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NYT Crossword December 20 2025 Answers

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Every answer from the Saturday, December 20 2025 New York Times Crossword, checked and verified against the published NYT solution. Select a clue for the full explanation.

Constructed by Robert S. Gard · Edited by Will Shortz

Across

1Sampras rival during the 1990s6 lettersSee answer ›7Get on board6 lettersSee answer ›13Let off steam, perhaps6 lettersSee answer ›14Perry Como or Bing Crosby7 lettersSee answer ›15Frustrated and making poor decisions, informally6 lettersSee answer ›16#1 on Wired magazine's list of the 10 most influential video games of the 2010s8 lettersSee answer ›17"Aren't we all hoity-toity?!"11 lettersSee answer ›19Generate clippings, say3 lettersSee answer ›20First name in hog riding4 lettersSee answer ›21Established fact5 lettersSee answer ›22Let go of4 lettersSee answer ›23Body layer5 lettersSee answer ›25Events at which to release one's inner geek9 lettersSee answer ›27Makers of frightening but (thankfully) rare marine attacks5 lettersSee answer ›29Source of half the world's sugar during the late 1800s5 lettersSee answer ›30Higher power?5 lettersSee answer ›31They're stoked5 lettersSee answer ›32Word with blue or open5 lettersSee answer ›33Speak, as thou might5 lettersSee answer ›34Kind of beard that follows the jawline9 lettersSee answer ›36Dunderheaded5 lettersSee answer ›40"You ___?"4 lettersSee answer ›41Punted5 lettersSee answer ›43Foe of the Iroquois during the Beaver Wars4 lettersSee answer ›44Org. that's gone to the dogs?3 lettersSee answer ›45[womp, womp]11 lettersSee answer ›47Major magazine pieces8 lettersSee answer ›49Delicatessen offering6 lettersSee answer ›50Loser of the 2025 World Series7 lettersSee answer ›51Where to follow local customs, it's said6 lettersSee answer ›52Underhanded6 lettersSee answer ›53Beach shade6 lettersSee answer ›

Down

1Sworn6 lettersSee answer ›2City, lake or canton de Suisse6 lettersSee answer ›3Tip on quite a few bucks?6 lettersSee answer ›4Extremely rare, facetiously11 lettersSee answer ›5Act bearishly4 lettersSee answer ›6What might come with some baggage?5 lettersSee answer ›7Dogsbody9 lettersSee answer ›8Io or luna4 lettersSee answer ›9When repeated, a small treat3 lettersSee answer ›10Shamans, typically8 lettersSee answer ›11Claps back7 lettersSee answer ›12Mardi Gras parading societies6 lettersSee answer ›14Tech job5 lettersSee answer ›16Bills first introduced in 18615 lettersSee answer ›18Currency of Serbia5 lettersSee answer ›22Exercise almost to a point of pain11 lettersSee answer ›24Van Gogh retreat in southern France5 lettersSee answer ›26Significant spread5 lettersSee answer ›28Post-show celebration9 lettersSee answer ›30Some spa treatments8 lettersSee answer ›31Escapade5 lettersSee answer ›32Agree to, in a way7 lettersSee answer ›33Bath ___5 lettersSee answer ›34Fashions6 lettersSee answer ›35Clown locale5 lettersSee answer ›37Futuristic sci-fi classic with tales set in 2021 and 20296 lettersSee answer ›38Field of the annual César Awards6 lettersSee answer ›39One of the Wayans brothers6 lettersSee answer ›42Day at the movies5 lettersSee answer ›45Like some costs4 lettersSee answer ›46Many a drop-down4 lettersSee answer ›48___ T3 lettersSee answer ›