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Newsday Crossword December 17 2025 Answers

Wednesday puzzle · 78 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 78 clues from the Newsday Crossword for December 17 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
Pregrown grass3 AcrossReveal answer → Practice boxing4 AcrossReveal answer → Veal cuts5 AcrossReveal answer → Flows slowly (through)5 AcrossReveal answer → __ Faire (jousting venue)3 AcrossReveal answer → Gain altitude4 AcrossReveal answer → Never ever7 AcrossReveal answer → Designation for a 20-Across13 AcrossReveal answer → Glaringly vivid5 AcrossReveal answer → Finish a flight4 AcrossReveal answer → Newspaper's papers5 AcrossReveal answer → Ration (out)4 AcrossReveal answer → Creative thought4 AcrossReveal answer → Treat poorly5 AcrossReveal answer → Ocean's cousins4 AcrossReveal answer → Clumsy person's comment4 AcrossReveal answer → Actress __ Rae4 AcrossReveal answer → What a 20-Across receives13 AcrossReveal answer → Explosive initials3 AcrossReveal answer → Pop singer Tori4 AcrossReveal answer → Part of TLC4 AcrossReveal answer → Stood up5 AcrossReveal answer → Reduced-price event4 AcrossReveal answer → Con game4 AcrossReveal answer → Carryall bags5 AcrossReveal answer → Fit for a royal ruler5 AcrossReveal answer → Tubular pasta5 AcrossReveal answer → Mouths, informally7 AcrossReveal answer → Cunning action4 AcrossReveal answer → Rowboat implement3 AcrossReveal answer → Salt Lake City collegian3 AcrossReveal answer → Greet informally5 AcrossReveal answer → Quick haircut4 AcrossReveal answer → Eve's first home4 AcrossReveal answer → Gibbon or gorilla3 AcrossReveal answer → Top-class student13 AcrossReveal answer → Himalayas' continent4 AcrossReveal answer →

Down

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ClueLetters#Answer
Lunar view stage5 DownReveal answer → "Sold out" theater letters3 DownReveal answer → Watched Fido6 DownReveal answer → "Aha, understood"6 DownReveal answer → Factional rift6 DownReveal answer → "I don't know" gesture5 DownReveal answer → Superlative suffix3 DownReveal answer → SportsCenter airer4 DownReveal answer → Low-cal fizzy beverage8 DownReveal answer → Tapped-out "code" codeveloper5 DownReveal answer → "Of course"4 DownReveal answer → Solar system center3 DownReveal answer → Sorrowful3 DownReveal answer → Farm enclosure3 DownReveal answer → Clickable picture4 DownReveal answer → Irritate4 DownReveal answer → Large brass instrument4 DownReveal answer → Open-handed hit4 DownReveal answer → South American range5 DownReveal answer → Coolheadedness5 DownReveal answer → For fear that4 DownReveal answer → More cruel6 DownReveal answer → Singer star Grande6 DownReveal answer → Gambling establishment6 DownReveal answer → Frighten5 DownReveal answer → "Hold on __" ("Be patient")4 DownReveal answer → Was accepted5 DownReveal answer → Wear away5 DownReveal answer → Evaluated5 DownReveal answer → Flat-topped hill4 DownReveal answer → Valentine message8 DownReveal answer → Lamb's father3 DownReveal answer → Passenger screening org.3 DownReveal answer → Handbag designer Spade4 DownReveal answer → Prefix for scope4 DownReveal answer → "Semper Fi" org.4 DownReveal answer → Choir music4 DownReveal answer → Good buddies4 DownReveal answer → Nile snake3 DownReveal answer → Drama with singers5 DownReveal answer → Luau neckwear3 DownReveal answer →

About this puzzle

This page lists every clue from the Newsday crossword published on Wednesday, December 17, 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.