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NYT Crossword December 9 2025 Answers

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Every answer from the Tuesday, December 9 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

1Goes on to say4 lettersSee answer ›5San Diego baseballer5 lettersSee answer ›10Livens (up)4 lettersSee answer ›14Termites, for an aardwolf4 lettersSee answer ›15Cup-shaped flower5 lettersSee answer ›16Give off4 lettersSee answer ›17"Judging from the information available to me …"15 lettersSee answer ›20Unadulterated4 lettersSee answer ›21San Francisco-to-Santa Cruz dir.3 lettersSee answer ›22Propellers of a shell4 lettersSee answer ›23"These are merely my spur-of-the-moment suggestions …"15 lettersSee answer ›27Gobbled up3 lettersSee answer ›28Abu Dhabi's country, for short3 lettersSee answer ›29Notable time period3 lettersSee answer ›30Gossip, in slang3 lettersSee answer ›31Accurse6 lettersSee answer ›3333-Down, across the Atlantic3 lettersSee answer ›34"Oh, ___!" (hit Broadway farce about Mrs. Lincoln)4 lettersSee answer ›35Verdant privacy features … or a punny description of the four longest answers in this puzzle9 lettersSee answer ›38Singer/actress Lady ___4 lettersSee answer ›41Historical3 lettersSee answer ›42Got a good reaction, as a joke6 lettersSee answer ›46Equal: Prefix3 lettersSee answer ›47Swim-bike-run race, for short3 lettersSee answer ›48Sound from someone sitting down at the end of a long day3 lettersSee answer ›49Game with Skip and Reverse cards3 lettersSee answer ›50"Here's my two cents, which might not amount to much …"15 lettersSee answer ›54"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a ___" (old maxim)4 lettersSee answer ›55Pre-digital TV screen tech3 lettersSee answer ›56Not close by4 lettersSee answer ›57"Feel free to dismiss this idea — however …"15 lettersSee answer ›61Survey4 lettersSee answer ›62Temporary tattoo dye5 lettersSee answer ›63"Frozen" character who sings "Let It Go"4 lettersSee answer ›64Influence4 lettersSee answer ›65Burros5 lettersSee answer ›66Pair in a water polo pool4 lettersSee answer ›

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1Computing pioneer Lovelace3 lettersSee answer ›2Argue7 lettersSee answer ›3Neutralized, as an explosive situation7 lettersSee answer ›4Launch5 lettersSee answer ›5Org. in charge of school fund-raisers3 lettersSee answer ›6One who might ask "Fair dinkum?"6 lettersSee answer ›7Like some minor celebrities5 lettersSee answer ›8Asahi Super Dry or Kirin Lager8 lettersSee answer ›9Org. that oversees air quality initiatives3 lettersSee answer ›10Bit in a round of "He loves me, he loves me not"5 lettersSee answer ›11Professor ___ (title for some retirees)7 lettersSee answer ›12Light lager7 lettersSee answer ›13The Cards, on scoreboards3 lettersSee answer ›18Cover letter accompaniment6 lettersSee answer ›19Mardi Gras city, informally4 lettersSee answer ›23Poke3 lettersSee answer ›24Music app named for a figure in Greek myth7 lettersSee answer ›25Pigmented rings7 lettersSee answer ›26Part of L.G.B.T.Q.+3 lettersSee answer ›32"By Jove, that's it!"3 lettersSee answer ›3333-Across, across the Atlantic3 lettersSee answer ›34Web portal launched with Windows 953 lettersSee answer ›36Malfunctions in the Matrix, in "The Matrix"8 lettersSee answer ›37Sound of a sad trombone6 lettersSee answer ›38Many an animated meme loop3 lettersSee answer ›39To date7 lettersSee answer ›40Silverback, for one7 lettersSee answer ›43Built to last7 lettersSee answer ›44Give for safekeeping7 lettersSee answer ›45"How stupid of me!"3 lettersSee answer ›47"Edie & ___: A Very Long Engagement" (2009 documentary)4 lettersSee answer ›48Bring into harmony6 lettersSee answer ›51With a wink, say5 lettersSee answer ›52Smooths (out)5 lettersSee answer ›53On a regular basis5 lettersSee answer ›57Special ___3 lettersSee answer ›58"J to ___ L-O! The Remixes" (2002 Jennifer Lopez album)3 lettersSee answer ›59One of the four fundamental states of matter3 lettersSee answer ›60Some Ph.D. students3 lettersSee answer ›