, OH ERIEPA
- 32 Accessory for Broadway’s Phantom OPERACAPE
- 33 Wells / Mouths WORMHOLES
- 34 Certain rehab docs OTS
- 37 Experienced HAD
- 38 Love lines? ODE
- 39 Dutch cousin of Mac or Ben VAN
- 42 Centipede setting ARCADE
- 43 Long-running police procedural filmed in N.Y.C. SVU
- 47 Puts one’s foot down STEPS
- 49 Police weapon TASER
- 50 App-driven rides UBERS
- 51 Interfere (with) MESS
- 53 Covid-19, colloquially RONA
- 54 Used social media for private notes, informally DMED
- 55 The “Amigos” of film, e.g. TRIO
- 56 Grandson of Adam and Eve ENOS
- 58 Lead-in to cast POD
- 60 Car that went defunct in 1936 REO
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Hated it. The hardest Thursday puzzle ever for me.