*Someone who knows how the sausage gets made?
Crossword Answer — June 05, 2025
NYT Crossword
Thursday, June 05, 2025
By Timothy Gaetz
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Crossword clues, hints, and answers
Across
- 1. Toggle on a digital clock — Answer: AMPM
- 5. Leader of brothers — Answer: ABBOT
- 10. Gillette razor — Answer: ATRA
- 14. *Confirm to be true — Answer: VERY
- 15. Like 2027 and 2029, but not 2025 — Answer: PRIME
- 16. *Someone who knows how the sausage gets made? — Answer: CHER
- 17. Works traditionally performed with musical accompaniment in ancient Greece — Answer: ODES
- 18. Goliath — Answer: TITAN
- 19. Coach's charge — Answer: TEAM
- 20. Rainwater clearer — Answer: WIPER
- 22. Unwanted "ingredient" when assembling s'mores, say — Answer: ASH
- 23. ___ love — Answer: PUPPY
- 24. Mr. Spock, e.g. — Answer: ALIEN
- 26. Clamorous — Answer: AROAR
- 28. Cunning sort — Answer: SLYFOX
- 30. "Finally!" — Answer: ATLAST. Hint: It's the expression you use when you've been waiting forever! 🎉
- 33. Li'l belly — Answer: TUM
- 34. *Formal expressions of praise — Answer: TRIES
- 38. Diminutive suffix in Spanish — Answer: ITO
- 39. Like some coffees and mob targets — Answer: ICED
- 41. Nickname for Louis Armstrong — Answer: SATCH
- 42. Activist Brockovich — Answer: ERIN
- 43. Neighbor of "#" on a telephone keypad — Answer: NINE
- 44. Supporting — Answer: FOR
- 45. Stir up — Answer: RILE
- 46. The Forbidden City's Meridian ___ — Answer: GATE
- 47. *One who's conspicuously excellent — Answer: STOUT
- 49. One standing near a pond, maybe — Answer: REED
- 50. Animal symbol of innocence — Answer: DOE
- 52. Biblical beast — Answer: ASS
- 54. Stunning 17,000-year-old discovery in France's Lascaux Cave — Answer: ART
- 57. Companionship? — Answer: ARK
- 59. A club might be seen on one — Answer: ACE
- 60. General name on a Chinese menu — Answer: TSO
- 63. Emphatic instruction for entering the answers to this puzzle's 10 starred clues? — Answer: NOIFSANDSORBUTS
- 67. Flat sign — Answer: TOLET
- 68. Alley ___ — Answer: OOP
- 69. Clichéd — Answer: BANAL
- 70. Cluster in an archipelago — Answer: ISLES
- 71. *Street urchins — Answer: WAS
- 72. Professional writer of a sort — Answer: STENO
Down
- 1. Proclaim — Answer: AVOW
- 2. Lead-in to care — Answer: MEDI
- 3. Necessity for a reservation, perhaps — Answer: PREPAYMENT
- 4. Word that can redundantly follow "I" — Answer: MYSELF
- 5. Inclined — Answer: APT
- 6. Actor Cox of "Succession" — Answer: BRIAN
- 7. *Armed thieves — Answer: BITS
- 8. Midwest city whose name consists of two interjections — Answer: OMAHA
- 9. This clue's number + one — Answer: TEN
- 10. Not approximate, say — Answer: ACTUAL
- 11. Setting for a Laura Ingalls Wilder book series — Answer: THEPRAIRIE
- 12. Garner — Answer: REAP
- 13. Huge fan club, so to speak — Answer: ARMY
- 21. "Blame It on ___" (1984 Michael Caine rom-com) — Answer: RIO
- 23. Shoot into the pocket, in snooker — Answer: POT
- 25. Telephone no. add-ons — Answer: EXTS
- 27. Hasty — Answer: RASH
- 28. *Removing lumps from, in a way — Answer: STING
- 29. Saint in the Caribbean — Answer: LUCIA
- 31. Barrier to entry — Answer: STILE
- 32. *Like dress shirts, typically — Answer: TONED
- 35. Emergency item on a ship — Answer: RAFT
- 36. Langston Hughes poem published during the Harlem Renaissance — Answer: ITOO
- 37. Light shade — Answer: ECRU
- 40. *Showed for the first time — Answer: DEED
- 42. *Buying a gallon of milk, picking up the laundry, etc. — Answer: ERRS
- 47. Antidotes, perhaps — Answer: SERA
- 48. Food subject to internet debate over whether or not it's a sandwich — Answer: TACO
- 51. Kilns for hops — Answer: OASTS
- 53. Neighbors of Croats — Answer: SERBS
- 54. Not supporting — Answer: ANTI
- 55. Down Under bounders — Answer: ROOS
- 56. Cultivate — Answer: TILL
