New York Times Crossword Puzzle Answers Today 12/09/2025. The December 09 2025 Puzzle Answers are listed below in such order that they are easy to find.
The puzzles get harder and harder to solve and more complex as the week passes You can search by clue name, number or direction for example for 2 Across clue just type '2A' or '2D' for 2nd down clue.
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- Across
- 1a Goes on to sayADDS
- 5a San Diego baseballerPADRE
- 10a Livens (up)PEPS
- 14a Termites, for an aardwolfDIET
- 15a Cup-shaped flowerTULIP
- 16a Give offEMIT
- 17a “Judging from the information available to me ?”ASFARASICANTELL
- 20a UnadulteratedPURE
- 21a San Francisco-to-Santa Cruz dir.SSE
- 22a Propellers of a shellOARS
- 23a “These are merely my spur-of-the-moment suggestions ?”JUSTSPITBALLING
- 27a Gobbled upATE
- 28a Abu Dhabi’s country, for shortUAE
- 29a Notable time periodERA
- 30a Gossip, in slangTEA
- 31a AccurseBEDAMN
- 33a 33-Down, across the AtlanticZEE
- 34a “Oh, ___!” (hit Broadway farce about Mrs. Lincoln)MARY
- 35a Verdant privacy features ? or a punny description of the four longest answers in this puzzleHEDGEROWS
- 38a Singer/actress Lady ___GAGA
- 41a HistoricalOLD
- 42a Got a good reaction, as a jokeLANDED
- 46a Equal: PrefixISO
- 47a Swim-bike-run race, for shortTRI
- 48a Sound from someone sitting down at the end of a long dayAAH
- 49a Game with Skip and Reverse cardsUNO
- 50a “Here’s my two cents, which might not amount to much ?”FORWHATITSWORTH
- 54a “Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a ___” (old maxim)FIRE
- 55a Pre-digital TV screen techCRT
- 56a Not close byAFAR
- 57a “Feel free to dismiss this idea ? however ?”ONLYATHOUGHTBUT
- 61a SurveyPOLL
- 62a Temporary tattoo dyeHENNA
- 63a “Frozen” character who sings “Let It Go”ELSA
- 64a InfluenceSWAY
- 65a BurrosASSES
- 66a Pair in a water polo poolNETS
- Down
- 1d Computing pioneer LovelaceADA
- 2d ArgueDISPUTE
- 3d Neutralized, as an explosive situationDEFUSED
- 4d LaunchSTART
- 5d Org. in charge of school fund-raisersPTA
- 6d One who might ask “Fair dinkum?”AUSSIE
- 7d Like some minor celebritiesDLIST
- 8d Asahi Super Dry or Kirin LagerRICEBEER
- 9d Org. that oversees air quality initiativesEPA
- 10d Bit in a round of “He loves me, he loves me not”PETAL
- 11d Professor ___ (title for some retirees)EMERITA
- 12d Light lagerPILSNER
- 13d The Cards, on scoreboardsSTL
- 18d Cover letter accompanimentRESUME
- 19d Mardi Gras city, informallyNOLA
- 23d PokeJAB
- 24d Music app named for a figure in Greek mythPANDORA
- 25d Pigmented ringsAREOLAS
- 26d Part of L.G.B.T.Q.+GAY
- 32d “By Jove, that’s it!”AHA
- 33d 33-Across, across the AtlanticZED
- 34d Web portal launched with Windows 95MSN
- 36d Malfunctions in the Matrix, in “The Matrix”GLITCHES
- 37d Sound of a sad tromboneWAHWAH
- 38d Many an animated meme loopGIF
- 39d To dateASOFNOW
- 40d Silverback, for oneGORILLA
- 43d Built to lastDURABLE
- 44d Give for safekeepingENTRUST
- 45d “How stupid of me!”DOH
- 47d “Edie & ___: A Very Long Engagement” (2009 documentary)THEA
- 48d Bring into harmonyATTUNE
- 51d With a wink, sayWRYLY
- 52d Smooths (out)IRONS
- 53d On a regular basisOFTEN
- 57d Special ___OPS
- 58d “J to ___ L-O! The Remixes” (2002 Jennifer Lopez album)THA
- 59d One of the four fundamental states of matterGAS
- 60d Some Ph.D. studentsTAS