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NYT Crossword December 12 2025 Answers

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Every answer from the Friday, December 12 2025 New York Times Crossword, checked and verified against the published NYT solution. Select a clue for the full explanation.

Constructed by Adrian Johnson and Jess Rucks · Edited by Will Shortz

Across

1Some free spots, for short4 lettersSee answer ›5Grounds5 lettersSee answer ›10Doesn't just talk4 lettersSee answer ›14"You're telling me!"10 lettersSee answer ›16Word with wet or sweat4 lettersSee answer ›17Conspiracy theorist's accessory10 lettersSee answer ›18"Don't leave me!," e.g.4 lettersSee answer ›1916 in a Sweet Sixteen5 lettersSee answer ›20Main component of a "gutbucket," a jug band instrument7 lettersSee answer ›22Personal records5 lettersSee answer ›25Padlocked fasteners5 lettersSee answer ›26Variety of orange named for a European city8 lettersSee answer ›29What blue crabs do roughly 20 times in their lifetimes4 lettersSee answer ›30Jobs announcement of 20104 lettersSee answer ›31News feed, perhaps10 lettersSee answer ›35[Waaaaah!]3 lettersSee answer ›36Thick confection used for cake icing7 lettersSee answer ›37Part of a golf club3 lettersSee answer ›38See 5-Down10 lettersSee answer ›40Binary4 lettersSee answer ›41Succors4 lettersSee answer ›42Photo session workers8 lettersSee answer ›44Ace, e.g.5 lettersSee answer ›46Skater's braking method with the back foot positioned horizontally5 lettersSee answer ›47Relative of a craft fair7 lettersSee answer ›50"Duino Elegies" poet5 lettersSee answer ›53Saves, as a digital location4 lettersSee answer ›54Clichéd line from the side of a product package10 lettersSee answer ›58It's cool to drink4 lettersSee answer ›59"I haven't told you the best part ..."10 lettersSee answer ›60Impressively accurate pass, in football slang4 lettersSee answer ›61Floats5 lettersSee answer ›62Give a bad hand?4 lettersSee answer ›

Down

1Stone3 lettersSee answer ›2Vaudeville highlight4 lettersSee answer ›3Pulitzer-winning journalist Applebaum4 lettersSee answer ›4You might pull one out for a guest7 lettersSee answer ›5With 38-Across, one way to sit10 lettersSee answer ›6Feel gross3 lettersSee answer ›7"Gross"3 lettersSee answer ›8Playwright who wrote "You see things; and you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?'"4 lettersSee answer ›9"Tell Mama" singer James4 lettersSee answer ›10Rocky road ingredient?7 lettersSee answer ›11Distinction for a classic underground work10 lettersSee answer ›12Bind5 lettersSee answer ›13Sticks a fork in5 lettersSee answer ›15Part of NOW5 lettersSee answer ›21"Fiddlesticks!"5 lettersSee answer ›23Disney princess in New Orleans5 lettersSee answer ›24Workshop debris7 lettersSee answer ›26Possible need for entry4 lettersSee answer ›27Each4 lettersSee answer ›28Colleague who might be solutions-oriented?10 lettersSee answer ›29Tropical plants said to bring good fortune10 lettersSee answer ›32"That's the truth"5 lettersSee answer ›33Kid's parent4 lettersSee answer ›34Hagfish lookalikes4 lettersSee answer ›36Company whose logo has a hidden arrow between its fourth and fifth letters5 lettersSee answer ›39Performance that isn't prerecorded7 lettersSee answer ›40Word from the Greek for "folded paper"7 lettersSee answer ›43Butcher shop buys5 lettersSee answer ›44Pleasing to the palate5 lettersSee answer ›45"Buss It" rapper ___ Banks5 lettersSee answer ›48Way4 lettersSee answer ›49Arm of the Dept. of Labor4 lettersSee answer ›51Part of a cabinet4 lettersSee answer ›52French 101 verb4 lettersSee answer ›55Whitehouse in D.C., e.g.: Abbr.3 lettersSee answer ›56Physics unit equivalent to roughly 624 gigaelectronvolts3 lettersSee answer ›57Thoroughly evaluate3 lettersSee answer ›