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CONFIDENCE BUILDER

Thursday, June 5, 2025 Constructed by Winston Emmons 76 clues
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Across

  1. Praises for puppies 4 ℓ
  2. The closer thing 4 ℓ
  3. Web exchange 4 ℓ
  4. Japanese assent 3 ℓ
  5. Ticket buyer's choices 5 ℓ
  6. Two-hyphen IDs 4 ℓ
  7. Still-more-confident comment 11 ℓ
  8. Parent's prodding 3 ℓ
  9. Simmering 5 ℓ
  10. You and me 6 ℓ
  11. Banish formally 5 ℓ
  12. Fully confident comment 9 ℓ
  13. Typical taxi 5 ℓ
  14. Miles away 4 ℓ
  15. Eleven, essentially 4 ℓ
  16. Where sheep sleep 4 ℓ
  17. Some cookware 4 ℓ
  18. Veganism-promoting org. 4 ℓ
  19. Water near Detroit 4 ℓ
  20. Grapes of Wrath persona 4 ℓ
  21. Heritage 5 ℓ
  22. Zero-confidence comment 9 ℓ
  23. Bygone 5 ℓ
  24. Links in a fence 5 ℓ
  25. Land of Lincoln varsity athletes 6 ℓ
  26. Direction on deck 3 ℓ
  27. Less skeptical comment 11 ℓ
  28. See some sights 4 ℓ
  29. Insisted absolutely 5 ℓ
  30. Hairpin curve 3 ℓ
  31. Righteous 5 ℓ
  32. Live at this moment 5 ℓ
  33. Increased-confidence comment 13 ℓ
  34. Gettysburg victor 5 ℓ
  35. Ring in the ocean 5 ℓ
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Down

  1. Stir-fry morsel 3 ℓ
  2. Transcription pros 6 ℓ
  3. Medicine chest 3-Down 6 ℓ
  4. Yuletide symbol 5 ℓ
  5. Web provocateur 5 ℓ
  6. Canine classification 3 ℓ
  7. "Pursuing Justice" org. 3 ℓ
  8. The Bard's "Sup?" 6 ℓ
  9. Vocal groups 6 ℓ
  10. Fourth man 4 ℓ
  11. Pharmacy solution 8 ℓ
  12. NL West team 3 ℓ
  13. Wishful thinking 5 ℓ
  14. Campaign manager 6 ℓ
  15. Emphatic assent 6 ℓ
  16. Find hilarious 6 ℓ
  17. Gets serious 6 ℓ
  18. Any of three in Beijing 3 ℓ
  19. Coeur d'__, ID 5 ℓ
  20. Guava-hitting-ground sound 5 ℓ
  21. Breakfast Sampler seller 4 ℓ
  22. Aloe vera extract 3 ℓ
  23. Federal purchasing agcy. 3 ℓ
  24. Finish with 3 ℓ
  25. Anomalous overhead phenomenon 3 ℓ
  26. Bad moods 5 ℓ
  27. Quick break 3 ℓ
  28. Skyscraper girder 5 ℓ
  29. Drive-thru device 3 ℓ
  30. Nutriment 4 ℓ
  31. Pirated video 7 ℓ
  32. Handel contemporary 4 ℓ
  33. Spanish tennis great's nickname 4 ℓ
  34. Blazing 3 ℓ
  35. "__ waiting..." 3 ℓ
  36. Bar display 4 ℓ
  37. Standard of comparison 8 ℓ
  38. __ Pere (French prayer) 5 ℓ
  39. Bjorn contemporary 4 ℓ
  40. Author Ferber 4 ℓ
  41. To-the-max ender 3 ℓ

About this puzzle

The Newsday Crossword for Thursday, June 5, 2025 is titled “CONFIDENCE BUILDER” and was constructed by Winston Emmons. The puzzle features 76 clues arranged in a 21×21 grid — the standard format for Sunday-size puzzles.

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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.

Newsday CONFIDENCE BUILDER Crossword June 5 2025 Answers