NYT Crossword hints and answer for July 5, 2025
Hints that get gradually more specific, then the answer if you need it. Nothing is revealed until you tap.
Clues68
Across35
Down33
ConstructorTracy Bennett
Today’s NYT Crossword clues, hints & answers
Every clue from this puzzle with a hint and the answer behind separate buttons, so you only see what you need. Click a clue for its own page.
Across
1A
Break off (4)
Starts with S, ends with PSTOP→
5A
French musician/composer ___ Tiersen (4)
Starts with Y, ends with NYANN→
9A
Come to (5)
Starts with R, ends with HREACH→
14A
Kind of survivor (4)
Starts with L, ends with ELONE→
15A
Name hidden in "disobedience" (4)
Starts with E, ends with EEDIE→
16A
Zhou of Chinese history (5)
Starts with E, ends with IENLAI→
17A
Yard, e.g. (4)
Starts with U, ends with TUNIT→
18A
Some stain preventers (10)
Starts with S, ends with SSOFACOVERS→
20A
Challenges for management (4)
Starts with E, ends with SEGOS→
21A
Oil smugglers? (10)
Starts with A, ends with SARTTHIEVES→
22A
Eerie phenomenon when a robot seems too lifelike (13)
Starts with U, ends with YUNCANNYVALLEY→
24A
Newspaper in Boston or Miami (6)
Starts with H, ends with DHERALD→
25A
Bone, in Bologna (4)
Starts with O, ends with OOSSO→
26A
Neutralize bad karma, say (5)
Starts with A, ends with EATONE→
27A
Bad guys (4)
Starts with C, ends with SCADS→
29A
Michigan's ___ Marquette River (waterway named for a missionary) (4)
Starts with P, ends with EPERE→
33A
It's nothing (3)
Starts with N, ends with LNIL→
34A
*, to a typist (7)
Starts with S, ends with YSTARKEY→
37A
Babe, for one (3)
Starts with P, ends with GPIG→
38A
Muscle named for its shape, for short (4)
Starts with D, ends with TDELT→
40A
"What's the big ___?" (4)
Starts with I, ends with AIDEA→
41A
Getting in one guess, as Wordle (5)
Starts with A, ends with GACING→
43A
Fencing option (4)
Starts with E, ends with EEPEE→
45A
Like Brutalist architecture (6)
Starts with B, ends with YBLOCKY→
46A
Subject of the books "Jonathan Loved David" and "Take Back the Word" (13)
Starts with Q, ends with YQUEERTHEOLOGY→
50A
Alley oops (10)
Starts with G, ends with LGUTTERBALL→
51A
Noble title (4)
Starts with L, ends with YLADY→
53A
Rigid sort of interpreter (10)
Starts with L, ends with TLITERALIST→
54A
Gal(lic) pal (4)
Starts with A, ends with EAMIE→
55A
Glass production (5)
Starts with O, ends with AOPERA→
56A
Brendon of Panic! at the Disco (4)
Starts with U, ends with EURIE→
57A
"99 Luftballons" singer (4)
Starts with N, ends with ANENA→
58A
Blow out (5)
Starts with B, ends with TBURST→
59A
Got a load of (4)
Starts with E, ends with DEYED→
60A
Somewhat audible disparagements (4)
Starts with T, ends with STSKS→
Down
1D
Careen wildly (4)
Starts with S, ends with ESLUE→
2D
Leave lost for words (9)
Starts with T, ends with ETONGUETIE→
3D
Jewish bakery specialty (9)
Starts with O, ends with LONIONROLL→
4D
3-D diagnostic test (7)
Starts with P, ends with NPETSCAN→
5D
One of the pillars of improv (6)
Starts with Y, ends with DYESAND→
6D
Bedeck (5)
Starts with A, ends with NADORN→
8D
It's a straight shot (9)
Starts with N, ends with ANEATVODKA→
9D
Keeps greasing that squeaky wheel? (6)
Starts with R, ends with SREOILS→
10D
Blanket (7)
Starts with E, ends with PENVELOP→
11D
Pain relief brand (5)
Starts with A, ends with EALEVE→
12D
Drew on a TV (5)
Starts with C, ends with YCAREY→
13D
Somewhat audible disparagement (4)
Starts with H, ends with SHISS→
19D
Dance move that slid into English as "sashay" (6)
Starts with C, ends with ECHASSE→
23D
They're not as sweet as porters (4)
Starts with A, ends with SALES→
24D
What may be raised at a meeting (4)
Starts with H, ends with DHAND→
27D
Uniform shade (9)
Starts with C, ends with ECADETBLUE→
28D
Could be certain? (3)
Starts with A, ends with EARE→
30D
Fortnite developer (9)
Starts with E, ends with SEPICGAMES→
31D
Small-time (9)
Starts with R, ends with KRINKYDINK→
32D
Like flans and frittatas (4)
Starts with E, ends with YEGGY→
35D
Earth : sun :: ___ : sol (6)
Starts with T, ends with ATIERRA→
36D
Colloquial collective (4)
Starts with Y, ends with LYALL→
39D
Is on the brink, say (7)
Starts with T, ends with STEETERS→
42D
Radiator fluid (7)
Starts with C, ends with TCOOLANT→
44D
Squint to see (6)
Starts with P, ends with TPEERAT→
45D
Very secure, in a way (6)
Starts with B, ends with DBOLTED→
46D
Record-keeping device made of strings and knots (5)
Starts with Q, ends with UQUIPU→
47D
Complete (5)
Starts with U, ends with RUTTER→
48D
Like a perilous situation (5)
Starts with H, ends with YHAIRY→
49D
Woman's name that becomes another woman's name if you reverse the third and fourth letters (5)
Starts with E, ends with EELSIE→
50D
Liquidy lump (4)
Starts with G, ends with BGLOB→
52D
Votes for (4)
Starts with Y, ends with SYEAS→
How to solve the NYT Crossword
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How many clues are in the NYT Crossword for July 5, 2025?+
68 clues: 35 Across and 33 Down. The puzzle was constructed by Tracy Bennett and edited by Will Shortz.
What are some answers in today’s NYT Crossword?+
For example: Break off (STOP); French musician/composer ___ Tiersen (YANN); Come to (REACH).
What time does the NYT Crossword come out?+
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