New York Times Crossword Puzzle Answers Today 12/21/2025. The December 21 2025 Puzzle Answers are listed below in such order that they are easy to find.
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- Across
- 1a Some Arctic transportsSKIPLANES
- 10a S.E.C. football powerhouse, for shortBAMA
- 14a 1950s hangout with a jukeboxSODASHOP
- 20a Game piece made of four squaresTETROMINO
- 21a “The Kite Runner” protagonistAMIR
- 22a SkulksPROWLS
- 23a Joins graduallyEASESINTO
- 24a “Doggone it!”DARN
- 25a TreatmentREMEDY
- 26a Blue colorant obtained from the indigo plantANIL
- 27a Wrangler alternativeLEE
- 28a Brightly colored Mediterranean flowersSUNROSES
- 30a Rap’s Run-___DMC
- 31a Course catalog?MENU
- 32a When Aries transitions to TaurusAPRIL
- 34a Sweetly, on scoresDOLCE
- 35a “I’ll pass”NAH
- 36a Input of certain miningDATA
- 38a Montalbán who played Khan in “Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan”RICARDO
- 40a Timer settingOVEN
- 42a Areas of influenceSPHERES
- 45a Mental health org.APA
- 46a Fraudulently make seem likePALMOFFAS
- 48a Covers completelyCOATS
- 49a Wyoming peakTETON
- 51a Like a corporation with a new logo, perhapsREBRANDED
- 54a Comment from someone caught in the rainIMSOAKED
- 56a Yellow avenue in MonopolyVENTNOR
- 58a A bit off, sayONSALE
- 59a Hyatt alternativeOMNI
- 60a Hard-boiled genreNOIR
- 62a TheForce.net for “Star Wars,” for exampleFANSITE
- 64a Dark sideYIN
- 65a Former big name in browsersNETSCAPE
- 67a U.F.O.-watching org.SETI
- 68a By way of, informallyTHRU
- 70a Kemo ___ (the Lone Ranger)SABE
- 71a Sailor’s patronSTELMO
- 72a Fleetwood Mac hit named for a Celtic goddessRHIANNON
- 76a DaddyPOP
- 79a Eponymous British financier James ___BARCLAY
- 81a By saying this you mean wellBIEN
- 82a Wrap sellerDELI
- 83a Adopted, as a petTOOKIN
- 85a Wasn’t folded in a suitcase, sayLAYFLAT
- 87a Developed, as baby teethGREWIN
- 89a Sci-fi miniaturizerSHRINKRAY
- 91a EmanationsAURAS
- 93a Boldly faceBRAVE
- 94a Kind of cipher in which A becomes B, B becomes C, e.g.CAESAR
- 95a Guardians, on a scoreboardCLE
- 96a Bit of birdspeakCHITTER
- 98a Damp, mildewy qualityMUST
- 99a They hold waterVESSELS
- 102a SilenceHUSH
- 103a Lying faceupSUPINE
- 104a ___ Park, Calif.MENLO
- 105a AirETHER
- 107a Disney subsidiaryESPN
- 111a A little help?ELF
- 112a Evaded, as a sensitive issueDANCEDAROUND
- 114a Some pings, in briefIMS
- 115a “Fie on ___!” (Shakespearean cry)THEE
- 116a Skips overELIDES
- 118a Few and far betweenRARE
- 119a Regulars at parks with ramps, informallySKATERATS
- 121a Reply after having one’s memory joggedYESYES
- 122a Some time agoONCE
- 123a “What’s done is done!”GETOVERIT
- 124a Stick (to)ADHERE
- 125a Garden interloperWEED
- 126a Church parts crossing navesTRANSEPTS
- Down
- 1d Make furiousSTEAM
- 2d “The Family Circus” cartoonist Bil ___KEANE
- 3d Tennis line judge’s rulingITSIN
- 4d Duke Ellington classic with the lyric “That was my heart serenading you”PRELUDETOAKISS
- 5d West side of L.A.?LOS
- 6d “Is there still time for me to join you?”AMILATE
- 7d 51 to the hourNINEPAST
- 8d Stage directionENTER
- 9d Phillipa of BroadwaySOO
- 10d Grammy winner ErykahBADU
- 11d ___ Gorman, “The Hill We Climb” poetAMANDA
- 12d CopyMIRROR
- 13d Iced-tea-and-lemonade refreshmentsARNOLDPALMERS
- 14d Spending rompSPREE
- 15d Output of certain miningORES
- 16d Counterpart of a subDOM
- 17d Fast start?ASHWEDNESDAY
- 18d Father, familiarlyOLDMAN
- 19d Mentally overpower, with “out”PSYCH
- 28d Like most moccasinsSLIPON
- 29d Great Dane of cartoons, informallySCOOB
- 33d More lividIRATER
- 37d Keister, in LeicesterARSE
- 39d 2015 chart-topping hit for the WeekndCANTFEELMYFACE
- 40d Symbolic for its timeOFANERA
- 41d Shoe company with an iconic checkerboard designVANS
- 42d DescendantSCION
- 43d Apple: Fr.POMME
- 44d Is withoutHASNT
- 47d Rabid in appearanceFROTHING
- 50d Woman’s nickname that sounds like two lettersEVIE
- 51d Rice-A-___RONI
- 52d “Borderlands” director ___ RothELI
- 53d Hiding placeDEN
- 55d Gene pools?DNABANKS
- 57d Org. with its own alphabetNATO
- 61d Abbr. not found on most smartphonesOPER
- 63d “Aren’t ___ lucky one?!”ITHE
- 66d It has a lot of secretariesCABINET
- 67d Shirt collar stiffenerSTAY
- 69d Where to find six “presents” in this puzzle?UNDERTHETREE
- 71d Knock ?em deadSLAY
- 72d Coolidge who sang the theme for “Octopussy”RITA
- 73d Just getting started withNEWAT
- 74d Green shadeOLIVE
- 75d What Joe Montana was in the ’80sNINER
- 76d A TD scores six of thesePTS
- 77d “Fancy, that!”OOH
- 78d Prickly denizen of coral reefsPORCUPINEFISH
- 80d Famed lawyer in the 1925 Scopes Monkey TrialCLARENCEDARROW
- 81d Most minimalBAREST
- 84d Some Korean exportsKIAS
- 86d Calmed deceptivelyLULLED
- 88d Baseball slugger’s statRBIS
- 90d Bird used to deliver messages on “Game of Thrones”RAVEN
- 92d BlueprintsSCHEMATA
- 97d Author Zora Neale ___HURSTON
- 98d Noodled on, with “over”MULLED
- 100d Girlfriend in “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off”SLOANE
- 101d InformantSOURCE
- 103d “Ta-ta!”SEEYA
- 104d Tricky pool shotMASSE
- 106d Someone enjoying a walk in the parkHIKER
- 108d Mentally with itSHARP
- 109d ___ fourPETIT
- 110d Fits one inside the otherNESTS
- 112d Porcine : pigs :: cervine : ___DEER
- 113d EssentialNEED
- 117d It might be good for a changeDYE
- 119d One who knows the drill?: Abbr.SGT
- 120d Teslas, e.g., for shortEVS
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