New York Times - Crossword Answers | 2025 06 05

crossword answers
Clue Answer
*Formal expressions of praise TRIES
Li’l belly TUM
Mr. Spock, e.g. ALIEN
Unwanted “ingredient” when assembling s’mores, say ASH
Rainwater clearer WIPER
Coach’s charge TEAM
Goliath TITAN
Works traditionally performed with musical accompaniment in ancient Greece ODES
*Someone who knows how the sausage gets made? CHER
Like 2027 and 2029, but not 2025 PRIME
*Confirm to be true VERY
Like some coffees and mob targets ICED
Neighbor of “#” on a telephone keypad NINE
The Forbidden City’s Meridian ___ GATE
*One who’s conspicuously excellent STOUT
One standing near a pond, maybe REED
Animal symbol of innocence DOE
Stunning 17,000-year-old discovery in France’s Lascaux Cave ART
Companionship? ARK
A club might be seen on one ACE
General name on a Chinese menu TSO
Emphatic instruction for entering the answers to this puzzle’s 10 starred clues? NOIFSANDSORBUTS
Cluster in an archipelago ISLES
*Street urchins WAS
Professional writer of a sort STENO
Necessity for a reservation, perhaps PREPAYMENT
Word that can redundantly follow “I” MYSELF
Actor Cox of “Succession” BRIAN
*Armed thieves BITS
Midwest city whose name consists of two interjections OMAHA
This clue’s number + one TEN
Not approximate, say ACTUAL
GILLETTE RAZOR ATRA
___ LOVE PUPPY
Setting for a Laura Ingalls Wilder book series THEPRAIRIE
Huge fan club, so to speak ARMY
Leader of brothers ABBOT
Toggle on a digital clock AMPM
HASTY RASH
STIR UP RILE
SUPPORTING FOR
CAVE DWELLER BAT
GARNER REAP
“Finally!” ATLAST
CUNNING SORT SLYFOX
“Blame It on ___” (1984 Michael Caine rom-com) RIO
Shoot into the pocket, in snooker POT
Telephone no. add-ons EXTS
*Removing lumps from, in a way STING
Saint in the Caribbean LUCIA
*Like dress shirts, typically TONED
Emergency item on a ship RAFT
Langston Hughes poem published during the Harlem Renaissance ITOO
*Showed for the first time DEED
*Buying a gallon of milk, picking up the laundry, etc. ERRS
Antidotes, perhaps SERA
Food subject to internet debate over whether or not it’s a sandwich TACO
Kilns for hops OASTS
Down Under bounders ROOS
What Indiana Jones famously isn’t fond of ASPS
Get ready to hit all the right notes? TUNE
1970s tennis champ Smith STAN
Home of the historic Oscarshall Palace OSLO
Doomed from the get-go, for short DOA
CLAMOROUS AROAR
BIBLICAL BEAST ASS
INCLINED APT
ALLEY ___ OOP
HAVE DOWN KNOW
NOT SUPPORTING ANTI
Cost of doing business, maybe FEE
ACTIVIST BROCKOVICH ERIN
FLAT SIGN TOLET
PROCLAIM AVOW
Lead-in to care MEDI
NICKNAME FOR LOUIS ARMSTRONG SATCH
Clichéd BANAL
CULTIVATE TILL
LIGHT SHADE ECRU
BARRIER TO ENTRY STILE
Neighbors of Croats SERBS
Diminutive suffix in Spanish ITO