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NYT Crossword December 16 2025 Answers

Deborah Simmons ✓Solving & explaining puzzles since 1998 · Updated December 16 2025

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Every answer from the Tuesday, December 16 2025 New York Times Crossword, checked and verified against the published NYT solution. Select a clue for the full explanation.

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1Library acquisition4 lettersSee answer ›5Insta and Snap4 lettersSee answer ›9Start5 lettersSee answer ›14Roughly equivalent (to)4 lettersSee answer ›15Homie4 lettersSee answer ›16Maine-to-Florida hwy.5 lettersSee answer ›17What shares a key with "(" on a keyboard4 lettersSee answer ›18Reason to buy a magazine, perhaps10 lettersSee answer ›20Hockey feints5 lettersSee answer ›22Like someone who knows everything about a niche subject, maybe5 lettersSee answer ›23Prefix with cache or tag3 lettersSee answer ›24Person in hot pants?4 lettersSee answer ›26Name on a prestigious award5 lettersSee answer ›28It may be blond or pale3 lettersSee answer ›31Disgusting5 lettersSee answer ›33C-suite types5 lettersSee answer ›36Last stop before security, often8 lettersSee answer ›38Words of communal support6 lettersSee answer ›39Texter's "Then again …"4 lettersSee answer ›40Groundbreaking 1988 Japanese animated action film5 lettersSee answer ›42Orchestra-tuning instrument4 lettersSee answer ›43Negligent6 lettersSee answer ›45Turnabout, they say8 lettersSee answer ›47Tiny amount5 lettersSee answer ›48Pay taxes via the internet5 lettersSee answer ›49Air traveler's info3 lettersSee answer ›50Drinks served at fountains5 lettersSee answer ›52Govt. IDs4 lettersSee answer ›54Down Under land: Abbr.3 lettersSee answer ›56Computer acronym since the 1960s5 lettersSee answer ›58Inventor Nikola5 lettersSee answer ›62The IBM Simon Personal Communicator is considered the world's first one10 lettersSee answer ›65Couple, in gossip4 lettersSee answer ›66"Aw, shucks!"5 lettersSee answer ›67Decorative pitcher4 lettersSee answer ›68Wacky4 lettersSee answer ›69Lords' lands5 lettersSee answer ›70Tells (on)4 lettersSee answer ›71After 1-Across, shelf accessories … or what can be placed "around" the halves of 18-, 36-, 45- and 62-Across to make new phrases?4 lettersSee answer ›

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1Genesis or Yes4 lettersSee answer ›2Many a character in "The Grapes of Wrath"4 lettersSee answer ›3Barnyard sound4 lettersSee answer ›4Prepare to be knighted5 lettersSee answer ›5Epitome of simplicity3 lettersSee answer ›6Genre for Genesis or Yes, informally8 lettersSee answer ›7Lead (the way)4 lettersSee answer ›8Glossy finishes6 lettersSee answer ›9Active and enthusiastic sort7 lettersSee answer ›10Approx.3 lettersSee answer ›11Easily found on the internet, say10 lettersSee answer ›12Memo heading4 lettersSee answer ›13Grammy-winning R&B artist whose stage name is said to have been inspired by "The Matrix"4 lettersSee answer ›19Golden Age studio known for many Astaire/Rogers films3 lettersSee answer ›21You might heave a big one4 lettersSee answer ›25Places5 lettersSee answer ›27Mike in "Breaking Bad," for example5 lettersSee answer ›28Cancel, as a space launch5 lettersSee answer ›29Procrastinator's mantra5 lettersSee answer ›30What someone seeking validation might need10 lettersSee answer ›32Shallow boat with a square stern5 lettersSee answer ›34Neighbor of a Slovene5 lettersSee answer ›35"Take it easy!"5 lettersSee answer ›37Brother to Groucho5 lettersSee answer ›38Mournful cries5 lettersSee answer ›41One in a box at the theater?8 lettersSee answer ›44Tranquilizes7 lettersSee answer ›46Penalty in Monopoly4 lettersSee answer ›48Artist known for his "impossible staircases"6 lettersSee answer ›51Symbol of divine authority in hieroglyphics3 lettersSee answer ›53Grab control of5 lettersSee answer ›54Words before a date4 lettersSee answer ›55Tentative greeting4 lettersSee answer ›57The Hawkeye State4 lettersSee answer ›59Show extreme fandom for, in slang4 lettersSee answer ›60Give temporarily4 lettersSee answer ›61Ryan and Adams of Hollywood4 lettersSee answer ›63Whistle blower or flag thrower3 lettersSee answer ›64Hosp. hot spots3 lettersSee answer ›