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NYT Crossword December 22 2025 Answers

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Every answer from the Monday, December 22 2025 New York Times Crossword, checked and verified against the published NYT solution. Select a clue for the full explanation.

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Across

1Deep sleeps5 lettersSee answer ›6High-speed Amtrak train5 lettersSee answer ›11Word with punching or sleeping3 lettersSee answer ›14One of a battery's poles5 lettersSee answer ›15Older but ___5 lettersSee answer ›16Under the weather3 lettersSee answer ›17Saxophone, trumpet, piano and bass, perhaps11 lettersSee answer ›19Day-___ paint3 lettersSee answer ›20"Garfield" dog4 lettersSee answer ›21"It's freezing!"3 lettersSee answer ›22Typical "Survivor" locales5 lettersSee answer ›24Rapper ___ Uzi Vert3 lettersSee answer ›25Yoda and Obi-Wan Kenobi, for two11 lettersSee answer ›28Fish that may have an electric charge3 lettersSee answer ›29Stammering sounds3 lettersSee answer ›30Indignation7 lettersSee answer ›31What each U.S. senator represents5 lettersSee answer ›33Raggedy ___3 lettersSee answer ›34Breyers competitor4 lettersSee answer ›35Some exams allow them9 lettersSee answer ›39Cops, slangily4 lettersSee answer ›42Rode the bench3 lettersSee answer ›43Yoga pose5 lettersSee answer ›47Enjoying great success7 lettersSee answer ›49What electric cars don't use3 lettersSee answer ›51Like a 49-Across gauge that's near "Empty"3 lettersSee answer ›52Overly fussy11 lettersSee answer ›54Bit of forensic evidence3 lettersSee answer ›55Pink ___ (rock band)5 lettersSee answer ›56Singer DiFranco3 lettersSee answer ›57Bill4 lettersSee answer ›58Mideast export3 lettersSee answer ›59Cheat … or a punny hint to the four sets of circled letters11 lettersSee answer ›63French "a"3 lettersSee answer ›64Hearing-related5 lettersSee answer ›65Playwright Chekhov5 lettersSee answer ›66Kind of lamp that's energy-efficient3 lettersSee answer ›67Easily irritated5 lettersSee answer ›68Romeo and Juliet, agewise5 lettersSee answer ›

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1Persuades with flattery7 lettersSee answer ›2Doing keto, perhaps7 lettersSee answer ›3Creator of Firefox and Thunderbird7 lettersSee answer ›4Woodworking tool4 lettersSee answer ›5Orderly arrangement: Abbr.3 lettersSee answer ›6Oscars and Grammys, e.g.6 lettersSee answer ›7Wispy clouds5 lettersSee answer ›8Approx.3 lettersSee answer ›9Harper ___, author of "To Kill a Mockingbird"3 lettersSee answer ›10Monet or Manet6 lettersSee answer ›11Don't blow it!7 lettersSee answer ›12Reaction to pollen, e.g.7 lettersSee answer ›13Shiny coatings7 lettersSee answer ›18Lyft competitor4 lettersSee answer ›23Heart attack risk factor6 lettersSee answer ›25Cherokee maker4 lettersSee answer ›26"The kissing disease"4 lettersSee answer ›27Em, to Dorothy4 lettersSee answer ›32Foot, in baby talk6 lettersSee answer ›33Word after fire or carpenter3 lettersSee answer ›36Actor Morales4 lettersSee answer ›37Drug agent, informally4 lettersSee answer ›38"No sweat!"4 lettersSee answer ›39Ball batted up and behind the catcher, say7 lettersSee answer ›40Length of a pithy joke7 lettersSee answer ›41Released from jail early7 lettersSee answer ›44Pasta preference7 lettersSee answer ›45Nine-sided figure7 lettersSee answer ›46Stirs from sleep7 lettersSee answer ›48Is over by6 lettersSee answer ›49With a light touch6 lettersSee answer ›50Suffix with problem4 lettersSee answer ›53Gold standard5 lettersSee answer ›57Scourge4 lettersSee answer ›60Shade of color3 lettersSee answer ›61Surgery sites, in brief3 lettersSee answer ›62Beanie or bowler3 lettersSee answer ›