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Wednesday, 17th December 2025

There are 37 across clues and 42 down clues for the New York Times crossword on Wednesday, 17th December 2025. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Lock combinations?
AAcross 6:	___ League
AAcross 10:	Single instruction
AAcross 14:	Enemy W.W. II vessel
AAcross 15:	Turner of old movies
AAcross 16:	Powerful impulse
AAcross 17:	Group of grumps sitting around kvetching?	POUTYPARTY
AAcross 19:	Elmer's nemesis
AAcross 20:	Meeting, casually
AAcross 21:	A smartphone has lots of these
AAcross 22:	Centerpiece of "The Hobbit"
AAcross 23:	Community property pronoun
AAcross 25:	Like barked orders
AAcross 26:	Ali vs. Frazier, e.g.?	CHAMPSATTHEBOUT
AAcross 34:	Genre for GloRilla
AAcross 35:	Official mandate
AAcross 36:	Fellow fighter
AAcross 37:	Brand once known as "Standard Oil Company of Indiana"	AMOCO
AAcross 39:	Mardi Gras day, in brief	TUE
AAcross 40:	Works on a muffler, say
AAcross 41:	Welcome figure on Wall Street, unwelcome figure in a china shop
AAcross 42:	See 50-Down	NOSTRA
AAcross 44:	To and ___
AAcross 45:	Welcome sight on a whale-watching cruise?	SPOUTINTHEOCEAN
AAcross 48:	Poindexter
AAcross 49:	TV freebie of a sort
AAcross 50:	Easter Island's country
AAcross 52:	Dark-skinned fruit
AAcross 55:	Pieces of advice
AAcross 59:	Primordial substance
AAcross 60:	Painstakingly explain something ... or a hint to 17-, 26- and 45-Across	SPELLITOUT
AAcross 62:	Takes a tour of
AAcross 63:	Compassionate
AAcross 64:	Terra ___
AAcross 65:	Does the math, in a way
AAcross 66:	Pot grower?
AAcross 67:	H, on the N.Y.S.E.	HYATT
DDown 1:	Tarot suit associated with the element of water
DDown 2:	Yamaha product
DDown 3:	What makes a stud become studious?	IOUS
DDown 4:	Fully get
DDown 5:	Hog's home
DDown 6:	"That's a real shame"
DDown 7:	Steakhouse order
DDown 8:	Marchers in sidewalk cracks
DDown 9:	Howl at the moon
DDown 10:	Chevy S.U.V.
DDown 11:	Authentic
DDown 12:	Ones from platypuses have leathery shells
DDown 13:	Fly by night ... or by day
DDown 18:	Compact holder
DDown 22:	Neighbor of Ont.	QUE
DDown 24:	Red carpet hairstyle, perhaps
DDown 25:	Jost's longtime "Weekend Update" co-anchor
DDown 26:	Food you might eat wearing a bib
DDown 27:	Overplay for the audience	HAMUP
DDown 28:	Was the bigger person, say
DDown 29:	Follow, as advice
DDown 29:	Follow, as advice
DDown 30:	Have faith in
DDown 31:	Canines, e.g.
DDown 32:	Mega-
DDown 33:	Big name in chicken or boxing
DDown 38:	1990s comedy inspired by "Emma"
DDown 40:	"Get Smart" bad guys	KAOS
DDown 42:	Suffix with beat or neat	NIK
DDown 43:	Throw off
DDown 46:	Stick in the ground?
DDown 47:	Just about anything on a string	CATTOY
DDown 50:	With 42-Across, the Mafia	COSA
DDown 51:	Cultivated, in a way
DDown 52:	Start a turn in Twister
DDown 53:	Time to do without
DDown 54:	Gary's ___ Towne Tavern (rival bar on "Cheers")	OLDE
DDown 56:	Minuscule amount
DDown 57:	Short stroke
DDown 58:	Batting avg., e.g.
DDown 60:	Rocksteady relative
DDown 61:	"___ bin ein Berliner"

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