NYT Crossword Answers 12/25/25

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NYT Across Clues

• 1A Response to discovering the theme of a crossword AHA
• 4A Dashing through the ___ … SNOW
• 8A Foam on a seashore SURF
• 12A One who runs, informally POL
• 13A Possible base for a Caesar salad KALE
• 14A Of help UTILE
• 16A Dawdle LOLLYGAG
• 18A Some anxious behavior on one’s feet PACING
• 20A Stew (over) OBSESS
• 21A In a ___ open sleigh … ONEHORSE
• 23A Where Bart Simpson directs his prank calls MOES
• 24A Buffet stand vessel URN
• 25A Rare day for an N.F.L. game: Abbr. TUE
• 26A One way to take a bull BYTHEHORNS
• 31A Old dagger carried by Scottish Highlanders DIRK
• 32A Michael of “Barbie” CERA
• 33A Hits from the side, informally TBONES
• 35A First portrayer of Albus Dumbledore, the final live-action role in his long film career RICHARDHARRIS
• 39A Stretch PERIOD
• 40A Letter after three consecutive rhyming letters IOTA
• 41A Right-eous path? EAST
• 42A Footwear for a bride, perhaps WHITEHEELS
• 48A JFK or EWR alternative LGA
• 49A Cable lead-in to TV TRU
• 50A Jump in skates AXEL
• 51A What’s seen “all the way” through this puzzle? LAUGHING
• 54A Ryan with swimming gold medals in four straight Olympics LOCHTE
• 56A “All that being said …” ANDYET
• 57A Ado BROUHAHA
• 59A “Yes ___!” SIREE
• 60A Something typed in this field: YYYY YEAR
• 61A Fashion designer Lange LIZ
• 62A Many a vacation package TOUR
• 63A Transcript ruiners EFFS
• 64A ___ pop (hybrid music genre) EMO

NYT Vertical Clues

• 1D Chillness APLOMB
• 2D “Oh me, oh my!” HOOBOY
• 3D Ready to go ALLSET
• 4D “___ the Limit” (posthumous hit for the Notorious B.I.G.) SKYS
• 5D Horses studied by touts NAGS
• 6D Portuguese greeting OLA
• 7D O’er the fields ___ … WEGO
• 8D Eurasia or Oceania, in “1984” SUPERSTATE
• 9D Like many Mormons UTAHN
• 10D The “R” of P.R. RICO
• 11D Vodka-and-pineapple juice cocktail popularized on “Sex and the City” FLIRTINI
• 15D Sews up ENSURES
• 17D Phil of the Grateful Dead LESH
• 19D Uber-enthusiasts GEEKS
• 22D Someone who might ask “Mother, may I?” NUN
• 27D Zoom call issue ECHO
• 28D “S.N.L.” V.I.P. HEADWRITER
• 29D Pilot who shares a tent with Yossarian in “Catch-22” ORR
• 30D Sides of pie slices, essentially RADII
• 31D Ballon ___ (soccer star’s award) DOR
• 34D Slangy “dude” BRAH
• 35D White House family of the 1980s REAGANS
• 36D Tax dodger’s fear IRSAUDIT
• 37D Loc. ___ (footnote abbr.) CIT
• 38D Very in HOT
• 39D Big name in windows and doors PELLA
• 43D Raider in times past HUN
• 44D A person EACH
• 45D Go “Phew!,” say EXHALE
• 46D “He has my permission” LETHIM
• 47D Total slimeball SLEAZO
• 49D Intl. org. with 12 stars on its flag THEEU
• 52D Halal cart offering GYRO
• 53D Elided farewell GBYE
• 54D Do pretty much nothing LOAF
• 55D Between you and me OURS
• 58D At whom you might yell “Are we watching the same game?!” REF