NYT Crossword Answers 12/28/25

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NYT Across Clues

• 1A Poet with a 1982 posthumous Pulitzer PLATH
• 6A S.L.R. insert since the early 2000s SDCARD
• 12A Baths in Bath LAVS
• 16A Comedian Notaro TIG
• 19A Host Tyler of “Whose Line Is It Anyway?” AISHA
• 20A One sporting an article of apparel WEARER
• 21A Sign in a theater EXIT
• 22A Droll WRY
• 23A Rock of Ages ROSETTASTONE
• 25A How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying NEPOTISM
• 27A Prop for a proposal KNEE
• 28A College credit hours UNITS
• 29A Far from fore AFT
• 31A Starting section PARTA
• 32A Fab Four drummer STARR
• 34A “I can handle that for you” LETME
• 36A Swallow something hook, line and sinker EATITUP
• 38A Subject of some modern maps GENOME
• 41A Boots out EJECTS
• 43A Ending with Butler or Bard EDU
• 44A A Class Act FIELDTRIP
• 47A A Strange Loop MOBIUSSTRIP
• 50A Played a part ACTED
• 51A Baldwin of “30 Rock” ALEC
• 53A Ran in the rain, perhaps BLED
• 54A Brig pair MASTS
• 55A New Mexico skiing locale TAOS
• 56A Full legislative assembly PLENUM
• 58A Personification of darkness, in Greek myth EREBUS
• 60A Shapiro of public radio ARI
• 61A Buds PALS
• 62A Chips go-with SALSA
• 64A Straight up ERECT
• 67A A Little Night Music LULLABY
• 69A Rent SPLIT
• 70A A Chorus Line REFRAIN
• 72A Creatures formed from the fingers of the sea goddess Sedna, in Inuit myth SEALS
• 73A Personal histories PASTS
• 74A Automatons, informally BOTS
• 75A Cell letters RNA
• 76A “___ down the hatches!” BATTEN
• 78A Nursery rhyme couple SPRATS
• 80A Cribbage markers PEGS
• 81A Sine’s reciprocal, in trig COSEC
• 84A Bit of power WATT
• 86A Japanese noodle SOBA
• 87A Wave to, say GREET
• 88A The Producers PROLETARIAT
• 91A Into the Woods OUTDOORSY
• 93A ___ Lingus AER
• 94A Intertwine ENLACE
• 95A Halloween haul TREATS
• 96A In tears SOBBING
• 99A Eschew the high road, say GOLOW
• 101A ___ Dame NOTRE
• 104A Repeatedly hit hard POUND
• 105A Dollop GOB
• 106A Pop group COLAS
• 109A Sitar great Shankar RAVI
• 111A The Wiz EINSTEIN
• 113A Mean Girls AVERAGEJANES
• 116A Chess pieces MEN
• 117A Bombeck who wrote “At Wit’s End” ERMA
• 118A File often installed with computer programs README
• 119A Do penance ATONE
• 120A Apply USE
• 121A Hurdle for a J.D.-to-be LSAT
• 122A Became aware of SENSED
• 123A “Fiddler on the Roof” matchmaker YENTE

NYT Vertical Clues

• 1D Playground area, often PARK
• 2D Fearsome felines LIONS
• 3D Plus ASSET
• 4D “One of These Nights” band THEEAGLES
• 5D Makeshift tip collector HAT
• 6D Epitome of graceful beauty SWAN
• 7D Arnaz of “I Love Lucy” DESI
• 8D Certain stock holder CATTLEPEN
• 9D Came about AROSE
• 10D Kylo ___ of “Star Wars” REN
• 11D Gig of a lifetime DREAMJOB
• 12D Advanced LENT
• 13D Guitar, slangily AXE
• 14D Front-of-the-line credential VIPPASS
• 15D Cousin of a mink STOAT
• 16D Cheep trills? TWITTERS
• 17D Dodger’s comeuppance IRSAUDIT
• 18D Indoor recess locale GYM
• 24D Super-excited, in slang TURNT
• 26D One “T” of TNT TRI
• 30D Least hale FEEBLEST
• 33D Foxx of 1970s TV REDD
• 35D Judge pro ___ TEM
• 36D Piano pupil’s practice piece ETUDE
• 37D Short boxers, e.g. PUPS
• 39D How some medicines are taken ORALLY
• 40D Apt name for a distance runner? MILES
• 42D Oldsmobile Cutlass model CIERA
• 44D Like 45-Down’s flaw FATAL
• 45D Mythical figure undone by hubris ICARUS
• 46D Prima ballerina ETOILE
• 48D Uses an alternate account to play against easier opponents, in gamer-speak SMURFS
• 49D Police weapon TASER
• 52D Transition points CUSPS
• 56D Blue Ribbon brand PABST
• 57D Ice cream parlor offerings MALTS
• 59D Borscht base BEETS
• 61D Classic theater name PALACE
• 63D Struggles with sibilant sounds LISPS
• 65D Law, but not order CAREER
• 66D Hints TINGES
• 68D Word with record or union LABEL
• 69D World capital near the Andean foothills SANTIAGO
• 70D Give a twist ROTATE
• 71D Downright mean NASTY
• 73D Bit of wisdom PEARL
• 74D Founder of the Mughal Empire BABUR
• 77D String-plucking sound TWANG
• 79D Sources in etymology ROOTWORDS
• 80D Prone PROSTRATE
• 81D Some summers, in brief CPAS
• 82D Black-and-white desserts OREOPIES
• 83D Université with a Pierre and Marie Curie campus SORBONNE
• 85D Shell filling stations TACOBARS
• 87D Basic programming command GOTO
• 89D Chicken pieces TENDERS
• 90D Part of AT&T: Abbr. TEL
• 92D Ballet or bourrée, in Bourgogne DANSE
• 97D Do a diner job BUS
• 98D Gathering of moles INTEL
• 100D Setting for Cole Porter’s “Anything Goes” OCEAN
• 102D Continued interminably RANON
• 103D Discus throw at the Olympics, e.g. EVENT
• 105D Buzzing nuisance GNAT
• 107D Glitzy fabric LAME
• 108D Like some cheese AGED
• 110D “Gotcha” ISEE
• 111D Blue-necked bird EMU
• 112D “___ Believer” IMA
• 114D Flock formation VEE
• 115D Blue-winged bird JAY