LOWER LEVELS
Across
- Low-tech sect
- Some donations
- Khaki cousins
- Get done
- Longtime peace advocate
- Pair of propellers
- 24-hour reporter
- Meditative practice
- Well-equipped
- Zebra's parent
- Shifts course
- Brewer's supply
- Word-for-word
- Outer area
- Scopes out
- Stained, say
- Get sidetracked
- Conductor's concern
- Plenty
- Not made up
- Provide for permanently
- Morsel of cheese
- Prepare to fly
- Abyss
- Pond swimmer
- Move goods
- Midwestern metropolis
- Minded moppets
- Exercise advocacy org.
- Insurgents, for short
- Some daycare deliverers
- Jazz musician
- Common conjunction
- Snack chip source
- Ancient consumer of chocolate
Down
- Filled up on
- Mask part
- Extra-long
- Sudden increase
- Philanthropic focus
- Blue hue
- High-minded
- Class Notes subjects
- Fiesta fare
- Bookstore section
- Hair-raising
- Film facts website
- Most Marines
- Kitchen assortment
- Coming right up
- Positioned to detect intruders
- Primed for action
- Platoon nickname
- Vet visitors
- Woman's title
- Resource for many a collector
- La femme
- Irate, with "off"
- Customize
- NBC originator
- Untidy place
- Part of a Wonder Woman costume
- Playback technique
- Rum cakes
- Bedazzle
- Roasting direction
- Biblical excerpt
- Prov. n. of ND
- Essential __ acids
- Wears
- Nautical prefix
- Feathery accessory
- Energetic
- Decided on
- Moonshiner's product
- Toon Great Dane's nickname
About this puzzle
The Newsday Crossword for Thursday, June 19, 2025 is titled “LOWER LEVELS” and was constructed by Steve Faiella. The puzzle features 76 clues arranged in a 21×21 grid — the standard format for Sunday-size puzzles.
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