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NYT Crossword December 28 2025 Answers

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Every answer from the Sunday, December 28 2025 New York Times Crossword, checked and verified against the published NYT solution. Select a clue for the full explanation.

Constructed by Alex Eaton-Salners · Edited by Will Shortz · “Off Broadway Musicals”

Across

1Poet with a 1982 posthumous Pulitzer5 lettersSee answer ›6S.L.R. insert since the early 2000s6 lettersSee answer ›12Baths in Bath4 lettersSee answer ›16Comedian Notaro3 lettersSee answer ›19Host Tyler of "Whose Line Is It Anyway?"5 lettersSee answer ›20One sporting an article of apparel6 lettersSee answer ›21Sign in a theater4 lettersSee answer ›22Droll3 lettersSee answer ›23Rock of Ages12 lettersSee answer ›25How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying8 lettersSee answer ›27Prop for a proposal4 lettersSee answer ›28College credit hours5 lettersSee answer ›29Far from fore3 lettersSee answer ›31Starting section5 lettersSee answer ›32Fab Four drummer5 lettersSee answer ›34"I can handle that for you"5 lettersSee answer ›36Swallow something hook, line and sinker7 lettersSee answer ›38Subject of some modern maps6 lettersSee answer ›41Boots out6 lettersSee answer ›43Ending with Butler or Bard3 lettersSee answer ›44A Class Act9 lettersSee answer ›47A Strange Loop11 lettersSee answer ›50Played a part5 lettersSee answer ›51Baldwin of "30 Rock"4 lettersSee answer ›53Ran in the rain, perhaps4 lettersSee answer ›54Brig pair5 lettersSee answer ›55New Mexico skiing locale4 lettersSee answer ›56Full legislative assembly6 lettersSee answer ›58Personification of darkness, in Greek myth6 lettersSee answer ›60Shapiro of public radio3 lettersSee answer ›61Buds4 lettersSee answer ›62Chips go-with5 lettersSee answer ›64Straight up5 lettersSee answer ›67A Little Night Music7 lettersSee answer ›69Rent5 lettersSee answer ›70A Chorus Line7 lettersSee answer ›72Creatures formed from the fingers of the sea goddess Sedna, in Inuit myth5 lettersSee answer ›73Personal histories5 lettersSee answer ›74Automatons, informally4 lettersSee answer ›75Cell letters3 lettersSee answer ›76"___ down the hatches!"6 lettersSee answer ›78Nursery rhyme couple6 lettersSee answer ›80Cribbage markers4 lettersSee answer ›81Sine's reciprocal, in trig5 lettersSee answer ›84Bit of power4 lettersSee answer ›86Japanese noodle4 lettersSee answer ›87Wave to, say5 lettersSee answer ›88The Producers11 lettersSee answer ›91Into the Woods9 lettersSee answer ›93___ Lingus3 lettersSee answer ›94Intertwine6 lettersSee answer ›95Halloween haul6 lettersSee answer ›96In tears7 lettersSee answer ›99Eschew the high road, say5 lettersSee answer ›101___ Dame5 lettersSee answer ›104Repeatedly hit hard5 lettersSee answer ›105Dollop3 lettersSee answer ›106Pop group5 lettersSee answer ›109Sitar great Shankar4 lettersSee answer ›111The Wiz8 lettersSee answer ›113Mean Girls12 lettersSee answer ›116Chess pieces3 lettersSee answer ›117Bombeck who wrote "At Wit's End"4 lettersSee answer ›118File often installed with computer programs6 lettersSee answer ›119Do penance5 lettersSee answer ›120Apply3 lettersSee answer ›121Hurdle for a J.D.-to-be4 lettersSee answer ›122Became aware of6 lettersSee answer ›123"Fiddler on the Roof" matchmaker5 lettersSee answer ›

Down

1Playground area, often4 lettersSee answer ›2Fearsome felines5 lettersSee answer ›3Plus5 lettersSee answer ›4"One of These Nights" band9 lettersSee answer ›5Makeshift tip collector3 lettersSee answer ›6Epitome of graceful beauty4 lettersSee answer ›7Arnaz of "I Love Lucy"4 lettersSee answer ›8Certain stock holder9 lettersSee answer ›9Came about5 lettersSee answer ›10Kylo ___ of "Star Wars"3 lettersSee answer ›11Gig of a lifetime8 lettersSee answer ›12Advanced4 lettersSee answer ›13Guitar, slangily3 lettersSee answer ›14Front-of-the-line credential7 lettersSee answer ›15Cousin of a mink5 lettersSee answer ›16Cheep trills?8 lettersSee answer ›17Dodger's comeuppance8 lettersSee answer ›18Indoor recess locale3 lettersSee answer ›24Super-excited, in slang5 lettersSee answer ›26One "T" of TNT3 lettersSee answer ›30Least hale8 lettersSee answer ›33Foxx of 1970s TV4 lettersSee answer ›35Judge pro ___3 lettersSee answer ›36Piano pupil's practice piece5 lettersSee answer ›37Short boxers, e.g.4 lettersSee answer ›39How some medicines are taken6 lettersSee answer ›40Apt name for a distance runner?5 lettersSee answer ›42Oldsmobile Cutlass model5 lettersSee answer ›44Like 45-Down's flaw5 lettersSee answer ›45Mythical figure undone by hubris6 lettersSee answer ›46Prima ballerina6 lettersSee answer ›48Uses an alternate account to play against easier opponents, in gamer-speak6 lettersSee answer ›49Police weapon5 lettersSee answer ›52Transition points5 lettersSee answer ›56Blue Ribbon brand5 lettersSee answer ›57Ice cream parlor offerings5 lettersSee answer ›59Borscht base5 lettersSee answer ›61Classic theater name6 lettersSee answer ›63Struggles with sibilant sounds5 lettersSee answer ›65Law, but not order6 lettersSee answer ›66Hints6 lettersSee answer ›68Word with record or union5 lettersSee answer ›69World capital near the Andean foothills8 lettersSee answer ›70Give a twist6 lettersSee answer ›71Downright mean5 lettersSee answer ›73Bit of wisdom5 lettersSee answer ›74Founder of the Mughal Empire5 lettersSee answer ›77String-plucking sound5 lettersSee answer ›79Sources in etymology9 lettersSee answer ›80Prone9 lettersSee answer ›81Some summers, in brief4 lettersSee answer ›82Black-and-white desserts8 lettersSee answer ›83Université with a Pierre and Marie Curie campus8 lettersSee answer ›85Shell filling stations8 lettersSee answer ›87Basic programming command4 lettersSee answer ›89Chicken pieces7 lettersSee answer ›90Part of AT&T: Abbr.3 lettersSee answer ›92Ballet or bourrée, in Bourgogne5 lettersSee answer ›97Do a diner job3 lettersSee answer ›98Gathering of moles5 lettersSee answer ›100Setting for Cole Porter's "Anything Goes"5 lettersSee answer ›102Continued interminably5 lettersSee answer ›103Discus throw at the Olympics, e.g.5 lettersSee answer ›105Buzzing nuisance4 lettersSee answer ›107Glitzy fabric4 lettersSee answer ›108Like some cheese4 lettersSee answer ›110"Gotcha"4 lettersSee answer ›111Blue-necked bird3 lettersSee answer ›112"___ Believer"3 lettersSee answer ›114Flock formation3 lettersSee answer ›115Blue-winged bird3 lettersSee answer ›