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NYT Crossword December 13 2025 Answers

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Every answer from the Saturday, December 13 2025 New York Times Crossword, checked and verified against the published NYT solution. Select a clue for the full explanation.

Constructed by Gene Louise De Vera · Edited by Will Shortz

Across

1Possible turnoff on a first date9 lettersSee answer ›10Spicy shellfish dish11 lettersSee answer ›12Yellow 5 and Red 40, for two13 lettersSee answer ›14City SE of Chicago4 lettersSee answer ›15"Cool beans!"5 lettersSee answer ›16Grub4 lettersSee answer ›18"Knowing" without really knowing, for short3 lettersSee answer ›19Shade of the gay pride triangle7 lettersSee answer ›21Cry in many a horror film3 lettersSee answer ›22Actress Birch of "Hocus Pocus"5 lettersSee answer ›24Robert Byrd was one for 51 years: Abbr.3 lettersSee answer ›25Abstain from5 lettersSee answer ›27Philippic6 lettersSee answer ›29Connect to the internet via mobile hotspot, as a device6 lettersSee answer ›30Subs7 lettersSee answer ›32Home heating component7 lettersSee answer ›33Dub7 lettersSee answer ›34Board of creatives?7 lettersSee answer ›35Countenance4 lettersSee answer ›36Ready to dive in, say5 lettersSee answer ›38Streamlet4 lettersSee answer ›39Ticker tape?: Abbr.3 lettersSee answer ›40First, second or third7 lettersSee answer ›42"___ won't!"3 lettersSee answer ›43Shift shape5 lettersSee answer ›45They travel through tubes3 lettersSee answer ›46"Dang it!"5 lettersSee answer ›48Gluttonous request … or what this puzzle has vis-à-vis the possible answer lengths?15 lettersSee answer ›51Obtain6 lettersSee answer ›52Morning prayer6 lettersSee answer ›53Doorbell sounds5 lettersSee answer ›54Weapon that killed Medusa, in myth5 lettersSee answer ›

Down

1Harbor bobber4 lettersSee answer ›2Wiz end?3 lettersSee answer ›3Alternative to a snake5 lettersSee answer ›4Fancy hotel amenities6 lettersSee answer ›5Orangutan, by another name6 lettersSee answer ›6Include later, as video footage6 lettersSee answer ›7Heed5 lettersSee answer ›8Part of TNT3 lettersSee answer ›9Order at a restaurant4 lettersSee answer ›10Creator of some bubbles14 lettersSee answer ›11"Remember …"14 lettersSee answer ›12Audrey Hepburn and Princess Diana, for two12 lettersSee answer ›13Some of them may be forgiven12 lettersSee answer ›14Be looped in10 lettersSee answer ›17School viewing?10 lettersSee answer ›19Lost all patience5 lettersSee answer ›20Mourning peal5 lettersSee answer ›23___ Cajun (Creole sauce with a rhyming name)5 lettersSee answer ›26Cousin of a wolverine5 lettersSee answer ›28Pot user?5 lettersSee answer ›29Article of regalia worn by both Elizabeth II and Pope Paul VI5 lettersSee answer ›31Birds also known as "little auks"8 lettersSee answer ›32Sign of good reception?8 lettersSee answer ›37Present4 lettersSee answer ›40"Well, whoop-de-doo!"5 lettersSee answer ›41Rapper with the 2022 hit "Big Energy"5 lettersSee answer ›44Not mucho4 lettersSee answer ›47Sound from fans4 lettersSee answer ›49A little work3 lettersSee answer ›50Pitch, roll and ___ (rotations along the three-dimensional axes)3 lettersSee answer ›