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NYT Crossword December 15 2025 Answers

Deborah Simmons ✓Solving & explaining puzzles since 1998 · Updated December 15 2025

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Every answer from the Monday, December 15 2025 New York Times Crossword, checked and verified against the published NYT solution. Select a clue for the full explanation.

Constructed by Jeff Jerome and Andrea Carla Michaels · Edited by Will Shortz

Across

1___ Nicholas5 lettersSee answer ›6Judge's seat, from the French4 lettersSee answer ›10N.Y.C. airport3 lettersSee answer ›13"Star Wars" droid, familiarly5 lettersSee answer ›14Side's length squared, for a square4 lettersSee answer ›15Thrilla in Manila boxer3 lettersSee answer ›16Recharge one's batteries6 lettersSee answer ›18Prepared to bathe8 lettersSee answer ›20Cool ___ cucumber3 lettersSee answer ›21"Balderdash!"4 lettersSee answer ›23Filled in (for), for short6 lettersSee answer ›24Schmoozed (with)9 lettersSee answer ›27Good, long bath4 lettersSee answer ›28Slight injury from tripping10 lettersSee answer ›30Bridge support5 lettersSee answer ›32Karl Marx's "___ Kapital"3 lettersSee answer ›33Do one better than3 lettersSee answer ›36President Hoover7 lettersSee answer ›39"You take credit cards?" response7 lettersSee answer ›42Unconventional3 lettersSee answer ›43Alternative to the pill, in brief3 lettersSee answer ›45Dog-___ (like the pages in some books)5 lettersSee answer ›46Foreign-language movie that you don't have to read subtitles for10 lettersSee answer ›50Location for a goatee or soul patch4 lettersSee answer ›52Enchanted9 lettersSee answer ›55Big-beaked tropical bird6 lettersSee answer ›57One-named Brazilian soccer star4 lettersSee answer ›58"If you ask me …," to texters3 lettersSee answer ›59Camp sleeping spots … or a hint to this puzzle's circled letters8 lettersSee answer ›61Sci-fi writer Isaac6 lettersSee answer ›63Suitable, as a unit in a bldg.?3 lettersSee answer ›64Tales of yore4 lettersSee answer ›65Join in marriage5 lettersSee answer ›66Lo-___ graphics3 lettersSee answer ›67One-named Grammy winner from Ireland4 lettersSee answer ›68___ Cottontail5 lettersSee answer ›

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1Wife of Abraham, in the Bible5 lettersSee answer ›2"You ___ right!"5 lettersSee answer ›3"Ridiculous!"9 lettersSee answer ›4"I'm kidding!!," in "Wayne's World"3 lettersSee answer ›5Artist Henri de ___-Lautrec8 lettersSee answer ›6One who's rotten from the start7 lettersSee answer ›7Singer Grande, to fans3 lettersSee answer ›8Loch ___ monster4 lettersSee answer ›9Opera great Enrico6 lettersSee answer ›10Sluglike "Star Wars" crime boss5 lettersSee answer ›11On ___ (looking great, in slang)5 lettersSee answer ›12Colonial-era pirate captain4 lettersSee answer ›17Mr. ___ (Dr Pepper competitor)4 lettersSee answer ›19Orchestral woodwind4 lettersSee answer ›22Be on the wane3 lettersSee answer ›25Crash-investigating org.4 lettersSee answer ›26Turning point in W.W. II4 lettersSee answer ›29When doubled, an African fly3 lettersSee answer ›30But, briefly3 lettersSee answer ›31Like a ripe strawberry3 lettersSee answer ›33Re-election restriction9 lettersSee answer ›34Many a Wordsworth poem3 lettersSee answer ›35Pea holder3 lettersSee answer ›37Part of a barbecue rack3 lettersSee answer ›38Ernest in the Country Music Hall of Fame4 lettersSee answer ›40Suddenly stops working, as an engine8 lettersSee answer ›41Gov. Tim ___, 2024 running mate4 lettersSee answer ›44Beyond the continental shelf, say7 lettersSee answer ›46Comic actor Van Dyke4 lettersSee answer ›47Lacking the capacity6 lettersSee answer ›48Prez before 10-Across3 lettersSee answer ›49"Deck the Halls" syllables4 lettersSee answer ›50Two-door auto5 lettersSee answer ›51Outings for foxhounds5 lettersSee answer ›53Show feelings onstage5 lettersSee answer ›54Capital of Delaware5 lettersSee answer ›55Lift on the slopes4 lettersSee answer ›56Like bright signs on the Las Vegas Strip4 lettersSee answer ›60Funny in a subtle way3 lettersSee answer ›62Suffix with Benedict or elephant3 lettersSee answer ›