New York Times - Crossword Answers | 2025 06 18

crossword answers
Clue Answer
THEREFORE HENCE
PERFECT SERVE ACE
ONCE, ONCE ERST
LIKE HAND-ME-DOWNS USED
MIND-BOGGLING DESIGNS OPART
NOT JUST MY OUR
JOB SECURITY, FOR SOME TENURE
Bite at a bar TAPA
John or Jane of anonymity DOE
Gad about at a banquet TABLEHOP
M.L.B.’er in a blue-and-orange uniform NYMET
“Impossible!” NOCANDO
Mo. setting CST
Org. that was a frequent James Bond foe KGB
It might be swiped for cash ATMCARD
Rely on the hospitality of friends for lodging COUCHSURF
“Star Wars” species on Tatooine JAWA
Sentiment on el Día de San Valentín TEAMO
Hit the pubs BARCRAWL
Bygone initials at JFK SST
“Mr. Blue Sky” band, in brief ELO
Rainy-day game for children, whose play is punnily suggested by 16-, 24-, 35- and 50-Across THEFLOORISLAVA
Medicinal name in the shampoo aisle TGEL
Short first step ATOB
Takes up, as some new pants HEMS
“Ha ha ha!,” on April Fools’ Day IGOTYOU
Acting Oscar winner inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame CHER
Earth or sun, for example ORB
Home to the oldest Buddhist temple in Japan (built in A.D. 593) OSAKA
SEAL’s org. USN
Wine god of myth BACCHUS
House with a long-unmowed lawn, e.g. EYESORE
Anchor or heart, maybe TATTOO
“Decorated,” as a house for Halloween TPED
Broadway’s “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is ___” ENUF
Offset, as something on a scale COUNTERBALANCE
“By Jove!” ISAY
NOT HIS HERS
LOOK BAD? OGLE
SQUEAK REMOVER LUBE
Fashion’s Jimmy whose surname aptly rhymes with “shoe” CHOO
NEAR NIGH
CARD WIT
“The Simpsons” shopkeeper APU
What a handshake may lead to PACT
Ruling title that dates back to the Byzantine Empire TSAR
Course that may follow trig CALC
Pokes in the ring JABS
2019 Brad Pitt sci-fi thriller ADASTRA
“I don’t care what that cost!” WORTHIT
“You in?” WANNAGO
Like a house built in a day, say PREFAB
“Sound” of a point sailing over someone’s head WOOSH
Eudora ___, Pulitzer winner for “The Optimist’s Daughter” WELTY
“You ___ me!” OWE
HAD OWNED
BE AFRAID TO DARENOT
WENT THROUGH CHANNELS? SWAM
CAPITAL ON THE BALTIC SEA RIGA
LIKELY (TO) LIABLE
BREWER COORS ADOLPH
PENNSYLVANIA CITY OR ITS COUNTY YORK
GOALS AIMS
Not so happy GLUMMER
North Carolina athlete TARHEEL
Letters before Q, sometimes LGBT
What’s rounded up in a roundup HERD
LONG WAY TO GO? HALL
FREEZE UP ICEOVER
CHOPPER PARTS ROTORS
THE FIRST ONE WAS DELIVERED IN 1984 TEDTALK
VERBAL HESITATIONS UMS
Small amount of whiskey DRAM
It’s not you, it’s me EGO