New York Times Crossword Puzzle Answers Today 12/23/2025. The December 23 2025 Puzzle Answers are listed below in such order that they are easy to find.
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- Across
- 1a Longtime CBS procedural with multiple spinoffsNCIS
- 5a Highly capableADEPT
- 10a Ctrl+S commandSAVE
- 14a Alternative to check or credit cardCASH
- 15a Secondary subject for a college studentMINOR
- 16a Short videoCLIP
- 17a Appropriately named bus driver on “The Simpsons”OTTO
- 18a Alternative to épée or foil, in British EnglishSABRE
- 19a Tokarczuk who won the 2018 Nobel Prize in LiteratureOLGA
- 20a Classic Hanukkah treatCHOCOLATECOIN
- 23a Brownish-yellow fabricKHAKI
- 24a Institution of higher education, to a BritUNI
- 25a Sleeper’s breathing problemAPNEA
- 27a Lead-in to “drink and be merry”EAT
- 28a Classic classroom party treatCUPCAKE
- 31a Antitrust enforcement org.FTC
- 32a Unfortunate accidentMISHAP
- 34a CleverASTUTE
- 36a Highly pleased aboutPROUDOF
- 38a Colored, as church glassSTAINED
- 39a Classic Halloween treatCANDYCORN
- 41a It’s part of the jobTASK
- 44a Prefix with classicNEO
- 45a CarveETCH
- 49a Take advantage ofUSE
- 50a “Where’d you hear that?”SAYSWHO
- 54a Dream Team country, for shortUSA
- 55a Take responsibilitySTEPUP
- 57a Cry from a movie directorANDCUT
- 59a Classic Yuletide treatCHRISTMASCOOKIE
- 63a Prayer enderAMEN
- 64a This should clear things up!LASIK
- 65a Reject, as a billVETO
- 66a Nothing, in NogalesNADA
- 67a Cries outYELPS
- 68a Biblical gardenEDEN
- Down
- 1d Sgt. or cpl.NCO
- 2d Go off a ski jump, sayCATCHAIR
- 3d “Oh, really?”ISTHATSO
- 4d Tried to identify, in a way, as a wrapped giftSHOOK
- 5d Playground retortAMSO
- 6d 1990s internet optionDIALUP
- 7d With all judges presentENBANC
- 8d ___ de Rossi, “Arrested Development” actressPORTIA
- 9d Aspen or pineTREE
- 10d Reporter’s big getSCOOP
- 11d Just for grinsALLINFUN
- 12d Short version of an impactful storyVIGNETTE
- 13d Org. regulating water safetyEPA
- 21d Insect that emerges en masse every 13 or 17 yearsCICADA
- 22d Kind of salad whose dressing contains anchoviesCAESAR
- 23d Former N.B.A. star Shawn with the nickname “Reign Man”KEMP
- 26d Nailed, as a testACED
- 29d “Once ___ a time ?”UPON
- 30d Character played by Bruce Lee on “The Green Hornet”KATO
- 33d ___ FinnHUCK
- 35d One of three on the pitchfork in “American Gothic”TINE
- 37d Big Apple org. that’s going to blazes?FDNY
- 38d Flat-bottomed boatSCOW
- 40d “That’s correct!”YES
- 41d Resident of Pisa or LuccaTUSCAN
- 42d Condition that may require an inhalerASTHMA
- 43d Get more than a little madSEERED
- 46d Like many a dress shirt, with “in”TUCKED
- 47d Top execs, colloquially ? or what 20-, 28-, 39- and 59-Across are, phonetically?CSUITE
- 48d Make negative remarks aboutHATEON
- 50d Not on the up and up, slangilySUS
- 51d In a fitting wayAPTLY
- 52d Breaks (into), as a computer systemHACKS
- 53d Middle name for Lennon starting in 1969ONO
- 56d “Escape (The ___ Colada Song)”PINA
- 58d Sign of peaceDOVE
- 60d Sallie or Fannie followerMAE
- 61d Hand-y communication method, for short?ASL
- 62d Drink slowlySIP