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New York Times Crossword December 12 2025 Answers

Friday puzzle · 70 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 70 clues from the New York Times Crossword for December 12 2025. Stuck on one? Click the clue to reveal its verified answer, plus every other answer that clue has had across every publisher in our database.

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Across

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ClueLetters#Answer
Some free spots, for short41 AcrossReveal answer → Grounds55 AcrossReveal answer → Doesn't just talk410 AcrossReveal answer → "You're telling me!"1014 AcrossReveal answer → Word with wet or sweat416 AcrossReveal answer → Conspiracy theorist's accessory1017 AcrossReveal answer → "Don't leave me!," e.g.418 AcrossReveal answer → 16 in a Sweet Sixteen519 AcrossReveal answer → Main component of a "gutbucket," a jug band instrument720 AcrossReveal answer → Personal records522 AcrossReveal answer → Padlocked fasteners525 AcrossReveal answer → Variety of orange named for a European city826 AcrossReveal answer → What blue crabs do roughly 20 times in their lifetimes429 AcrossReveal answer → Jobs announcement of 2010430 AcrossReveal answer → News feed, perhaps1031 AcrossReveal answer → [Waaaaah!]335 AcrossReveal answer → Thick confection used for cake icing736 AcrossReveal answer → Part of a golf club337 AcrossReveal answer → See 5-Down1038 AcrossReveal answer → Binary440 AcrossReveal answer → Succors441 AcrossReveal answer → Photo session workers842 AcrossReveal answer → Ace, e.g.544 AcrossReveal answer → Skater's braking method with the back foot positioned horizontally546 AcrossReveal answer → Relative of a craft fair747 AcrossReveal answer → "Duino Elegies" poet550 AcrossReveal answer → Saves, as a digital location453 AcrossReveal answer → Clichéd line from the side of a product package1054 AcrossReveal answer → It's cool to drink458 AcrossReveal answer → "I haven't told you the best part ..."1059 AcrossReveal answer → Impressively accurate pass, in football slang460 AcrossReveal answer → Floats561 AcrossReveal answer → Give a bad hand?462 AcrossReveal answer →

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Stone31 DownReveal answer → Vaudeville highlight42 DownReveal answer → Pulitzer-winning journalist Applebaum43 DownReveal answer → You might pull one out for a guest74 DownReveal answer → With 38-Across, one way to sit105 DownReveal answer → Feel gross36 DownReveal answer → "Gross"37 DownReveal answer → Playwright who wrote "You see things; and you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?'"48 DownReveal answer → "Tell Mama" singer James49 DownReveal answer → Rocky road ingredient?710 DownReveal answer → Distinction for a classic underground work1011 DownReveal answer → Bind512 DownReveal answer → Sticks a fork in513 DownReveal answer → Part of NOW515 DownReveal answer → "Fiddlesticks!"521 DownReveal answer → Disney princess in New Orleans523 DownReveal answer → Workshop debris724 DownReveal answer → Possible need for entry426 DownReveal answer → Each427 DownReveal answer → Colleague who might be solutions-oriented?1028 DownReveal answer → Tropical plants said to bring good fortune1029 DownReveal answer → "That's the truth"532 DownReveal answer → Kid's parent433 DownReveal answer → Hagfish lookalikes434 DownReveal answer → Company whose logo has a hidden arrow between its fourth and fifth letters536 DownReveal answer → Performance that isn't prerecorded739 DownReveal answer → Word from the Greek for "folded paper"740 DownReveal answer → Butcher shop buys543 DownReveal answer → Pleasing to the palate544 DownReveal answer → "Buss It" rapper ___ Banks545 DownReveal answer → Way448 DownReveal answer → Arm of the Dept. of Labor449 DownReveal answer → Part of a cabinet451 DownReveal answer → French 101 verb452 DownReveal answer → Whitehouse in D.C., e.g.: Abbr.355 DownReveal answer → Physics unit equivalent to roughly 624 gigaelectronvolts356 DownReveal answer → Thoroughly evaluate357 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the New York Times crossword published on Friday, December 12, 2025. Answers are checked against the completed grid before publishing and live on each clue's own page, so you only see the solutions you ask for. If a clue looks familiar, open it — the same wording often runs in other puzzles with a different answer, and the clue page shows every version we have on record.