New York Times - Crossword Answers | 2025 06 05

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Toggle on a digital clock AMPM
Leader of brothers ABBOT
*Confirm to be true VERY
Like 2027 and 2029, but not 2025 PRIME
*Someone who knows how the sausage gets made? CHER
Works traditionally performed with musical accompaniment in ancient Greece ODES
Goliath TITAN
Coach’s charge TEAM
Rainwater clearer WIPER
Unwanted “ingredient” when assembling s’mores, say ASH
Mr. Spock, e.g. ALIEN
Li’l belly TUM
*Formal expressions of praise TRIES
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
Setting for a Laura Ingalls Wilder book series THEPRAIRIE
Huge fan club, so to speak ARMY
CULTIVATE TILL
HASTY RASH
Clichéd BANAL
NICKNAME FOR LOUIS ARMSTRONG SATCH
CAVE DWELLER BAT
Lead-in to care MEDI
PROCLAIM AVOW
FLAT SIGN TOLET
“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
ACTIVIST BROCKOVICH ERIN
BIBLICAL BEAST ASS
GARNER REAP
SUPPORTING FOR
ALLEY ___ OOP
INCLINED APT
STIR UP RILE
CUNNING SORT SLYFOX
CLAMOROUS AROAR
___ LOVE PUPPY
GILLETTE RAZOR ATRA
BARRIER TO ENTRY STILE
LIGHT SHADE ECRU
HAVE DOWN KNOW
Neighbors of Croats SERBS
NOT SUPPORTING ANTI
Cost of doing business, maybe FEE
“Finally!” ATLAST
Diminutive suffix in Spanish ITO