New York Times Crossword Puzzle Answers Today 12/08/2025. The December 08 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 Sir’s counterpartMADAM
- 6a Folded Mexican snackTACO
- 10a Young chapLAD
- 13a “___ is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings”: Robert BenchleyOPERA
- 14a Sean of “The Lord of the Rings”ASTIN
- 16a Chicken ___ kingALA
- 17a Wyoming skiing meccaJACKSONHOLE
- 19a Female pigSOW
- 20a Gold, in SpanishORO
- 21a Dessert with icingCAKE
- 22a Motor City hoopsterPISTON
- 24a Run out of clothes?STREAK
- 26a Like an envelope that’s ready to be sentSEALED
- 28a ___ Major (constellation)URSA
- 30a “Enola Holmes” actress ___ Bobby BrownMILLIE
- 32a Bicycle shorts materialLYCRA
- 35a Computer imageSCAN
- 37a ID checkers at an airportTSA
- 39a Gallery-filled Big Apple neighborhoodSOHO
- 40a Finger or toe ? or, when read as two words, what you can do to the ends of 17- and 62-Across and 10- and 34-DownDIGIT
- 41a “Get outta here!”SCAT
- 42a Artificial colorantDYE
- 43a Half of a train trackRAIL
- 44a “That’s boring!”HOHUM
- 45a Starting pointORIGIN
- 48a Grand ___ (achievement in baseball or tennis)SLAM
- 50a Hardest to findRAREST
- 52a “Let me clarify …”IMEANT
- 56a Gesture suggesting “I see what you did there”SLYNOD
- 58a Top poker cardsACES
- 60a Monarch at VersaillesROI
- 61a Golfer’s target … or prizeCUP
- 62a End successfullyWORKOUTWELL
- 65a Comedian WongALI
- 66a Medieval stringed instrumentsLUTES
- 67a “___, meenie, miney, mo”EENIE
- 68a Crunchy sandwich, for shortBLT
- 69a Camp shelterTENT
- 70a Religious ceremoniesRITES
- Down
- 1d Magic charmsMOJOS
- 2d Not togetherAPART
- 3d Interior designDECOR
- 4d Genesis boatARK
- 5d The eyes may have itMASCARA
- 6d Scuba gearTANK
- 7d Remnants of a volcanic spewASHES
- 8d Corp. exec overseeing engineers, sayCTO
- 9d Stuff on an artist’s paletteOILPAINT
- 10d Eleventh-hourLASTDITCH
- 11d Potatoes, in Indian cookingALOO
- 12d From ___ to duskDAWN
- 15d Actor Sam of “Jurassic Park”NEILL
- 18d Acorn droppersOAKS
- 23d Salt, in ParisSEL
- 25d Money across the AtlanticEURO
- 27d Messages on which you might be cc’dEMAILS
- 29d Iraqis and IraniansASIANS
- 31d Biblical brother of JacobESAU
- 32d Psychedelic tabLSD
- 33d Toy on a string that’s not a kiteYOYO
- 34d Center of a stone fruitCHERRYPIT
- 36d Film special effects, for shortCGI
- 38d After-hours source of $$$ATM
- 40d Lost moistureDRIEDOUT
- 41d Nonspecific amountSOME
- 44d Pet that stores food in cheek pouchesHAMSTER
- 46d Author FlemingIAN
- 47d What empty stomachs doGROWL
- 49d In ___ ofLIEU
- 51d No longer availableTAKEN
- 53d “There ___ enough hours in the day”ARENT
- 54d “That’s the truth!”NOLIE
- 55d Mosaic piecesTILES
- 56d Covering over a woundSCAB
- 57d Pause in the actionLULL
- 59d “It’s gonna ___ you!”COST
- 63d Hwy.RTE
- 64d Early Chinese dynastyWEI