New York Times Crossword Puzzle Answers Today 12/12/2025. The December 12 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 Some free spots, for shortPSAS
- 5a GroundsCAUSE
- 10a Doesn’t just talkACTS
- 14a “You’re telling me!”IKNOWRIGHT
- 16a Word with wet or sweatSUIT
- 17a Conspiracy theorist’s accessoryTINFOILHAT
- 18a “Don’t leave me!,” e.g.PLEA
- 19a 16 in a Sweet SixteenTEAMS
- 20a Main component of a “gutbucket,” a jug band instrumentWASHTUB
- 22a Personal recordsBESTS
- 25a Padlocked fastenersHASPS
- 26a Variety of orange named for a European cityVALENCIA
- 29a What blue crabs do roughly 20 times in their lifetimesMOLT
- 30a Jobs announcement of 2010IPAD
- 31a News feed, perhapsRAWFOOTAGE
- 35a [Waaaaah!]SOB
- 36a Thick confection used for cake icingFONDANT
- 37a Part of a golf clubTOE
- 38a See 5-DownAPPLESAUCE
- 40a BinaryDUAL
- 41a SuccorsAIDS
- 42a Photo session workersSTYLISTS
- 44a Ace, e.g.SERVE
- 46a Skater’s braking method with the back foot positioned horizontallyTSTOP
- 47a Relative of a craft fairARTEXPO
- 50a “Duino Elegies” poetRILKE
- 53a Saves, as a digital locationPINS
- 54a Clichéd line from the side of a product packageASSEENONTV
- 58a It’s cool to drinkICEE
- 59a “I haven’t told you the best part …”THERESMORE
- 60a Impressively accurate pass, in football slangDART
- 61a FloatsHANGS
- 62a Give a bad hand?ABET
- Down
- 1d StonePIT
- 2d Vaudeville highlightSKIT
- 3d Pulitzer-winning journalist ApplebaumANNE
- 4d You might pull one out for a guestSOFABED
- 5d With 38-Across, one way to sitCRISSCROSS
- 6d Feel grossAIL
- 7d “Gross”UGH
- 8d Playwright who wrote “You see things; and you say ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say ‘Why not?'”SHAW
- 9d “Tell Mama” singer JamesETTA
- 10d Rocky road ingredient?ASPHALT
- 11d Distinction for a classic underground workCULTSTATUS
- 12d BindTIEUP
- 13d Sticks a fork inSTABS
- 15d Part of NOWWOMEN
- 21d “Fiddlesticks!”SHOOT
- 23d Disney princess in New OrleansTIANA
- 24d Workshop debrisSAWDUST
- 26d Possible need for entryVISA
- 27d EachAPOP
- 28d Colleague who might be solutions-oriented?LABPARTNER
- 29d Tropical plants said to bring good fortuneMONEYTREES
- 32d “That’s the truth”FACTS
- 33d Kid’s parentGOAT
- 34d Hagfish lookalikesEELS
- 36d Company whose logo has a hidden arrow between its fourth and fifth lettersFEDEX
- 39d Performance that isn’t prerecordedLIVESET
- 40d Word from the Greek for “folded paper”DIPLOMA
- 43d Butcher shop buysLOINS
- 44d Pleasing to the palateSAPID
- 45d “Buss It” rapper ___ BanksERICA
- 48d WayPATH
- 49d Arm of the Dept. of LaborOSHA
- 51d Part of a cabinetKNOB
- 52d French 101 verbETRE
- 55d Whitehouse in D.C., e.g.: Abbr.SEN
- 56d Physics unit equivalent to roughly 624 gigaelectronvoltsERG
- 57d Thoroughly evaluateVET