GARDENING GEAR
Across
- Wide belt
- Take a stroll
- Undersea craft, for short
- Soothing lotion additive
- Flat-topped land
- Home made of logs
- Grass-cutting machine
- Make amends (for)
- Add decorations to
- Celebrate noisily
- Letter before tee
- Small songbirds
- Robin Hood's Sherwood __
- Eyelid hairs
- Sandwich shop
- Catches, as a criminal
- Woodwind instrument
- Toss
- __ dish (beans or rice)
- Car tire contents
- Strong adhesive
- Abe Lincoln's coin
- Trample (on)
- And others: Abbr.
- Clear-sky color
- Passes, as a law
- Ohio's "Rubber City"
- Muscle overexertion
- Well-chosen, as words
- Texas landmark to "remember"
- Impolite glances
- Not moving
- Irrigation machine
- Mexican coins
- The thing over there
- "It makes sense now"
- Beef meal in a slow cooker
- __ bran muffin
- Parcel (out)
Down
- Reduced-price event
- Prepared to propose
- Rows of people waiting
- On top of
- Pouring tool with a spout
- Farm building
- Attach, as a coat button
- Female chicken
- Female pigs
- "It's a shame"
- Software buyers
- Humble
- Christmas song
- Female horse
- Vehicle for moving soil
- Not many
- Misplace
- Very slightly
- Root beer or ginger ale
- Campus housing
- Full collections
- Soft hit in baseball
- Actor Baldwin
- Dislike very much
- __ de Janeiro
- Allow
- Solar system's center
- Sheets brought to groceries
- Midday
- 24-__ gold
- First Greek letter
- Actress Witherspoon
- Minor mistakes
- Basic credo
- Elm or oak
- Banana covering
- In addition
- Concerning, in a memo
- Young girl or boy
About this puzzle
The Newsday Crossword for Monday, June 15, 2026 is titled “GARDENING GEAR” and was constructed by Guilherme Gilioli. The puzzle features 78 clues arranged in a 21×21 grid — the standard format for Sunday-size puzzles.
Click any clue above to view its dedicated answer page, which includes letter-by-letter analysis, the puzzle context, and a history of every other Newsday puzzle the same clue or answer has appeared in. To see the complete grid filled in with every answer, use the “Reveal grid” button at the top of the grid.
The Newsday Crossword is published daily by Newsday on Long Island and edited by Stan Newman. Difficulty builds across the week from a gentle Monday introduction up to Saturday’s legendary themeless Stumper. The official puzzle is available on the Newsday Games site. For other days, browse the complete Newsday Crossword archive indexed by date.