The full solution for the NY Times December 12 2025 Crossword puzzle is displayed below. This puzzle was authored by Adrian Johnson and Jess Rucks and edited by Will Shortz.
Quick searchNYT Across Clues
- 1A Some free spots, for short PSAS
- 5A Grounds CAUSE
- 10A Doesn’t just talk ACTS
- 14A “You’re telling me!” IKNOWRIGHT
- 16A Word with wet or sweat SUIT
- 17A Conspiracy theorist’s accessory TINFOILHAT
- 18A “Don’t leave me!,” e.g. PLEA
- 19A 16 in a Sweet Sixteen TEAMS
- 20A Main component of a “gutbucket,” a jug band instrument WASHTUB
- 22A Personal records BESTS
- 25A Padlocked fasteners HASPS
- 26A Variety of orange named for a European city VALENCIA
- 29A What blue crabs do roughly 20 times in their lifetimes MOLT
- 30A Jobs announcement of 2010 IPAD
- 31A News feed, perhaps RAWFOOTAGE
- 35A [Waaaaah!] SOB
- 36A Thick confection used for cake icing FONDANT
- 37A Part of a golf club TOE
- 38A See 5-Down APPLESAUCE
- 40A Binary DUAL
- 41A Succors AIDS
- 42A Photo session workers STYLISTS
- 44A Ace, e.g. SERVE
- 46A Skater’s braking method with the back foot positioned horizontally TSTOP
- 47A Relative of a craft fair ARTEXPO
- 50A “Duino Elegies” poet RILKE
- 53A Saves, as a digital location PINS
- 54A Clichéd line from the side of a product package ASSEENONTV
- 58A It’s cool to drink ICEE
- 59A “I haven’t told you the best part …” THERESMORE
- 60A Impressively accurate pass, in football slang DART
- 61A Floats HANGS
- 62A Give a bad hand? ABET
NYT Vertical Clues
- 1D Stone PIT
- 2D Vaudeville highlight SKIT
- 3D Pulitzer-winning journalist Applebaum ANNE
- 4D You might pull one out for a guest SOFABED
- 5D With 38-Across, one way to sit CRISSCROSS
- 6D Feel gross AIL
- 7D “Gross” UGH
- 8D Playwright who wrote “You see things; and you say ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say ‘Why not?'” SHAW
- 9D “Tell Mama” singer James ETTA
- 10D Rocky road ingredient? ASPHALT
- 11D Distinction for a classic underground work CULTSTATUS
- 12D Bind TIEUP
- 13D Sticks a fork in STABS
- 15D Part of NOW WOMEN
- 21D “Fiddlesticks!” SHOOT
- 23D Disney princess in New Orleans TIANA
- 24D Workshop debris SAWDUST
- 26D Possible need for entry VISA
- 27D Each APOP
- 28D Colleague who might be solutions-oriented? LABPARTNER
- 29D Tropical plants said to bring good fortune MONEYTREES
- 32D “That’s the truth” FACTS
- 33D Kid’s parent GOAT
- 34D Hagfish lookalikes EELS
- 36D Company whose logo has a hidden arrow between its fourth and fifth letters FEDEX
- 39D Performance that isn’t prerecorded LIVESET
- 40D Word from the Greek for “folded paper” DIPLOMA
- 43D Butcher shop buys LOINS
- 44D Pleasing to the palate SAPID
- 45D “Buss It” rapper ___ Banks ERICA
- 48D Way PATH
- 49D Arm of the Dept. of Labor OSHA
- 51D Part of a cabinet KNOB
- 52D French 101 verb ETRE
- 55D Whitehouse in D.C., e.g.: Abbr. SEN
- 56D Physics unit equivalent to roughly 624 gigaelectronvolts ERG
- 57D Thoroughly evaluate VET
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