NYT Crossword Answers 12/21/25

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NYT Across Clues

• 1A Some Arctic transports SKIPLANES
• 10A S.E.C. football powerhouse, for short BAMA
• 14A 1950s hangout with a jukebox SODASHOP
• 20A Game piece made of four squares TETROMINO
• 21A “The Kite Runner” protagonist AMIR
• 22A Skulks PROWLS
• 23A Joins gradually EASESINTO
• 24A “Doggone it!” DARN
• 25A Treatment REMEDY
• 26A Blue colorant obtained from the indigo plant ANIL
• 27A Wrangler alternative LEE
• 28A Brightly colored Mediterranean flowers SUNROSES
• 30A Rap’s Run-___ DMC
• 31A Course catalog? MENU
• 32A When Aries transitions to Taurus APRIL
• 34A Sweetly, on scores DOLCE
• 35A “I’ll pass” NAH
• 36A Input of certain mining DATA
• 38A Montalbán who played Khan in “Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan” RICARDO
• 40A Timer setting OVEN
• 42A Areas of influence SPHERES
• 45A Mental health org. APA
• 46A Fraudulently make seem like PALMOFFAS
• 48A Covers completely COATS
• 49A Wyoming peak TETON
• 51A Like a corporation with a new logo, perhaps REBRANDED
• 54A Comment from someone caught in the rain IMSOAKED
• 56A Yellow avenue in Monopoly VENTNOR
• 58A A bit off, say ONSALE
• 59A Hyatt alternative OMNI
• 60A Hard-boiled genre NOIR
• 62A TheForce.net for “Star Wars,” for example FANSITE
• 64A Dark side YIN
• 65A Former big name in browsers NETSCAPE
• 67A U.F.O.-watching org. SETI
• 68A By way of, informally THRU
• 70A Kemo ___ (the Lone Ranger) SABE
• 71A Sailor’s patron STELMO
• 72A Fleetwood Mac hit named for a Celtic goddess RHIANNON
• 76A Daddy POP
• 79A Eponymous British financier James ___ BARCLAY
• 81A By saying this you mean well BIEN
• 82A Wrap seller DELI
• 83A Adopted, as a pet TOOKIN
• 85A Wasn’t folded in a suitcase, say LAYFLAT
• 87A Developed, as baby teeth GREWIN
• 89A Sci-fi miniaturizer SHRINKRAY
• 91A Emanations AURAS
• 93A Boldly face BRAVE
• 94A Kind of cipher in which A becomes B, B becomes C, e.g. CAESAR
• 95A Guardians, on a scoreboard CLE
• 96A Bit of birdspeak CHITTER
• 98A Damp, mildewy quality MUST
• 99A They hold water VESSELS
• 102A Silence HUSH
• 103A Lying faceup SUPINE
• 104A ___ Park, Calif. MENLO
• 105A Air ETHER
• 107A Disney subsidiary ESPN
• 111A A little help? ELF
• 112A Evaded, as a sensitive issue DANCEDAROUND
• 114A Some pings, in brief IMS
• 115A “Fie on ___!” (Shakespearean cry) THEE
• 116A Skips over ELIDES
• 118A Few and far between RARE
• 119A Regulars at parks with ramps, informally SKATERATS
• 121A Reply after having one’s memory jogged YESYES
• 122A Some time ago ONCE
• 123A “What’s done is done!” GETOVERIT
• 124A Stick (to) ADHERE
• 125A Garden interloper WEED
• 126A Church parts crossing naves TRANSEPTS

NYT Vertical Clues

• 1D Make furious STEAM
• 2D “The Family Circus” cartoonist Bil ___ KEANE
• 3D Tennis line judge’s ruling ITSIN
• 4D Duke Ellington classic with the lyric “That was my heart serenading you” PRELUDETOAKISS
• 5D West side of L.A.? LOS
• 6D “Is there still time for me to join you?” AMILATE
• 7D 51 to the hour NINEPAST
• 8D Stage direction ENTER
• 9D Phillipa of Broadway SOO
• 10D Grammy winner Erykah BADU
• 11D ___ Gorman, “The Hill We Climb” poet AMANDA
• 12D Copy MIRROR
• 13D Iced-tea-and-lemonade refreshments ARNOLDPALMERS
• 14D Spending romp SPREE
• 15D Output of certain mining ORES
• 16D Counterpart of a sub DOM
• 17D Fast start? ASHWEDNESDAY
• 18D Father, familiarly OLDMAN
• 19D Mentally overpower, with “out” PSYCH
• 28D Like most moccasins SLIPON
• 29D Great Dane of cartoons, informally SCOOB
• 33D More livid IRATER
• 37D Keister, in Leicester ARSE
• 39D 2015 chart-topping hit for the Weeknd CANTFEELMYFACE
• 40D Symbolic for its time OFANERA
• 41D Shoe company with an iconic checkerboard design VANS
• 42D Descendant SCION
• 43D Apple: Fr. POMME
• 44D Is without HASNT
• 47D Rabid in appearance FROTHING
• 50D Woman’s nickname that sounds like two letters EVIE
• 51D Rice-A-___ RONI
• 52D “Borderlands” director ___ Roth ELI
• 53D Hiding place DEN
• 55D Gene pools? DNABANKS
• 57D Org. with its own alphabet NATO
• 61D Abbr. not found on most smartphones OPER
• 63D “Aren’t ___ lucky one?!” ITHE
• 66D It has a lot of secretaries CABINET
• 67D Shirt collar stiffener STAY
• 69D Where to find six “presents” in this puzzle? UNDERTHETREE
• 71D Knock ?em dead SLAY
• 72D Coolidge who sang the theme for “Octopussy” RITA
• 73D Just getting started with NEWAT
• 74D Green shade OLIVE
• 75D What Joe Montana was in the ’80s NINER
• 76D A TD scores six of these PTS
• 77D “Fancy, that!” OOH
• 78D Prickly denizen of coral reefs PORCUPINEFISH
• 80D Famed lawyer in the 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial CLARENCEDARROW
• 81D Most minimal BAREST
• 84D Some Korean exports KIAS
• 86D Calmed deceptively LULLED
• 88D Baseball slugger’s stat RBIS
• 90D Bird used to deliver messages on “Game of Thrones” RAVEN
• 92D Blueprints SCHEMATA
• 97D Author Zora Neale ___ HURSTON
• 98D Noodled on, with “over” MULLED
• 100D Girlfriend in “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” SLOANE
• 101D Informant SOURCE
• 103D “Ta-ta!” SEEYA
• 104D Tricky pool shot MASSE
• 106D Someone enjoying a walk in the park HIKER
• 108D Mentally with it SHARP
• 109D ___ four PETIT
• 110D Fits one inside the other NESTS
• 112D Porcine : pigs :: cervine : ___ DEER
• 113D Essential NEED
• 117D It might be good for a change DYE
• 119D One who knows the drill?: Abbr. SGT
• 120D Teslas, e.g., for short EVS