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NYT Crossword December 21 2025 Answers

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Every answer from the Sunday, December 21 2025 New York Times Crossword, checked and verified against the published NYT solution. Select a clue for the full explanation.

Constructed by David Kwong · Edited by Will Shortz · “Present Time”

Across

1Some Arctic transports9 lettersSee answer ›10S.E.C. football powerhouse, for short4 lettersSee answer ›141950s hangout with a jukebox8 lettersSee answer ›20Game piece made of four squares9 lettersSee answer ›21"The Kite Runner" protagonist4 lettersSee answer ›22Skulks6 lettersSee answer ›23Joins gradually9 lettersSee answer ›24"Doggone it!"4 lettersSee answer ›25Treatment6 lettersSee answer ›26Blue colorant obtained from the indigo plant4 lettersSee answer ›27Wrangler alternative3 lettersSee answer ›28Brightly colored Mediterranean flowers8 lettersSee answer ›30Rap's Run-___3 lettersSee answer ›31Course catalog?4 lettersSee answer ›32When Aries transitions to Taurus5 lettersSee answer ›34Sweetly, on scores5 lettersSee answer ›35"I'll pass"3 lettersSee answer ›36Input of certain mining4 lettersSee answer ›38Montalbán who played Khan in "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan"7 lettersSee answer ›40Timer setting4 lettersSee answer ›42Areas of influence7 lettersSee answer ›45Mental health org.3 lettersSee answer ›46Fraudulently make seem like9 lettersSee answer ›48Covers completely5 lettersSee answer ›49Wyoming peak5 lettersSee answer ›51Like a corporation with a new logo, perhaps9 lettersSee answer ›54Comment from someone caught in the rain8 lettersSee answer ›56Yellow avenue in Monopoly7 lettersSee answer ›58A bit off, say6 lettersSee answer ›59Hyatt alternative4 lettersSee answer ›60Hard-boiled genre4 lettersSee answer ›62TheForce.net for "Star Wars," for example7 lettersSee answer ›64Dark side3 lettersSee answer ›65Former big name in browsers8 lettersSee answer ›67U.F.O.-watching org.4 lettersSee answer ›68By way of, informally4 lettersSee answer ›70Kemo ___ (the Lone Ranger)4 lettersSee answer ›71Sailor's patron6 lettersSee answer ›72Fleetwood Mac hit named for a Celtic goddess8 lettersSee answer ›76Daddy3 lettersSee answer ›79Eponymous British financier James ___7 lettersSee answer ›81By saying this you mean well4 lettersSee answer ›82Wrap seller4 lettersSee answer ›83Adopted, as a pet6 lettersSee answer ›85Wasn't folded in a suitcase, say7 lettersSee answer ›87Developed, as baby teeth6 lettersSee answer ›89Sci-fi miniaturizer9 lettersSee answer ›91Emanations5 lettersSee answer ›93Boldly face5 lettersSee answer ›94Kind of cipher in which A becomes B, B becomes C, e.g.6 lettersSee answer ›95Guardians, on a scoreboard3 lettersSee answer ›96Bit of birdspeak7 lettersSee answer ›98Damp, mildewy quality4 lettersSee answer ›99They hold water7 lettersSee answer ›102Silence4 lettersSee answer ›103Lying faceup6 lettersSee answer ›104___ Park, Calif.5 lettersSee answer ›105Air5 lettersSee answer ›107Disney subsidiary4 lettersSee answer ›111A little help?3 lettersSee answer ›112Evaded, as a sensitive issue12 lettersSee answer ›114Some pings, in brief3 lettersSee answer ›115"Fie on ___!" (Shakespearean cry)4 lettersSee answer ›116Skips over6 lettersSee answer ›118Few and far between4 lettersSee answer ›119Regulars at parks with ramps, informally9 lettersSee answer ›121Reply after having one's memory jogged6 lettersSee answer ›122Some time ago4 lettersSee answer ›123"What's done is done!"9 lettersSee answer ›124Stick (to)6 lettersSee answer ›125Garden interloper4 lettersSee answer ›126Church parts crossing naves9 lettersSee answer ›

