New York Times Crossword Puzzle Answers Today 12/22/2025. The December 22 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 Deep sleepsCOMAS
- 6a High-speed Amtrak trainACELA
- 11a Word with punching or sleepingBAG
- 14a One of a battery’s polesANODE
- 15a Older but ___WISER
- 16a Under the weatherILL
- 17a Saxophone, trumpet, piano and bass, perhapsJAZZQUARTET
- 19a Day-___ paintGLO
- 20a “Garfield” dogODIE
- 21a “It’s freezing!”BRR
- 22a Typical “Survivor” localesISLES
- 24a Rapper ___ Uzi VertLIL
- 25a Yoda and Obi-Wan Kenobi, for twoJEDIMASTERS
- 28a Fish that may have an electric chargeEEL
- 29a Stammering soundsERS
- 30a IndignationOUTRAGE
- 31a What each U.S. senator representsSTATE
- 33a Raggedy ___ANN
- 34a Breyers competitorEDYS
- 35a Some exams allow themOPENNOTES
- 39a Cops, slangilyPOPO
- 42a Rode the benchSAT
- 43a Yoga poseASANA
- 47a Enjoying great successONATEAR
- 49a What electric cars don’t useGAS
- 51a Like a 49-Across gauge that’s near “Empty”LOW
- 52a Overly fussyPERSNICKETY
- 54a Bit of forensic evidenceDNA
- 55a Pink ___ (rock band)FLOYD
- 56a Singer DiFrancoANI
- 57a BillBEAK
- 58a Mideast exportOIL
- 59a Cheat ? or a punny hint to the four sets of circled lettersSHORTCHANGE
- 63a French “a”UNE
- 64a Hearing-relatedAURAL
- 65a Playwright ChekhovANTON
- 66a Kind of lamp that’s energy-efficientLED
- 67a Easily irritatedTESTY
- 68a Romeo and Juliet, agewiseTEENS
- Down
- 1d Persuades with flatteryCAJOLES
- 2d Doing keto, perhapsONADIET
- 3d Creator of Firefox and ThunderbirdMOZILLA
- 4d Woodworking toolADZE
- 5d Orderly arrangement: Abbr.SEQ
- 6d Oscars and Grammys, e.g.AWARDS
- 7d Wispy cloudsCIRRI
- 8d Approx.EST
- 9d Harper ___, author of “To Kill a Mockingbird”LEE
- 10d Monet or ManetARTIST
- 11d Don’t blow it!BIGLEAD
- 12d Reaction to pollen, e.g.ALLERGY
- 13d Shiny coatingsGLOSSES
- 18d Lyft competitorUBER
- 23d Heart attack risk factorSTRESS
- 25d Cherokee makerJEEP
- 26d “The kissing disease”MONO
- 27d Em, to DorothyAUNT
- 32d Foot, in baby talkTOOTSY
- 33d Word after fire or carpenterANT
- 36d Actor MoralesESAI
- 37d Drug agent, informallyNARC
- 38d “No sweat!”EASY
- 39d Ball batted up and behind the catcher, sayPOPFOUL
- 40d Length of a pithy jokeONELINE
- 41d Released from jail earlyPAROLED
- 44d Pasta preferenceALDENTE
- 45d Nine-sided figureNONAGON
- 46d Stirs from sleepAWAKENS
- 48d Is over byENDSAT
- 49d With a light touchGENTLY
- 50d Suffix with problemATIC
- 53d Gold standardKARAT
- 57d ScourgeBANE
- 60d Shade of colorHUE
- 61d Surgery sites, in briefORS
- 62d Beanie or bowlerHAT