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NYT Crossword December 25 2025 Answers

Deborah Simmons ✓Solving & explaining puzzles since 1998 · Updated December 25 2025

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Every answer from the Thursday, December 25 2025 New York Times Crossword, checked and verified against the published NYT solution. Select a clue for the full explanation.

Constructed by Sam Ezersky · Edited by Will Shortz

Across

1Response to discovering the theme of a crossword3 lettersSee answer ›4Dashing through the ___ ...4 lettersSee answer ›8Foam on a seashore4 lettersSee answer ›12One who runs, informally3 lettersSee answer ›13Possible base for a Caesar salad4 lettersSee answer ›14Of help5 lettersSee answer ›16Dawdle8 lettersSee answer ›18Some anxious behavior on one's feet6 lettersSee answer ›20Stew (over)6 lettersSee answer ›21In a ___ open sleigh ...8 lettersSee answer ›23Where Bart Simpson directs his prank calls4 lettersSee answer ›24Buffet stand vessel3 lettersSee answer ›25Rare day for an N.F.L. game: Abbr.3 lettersSee answer ›26One way to take a bull10 lettersSee answer ›31Old dagger carried by Scottish Highlanders4 lettersSee answer ›32Michael of "Barbie"4 lettersSee answer ›33Hits from the side, informally6 lettersSee answer ›35First portrayer of Albus Dumbledore, the final live-action role in his long film career13 lettersSee answer ›39Stretch6 lettersSee answer ›40Letter after three consecutive rhyming letters4 lettersSee answer ›41Right-eous path?4 lettersSee answer ›42Footwear for a bride, perhaps10 lettersSee answer ›48JFK or EWR alternative3 lettersSee answer ›49Cable lead-in to TV3 lettersSee answer ›50Jump in skates4 lettersSee answer ›51What's seen "all the way" through this puzzle?8 lettersSee answer ›54Ryan with swimming gold medals in four straight Olympics6 lettersSee answer ›56"All that being said ..."6 lettersSee answer ›57Ado8 lettersSee answer ›59"Yes ___!"5 lettersSee answer ›60Something typed in this field: YYYY4 lettersSee answer ›61Fashion designer Lange3 lettersSee answer ›62Many a vacation package4 lettersSee answer ›63Transcript ruiners4 lettersSee answer ›64___ pop (hybrid music genre)3 lettersSee answer ›

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1Chillness6 lettersSee answer ›2"Oh me, oh my!"6 lettersSee answer ›3Ready to go6 lettersSee answer ›4"___ the Limit" (posthumous hit for the Notorious B.I.G.)4 lettersSee answer ›5Horses studied by touts4 lettersSee answer ›6Portuguese greeting3 lettersSee answer ›7O'er the fields ___ ...4 lettersSee answer ›8Eurasia or Oceania, in "1984"10 lettersSee answer ›9Like many Mormons5 lettersSee answer ›10The "R" of P.R.4 lettersSee answer ›11Vodka-and-pineapple juice cocktail popularized on "Sex and the City"8 lettersSee answer ›15Sews up7 lettersSee answer ›17Phil of the Grateful Dead4 lettersSee answer ›19Uber-enthusiasts5 lettersSee answer ›22Someone who might ask "Mother, may I?"3 lettersSee answer ›27Zoom call issue4 lettersSee answer ›28"S.N.L." V.I.P.10 lettersSee answer ›29Pilot who shares a tent with Yossarian in "Catch-22"3 lettersSee answer ›30Sides of pie slices, essentially5 lettersSee answer ›31Ballon ___ (soccer star's award)3 lettersSee answer ›34Slangy "dude"4 lettersSee answer ›35White House family of the 1980s7 lettersSee answer ›36Tax dodger's fear8 lettersSee answer ›37Loc. ___ (footnote abbr.)3 lettersSee answer ›38Very in3 lettersSee answer ›39Big name in windows and doors5 lettersSee answer ›43Raider in times past3 lettersSee answer ›44A person4 lettersSee answer ›45Go "Phew!," say6 lettersSee answer ›46"He has my permission"6 lettersSee answer ›47Total slimeball6 lettersSee answer ›49Intl. org. with 12 stars on its flag5 lettersSee answer ›52Halal cart offering4 lettersSee answer ›53Elided farewell4 lettersSee answer ›54Do pretty much nothing4 lettersSee answer ›55Between you and me4 lettersSee answer ›58At whom you might yell "Are we watching the same game?!"3 lettersSee answer ›