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NYT Crossword December 5 2025 Answers

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Every answer from the Friday, December 5 2025 New York Times Crossword, checked and verified against the published NYT solution. Select a clue for the full explanation.

Constructed by James McCarron · Edited by Will Shortz

Across

1Home to Kotoka International Airport5 lettersSee answer ›6Many a wearer of a long robe called a thawb5 lettersSee answer ›11Can't-miss purchases?13 lettersSee answer ›14Words of caution15 lettersSee answer ›16Threshold3 lettersSee answer ›17Ties up7 lettersSee answer ›18Coastal waterway3 lettersSee answer ›19Up5 lettersSee answer ›21Subject of the Bouguereau painting "The Abduction of Psyche"4 lettersSee answer ›22Colombian city of 2+ million4 lettersSee answer ›23Dutch artist Jan van der ___4 lettersSee answer ›24Curtail4 lettersSee answer ›25Stick in an orchestra5 lettersSee answer ›26Spot likely to smear8 lettersSee answer ›28They aren't party people6 lettersSee answer ›29Cut, as with a box cutter4 lettersSee answer ›30"Fun-size"4 lettersSee answer ›31Film with the tagline "Someone has taken their love for scary movies one step too far"6 lettersSee answer ›34Words of retaliation8 lettersSee answer ›38Word with fire or false5 lettersSee answer ›39Hotel listing4 lettersSee answer ›40One and the other4 lettersSee answer ›41Big name in chip production4 lettersSee answer ›42Bundle4 lettersSee answer ›43Sauce whose name derives from the Italian word for "crush"5 lettersSee answer ›44Refuge3 lettersSee answer ›45Where much of "Brokeback Mountain" was filmed7 lettersSee answer ›47It's perfect3 lettersSee answer ›48"Might as well give it a shot ..."15 lettersSee answer ›51Age at which you just learned something you should have realized before, facetiously13 lettersSee answer ›52Something blocked by censors5 lettersSee answer ›531944 Pacific battle site5 lettersSee answer ›

Down

1What clones share7 lettersSee answer ›2It might be on a rack3 lettersSee answer ›3Ski town that shares its name with a tree5 lettersSee answer ›4"High" time4 lettersSee answer ›5Image that's just over a foot, informally8 lettersSee answer ›6"Arrested Development," e.g.6 lettersSee answer ›7Pines5 lettersSee answer ›8Relatives of banjoleles4 lettersSee answer ›9Nebraska senator Fischer3 lettersSee answer ›10Repeat7 lettersSee answer ›11Council, in Russian6 lettersSee answer ›12Got misty6 lettersSee answer ›13Sea shanty singer6 lettersSee answer ›14Skin layer with hair follicles5 lettersSee answer ›15Show stoppers, sometimes5 lettersSee answer ›20Items on many a back-to-school supply list7 lettersSee answer ›22"Is this possible?!?"7 lettersSee answer ›24Take a little off the top4 lettersSee answer ›25Dog treat4 lettersSee answer ›27Silent sort4 lettersSee answer ›28Fancy4 lettersSee answer ›30Kind of instinct8 lettersSee answer ›31Mohamed ___, Egyptian soccer star5 lettersSee answer ›32Shade of red6 lettersSee answer ›33Big name in fast food7 lettersSee answer ›34"Honor Thy Father" writer, 19716 lettersSee answer ›35Argumentative7 lettersSee answer ›36Get to6 lettersSee answer ›37Minimal coverage provider?5 lettersSee answer ›39Hearty steakhouse serving6 lettersSee answer ›42Tricks5 lettersSee answer ›43Unwitting mark5 lettersSee answer ›45Thickening agent found in many vegan recipes4 lettersSee answer ›46Raced4 lettersSee answer ›49Dot follower in academia3 lettersSee answer ›50Spicy3 lettersSee answer ›