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New York Times Crossword December 23 2025 Answers

Tuesday puzzle · 75 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 75 clues from the New York Times Crossword for December 23 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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Longtime CBS procedural with multiple spinoffs41 AcrossReveal answer → Highly capable55 AcrossReveal answer → Ctrl+S command410 AcrossReveal answer → Alternative to check or credit card414 AcrossReveal answer → Secondary subject for a college student515 AcrossReveal answer → Short video416 AcrossReveal answer → Appropriately named bus driver on "The Simpsons"417 AcrossReveal answer → Alternative to épée or foil, in British English518 AcrossReveal answer → Tokarczuk who won the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature419 AcrossReveal answer → Classic Hanukkah treat1320 AcrossReveal answer → Brownish-yellow fabric523 AcrossReveal answer → Institution of higher education, to a Brit324 AcrossReveal answer → Sleeper's breathing problem525 AcrossReveal answer → Lead-in to "drink and be merry"327 AcrossReveal answer → Classic classroom party treat728 AcrossReveal answer → Antitrust enforcement org.331 AcrossReveal answer → Unfortunate accident632 AcrossReveal answer → Clever634 AcrossReveal answer → Highly pleased about736 AcrossReveal answer → Colored, as church glass738 AcrossReveal answer → Classic Halloween treat939 AcrossReveal answer → It's part of the job441 AcrossReveal answer → Prefix with classic344 AcrossReveal answer → Carve445 AcrossReveal answer → Take advantage of349 AcrossReveal answer → "Where'd you hear that?"750 AcrossReveal answer → Dream Team country, for short354 AcrossReveal answer → Take responsibility655 AcrossReveal answer → Cry from a movie director657 AcrossReveal answer → Classic Yuletide treat1559 AcrossReveal answer → Prayer ender463 AcrossReveal answer → This should clear things up!564 AcrossReveal answer → Reject, as a bill465 AcrossReveal answer → Nothing, in Nogales466 AcrossReveal answer → Cries out567 AcrossReveal answer → Biblical garden468 AcrossReveal answer →

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Sgt. or cpl.31 DownReveal answer → Go off a ski jump, say82 DownReveal answer → "Oh, really?"83 DownReveal answer → Tried to identify, in a way, as a wrapped gift54 DownReveal answer → Playground retort45 DownReveal answer → 1990s internet option66 DownReveal answer → With all judges present67 DownReveal answer → ___ de Rossi, "Arrested Development" actress68 DownReveal answer → Aspen or pine49 DownReveal answer → Reporter's big get510 DownReveal answer → Just for grins811 DownReveal answer → Short version of an impactful story812 DownReveal answer → Org. regulating water safety313 DownReveal answer → Insect that emerges en masse every 13 or 17 years621 DownReveal answer → Kind of salad whose dressing contains anchovies622 DownReveal answer → Former N.B.A. star Shawn with the nickname "Reign Man"423 DownReveal answer → Nailed, as a test426 DownReveal answer → "Once ___ a time …"429 DownReveal answer → Character played by Bruce Lee on "The Green Hornet"430 DownReveal answer → ___ Finn433 DownReveal answer → One of three on the pitchfork in "American Gothic"435 DownReveal answer → Big Apple org. that's going to blazes?437 DownReveal answer → Flat-bottomed boat438 DownReveal answer → "That's correct!"340 DownReveal answer → Resident of Pisa or Lucca641 DownReveal answer → Condition that may require an inhaler642 DownReveal answer → Get more than a little mad643 DownReveal answer → Like many a dress shirt, with "in"646 DownReveal answer → Top execs, colloquially … or what 20-, 28-, 39- and 59-Across are, phonetically?647 DownReveal answer → Make negative remarks about648 DownReveal answer → Not on the up and up, slangily350 DownReveal answer → In a fitting way551 DownReveal answer → Breaks (into), as a computer system552 DownReveal answer → Middle name for Lennon starting in 1969353 DownReveal answer → "Escape (The ___ Colada Song)"456 DownReveal answer → Sign of peace458 DownReveal answer → Sallie or Fannie follower360 DownReveal answer → Hand-y communication method, for short?361 DownReveal answer → Drink slowly362 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the New York Times crossword published on Tuesday, December 23, 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.