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1Make furious5 lettersSee answer ›2"The Family Circus" cartoonist Bil ___5 lettersSee answer ›3Tennis line judge's ruling5 lettersSee answer ›4Duke Ellington classic with the lyric "That was my heart serenading you"14 lettersSee answer ›5West side of L.A.?3 lettersSee answer ›6"Is there still time for me to join you?"7 lettersSee answer ›751 to the hour8 lettersSee answer ›8Stage direction5 lettersSee answer ›9Phillipa of Broadway3 lettersSee answer ›10Grammy winner Erykah4 lettersSee answer ›11___ Gorman, "The Hill We Climb" poet6 lettersSee answer ›12Copy6 lettersSee answer ›13Iced-tea-and-lemonade refreshments13 lettersSee answer ›14Spending romp5 lettersSee answer ›15Output of certain mining4 lettersSee answer ›16Counterpart of a sub3 lettersSee answer ›17Fast start?12 lettersSee answer ›18Father, familiarly6 lettersSee answer ›19Mentally overpower, with "out"5 lettersSee answer ›28Like most moccasins6 lettersSee answer ›29Great Dane of cartoons, informally5 lettersSee answer ›33More livid6 lettersSee answer ›37Keister, in Leicester4 lettersSee answer ›392015 chart-topping hit for the Weeknd14 lettersSee answer ›40Symbolic for its time7 lettersSee answer ›41Shoe company with an iconic checkerboard design4 lettersSee answer ›42Descendant5 lettersSee answer ›43Apple: Fr.5 lettersSee answer ›44Is without5 lettersSee answer ›47Rabid in appearance8 lettersSee answer ›50Woman's nickname that sounds like two letters4 lettersSee answer ›51Rice-A-___4 lettersSee answer ›52"Borderlands" director ___ Roth3 lettersSee answer ›53Hiding place3 lettersSee answer ›55Gene pools?8 lettersSee answer ›57Org. with its own alphabet4 lettersSee answer ›61Abbr. not found on most smartphones4 lettersSee answer ›63"Aren't ___ lucky one?!"4 lettersSee answer ›66It has a lot of secretaries7 lettersSee answer ›67Shirt collar stiffener4 lettersSee answer ›69Where to find six "presents" in this puzzle?12 lettersSee answer ›71Knock ’em dead4 lettersSee answer ›72Coolidge who sang the theme for "Octopussy"4 lettersSee answer ›73Just getting started with5 lettersSee answer ›74Green shade5 lettersSee answer ›75What Joe Montana was in the '80s5 lettersSee answer ›76A TD scores six of these3 lettersSee answer ›77"Fancy, that!"3 lettersSee answer ›78Prickly denizen of coral reefs13 lettersSee answer ›80Famed lawyer in the 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial14 lettersSee answer ›81Most minimal6 lettersSee answer ›84Some Korean exports4 lettersSee answer ›86Calmed deceptively6 lettersSee answer ›88Baseball slugger's stat4 lettersSee answer ›90Bird used to deliver messages on "Game of Thrones"5 lettersSee answer ›92Blueprints8 lettersSee answer ›97Author Zora Neale ___7 lettersSee answer ›98Noodled on, with "over"6 lettersSee answer ›100Girlfriend in "Ferris Bueller's Day Off"6 lettersSee answer ›101Informant6 lettersSee answer ›103"Ta-ta!"5 lettersSee answer ›104Tricky pool shot5 lettersSee answer ›106Someone enjoying a walk in the park5 lettersSee answer ›108Mentally with it5 lettersSee answer ›109___ four5 lettersSee answer ›110Fits one inside the other5 lettersSee answer ›112Porcine : pigs :: cervine : ___4 lettersSee answer ›113Essential4 lettersSee answer ›117It might be good for a change3 lettersSee answer ›119One who knows the drill?: Abbr.3 lettersSee answer ›120Teslas, e.g., for short3 lettersSee answer ›