NYT CROSSWORD • WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2025

NYT Crossword Answers Dec 10, 2025

Complete answer list for the December 10, 2025 New York Times Crossword. Across and Down, every clue, every answer — plus the full grid below.

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The Grid

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Across 37

  1. 1"___ been had!" ↗WEVE
  2. 5Shoo away, in a way ↗SWATAT
  3. 11Thunderbolt wielder ↗ZEUS
  4. 15First name in daring jumps ↗EVEL
  5. 16City NE of Olympia ↗TACOMA
  6. 17Familiar with the tricks of ↗ONTO
  7. 18Emulates a dog around the family dinner table ↗BEGS
  8. 19Like voice mail messages, for example ↗PRERECORDED
  9. 21Red "Inside Out" character ↗ANGER
  10. 23OUT OF ORDER! PAPER TRAY REQUIRES MAINTENANCE! ↗PRINTER
  11. 24J.F.K. Library architect ↗PEI
  12. 25Verbal hesitations ↗UHS
  13. 27"No ___!" ↗DOUBT
  14. 31Like some boarding school attire ↗PREPPY
  15. 33Green dispensaries? ↗ATMS
  16. 37Iconic repeated Keanu Reeves role ↗NEO
  17. 38Bit of condensation ↗BEAD
  18. 39Type of flooded field ↗RICEPADDY
  19. 42Protected lands for plants and animals ↗NATURERESERVES
  20. 44OUT OF ORDER! USE STAIRS UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE! ↗ESCALATOR
  21. 45One who is acting? ↗DOER
  22. 46Corp. money bigwig ↗CFO
  23. 47Some pearls of wisdom ↗SAWS
  24. 48Third-party holding ↗ESCROW
  25. 51Used to have ↗OWNED
  26. 54___ Chinmoy, 20th-century Indian spiritual leader ↗SRI
  27. 55Time piece? ↗ERA
  28. 56Hole in the wall ↗RATTRAP
  29. 61Rapper who co-starred in 1994's "Above the Rim" ↗TUPAC
  30. 63Love poem opener ↗ROSESARERED
  31. 67Article of pool equipment ↗RACK
  32. 68Children's author Carle who wrote "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" ↗ERIC
  33. 69OUT OF ORDER! USE SECOND-FLOOR BATHROOM INSTEAD! ↗TOILET
  34. 70Corn container ↗SILO
  35. 71Release steam ↗VENT
  36. 72Diocese assemblies ↗SYNODS
  37. 73Final boss in the game God of War ↗ARES

Down 44

  1. 1Software accessed via an online browser ↗WEBAPP
  2. 2Game-tying goal ↗EVENER
  3. 3Healthier version of a breakfast side dish ↗VEGGIEBACON
  4. 4"Or ___ what?" ↗ELSE
  5. 5Longtime NASCAR sponsor ↗STP
  6. 6Alters the shape of ↗WARPS
  7. 7Dell competitor ↗ACER
  8. 8Singer Amos ↗TORI
  9. 9"You can say that again!" ↗AMEN
  10. 10Sensitivity ↗TACT
  11. 11Secret identity of Don Diego de la Vega ↗ZORRO
  12. 12Ax, so to speak ↗END
  13. 13Beehive State athlete ↗UTE
  14. 14Grassy section ↗SOD
  15. 20Source of 3.5 million quotations, for short ↗OED
  16. 22Performer of the 1992 dance song "Supermodel (You Better Work)" ↗RUPAUL
  17. 26Greek figures with multiple heads ↗HYDRAS
  18. 28Status of 23-, 44- and 69-Across, as indicated by their clues and placement in the grid ↗UNDERREPAIR
  19. 29Trampoline mats ↗BEDS
  20. 30Elf product ↗TOY
  21. 32Org. opposed to "speciesism" ↗PETA
  22. 33Common street sign symbol ↗ARROW
  23. 34Several things in a pagoda ↗TIERS
  24. 35Party starters, in brief ↗MCS
  25. 36Sowing machine ↗SEEDER
  26. 40"To your health!," in Germany ↗PROSIT
  27. 41___ gaz (carbonated: Fr.) ↗AVEC
  28. 42[Don't open this at the office!] ↗NSFW
  29. 43One of four rhyming letters ↗ETA
  30. 44Modern prefix with village ↗ECO
  31. 49"The Matrix" character, with "the" ↗ORACLE
  32. 50Nuts ↗WACKOS
  33. 52Standing ↗ERECT
  34. 53Aachen article ↗DAS
  35. 54"There is more to life than increasing its ___": Gandhi ↗SPEED
  36. 57Some needle work, in brief ↗TATS
  37. 58"Community" character played by Donald Glover ↗TROY
  38. 59Apt letters missing from _ _stra_ _ ↗REIN
  39. 60Songwriter Guthrie ↗ARLO
  40. 62___ Minor ↗URSA
  41. 63Fire up ↗REV
  42. 64Prize that a prospector pries ↗ORE
  43. 65Sloth, e.g. ↗SIN
  44. 66Some N.F.L. linemen ↗DTS