- 58. Have down — Answer: KNOW
- 59. What Indiana Jones famously isn't fond of — Answer: ASPS
- 60. Get ready to hit all the right notes? — Answer: TUNE
- 61. 1970s tennis champ Smith — Answer: STAN
- 62. Home of the historic Oscarshall Palace — Answer: OSLO
- 64. Cost of doing business, maybe — Answer: FEE
- 65. Doomed from the get-go, for short — Answer: DOA
- 66. Cave dweller — Answer: BAT
The answer to “*Someone who knows how the sausage gets made?” in the New York Times crossword is CHER — a 4-letter word. This clue ran in the New York Times crossword on June 5, 2025, a Thursday puzzle, at 16-Across. If it's the entry standing between you and a clean grid, that's the word you need — and below you'll find why it fits, plus links to the day's other clues if more than one square is giving you trouble.
“*Someone who knows how the sausage gets made?” answer
CHER (4 letters)
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Why the answer is CHER
CHER is the 4-letter solution that fits "*Someone who knows how the sausage gets made?" in the NYT Crossword crossword on June 5, 2025 (16-Across). Use the letter tiles above if you'd rather reveal it one letter at a time.
When else has “*Someone who knows how the sausage gets made?” appeared?
New York Times reuses clues across dates, sometimes with a different answer depending on the grid. Here's where this exact clue has shown up before, and what the answer was each time — handy if you landed here from a puzzle on another date.
June 5, 2025 (this puzzle) → CHER. We haven't indexed an earlier appearance of this exact clue yet.
More clues from the NYT Crossword crossword on June 5, 2025
Stuck elsewhere in the grid? Here are some of the crossing and nearby clues from the same puzzle — tap any for its answer and explanation.
- Not approximate, say → ACTUAL
- Setting for a Laura Ingalls Wilder book series → THEPRAIRIE
- Garner → REAP
- Huge fan club, so to speak → ARMY
- Like 2027 and 2029, but not 2025 → PRIME
- Works traditionally performed with musical accompaniment in ancient Greece → ODES
- *Confirm to be true → VERY
- Goliath → TITAN
Want every clue in one place? The full New York Times answer list for June 5, 2025 is on that day's grid page, and today's live NYT Crossword answers are always one tap from the today page.
About the NYT Crossword
The New York Times crossword, edited by Will Shortz, is the most famous daily puzzle in the United States. It runs a 15×15 grid Monday through Saturday and a larger 21×21 grid on Sunday, and its difficulty deliberately ramps through the week: Monday is the most approachable, Saturday the toughest, with Thursday often reserved for a trick or twist like rebus squares. This page covers a Thursday puzzle. A straight-definition entry is the kind of solid mid-grid answer that anchors the trickier crossings around it. Because the NYT reuses short, crossing-friendly words regularly, seeing them once makes them easier to spot next time.
Frequently asked questions
What is the answer to “*Someone who knows how the sausage gets made?”?
The answer is CHER, a 4-letter word. It appeared in the New York Times crossword on June 5, 2025.
How many letters is the answer to “*Someone who knows how the sausage gets made?”?
4 letters: CHER.
Where did this clue appear?
In the New York Times crossword on June 5, 2025 (a Thursday puzzle), at 16-Across.
Can “*Someone who knows how the sausage gets made?” have a different answer?
Yes — New York Times sometimes reuses a clue with a different solution to fit the grid. The answers we've recorded for each date it appeared are listed above when available.
Where can I find the rest of this day's NYT Crossword answers?
The full grid for June 5, 2025 is on the NYT Crossword answers page, with every clue and answer from that puzzle.