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Every answer from the Tuesday, December 30 2025 New York Times Crossword, checked and verified against the published NYT solution. Select a clue for the full explanation.
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1 Scoundrels 4 letters See answer › 5 Pointed end of a pen 3 letters See answer › 8 Parts not filled in 4 letters See answer › 12 Cookies with their name embossed on them 5 letters See answer › 14 Prefix with -metric 3 letters See answer › 15 Attracts 5 letters See answer › 17 Something to wave with pride? 9 letters See answer › 19 Sardinia, e.g., to Sardinians 5 letters See answer › 20 "Absolument!" 6 letters See answer › 21 Fizzled out completely 8 letters See answer › 23 "Nothing but ___!" (reaction to a swish) 3 letters See answer › 24 In the style of 3 letters See answer › 26 Brand of cooler named for a mythical beast 4 letters See answer › 27 Play loudly, as from a speaker 5 letters See answer › 29 Break away (from) 6 letters See answer › 33 [That looks delicious …] 5 letters See answer › 36 Flashy cycling maneuvers 9 letters See answer › 38 Shared by us 4 letters See answer › 39 What a new hire might learn, with "the" 5 letters See answer › 40 "That's not good!" 4 letters See answer › 41 "Sunday Night Football" producer 9 letters See answer › 43 Floating markers 5 letters See answer › 44 Wet floor? 6 letters See answer › 45 "That's not good!" 5 letters See answer › 47 Opera excerpt 4 letters See answer › 49 Casual turndown 3 letters See answer › 50 Psychic's alleged ability, for short 3 letters See answer › 53 They're pulled to garner media attention, informally 8 letters See answer › 57 Music's Run the Jewels or Rae Sremmurd, e.g. 6 letters See answer › 59 Sudden shocks 5 letters See answer › 60 Spend money on "Wheel of Fortune" ... which won't help much for solving 17-, 21-, 36-, 41- and 53-Across! 9 letters See answer › 62 Upside-down frown 5 letters See answer › 63 Exist 3 letters See answer › 64 Skip over, in speech 5 letters See answer › 65 Mimicked 4 letters See answer › 66 Perfect score in Olympic diving 3 letters See answer › 67 Many bills in tip jars 4 letters See answer › Down
1 The eyes of an emoticon, typically 5 letters See answer › 2 Make a case (for) 5 letters See answer › 3 Opposite of credit 5 letters See answer › 4 "And ___ bed" 4 letters See answer › 5 Nothing 3 letters See answer › 6 Dr. Seuss' "And to Think That ___ It on Mulberry Street" 4 letters See answer › 7 4 on a par 3, e.g. 5 letters See answer › 8 Hard-to-clean-up sparkly stuff 7 letters See answer › 9 Like good omens 10 letters See answer › 10 College instructor, for short 4 letters See answer › 11 "To thine own ___ be true" 4 letters See answer › 13 Sudden, powerful gust of wind 6 letters See answer › 16 Used a stool, say 3 letters See answer › 18 Athleisure brand originally from Italy 4 letters See answer › 22 Homes on branches 5 letters See answer › 25 ___ Day (April observance) 5 letters See answer › 27 Climactic fight in a video game 10 letters See answer › 28 0% filled 5 letters See answer › 30 Fun word to shout into a canyon 4 letters See answer › 31 Fashion inits. in Manhattan 4 letters See answer › 32 Those, en español 4 letters See answer › 33 Puts on, as a jacket 4 letters See answer › 34 Yokel 4 letters See answer › 35 Apex predator of the ocean 4 letters See answer › 37 Marks, as a ballot square 5 letters See answer › 39 "The Thinker" sculptor 5 letters See answer › 42 Pored over 7 letters See answer › 43 Not act up 6 letters See answer › 46 ___ Sea (arm of the Arctic Ocean) 4 letters See answer › 48 Making a plate appearance 5 letters See answer › 50 Scientist Hubble with a telescope named after him 5 letters See answer › 51 Fuzzy-feeling leather 5 letters See answer › 52 Extremes of the earth 5 letters See answer › 53 Nightwear, informally 3 letters See answer › 54 Oblong tomato type 4 letters See answer › 55 Lose traction 4 letters See answer › 56 "OK, go ahead" 4 letters See answer › 58 Casual collared shirt 4 letters See answer › 61 Desire 3 letters See answer ›
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