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NYT Crossword December 7 2025 Answers

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Every answer from the Sunday, December 7 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

1Fancy dos5 lettersSee answer ›6"Count me out"5 lettersSee answer ›11Cantankerous captain of fiction4 lettersSee answer ›15Lab provisions?4 lettersSee answer ›19Bit of letter-shaped hardware5 lettersSee answer ›20Attended5 lettersSee answer ›21New York university based in Manhattan4 lettersSee answer ›22A "bear of very little brain"4 lettersSee answer ›23Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison?11 lettersSee answer ›25John James Audubon?9 lettersSee answer ›27Victorian-era prescription for melancholy6 lettersSee answer ›28They'll make it up to you5 lettersSee answer ›30Stumble or lurch4 lettersSee answer ›31Pittsburgh-to-Buffalo dir.3 lettersSee answer ›32Dictionary tag: Abbr.3 lettersSee answer ›34Summer camper's conveyance5 lettersSee answer ›36Emmy-winning actor Ray6 lettersSee answer ›38Samuel Morse?8 lettersSee answer ›43Sir Edmund Hillary?12 lettersSee answer ›46Lake that's home to the world's largest freshwater island5 lettersSee answer ›47Bit of cacao3 lettersSee answer ›49Come out on top7 lettersSee answer ›50Suffix with hypn-4 lettersSee answer ›51Trees commonly confused with birches6 lettersSee answer ›54Deposit that might gather interest?3 lettersSee answer ›55Cheeky5 lettersSee answer ›59Sir Isaac Newton?14 lettersSee answer ›62Cattle calls4 lettersSee answer ›63"Harper Valley ___" (1968 hit)3 lettersSee answer ›64TV tavern visited by Mayor Quimby4 lettersSee answer ›65Shoe covering6 lettersSee answer ›67It's often rapped but never spoken5 lettersSee answer ›68Like beds on lazy Saturdays6 lettersSee answer ›70Cuts (back)5 lettersSee answer ›71Outfit that may have a hood6 lettersSee answer ›73Kofi ___, former secretary general of the United Nations5 lettersSee answer ›74Like the Red Sea after a visit from Moses6 lettersSee answer ›76Rain on your wedding day, perhaps4 lettersSee answer ›79Oui : non :: ja : ___4 lettersSee answer ›80Gregor Mendel?14 lettersSee answer ›83Hint5 lettersSee answer ›85Gives a thumbs up3 lettersSee answer ›86Basic tenet of improv6 lettersSee answer ›87Sister to Lex Luthor4 lettersSee answer ›88With love, musically7 lettersSee answer ›91A urinal, according to Duchamp3 lettersSee answer ›92Remedies5 lettersSee answer ›93Henry Ford?12 lettersSee answer ›98Orville and Wilbur Wright?8 lettersSee answer ›100Give a darn, again?6 lettersSee answer ›101Food and water, e.g.5 lettersSee answer ›103College located in Cedar Rapids3 lettersSee answer ›104"That sounds awful!"3 lettersSee answer ›105Noble title4 lettersSee answer ›108Bit of letter-shaped hardware5 lettersSee answer ›110Unexpected endings6 lettersSee answer ›115Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung?9 lettersSee answer ›118Galileo Galilei?11 lettersSee answer ›120Genesis4 lettersSee answer ›121Roof overhang4 lettersSee answer ›122Weirdly spooky5 lettersSee answer ›123Church staple5 lettersSee answer ›124"Vous ___ ici" (French map phrase)4 lettersSee answer ›125Part of a wooden bench4 lettersSee answer ›126"In other words," in other words5 lettersSee answer ›127Trips around the sun5 lettersSee answer ›

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1Solos at a party, say4 lettersSee answer ›2The duck in "Peter and the Wolf"4 lettersSee answer ›3Future birthplace of Captain Kirk4 lettersSee answer ›4Pest whose name is a homophone for what you might do when you see it4 lettersSee answer ›5Gone to great lengths7 lettersSee answer ›6___ Jima3 lettersSee answer ›7One of the Fab Four4 lettersSee answer ›8Jelly you wouldn't pair with peanut butter5 lettersSee answer ›9Arabic greeting and farewell6 lettersSee answer ›10Canned fuel used in making fondue6 lettersSee answer ›11Broadcast to squad cars, in brief3 lettersSee answer ›12Slim margin of victory4 lettersSee answer ›13One chain x one furlong4 lettersSee answer ›14Amelia ___, maid of children's literature7 lettersSee answer ›15Its showers bring flowers: Abbr.3 lettersSee answer ›16Grant a mortgage, say6 lettersSee answer ›17Where one's trip begins6 lettersSee answer ›18"Golly, that's cool!"6 lettersSee answer ›24Rock climber's handhold4 lettersSee answer ›26Russian crepes6 lettersSee answer ›29Starter, perhaps4 lettersSee answer ›33Is felt strongly8 lettersSee answer ›35Firmly establishes7 lettersSee answer ›37Crazy Horse and fellow tribespeople7 lettersSee answer ›38Bite down hard5 lettersSee answer ›39Musical tool popularized by T-Pain9 lettersSee answer ›40Personification of England, Scotland and Wales9 lettersSee answer ›41Sets of points, in math4 lettersSee answer ›42"Jeepers creepers!"5 lettersSee answer ›44Pied-à-___5 lettersSee answer ›45Michigan, in Chicago: Abbr.3 lettersSee answer ›48Word after you or wanna3 lettersSee answer ›51"And giving ___, up the chimney he rose"4 lettersSee answer ›52Nullify6 lettersSee answer ›53___-cat7 lettersSee answer ›56Like many Russian housing blocks9 lettersSee answer ›57Made more enticing9 lettersSee answer ›58French fashion inits.3 lettersSee answer ›60Oldest independent state in the Arab world4 lettersSee answer ›61Alter, as a T-shirt for a Phish concert, say6 lettersSee answer ›66Idealist8 lettersSee answer ›67Actress Rowlands4 lettersSee answer ›69She-shed's counterpart7 lettersSee answer ›70Like some nails found in a drugstore7 lettersSee answer ›72Geek (out)4 lettersSee answer ›73Drone or queen3 lettersSee answer ›75Want from5 lettersSee answer ›76Catherine of "Best in Show" and "A Mighty Wind"5 lettersSee answer ›78Uncouth5 lettersSee answer ›81Farm-share program, for short3 lettersSee answer ›82Hint4 lettersSee answer ›84Self-proclaimed "Rap God"6 lettersSee answer ›85___ chart3 lettersSee answer ›89Like many couples at theaters7 lettersSee answer ›90McFlurry flavor4 lettersSee answer ›92Something for canines to sink their canines into7 lettersSee answer ›93Toil6 lettersSee answer ›94Wish one could take back6 lettersSee answer ›95Arrival announcement6 lettersSee answer ›96___ Lannister, "Game of Thrones" queen6 lettersSee answer ›97Like professional publications6 lettersSee answer ›99Indian flatbread4 lettersSee answer ›102Trap5 lettersSee answer ›106Not just theoretical4 lettersSee answer ›107It runs hot4 lettersSee answer ›109Drab color for una casa4 lettersSee answer ›111Concerning4 lettersSee answer ›112Sonic the Hedgehog company4 lettersSee answer ›113Feodor I, for one4 lettersSee answer ›114Taxpayer IDs4 lettersSee answer ›116Morning times, in brief3 lettersSee answer ›117Encountered3 lettersSee answer ›119Kind of nurse or suit3 lettersSee answer ›