New York Times Crossword December 21 2025 Answers

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Below are all 143 clues from the New York Times Crossword for December 21 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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Some Arctic transports91 AcrossReveal answer → S.E.C. football powerhouse, for short410 AcrossReveal answer → 1950s hangout with a jukebox814 AcrossReveal answer → Game piece made of four squares920 AcrossReveal answer → "The Kite Runner" protagonist421 AcrossReveal answer → Skulks622 AcrossReveal answer → Joins gradually923 AcrossReveal answer → "Doggone it!"424 AcrossReveal answer → Treatment625 AcrossReveal answer → Blue colorant obtained from the indigo plant426 AcrossReveal answer → Wrangler alternative327 AcrossReveal answer → Brightly colored Mediterranean flowers828 AcrossReveal answer → Rap's Run-___330 AcrossReveal answer → Course catalog?431 AcrossReveal answer → When Aries transitions to Taurus532 AcrossReveal answer → Sweetly, on scores534 AcrossReveal answer → "I'll pass"335 AcrossReveal answer → Input of certain mining436 AcrossReveal answer → Montalbán who played Khan in "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan"738 AcrossReveal answer → Timer setting440 AcrossReveal answer → Areas of influence742 AcrossReveal answer → Mental health org.345 AcrossReveal answer → Fraudulently make seem like946 AcrossReveal answer → Covers completely548 AcrossReveal answer → Wyoming peak549 AcrossReveal answer → Like a corporation with a new logo, perhaps951 AcrossReveal answer → Comment from someone caught in the rain854 AcrossReveal answer → Yellow avenue in Monopoly756 AcrossReveal answer → A bit off, say658 AcrossReveal answer → Hyatt alternative459 AcrossReveal answer → Hard-boiled genre460 AcrossReveal answer → TheForce.net for "Star Wars," for example762 AcrossReveal answer → Dark side364 AcrossReveal answer → Former big name in browsers865 AcrossReveal answer → U.F.O.-watching org.467 AcrossReveal answer → By way of, informally468 AcrossReveal answer → Kemo ___ (the Lone Ranger)470 AcrossReveal answer → Sailor's patron671 AcrossReveal answer → Fleetwood Mac hit named for a Celtic goddess872 AcrossReveal answer → Daddy376 AcrossReveal answer → Eponymous British financier James ___779 AcrossReveal answer → By saying this you mean well481 AcrossReveal answer → Wrap seller482 AcrossReveal answer → Adopted, as a pet683 AcrossReveal answer → Wasn't folded in a suitcase, say785 AcrossReveal answer → Developed, as baby teeth687 AcrossReveal answer → Sci-fi miniaturizer989 AcrossReveal answer → Emanations591 AcrossReveal answer → Boldly face593 AcrossReveal answer → Kind of cipher in which A becomes B, B becomes C, e.g.694 AcrossReveal answer → Guardians, on a scoreboard395 AcrossReveal answer → Bit of birdspeak796 AcrossReveal answer → Damp, mildewy quality498 AcrossReveal answer → They hold water799 AcrossReveal answer → Silence4102 AcrossReveal answer → Lying faceup6103 AcrossReveal answer → ___ Park, Calif.5104 AcrossReveal answer → Air5105 AcrossReveal answer → Disney subsidiary4107 AcrossReveal answer → A little help?3111 AcrossReveal answer → Evaded, as a sensitive issue12112 AcrossReveal answer → Some pings, in brief3114 AcrossReveal answer → "Fie on ___!" (Shakespearean cry)4115 AcrossReveal answer → Skips over6116 AcrossReveal answer → Few and far between4118 AcrossReveal answer → Regulars at parks with ramps, informally9119 AcrossReveal answer → Reply after having one's memory jogged6121 AcrossReveal answer → Some time ago4122 AcrossReveal answer → "What's done is done!"9123 AcrossReveal answer → Stick (to)6124 AcrossReveal answer → Garden interloper4125 AcrossReveal answer → Church parts crossing naves9126 AcrossReveal answer →

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Make furious51 DownReveal answer → "The Family Circus" cartoonist Bil ___52 DownReveal answer → Tennis line judge's ruling53 DownReveal answer → Duke Ellington classic with the lyric "That was my heart serenading you"144 DownReveal answer → West side of L.A.?35 DownReveal answer → "Is there still time for me to join you?"76 DownReveal answer → 51 to the hour87 DownReveal answer → Stage direction58 DownReveal answer → Phillipa of Broadway39 DownReveal answer → Grammy winner Erykah410 DownReveal answer → ___ Gorman, "The Hill We Climb" poet611 DownReveal answer → Copy612 DownReveal answer → Iced-tea-and-lemonade refreshments1313 DownReveal answer → Spending romp514 DownReveal answer → Output of certain mining415 DownReveal answer → Counterpart of a sub316 DownReveal answer → Fast start?1217 DownReveal answer → Father, familiarly618 DownReveal answer → Mentally overpower, with "out"519 DownReveal answer → Like most moccasins628 DownReveal answer → Great Dane of cartoons, informally529 DownReveal answer → More livid633 DownReveal answer → Keister, in Leicester437 DownReveal answer → 2015 chart-topping hit for the Weeknd1439 DownReveal answer → Symbolic for its time740 DownReveal answer → Shoe company with an iconic checkerboard design441 DownReveal answer → Descendant542 DownReveal answer → Apple: Fr.543 DownReveal answer → Is without544 DownReveal answer → Rabid in appearance847 DownReveal answer → Woman's nickname that sounds like two letters450 DownReveal answer → Rice-A-___451 DownReveal answer → "Borderlands" director ___ Roth352 DownReveal answer → Hiding place353 DownReveal answer → Gene pools?855 DownReveal answer → Org. with its own alphabet457 DownReveal answer → Abbr. not found on most smartphones461 DownReveal answer → "Aren't ___ lucky one?!"463 DownReveal answer → It has a lot of secretaries766 DownReveal answer → Shirt collar stiffener467 DownReveal answer → Where to find six "presents" in this puzzle?1269 DownReveal answer → Knock ’em dead471 DownReveal answer → Coolidge who sang the theme for "Octopussy"472 DownReveal answer → Just getting started with573 DownReveal answer → Green shade574 DownReveal answer → What Joe Montana was in the '80s575 DownReveal answer → A TD scores six of these376 DownReveal answer → "Fancy, that!"377 DownReveal answer → Prickly denizen of coral reefs1378 DownReveal answer → Famed lawyer in the 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial1480 DownReveal answer → Most minimal681 DownReveal answer → Some Korean exports484 DownReveal answer → Calmed deceptively686 DownReveal answer → Baseball slugger's stat488 DownReveal answer → Bird used to deliver messages on "Game of Thrones"590 DownReveal answer → Blueprints892 DownReveal answer → Author Zora Neale ___797 DownReveal answer → Noodled on, with "over"698 DownReveal answer → Girlfriend in "Ferris Bueller's Day Off"6100 DownReveal answer → Informant6101 DownReveal answer → "Ta-ta!"5103 DownReveal answer → Tricky pool shot5104 DownReveal answer → Someone enjoying a walk in the park5106 DownReveal answer → Mentally with it5108 DownReveal answer → ___ four5109 DownReveal answer → Fits one inside the other5110 DownReveal answer → Porcine : pigs :: cervine : ___4112 DownReveal answer → Essential4113 DownReveal answer → It might be good for a change3117 DownReveal answer → One who knows the drill?: Abbr.3119 DownReveal answer → Teslas, e.g., for short3120 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the New York Times crossword published on Sunday, December 21, 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.