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NYT Crossword December 3 2025 Answers

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Every answer from the Wednesday, December 3 2025 New York Times Crossword, checked and verified against the published NYT solution. Select a clue for the full explanation.

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1Young fellows4 lettersSee answer ›5Tied up, as hay5 lettersSee answer ›10Surrounded by4 lettersSee answer ›14Plant-based spread4 lettersSee answer ›15Echo speaker5 lettersSee answer ›16Largest company headquartered in Oregon4 lettersSee answer ›171967 hit by the Who, per 68-Across15 lettersSee answer ›20Words after "happily ever after"6 lettersSee answer ›21Bit of ink3 lettersSee answer ›22Lack of connectivity3 lettersSee answer ›23Long-haired bovine3 lettersSee answer ›24Anabolic steroids, e.g., informally4 lettersSee answer ›27College football rival of Michigan, for short3 lettersSee answer ›291978 song by Gloria Gaynor, per 68-Across12 lettersSee answer ›34Lead-in to pop or lit4 lettersSee answer ›36Award with a "Best New American Theater Work" category4 lettersSee answer ›37Midmonth time4 lettersSee answer ›38Linseed oil source4 lettersSee answer ›39Shampoo often in a green bottle5 lettersSee answer ›40Remain unresolved4 lettersSee answer ›41Cause for a miner celebration?4 lettersSee answer ›42Animal in more than 70 Bugs Bunny titles4 lettersSee answer ›43Hospital count4 lettersSee answer ›442008 hit by Katy Perry, per 68-Across12 lettersSee answer ›47One of a trio encountered by Ricitos de Oro3 lettersSee answer ›48Egyptian sun deity4 lettersSee answer ›49Solid-rock connector3 lettersSee answer ›52Forehead marker at the start of Lent3 lettersSee answer ›54Long-running procedural franchise3 lettersSee answer ›57Removes forcibly6 lettersSee answer ›591973 Bob Marley song covered by Eric Clapton, per 68-Across15 lettersSee answer ›63Currency of Yemen4 lettersSee answer ›64Language in which "maunga roa" means "long mountain"5 lettersSee answer ›65Unimpressive rating4 lettersSee answer ›66TV's Griffith, Kaufman or Samberg4 lettersSee answer ›67"Take this job and shove it!"5 lettersSee answer ›68Wise counselor of sci-fi who might not be great at karaoke?4 lettersSee answer ›

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1Elevated5 lettersSee answer ›2Greeting among the lei community?5 lettersSee answer ›3Jeter in Cooperstown5 lettersSee answer ›4Not too many4 lettersSee answer ›5Like Picard vis-à-vis Kirk6 lettersSee answer ›6Drink that may come in a yard3 lettersSee answer ›7Jean-Paul Sartre's "___ Chemins de la Liberté"3 lettersSee answer ›8Kind of strategy4 lettersSee answer ›9Obama-era immigration program, informally4 lettersSee answer ›10Novelist Patchett3 lettersSee answer ›11Following bad advice9 lettersSee answer ›12Store with iconic blue totes4 lettersSee answer ›13Like certain thoughts and pockets4 lettersSee answer ›18Advice5 lettersSee answer ›19Yours, in French4 lettersSee answer ›25"Slavonic Dances" composer6 lettersSee answer ›26Omsk's region7 lettersSee answer ›28Stole6 lettersSee answer ›29Philly b-ball squad6 lettersSee answer ›30Superlatively contemptible6 lettersSee answer ›31Slithering swimmer3 lettersSee answer ›32Google app with the slogan "Search what you see"4 lettersSee answer ›33Drug featured in "How to Change Your Mind"3 lettersSee answer ›34Online commentary site4 lettersSee answer ›35Band that helped popularize "pay-what-you-want" pricing with their album "In Rainbows"9 lettersSee answer ›38Home to the Tamiami Trail: Abbr.3 lettersSee answer ›39Aphrodite's second letter3 lettersSee answer ›43Golden-tan dog of multiple films5 lettersSee answer ›45Blue area on a Scottish map4 lettersSee answer ›46Think that it's appropriate6 lettersSee answer ›49Cold call?5 lettersSee answer ›50Got out of a chair5 lettersSee answer ›51"Ad ___ per aspera" (motto of Kansas)5 lettersSee answer ›52Razor brand4 lettersSee answer ›53Guarded area for many athletes4 lettersSee answer ›5518-wheeler4 lettersSee answer ›56Modern country that includes most of ancient Mesopotamia4 lettersSee answer ›58Award with a "Best Record-Breaking Performance" category4 lettersSee answer ›60Sneakily clever3 lettersSee answer ›61Letters of indebtedness3 lettersSee answer ›62Day before taking the SAT: Abbr.3 lettersSee answer ›