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New York Times Answers

Tuesday, 23rd December 2025
There are 37 across clues and 41 down clues for the New York Times crossword on Tuesday, 23rd December 2025. View the answers below..
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Number# Clue Answer
AAcross 1: Longtime CBS procedural with multiple spinoffsNCIS
AAcross 5: Highly capable
AAcross 10: Ctrl+S command
AAcross 14: Alternative to check or credit card
AAcross 15: Secondary subject for a college student
AAcross 16: Short video
AAcross 17: Appropriately named bus driver on "The Simpsons"
AAcross 18: Alternative to épée or foil, in British English
AAcross 19: Tokarczuk who won the 2018 Nobel Prize in LiteratureOLGA
AAcross 20: Classic Hanukkah treatCHOCOLATECOIN
AAcross 23: Brownish-yellow fabric
AAcross 24: Institution of higher education, to a Brit
AAcross 25: Sleeper's breathing problem
AAcross 27: Lead-in to "drink and be merry"
AAcross 28: Classic classroom party treat
AAcross 31: Antitrust enforcement org.
AAcross 32: Unfortunate accident
AAcross 34: Clever
AAcross 36: Highly pleased about
AAcross 38: Colored, as church glass
AAcross 39: Classic Halloween treat
AAcross 41: It's part of the job
AAcross 44: Prefix with classic
AAcross 45: Carve
AAcross 49: Take advantage of
AAcross 50: "Where'd you hear that?"SAYSWHO
AAcross 54: Dream Team country, for short
AAcross 54: Dream Team country, for short
AAcross 55: Take responsibility
AAcross 57: Cry from a movie directorANDCUT
AAcross 59: Classic Yuletide treatCHRISTMASCOOKIE
AAcross 63: Prayer ender
AAcross 64: This should clear things up!
AAcross 65: Reject, as a bill
AAcross 66: Nothing, in Nogales
AAcross 67: Cries out
AAcross 68: Biblical garden
DDown 1: Sgt. or cpl.NCO
DDown 2: Go off a ski jump, sayCATCHAIR
DDown 3: "Oh, really?"ISTHATSO
DDown 4: Tried to identify, in a way, as a wrapped gift
DDown 5: Playground retortAMSO
DDown 6: 1990s internet optionDIALUP
DDown 7: With all judges presentENBANC
DDown 8: ___ de Rossi, "Arrested Development" actressPORTIA
DDown 9: Aspen or pine
DDown 10: Reporter's big get
DDown 11: Just for grinsALLINFUN
DDown 12: Short version of an impactful story
DDown 13: Org. regulating water safety
DDown 13: Org. regulating water safety
DDown 21: Insect that emerges en masse every 13 or 17 years
DDown 22: Kind of salad whose dressing contains anchovies
DDown 23: Former N.B.A. star Shawn with the nickname "Reign Man"
DDown 26: Nailed, as a test
DDown 29: "Once ___ a time …"
DDown 29: "Once ___ a time …"
DDown 30: Character played by Bruce Lee on "The Green Hornet"KATO
DDown 33: ___ Finn
DDown 35: One of three on the pitchfork in "American Gothic"
DDown 37: Big Apple org. that's going to blazes?FDNY
DDown 38: Flat-bottomed boat
DDown 40: "That's correct!"
DDown 41: Resident of Pisa or Lucca
DDown 42: Condition that may require an inhaler
DDown 43: Get more than a little mad
DDown 46: Like many a dress shirt, with "in"
DDown 47: Top execs, colloquially … or what 20-, 28-, 39- and 59-Across are, phonetically?CSUITE
DDown 48: Make negative remarks aboutHATEON
DDown 50: Not on the up and up, slangily
DDown 51: In a fitting way
DDown 52: Breaks (into), as a computer system
DDown 53: Middle name for Lennon starting in 1969
DDown 56: "Escape (The ___ Colada Song)"
DDown 58: Sign of peace
DDown 60: Sallie or Fannie follower
DDown 61: Hand-y communication method, for short?
DDown 62: Drink slowly