New York Times Crossword Puzzle Answers Today 12/20/2025. The December 20 2025 Puzzle Answers are listed below in such order that they are easy to find.
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- Across
- 1a Sampras rival during the 1990sAGASSI
- 7a Get on boardEMBARK
- 13a Let off steam, perhapsVENTED
- 14a Perry Como or Bing CrosbyCROONER
- 15a Frustrated and making poor decisions, informallyONTILT
- 16a #1 on Wired magazine’s list of the 10 most influential video games of the 2010sFORTNITE
- 17a “Aren’t we all hoity-toity?!”WELLLADIDAH
- 19a Generate clippings, sayMOW
- 20a First name in hog ridingEVEL
- 21a Established factGIVEN
- 22a Let go ofFIRE
- 23a Body layerDERMA
- 25a Events at which to release one’s inner geekNERDFESTS
- 27a Makers of frightening but (thankfully) rare marine attacksORCAS
- 29a Source of half the world’s sugar during the late 1800sBEETS
- 30a Higher power?SOLAR
- 31a They’re stokedCOALS
- 32a Word with blue or openSKIES
- 33a Speak, as thou mightSAYST
- 34a Kind of beard that follows the jawlineCHINSTRAP
- 36a DunderheadedTHICK
- 40a “You ___?”RANG
- 41a PuntedPOLED
- 43a Foe of the Iroquois during the Beaver WarsERIE
- 44a Org. that’s gone to the dogs?AKC
- 45a [womp, womp]SADTROMBONE
- 47a Major magazine piecesFEATURES
- 49a Delicatessen offeringREUBEN
- 50a Loser of the 2025 World SeriesTORONTO
- 51a Where to follow local customs, it’s saidINROME
- 52a UnderhandedSNEAKY
- 53a Beach shadeSUNTAN
- Down
- 1d SwornAVOWED
- 2d City, lake or canton de SuisseGENEVE
- 3d Tip on quite a few bucks?ANTLER
- 4d Extremely rare, facetiouslySTILLMOOING
- 5d Act bearishlySELL
- 6d What might come with some baggage?IDTAG
- 7d DogsbodyERRANDBOY
- 8d Io or lunaMOTH
- 9d When repeated, a small treatBON
- 10d Shamans, typicallyANIMISTS
- 11d Claps backRETORTS
- 12d Mardi Gras parading societiesKREWES
- 14d Tech jobCODER
- 16d Bills first introduced in 1861FIVES
- 18d Currency of SerbiaDINAR
- 22d Exercise almost to a point of painFEELTHEBURN
- 24d Van Gogh retreat in southern FranceARLES
- 26d Significant spreadFEAST
- 28d Post-show celebrationCASTPARTY
- 30d Some spa treatmentsSKINCARE
- 31d EscapadeCAPER
- 32d Agree to, in a waySHAKEON
- 33d Bath ___SALTS
- 34d FashionsCRAFTS
- 35d Clown localeRODEO
- 37d Futuristic sci-fi classic with tales set in 2021 and 2029IROBOT
- 38d Field of the annual César AwardsCINEMA
- 39d One of the Wayans brothersKEENEN
- 42d Day at the moviesDORIS
- 45d Like some costsSUNK
- 46d Many a drop-downMENU
- 48d ___ TTOA