Daily Puzzle Solution
NYT Crossword
Thursday, June 25, 2026
The New York Times crossword puzzle for Thursday, June 25, 2026 features 76 clues. Today's puzzle has an average answer length of 4.9 letters. The longest answer is "OVERTHINK".
Total Clues
76
Longest
OVERTHINK
Avg Length
4.9
Shortest
RIO
Featured Clue
"Analyze excessively"
9 Letters
OVERTHINK
ALLComplete Solution List
Some terminals
6ANODES
Gamer's state of invincibility enabled by a cheat code
7GODMODE
Listens to, as a radio station
7TUNESIN
Achieves success for the first time
7ARRIVES
*They may result in people wrongly being sent to jail
7BADRAPS
Bonny young girl
7WEELASS
Spanner of 11 time zones
4ASIA
Klondike territory
5YUKON
Copacabana locale
3RIO
Exercise experts
8TRAINERS
Bit of improv
4SKIT
One end of a playground "telephone"
6TINCAN
Wish for a romantic pairing between, in modern lingo
4SHIP
Thor: Ragnarok actress Thompson
5TESSA
*Advocate of women's equality
8FEMINIST
Tower in the water
3TUG
Hi-fi spinners
3LPS
Ewe said it?
3BAA
School org.
3NEA
Let's pick up the pace!
8STEPONIT
Preschooler's wheels
5TRIKE
Trivia contest venues
4PUBS
Restaurant icon McDonald
6RONALD
Breakfast that may be prepared overnight
4OATS
*Some online courses
8WEBINARS
The Matrix character
3NEO
N.C.A.A. basketball powerhouse, informally
5UCONN
Cantina freebie
4AGUA
With 65-Across, market no-no ... or a hint to entering the answers to the starred clues
7INSIDER
See 63-Across
7TRADING
Simply taboo
7NOTDONE
Melted adhesive
7HOTGLUE
Categorizes
7ASSORTS
Removes a curse?
6BLEEPS
Up
5ATBAT
Front-line hero during the 2020 pandemic
5NURSE
We're live! studio sign
5ONAIR
___ goes!
7DEPARTS
Spanish pronoun
3ESA
The Science Kid, in children's television
3SID
Get an eyeful
4GAWK
Some McFlurry ingredients
5OREOS
Knocked back a few
5DRANK
Bad start?
3MIS
Analyze excessively
9OVERTHINK
Slicer's place
4DELI
ExxonMobil brand
4ESSO
Bye Bye Bye boy band
5NSYNC
Falcons' grp.
4USAF
Congressional divide
5AISLE
Like purchases made while playing freemium games
5INAPP
Distinctive doctrine
3ISM
Point of writing
3NIB
So that's how it is!
4ISEE
Organizer of an after-school event, in brief
3PTA
You might go on tiptoe in this
4TUTU
Consequences of compliments
9EGOBOOSTS
Sharansky who wrote the memoir "Fear No Evil"
5NATAN
Country rocker Steve with the album "Exit 0"
5EARLE
Medicinal amt.
3TSP
Paul McCartney, for one
3SIR
Org. that hires cryptanalysts
3NSA
Minor municipality
4TOWN
Conventioneer's passport
7IDBADGE
First grade of high school, typically
5NINTH
Old royal house
5TUDOR
Lilac, e.g.
5SCENT
Twinkle-toed
5AGILE
Preceding time
5RUNUP
Solomonic figures
5SAGES
1492 caravel
4NINA
Grandson of Eve
4ENOS
Get a lode of these!
4ORES
Words sealed with a kiss
3IDO
Blind ___
3ROB
W.N.B.A.'s Dream, on scoreboards
3ATL