New York Times Answers - Friday, 1st June 2012 There are 25 across clues and 27 down clues for the New York Times crossword on Friday, 1st June 2012. View the answers below.. Also try..All New York Times AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: Children's author EleanorESTESAAcross 6: Environment of many old PCsMS-DOSAAcross 11: Opposite of ampleMEAGERAAcross 13: Grapefruit taste-alikePOMELOAAcross 14: Heated house for newborn chicksBROODERAAcross 16: Round number?CALIBERAAcross 17: Restless, in scoresAGITATOAAcross 18: Go beyond seconds, sayOVEREATAAcross 19: Confirmation declarationYESITISAAcross 20: Some people in costumeMASKERSAAcross 21: "This doesn't exactly require a Ph.D."ITSELEMENTARYAAcross 23: What big banks underwent in 2009STRESSTESTSAAcross 24: ___ B (initial step)ATOAAcross 25: They may be studied along with languagesLITERATURESAAcross 33: What past performance may portendFUTURERESULTSAAcross 35: Wild West symbol of authorityTINSTARAAcross 36: Practice at a trackRUNLAPSAAcross 38: Went for something elseRECHOSEAAcross 39: SeaWorld attractionMANATEEAAcross 40: Put people in their places?USHEREDAAcross 41: Activity in "Ghostbusters"SLIMINGAAcross 42: Firewood measuresSTERESAAcross 43: Attempt to recall the passed?SEANCEAAcross 44: Stunned, in a wayTASEDAAcross 45: German composer with a palindromic nameREGERDDown 1: Enclose in a recessEMBAYDDown 2: Eisenstein who directed "The Battleship Potemkin"SERGEIDDown 3: Some Asian believersTAOISTSDDown 4: Hardly the self-effacing sortEGOTISTDDown 5: Not so franticSEDATERDDown 6: Really bothersMOLESTSDDown 7: Give a smug lookSMIRKATDDown 8: Big name in diamondsDEBEERSDDown 9: Last name in Chicago loreOLEARYDDown 10: It's unsettling to be out of themSORTSDDown 12: Patch up, in a way, as a space shuttleRETILEDDown 13: Quaint, dignified dance for couplesPAVANEDDown 15: Valentine verse starterROSESAREREDDDown 16: Reach an agreementCOMETOTERMSDDown 22: Many a red dwarfMSTARDDown 25: Things people "do" in the early afternoonLUNCHESDDown 26: Mailbox checker's excited cryITSHEREDDown 27: Taught a lesson, maybeTUTOREDDDown 28: Goes back on one's word?ERASESDDown 29: Same old ordersUSUALSDDown 30: Less congealedRUNNIERDDown 31: Singer Morse with the 1952 hit "The Blacksmith Blues"ELLAMAEDDown 32: Giving expression toSTATINGDDown 33: Piñata-hitting occasionFIESTADDown 34: Superlawyer Gerry who wrote "How to Argue and Win Every Time"SPENCEDDown 35: "___ no one"TRUSTDDown 37: "Old Time Rock & Roll" rockerSEGER