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NYT Crossword December 29 2025 Answers

Deborah Simmons ✓Solving & explaining puzzles since 1998 · Updated December 29 2025

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Every answer from the Monday, December 29 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

1Life story, in brief3 lettersSee answer ›4The "S" of NASA5 lettersSee answer ›9Where Shrek lives5 lettersSee answer ›14Kerfuffle3 lettersSee answer ›15Outer limits5 lettersSee answer ›16They're contained within books5 lettersSee answer ›17Is severely underpaid15 lettersSee answer ›20Andean animal with a long neck5 lettersSee answer ›21Earth goddess4 lettersSee answer ›22Condé ___ (magazine publisher)4 lettersSee answer ›23"Tsk! Tsk!"5 lettersSee answer ›25Humorist Bombeck4 lettersSee answer ›27Motown or RCA11 lettersSee answer ›32Particular place4 lettersSee answer ›35Stephen of "V for Vendetta"3 lettersSee answer ›36Country that contains the southern slope of Mount Everest5 lettersSee answer ›38Chicago trains3 lettersSee answer ›39Seating area for 12 peers7 lettersSee answer ›42Piece of Grubhub info, for short3 lettersSee answer ›43Stringed instrument that rests on the ground5 lettersSee answer ›45Tin Man's need3 lettersSee answer ›46Like the Mariana Trench4 lettersSee answer ›47Works that are heard rather than read11 lettersSee answer ›51Sister of Meg, Jo and Amy in "Little Women"4 lettersSee answer ›52Gives the ax5 lettersSee answer ›55Soaks (up)4 lettersSee answer ›58Puppy sounds4 lettersSee answer ›61Fundamental belief5 lettersSee answer ›63Description for an ideal partner … or what the ends of 17-, 27-, 39- and 47-Across create?15 lettersSee answer ›66Put on TV5 lettersSee answer ›67Molars and canines5 lettersSee answer ›68Signal for an actor to go onstage3 lettersSee answer ›69Pumpkin, e.g.5 lettersSee answer ›70"Alas ..."5 lettersSee answer ›71TV's "___ Lasso"3 lettersSee answer ›

Down

1Cry like a baby4 lettersSee answer ›2Admired figures5 lettersSee answer ›3Battle cry of the U.S. Marine Corps5 lettersSee answer ›4Kind of bagel6 lettersSee answer ›5Many a PC file3 lettersSee answer ›6Really eager4 lettersSee answer ›7Actor Michael of "Arrested Development"4 lettersSee answer ›8Caught sight of6 lettersSee answer ›9Place to be pampered3 lettersSee answer ›101996 #1 hit for the Spice Girls7 lettersSee answer ›11Water, in Colombia4 lettersSee answer ›12Team that plays at Citi Field4 lettersSee answer ›13"Over here!"4 lettersSee answer ›18Onetime retail chain giant5 lettersSee answer ›19___ Grey tea4 lettersSee answer ›24Very light brown4 lettersSee answer ›26Tail-less cat4 lettersSee answer ›28Above, in poetry3 lettersSee answer ›29Synthetic fiber5 lettersSee answer ›30Fencing sword4 lettersSee answer ›31Not on time4 lettersSee answer ›32"Gimme a ___!"3 lettersSee answer ›33Commoner4 lettersSee answer ›34Norway's capital4 lettersSee answer ›37Two lengths of a pool3 lettersSee answer ›39What a punch line may end4 lettersSee answer ›40Part of a drill assembly or comedy routine3 lettersSee answer ›41"Frozen" snowman4 lettersSee answer ›44Seafood with claws7 lettersSee answer ›46Jeter in the Baseball Hall of Fame5 lettersSee answer ›48Rushing yards, e.g., informally4 lettersSee answer ›49"Well, dang it!"6 lettersSee answer ›50Slightly out of tune6 lettersSee answer ›53Put into law5 lettersSee answer ›54Move smoothly to another topic5 lettersSee answer ›55Without a date4 lettersSee answer ›56River past Cincinnati4 lettersSee answer ›57Lima's land4 lettersSee answer ›59Tiny canine pest4 lettersSee answer ›60Drove over the legal limit4 lettersSee answer ›62Ticked (off)4 lettersSee answer ›64Peculiar3 lettersSee answer ›65The Falcons, on a scoreboard3 lettersSee answer ›