New York Times - Crossword Answers | 2025 06 18

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