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NYT Crossword December 23 2025 Answers

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Every answer from the Tuesday, December 23 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

1Longtime CBS procedural with multiple spinoffs4 lettersSee answer ›5Highly capable5 lettersSee answer ›10Ctrl+S command4 lettersSee answer ›14Alternative to check or credit card4 lettersSee answer ›15Secondary subject for a college student5 lettersSee answer ›16Short video4 lettersSee answer ›17Appropriately named bus driver on "The Simpsons"4 lettersSee answer ›18Alternative to épée or foil, in British English5 lettersSee answer ›19Tokarczuk who won the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature4 lettersSee answer ›20Classic Hanukkah treat13 lettersSee answer ›23Brownish-yellow fabric5 lettersSee answer ›24Institution of higher education, to a Brit3 lettersSee answer ›25Sleeper's breathing problem5 lettersSee answer ›27Lead-in to "drink and be merry"3 lettersSee answer ›28Classic classroom party treat7 lettersSee answer ›31Antitrust enforcement org.3 lettersSee answer ›32Unfortunate accident6 lettersSee answer ›34Clever6 lettersSee answer ›36Highly pleased about7 lettersSee answer ›38Colored, as church glass7 lettersSee answer ›39Classic Halloween treat9 lettersSee answer ›41It's part of the job4 lettersSee answer ›44Prefix with classic3 lettersSee answer ›45Carve4 lettersSee answer ›49Take advantage of3 lettersSee answer ›50"Where'd you hear that?"7 lettersSee answer ›54Dream Team country, for short3 lettersSee answer ›55Take responsibility6 lettersSee answer ›57Cry from a movie director6 lettersSee answer ›59Classic Yuletide treat15 lettersSee answer ›63Prayer ender4 lettersSee answer ›64This should clear things up!5 lettersSee answer ›65Reject, as a bill4 lettersSee answer ›66Nothing, in Nogales4 lettersSee answer ›67Cries out5 lettersSee answer ›68Biblical garden4 lettersSee answer ›

Down

1Sgt. or cpl.3 lettersSee answer ›2Go off a ski jump, say8 lettersSee answer ›3"Oh, really?"8 lettersSee answer ›4Tried to identify, in a way, as a wrapped gift5 lettersSee answer ›5Playground retort4 lettersSee answer ›61990s internet option6 lettersSee answer ›7With all judges present6 lettersSee answer ›8___ de Rossi, "Arrested Development" actress6 lettersSee answer ›9Aspen or pine4 lettersSee answer ›10Reporter's big get5 lettersSee answer ›11Just for grins8 lettersSee answer ›12Short version of an impactful story8 lettersSee answer ›13Org. regulating water safety3 lettersSee answer ›21Insect that emerges en masse every 13 or 17 years6 lettersSee answer ›22Kind of salad whose dressing contains anchovies6 lettersSee answer ›23Former N.B.A. star Shawn with the nickname "Reign Man"4 lettersSee answer ›26Nailed, as a test4 lettersSee answer ›29"Once ___ a time …"4 lettersSee answer ›30Character played by Bruce Lee on "The Green Hornet"4 lettersSee answer ›33___ Finn4 lettersSee answer ›35One of three on the pitchfork in "American Gothic"4 lettersSee answer ›37Big Apple org. that's going to blazes?4 lettersSee answer ›38Flat-bottomed boat4 lettersSee answer ›40"That's correct!"3 lettersSee answer ›41Resident of Pisa or Lucca6 lettersSee answer ›42Condition that may require an inhaler6 lettersSee answer ›43Get more than a little mad6 lettersSee answer ›46Like many a dress shirt, with "in"6 lettersSee answer ›47Top execs, colloquially … or what 20-, 28-, 39- and 59-Across are, phonetically?6 lettersSee answer ›48Make negative remarks about6 lettersSee answer ›50Not on the up and up, slangily3 lettersSee answer ›51In a fitting way5 lettersSee answer ›52Breaks (into), as a computer system5 lettersSee answer ›53Middle name for Lennon starting in 19693 lettersSee answer ›56"Escape (The ___ Colada Song)"4 lettersSee answer ›58Sign of peace4 lettersSee answer ›60Sallie or Fannie follower3 lettersSee answer ›61Hand-y communication method, for short?3 lettersSee answer ›62Drink slowly3 lettersSee answer ›