NYT Crossword Answers 12/07/25

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NYT Across Clues

• 1A Fancy dos COIFS
• 6A “Count me out” IPASS
• 11A Cantankerous captain of fiction AHAB
• 15A Lab provisions? ALPO
• 19A Bit of letter-shaped hardware UBOLT
• 20A Attended WASAT
• 21A New York university based in Manhattan PACE
• 22A A “bear of very little brain” POOH
• 23A Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison? POWERCOUPLE
• 25A John James Audubon? BIRDBRAIN
• 27A Victorian-era prescription for melancholy SEAAIR
• 28A They’ll make it up to you LIARS
• 30A Stumble or lurch REEL
• 31A Pittsburgh-to-Buffalo dir. NNE
• 32A Dictionary tag: Abbr. VAR
• 34A Summer camper’s conveyance CANOE
• 36A Emmy-winning actor Ray LIOTTA
• 38A Samuel Morse? CABLEGUY
• 43A Sir Edmund Hillary? MOUNTAINGOAT
• 46A Lake that’s home to the world’s largest freshwater island HURON
• 47A Bit of cacao NIB
• 49A Come out on top PREVAIL
• 50A Suffix with hypn- OTIC
• 51A Trees commonly confused with birches ASPENS
• 54A Deposit that might gather interest? ORE
• 55A Cheeky SASSY
• 59A Sir Isaac Newton? MOTIONDETECTOR
• 62A Cattle calls LOWS
• 63A “Harper Valley ___” (1968 hit) PTA
• 64A TV tavern visited by Mayor Quimby MOES
• 65A Shoe covering GAITER
• 67A It’s often rapped but never spoken GAVEL
• 68A Like beds on lazy Saturdays UNMADE
• 70A Cuts (back) PARES
• 71A Outfit that may have a hood ONESIE
• 73A Kofi ___, former secretary general of the United Nations ANNAN
• 74A Like the Red Sea after a visit from Moses PARTED
• 76A Rain on your wedding day, perhaps OMEN
• 77A ? ETC
• 79A Oui : non :: ja : ___ NEIN
• 80A Gregor Mendel? SEEDYCHARACTER
• 83A Hint TRACE
• 85A Gives a thumbs up OKS
• 86A Basic tenet of improv YESAND
• 87A Sister to Lex Luthor LENA
• 88A With love, musically AMOROSO
• 91A A urinal, according to Duchamp ART
• 92A Remedies CURES
• 93A Henry Ford? DRIVINGFORCE
• 98A Orville and Wilbur Wright? AIRHEADS
• 100A Give a darn, again? REMEND
• 101A Food and water, e.g. NEEDS
• 103A College located in Cedar Rapids COE
• 104A “That sounds awful!” UGH
• 105A Noble title EARL
• 108A Bit of letter-shaped hardware ORING
• 110A Unexpected endings TWISTS
• 115A Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung? DREAMTEAM
• 118A Galileo Galilei? STARWITNESS
• 120A Genesis GERM
• 121A Roof overhang EAVE
• 122A Weirdly spooky EERIE
• 123A Church staple ORGAN
• 124A “Vous ___ ici” (French map phrase) ETES
• 125A Part of a wooden bench SLAT
• 126A “In other words,” in other words IDEST
• 127A Trips around the sun YEARS

NYT Vertical Clues

• 1D Solos at a party, say CUPS
• 2D The duck in “Peter and the Wolf” OBOE
• 3D Future birthplace of Captain Kirk IOWA
• 4D Pest whose name is a homophone for what you might do when you see it FLEA
• 5D Gone to great lengths STRIVEN
• 6D ___ Jima IWO
• 7D One of the Fab Four PAUL
• 8D Jelly you wouldn’t pair with peanut butter ASPIC
• 9D Arabic greeting and farewell SALAAM
• 10D Canned fuel used in making fondue STERNO
• 11D Broadcast to squad cars, in brief APB
• 12D Slim margin of victory HAIR
• 13D One chain x one furlong ACRE
• 14D Amelia ___, maid of children’s literature BEDELIA
• 15D Its showers bring flowers: Abbr. APR
• 16D Grant a mortgage, say LOANTO
• 17D Where one’s trip begins POINTA
• 18D “Golly, that’s cool!” OHNEAT
• 24D Rock climber’s handhold CRAG
• 26D Russian crepes BLINIS
• 29D Starter, perhaps SOUP
• 33D Is felt strongly RUNSDEEP
• 35D Firmly establishes ENROOTS
• 37D Crazy Horse and fellow tribespeople OGLALAS
• 38D Bite down hard CHOMP
• 39D Musical tool popularized by T-Pain AUTOTUNER
• 40D Personification of England, Scotland and Wales BRITANNIA
• 41D Sets of points, in math LOCI
• 42D “Jeepers creepers!” YIPES
• 44D Pied-à-___ TERRE
• 45D Michigan, in Chicago: Abbr. AVE
• 48D Word after you or wanna BET
• 51D “And giving ___, up the chimney he rose” ANOD
• 52D Nullify NEGATE
• 53D ___-cat SCAREDY
• 56D Like many Russian housing blocks SOVIETERA
• 57D Made more enticing SWEETENED
• 58D French fashion inits. YSL
• 60D Oldest independent state in the Arab world OMAN
• 61D Alter, as a T-shirt for a Phish concert, say TIEDYE
• 66D Idealist ROMANTIC
• 67D Actress Rowlands GENA
• 69D She-shed’s counterpart MANCAVE
• 70D Like some nails found in a drugstore PRESSON
• 72D Geek (out) NERD
• 73D Drone or queen ANT
• 75D Want from ASKOF
• 76D Catherine of “Best in Show” and “A Mighty Wind” OHARA
• 78D Uncouth CRASS
• 81D Farm-share program, for short CSA
• 82D Hint CLUE
• 84D Self-proclaimed “Rap God” EMINEM
• 85D ___ chart ORG
• 89D Like many couples at theaters ONDATES
• 90D McFlurry flavor OREO
• 92D Something for canines to sink their canines into CHEWTOY
• 93D Toil DRUDGE
• 94D Wish one could take back REGRET
• 95D Arrival announcement IMHERE
• 96D ___ Lannister, “Game of Thrones” queen CERSEI
• 97D Like professional publications EDITED
• 99D Indian flatbread ROTI
• 102D Trap SNARE
• 106D Not just theoretical REAL
• 107D It runs hot LAVA
• 109D Drab color for una casa GRIS
• 111D Concerning INRE
• 112D Sonic the Hedgehog company SEGA
• 113D Feodor I, for one TSAR
• 114D Taxpayer IDs SSNS
• 116D Morning times, in brief AMS
• 117D Encountered MET
• 119D Kind of nurse or suit WET