New York Times 2025 06 18 - Crossword Answers

Clue	Answer
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
“By Jove!”	ISAY
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
NOT HIS	HERS
LOOK BAD?	OGLE
SQUEAK REMOVER	LUBE
Fashion’s Jimmy whose surname aptly rhymes with “shoe”	CHOO
NEAR	NIGH
PERFECT SERVE	ACE
CARD	WIT
Gad about at a banquet	TABLEHOP
John or Jane of anonymity	DOE
Bite at a bar	TAPA
JOB SECURITY, FOR SOME	TENURE
NOT JUST MY	OUR
LIKE HAND-ME-DOWNS	USED
ONCE, ONCE	ERST
MIND-BOGGLING DESIGNS	OPART
THEREFORE	HENCE
LIKELY (TO)	LIABLE
“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
BREWER COORS	ADOLPH
PENNSYLVANIA CITY OR ITS COUNTY	YORK
GOALS	AIMS
HAD	OWNED
Small amount of whiskey	DRAM
CAPITAL ON THE BALTIC SEA	RIGA
Not so happy	GLUMMER
“Impossible!”	NOCANDO
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
THE FIRST ONE WAS DELIVERED IN 1984	TEDTALK
VERBAL HESITATIONS	UMS
BE AFRAID TO	DARENOT
WENT THROUGH CHANNELS?	SWAM
It’s not you, it’s me	EGO
CHOPPER PARTS	ROTORS

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

“By Jove!”

ISAY