NYT CROSSWORD • FRIDAY, DECEMBER 12, 2025

NYT Crossword Answers Dec 12, 2025

Complete answer list for the December 12, 2025 New York Times Crossword. Across and Down, every clue, every answer — plus the full grid below.

By Adrian Johnson and Jess RucksEdited by Will ShortzGrid 15×1570 clues

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Across 33

  1. 1Some free spots, for short ↗PSAS
  2. 5Grounds ↗CAUSE
  3. 10Doesn't just talk ↗ACTS
  4. 14"You're telling me!" ↗IKNOWRIGHT
  5. 16Word with wet or sweat ↗SUIT
  6. 17Conspiracy theorist's accessory ↗TINFOILHAT
  7. 18"Don't leave me!," e.g. ↗PLEA
  8. 1916 in a Sweet Sixteen ↗TEAMS
  9. 20Main component of a "gutbucket," a jug band instrument ↗WASHTUB
  10. 22Personal records ↗BESTS
  11. 25Padlocked fasteners ↗HASPS
  12. 26Variety of orange named for a European city ↗VALENCIA
  13. 29What blue crabs do roughly 20 times in their lifetimes ↗MOLT
  14. 30Jobs announcement of 2010 ↗IPAD
  15. 31News feed, perhaps ↗RAWFOOTAGE
  16. 35[Waaaaah!] ↗SOB
  17. 36Thick confection used for cake icing ↗FONDANT
  18. 37Part of a golf club ↗TOE
  19. 38See 5-Down ↗APPLESAUCE
  20. 40Binary ↗DUAL
  21. 41Succors ↗AIDS
  22. 42Photo session workers ↗STYLISTS
  23. 44Ace, e.g. ↗SERVE
  24. 46Skater's braking method with the back foot positioned horizontally ↗TSTOP
  25. 47Relative of a craft fair ↗ARTEXPO
  26. 50"Duino Elegies" poet ↗RILKE
  27. 53Saves, as a digital location ↗PINS
  28. 54Clichéd line from the side of a product package ↗ASSEENONTV
  29. 58It's cool to drink ↗ICEE
  30. 59"I haven't told you the best part ..." ↗THERESMORE
  31. 60Impressively accurate pass, in football slang ↗DART
  32. 61Floats ↗HANGS
  33. 62Give a bad hand? ↗ABET

Down 37

  1. 1Stone ↗PIT
  2. 2Vaudeville highlight ↗SKIT
  3. 3Pulitzer-winning journalist Applebaum ↗ANNE
  4. 4You might pull one out for a guest ↗SOFABED
  5. 5With 38-Across, one way to sit ↗CRISSCROSS
  6. 6Feel gross ↗AIL
  7. 7"Gross" ↗UGH
  8. 8Playwright who wrote "You see things; and you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?'" ↗SHAW
  9. 9"Tell Mama" singer James ↗ETTA
  10. 10Rocky road ingredient? ↗ASPHALT
  11. 11Distinction for a classic underground work ↗CULTSTATUS
  12. 12Bind ↗TIEUP
  13. 13Sticks a fork in ↗STABS
  14. 15Part of NOW ↗WOMEN
  15. 21"Fiddlesticks!" ↗SHOOT
  16. 23Disney princess in New Orleans ↗TIANA
  17. 24Workshop debris ↗SAWDUST
  18. 26Possible need for entry ↗VISA
  19. 27Each ↗APOP
  20. 28Colleague who might be solutions-oriented? ↗LABPARTNER
  21. 29Tropical plants said to bring good fortune ↗MONEYTREES
  22. 32"That's the truth" ↗FACTS
  23. 33Kid's parent ↗GOAT
  24. 34Hagfish lookalikes ↗EELS
  25. 36Company whose logo has a hidden arrow between its fourth and fifth letters ↗FEDEX
  26. 39Performance that isn't prerecorded ↗LIVESET
  27. 40Word from the Greek for "folded paper" ↗DIPLOMA
  28. 43Butcher shop buys ↗LOINS
  29. 44Pleasing to the palate ↗SAPID
  30. 45"Buss It" rapper ___ Banks ↗ERICA
  31. 48Way ↗PATH
  32. 49Arm of the Dept. of Labor ↗OSHA
  33. 51Part of a cabinet ↗KNOB
  34. 52French 101 verb ↗ETRE
  35. 55Whitehouse in D.C., e.g.: Abbr. ↗SEN
  36. 56Physics unit equivalent to roughly 624 gigaelectronvolts ↗ERG
  37. 57Thoroughly evaluate ↗VET