Actress Mendes
Crossword Answer — June 11, 2025
This talented actress shares her first name with a famous biblical figure! 🎬
NYT Crossword
Wednesday, June 11, 2025
By Sam Koperwas and Jeff Chen
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Crossword clues, hints, and answers
Across
- 1. Obstinate fool — Answer: ASS
- 4. Co. badges, e.g. — Answer: IDS
- 7. Keeps burning, say — Answer: STOKES
- 13. Apt name for a fretful fellow — Answer: STU
- 14. Yogi's accessory — Answer: MAT
- 15. Goes off track — Answer: DERAILS
- 16. Jabber — Answer: YAP
- 17. Chang or Eng Bunker, notably — Answer: SIAMESETWIN
- 19. Just managed, with "out" — Answer: EKED
- 21. Mix up — Answer: STIR
- 22. Recoils suddenly — Answer: SHIES
- 23. ___ Haute, Ind. — Answer: TERRE
- 25. On its way — Answer: SENT
- 27. Throwing a ball and grasping a pencil, e.g. — Answer: MOTORSKILLS
- 32. Grammy-nominated poet Nikki ___ — Answer: GIOVANNI
- 34. Percolated — Answer: SEEPED
- 37. Balm additive — Answer: ALOE
- 38. Observes Ramadan, say — Answer: FASTS
- 40. Stretchiness — Answer: GIVE
- 41. National park that's home to the Pretty Rocks Landslide — Answer: DENALI
- 43. Like pumpkin spice latte and peppermint mocha — Answer: SEASONAL
- 45. Provider of crucial testimony — Answer: STARWITNESS
- 47. Unbuckled seatbelt alert — Answer: BEEP
- 48. Zigzag — Answer: WEAVE
- 51. Solomonic figures — Answer: SAGES
- 55. Craft drafts, for short — Answer: IPAS
- 58. Sporty auto feature — Answer: TTOP
- 59. Copyright wrongs — Answer: PLAGIARISMS
- 62. Sounds heard during a cuteness overload — Answer: AWS
- 63. Took to the sky — Answer: AVIATED
- 64. Young 'un — Answer: PUP
- 65. Soccer star Messi, familiarly — Answer: LEO
- 66. Approach — Answer: MANNER
- 67. Spot for wallowing — Answer: STY
- 68. One of four featured on the Yale Nature Walk — Answer: ELM
Down
- 1. To date — Answer: ASYET
- 2. Sticking point for a gardener? — Answer: STAKE
- 3. Celestial phenomena observed at perigees — Answer: SUPERMOONS
- 4. Some online exchanges, in brief — Answer: IMS
- 5. Speaker's spot — Answer: DAIS
- 6. Walks or runs — Answer: STAT
- 7. French possessive — Answer: SES
- 8. Bridge support — Answer: TRESTLE
- 9. Swearword — Answer: OATH
- 10. Aussie's neighbor — Answer: KIWI
- 11. Nobel laureate Wiesel — Answer: ELIE
- 12. Figs. with two dashes — Answer: SSNS
- 15. Jeter in Cooperstown — Answer: DEREK
- 18. Natural dividing line on a U.S. map, as suggested by this puzzle's circled letters — Answer: MISSISSIPPI
- 20. Strongly suggested — Answer: DROVEAT
- 24. Fig. at a train station — Answer: ETA
- 26. Titan maker — Answer: NISSAN
- 28. Really killing it, so to speak — Answer: ONFIRE
- 29. Strand in a cell — Answer: RNA
- 30. The World Map is the largest one to date, with 11,695 pieces — Answer: LEGOSET
- 31. Does some creative accounting? — Answer: SPINSATALE
- 32. Meander (about) — Answer: GAD
- 33. Saint Martin, par exemple — Answer: ILE
- 35. Actress Mendes — Answer: EVA. Hint: This talented actress shares her first name with a famous biblical figure! 🎬
- 36. Torre ___ Greco, Italy — Answer: DEL
- 39. Celebration whose full name translates as "festival of the first day" — Answer: TET
- 42. Menlo Park, N.J., famously — Answer: LABSITE
- 44. Hem, but not haw — Answer: SEW
- 46. Screwy — Answer: WEIRD
- 49. I, for one — Answer: VOWEL
- 50. Surrey town known for its salt — Answer: EPSOM
- 51. Most bulk email — Answer: SPAM
- 52. Thomas ___ Edison — Answer: ALVA
- 53. Appreciation — Answer: GAIN
- 54. Pulitzer-winning author Jennifer — Answer: EGAN
- 56. Certain vipers — Answer: ASPS
- 57. X-rated material — Answer: SMUT
- 60. ___ Lingus — Answer: AER
- 61. Stratego piece — Answer: SPY
The answer to “Actress Mendes” in the New York Times crossword is EVA — a 3-letter word. This clue ran in the New York Times crossword on June 11, 2025, a Wednesday puzzle, at 35-Down. 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.
“Actress Mendes” answer
EVA (3 letters)
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Why the answer is EVA
This talented actress shares her first name with a famous biblical figure! 🎬
When else has “Actress Mendes” 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 11, 2025 (this puzzle) → EVA. We haven't indexed an earlier appearance of this exact clue yet.
More clues from the NYT Crossword crossword on June 11, 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.
- Percolated → SEEPED
- Stretchiness → GIVE
- Like pumpkin spice latte and peppermint mocha → SEASONAL
- Torre ___ Greco, Italy → DEL
- Balm additive → ALOE
- Saint Martin, par exemple → ILE
- Grammy-nominated poet Nikki ___ → GIOVANNI
- Observes Ramadan, say → FASTS
Want every clue in one place? The full New York Times answer list for June 11, 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 Wednesday 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 “Actress Mendes”?
The answer is EVA, a 3-letter word. It appeared in the New York Times crossword on June 11, 2025.
How many letters is the answer to “Actress Mendes”?
3 letters: EVA.
Where did this clue appear?
In the New York Times crossword on June 11, 2025 (a Wednesday puzzle), at 35-Down.
Can “Actress Mendes” 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 11, 2025 is on the NYT Crossword answers page, with every clue and answer from that puzzle.