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Friday, 12th December 2025

There are 34 across clues and 38 down clues for the New York Times crossword on Friday, 12th December 2025. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Some free spots, for short	PSAS
AAcross 5:	Grounds
AAcross 10:	Doesn't just talk
AAcross 14:	"You're telling me!"	IKNOWRIGHT
AAcross 16:	Word with wet or sweat
AAcross 17:	Conspiracy theorist's accessory	TINFOILHAT
AAcross 18:	"Don't leave me!," e.g.
AAcross 19:	16 in a Sweet Sixteen
AAcross 20:	Main component of a "gutbucket," a jug band instrument
AAcross 22:	Personal records
AAcross 25:	Padlocked fasteners
AAcross 26:	Variety of orange named for a European city
AAcross 29:	What blue crabs do roughly 20 times in their lifetimes
AAcross 30:	Jobs announcement of 2010
AAcross 31:	News feed, perhaps	RAWFOOTAGE
AAcross 35:	[Waaaaah!]
AAcross 36:	Thick confection used for cake icing
AAcross 37:	Part of a golf club
AAcross 38:	See 5-Down
AAcross 38:	See 5-Down
AAcross 40:	Binary
AAcross 41:	Succors
AAcross 42:	Photo session workers
AAcross 44:	Ace, e.g.
AAcross 46:	Skater's braking method with the back foot positioned horizontally	TSTOP
AAcross 47:	Relative of a craft fair	ARTEXPO
AAcross 50:	"Duino Elegies" poet
AAcross 53:	Saves, as a digital location
AAcross 54:	Clichéd line from the side of a product package	ASSEENONTV
AAcross 58:	It's cool to drink	ICEE
AAcross 59:	"I haven't told you the best part ..."	THERESMORE
AAcross 60:	Impressively accurate pass, in football slang
AAcross 61:	Floats
AAcross 62:	Give a bad hand?
DDown 1:	Stone
DDown 2:	Vaudeville highlight
DDown 3:	Pulitzer-winning journalist Applebaum
DDown 4:	You might pull one out for a guest
DDown 4:	You might pull one out for a guest
DDown 5:	With 38-Across, one way to sit
DDown 6:	Feel gross
DDown 7:	"Gross"
DDown 8:	Playwright who wrote "You see things; and you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?'"
DDown 9:	"Tell Mama" singer James	ETTA
DDown 10:	Rocky road ingredient?
DDown 11:	Distinction for a classic underground work	CULTSTATUS
DDown 12:	Bind
DDown 13:	Sticks a fork in
DDown 15:	Part of NOW
DDown 21:	"Fiddlesticks!"
DDown 23:	Disney princess in New Orleans	TIANA
DDown 24:	Workshop debris
DDown 26:	Possible need for entry
DDown 27:	Each	APOP
DDown 28:	Colleague who might be solutions-oriented?	LABPARTNER
DDown 29:	Tropical plants said to bring good fortune	MONEYTREES
DDown 32:	"That's the truth"
DDown 33:	Kid's parent
DDown 34:	Hagfish lookalikes
DDown 36:	Company whose logo has a hidden arrow between its fourth and fifth letters
DDown 39:	Performance that isn't prerecorded	LIVESET
DDown 40:	Word from the Greek for "folded paper"
DDown 43:	Butcher shop buys
DDown 44:	Pleasing to the palate
DDown 45:	"Buss It" rapper ___ Banks
DDown 48:	Way
DDown 49:	Arm of the Dept. of Labor
DDown 51:	Part of a cabinet
DDown 52:	French 101 verb	ETRE
DDown 55:	Whitehouse in D.C., e.g.: Abbr.
DDown 56:	Physics unit equivalent to roughly 624 gigaelectronvolts
DDown 57:	Thoroughly evaluate

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