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New York Times Answers

Sunday, 21st December 2025
There are 72 across clues and 72 down clues for the New York Times crossword on Sunday, 21st December 2025. View the answers below..

The Answers

Number# Clue Answer
AAcross 1: Some Arctic transports
AAcross 10: S.E.C. football powerhouse, for shortBAMA
AAcross 14: 1950s hangout with a jukeboxSODASHOP
AAcross 20: Game piece made of four squaresTETROMINO
AAcross 21: "The Kite Runner" protagonist
AAcross 22: Skulks
AAcross 23: Joins graduallyEASESINTO
AAcross 24: "Doggone it!"
AAcross 25: Treatment
AAcross 26: Blue colorant obtained from the indigo plant
AAcross 27: Wrangler alternative
AAcross 28: Brightly colored Mediterranean flowersSUNROSES
AAcross 30: Rap's Run-___DMC
AAcross 31: Course catalog?
AAcross 32: When Aries transitions to Taurus
AAcross 34: Sweetly, on scores
AAcross 35: "I'll pass"
AAcross 36: Input of certain mining
AAcross 38: Montalbán who played Khan in "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan"
AAcross 40: Timer setting
AAcross 42: Areas of influence
AAcross 45: Mental health org.APA
AAcross 46: Fraudulently make seem likePALMOFFAS
AAcross 48: Covers completely
AAcross 49: Wyoming peak
AAcross 51: Like a corporation with a new logo, perhaps
AAcross 54: Comment from someone caught in the rainIMSOAKED
AAcross 56: Yellow avenue in MonopolyVENTNOR
AAcross 58: A bit off, sayONSALE
AAcross 59: Hyatt alternativeOMNI
AAcross 60: Hard-boiled genre
AAcross 62: TheForce.net for "Star Wars," for exampleFANSITE
AAcross 64: Dark side
AAcross 65: Former big name in browsers
AAcross 67: U.F.O.-watching org.SETI
AAcross 68: By way of, informally
AAcross 70: Kemo ___ (the Lone Ranger)
AAcross 71: Sailor's patronSTELMO
AAcross 72: Fleetwood Mac hit named for a Celtic goddessRHIANNON
AAcross 76: Daddy
AAcross 79: Eponymous British financier James ___BARCLAY
AAcross 81: By saying this you mean well
AAcross 82: Wrap seller
AAcross 83: Adopted, as a petTOOKIN
AAcross 85: Wasn't folded in a suitcase, sayLAYFLAT
AAcross 87: Developed, as baby teethGREWIN
AAcross 89: Sci-fi miniaturizerSHRINKRAY
AAcross 91: Emanations
AAcross 93: Boldly face
AAcross 94: Kind of cipher in which A becomes B, B becomes C, e.g.
AAcross 95: Guardians, on a scoreboardCLE
AAcross 96: Bit of birdspeak
AAcross 98: Damp, mildewy quality
AAcross 99: They hold water
AAcross 102: Silence
AAcross 103: Lying faceup
AAcross 104: ___ Park, Calif.MENLO
AAcross 105: Air
AAcross 107: Disney subsidiaryESPN
AAcross 111: A little help?
AAcross 112: Evaded, as a sensitive issueDANCEDAROUND
AAcross 114: Some pings, in briefIMS
AAcross 115: "Fie on ___!" (Shakespearean cry)
AAcross 116: Skips over
AAcross 118: Few and far between
AAcross 119: Regulars at parks with ramps, informallySKATERATS
AAcross 121: Reply after having one's memory joggedYESYES
AAcross 122: Some time ago
AAcross 123: "What's done is done!"GETOVERIT
AAcross 124: Stick (to)
AAcross 125: Garden interloper
AAcross 126: Church parts crossing naves
DDown 1: Make furious
DDown 2: "The Family Circus" cartoonist Bil ___KEANE
DDown 3: Tennis line judge's rulingITSIN
DDown 4: Duke Ellington classic with the lyric "That was my heart serenading you"PRELUDETOAKISS
DDown 5: West side of L.A.?
DDown 6: "Is there still time for me to join you?"AMILATE
DDown 7: 51 to the hourNINEPAST
DDown 8: Stage direction
DDown 9: Phillipa of BroadwaySOO
DDown 10: Grammy winner ErykahBADU
DDown 11: ___ Gorman, "The Hill We Climb" poetAMANDA
DDown 12: Copy
DDown 13: Iced-tea-and-lemonade refreshmentsARNOLDPALMERS
DDown 14: Spending romp
DDown 15: Output of certain mining
DDown 16: Counterpart of a sub
DDown 17: Fast start?
DDown 18: Father, familiarly
DDown 19: Mentally overpower, with "out"
DDown 28: Like most moccasins
DDown 29: Great Dane of cartoons, informallySCOOB
DDown 33: More livid
DDown 37: Keister, in Leicester
DDown 39: 2015 chart-topping hit for the WeekndCANTFEELMYFACE
DDown 40: Symbolic for its timeOFANERA
DDown 41: Shoe company with an iconic checkerboard design
DDown 42: Descendant
DDown 43: Apple: Fr.POMME
DDown 44: Is withoutHASNT
DDown 47: Rabid in appearance
DDown 50: Woman's nickname that sounds like two lettersEVIE
DDown 51: Rice-A-___RONI
DDown 52: "Borderlands" director ___ RothELI
DDown 53: Hiding place
DDown 55: Gene pools?DNABANKS
DDown 57: Org. with its own alphabet
DDown 61: Abbr. not found on most smartphonesOPER
DDown 63: "Aren't ___ lucky one?!"ITHE
DDown 66: It has a lot of secretaries
DDown 67: Shirt collar stiffener
DDown 69: Where to find six "presents" in this puzzle?UNDERTHETREE
DDown 71: Knock ’em dead
DDown 72: Coolidge who sang the theme for "Octopussy"RITA
DDown 73: Just getting started withNEWAT
DDown 74: Green shade
DDown 75: What Joe Montana was in the '80s
DDown 76: A TD scores six of thesePTS
DDown 77: "Fancy, that!"
DDown 78: Prickly denizen of coral reefs
DDown 78: Prickly denizen of coral reefs
DDown 80: Famed lawyer in the 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial
DDown 81: Most minimal
DDown 84: Some Korean exportsKIAS
DDown 86: Calmed deceptively
DDown 88: Baseball slugger's statRBIS
DDown 90: Bird used to deliver messages on "Game of Thrones"
DDown 92: Blueprints
DDown 97: Author Zora Neale ___HURSTON
DDown 98: Noodled on, with "over"
DDown 100: Girlfriend in "Ferris Bueller's Day Off"SLOANE
DDown 101: Informant
DDown 103: "Ta-ta!"SEEYA
DDown 104: Tricky pool shot
DDown 106: Someone enjoying a walk in the park
DDown 108: Mentally with it
DDown 109: ___ four
DDown 110: Fits one inside the other
DDown 112: Porcine : pigs :: cervine : ___
DDown 113: Essential
DDown 117: It might be good for a change
DDown 119: One who knows the drill?: Abbr.SGT
DDown 120: Teslas, e.g., for shortEVS
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