SHORTENING SUGGESTED
Across
- Cardio-boxing routine
- Muppet Show dog
- Educational octet
- Pantheon personage
- Clued in about
- Tips of pens
- Carpenter's pin
- Fewer than few
- Prayerful chants
- Stumblebums
- Conclusion of review
- Spy-fi author Deighton
- Guess wrong
- Cobbler cousin
- Huge quantity
- Break off
- National Humor Mo.
- Allergic outburst
- Spring shape
- Start of a legendary unfavorable literary review
- Text attachment
- Wet beads
- Cream's category
- Agatha's investigator
- Very small things
- Historical study
- Begin to tire
- Bird revered by the Mayans
- JAMA subscribers
- Questionable, these days
- Foldable furniture
- Middle of review
- National candidate of '92 and '96
- Have or hold
- Subject to assessment
Down
- Stars awarded
- Earthy colour
- Milk by-product
- __ cit. (footnote notation)
- Feasting fad follower
- "Ease on Down the Road" show
- Atm- kin
- Other than those
- Rainforest or desert
- Tolkien alma mater
- Once around
- Telephonic trio
- City near Sacramento
- Novelist __ Neale Hurston
- Faire focus, for short
- Let off some steam
- Orbiter since '98
- Unsettle
- Skinny cell size
- Party planner's hires
- Rumple up
- Burlap product
- Bows out
- Disinclined
- Where pumps are purchased
- Conductor's venue
- Container ship client
- Streamable anytime
- "That stings!"
- Supermarket promotion
- Testimonials
- No good at all
- Red + white
- Italian hot spot
- Carries out
About this puzzle
The Newsday Crossword for Friday, June 27, 2025 is titled “SHORTENING SUGGESTED” and was constructed by S.N.. The puzzle features 70 clues arranged in a 21×21 grid — the standard format for Sunday-size puzzles.
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