NYT CROSSWORD • SATURDAY, DECEMBER 13, 2025

NYT Crossword Answers Dec 13, 2025

Complete answer list for the December 13, 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 32

  1. 1Possible turnoff on a first date ↗BADBREATH
  2. 10Spicy shellfish dish ↗CURRIEDCRAB
  3. 12Yellow 5 and Red 40, for two ↗FOODADDITIVES
  4. 14City SE of Chicago ↗GARY
  5. 15"Cool beans!" ↗NEATO
  6. 16Grub ↗EATS
  7. 18"Knowing" without really knowing, for short ↗ESP
  8. 19Shade of the gay pride triangle ↗HOTPINK
  9. 21Cry in many a horror film ↗RUN
  10. 22Actress Birch of "Hocus Pocus" ↗THORA
  11. 24Robert Byrd was one for 51 years: Abbr. ↗SEN
  12. 25Abstain from ↗NOTDO
  13. 27Philippic ↗TIRADE
  14. 29Connect to the internet via mobile hotspot, as a device ↗TETHER
  15. 30Subs ↗HOAGIES
  16. 32Home heating component ↗OILTANK
  17. 33Dub ↗ENTITLE
  18. 34Board of creatives? ↗PALETTE
  19. 35Countenance ↗MIEN
  20. 36Ready to dive in, say ↗EAGER
  21. 38Streamlet ↗RILL
  22. 39Ticker tape?: Abbr. ↗ECG
  23. 40First, second or third ↗ORDINAL
  24. 42"___ won't!" ↗NOI
  25. 43Shift shape ↗MORPH
  26. 45They travel through tubes ↗OVA
  27. 46"Dang it!" ↗AWMAN
  28. 48Gluttonous request … or what this puzzle has vis-à-vis the possible answer lengths? ↗ONEOFEVERYTHING
  29. 51Obtain ↗SECURE
  30. 52Morning prayer ↗MATINS
  31. 53Doorbell sounds ↗DONGS
  32. 54Weapon that killed Medusa, in myth ↗SWORD

Down 30

  1. 1Harbor bobber ↗BUOY
  2. 2Wiz end? ↗ARD
  3. 3Alternative to a snake ↗DRANO
  4. 4Fancy hotel amenities ↗BIDETS
  5. 5Orangutan, by another name ↗REDAPE
  6. 6Include later, as video footage ↗EDITIN
  7. 7Heed ↗ACTON
  8. 8Part of TNT ↗TRI
  9. 9Order at a restaurant ↗HAVE
  10. 10Creator of some bubbles ↗CORPORATEGREED
  11. 11"Remember …" ↗BEARTHATINMIND
  12. 12Audrey Hepburn and Princess Diana, for two ↗FASHIONICONS
  13. 13Some of them may be forgiven ↗STUDENTLOANS
  14. 14Be looped in ↗GETTHEMEMO
  15. 17School viewing? ↗SNORKELING
  16. 19Lost all patience ↗HADIT
  17. 20Mourning peal ↗KNELL
  18. 23___ Cajun (Creole sauce with a rhyming name) ↗RAGIN
  19. 26Cousin of a wolverine ↗OTTER
  20. 28Pot user? ↗EELER
  21. 29Article of regalia worn by both Elizabeth II and Pope Paul VI ↗TIARA
  22. 31Birds also known as "little auks" ↗SEADOVES
  23. 32Sign of good reception? ↗OPENARMS
  24. 37Present ↗GIVE
  25. 40"Well, whoop-de-doo!" ↗OHFUN
  26. 41Rapper with the 2022 hit "Big Energy" ↗LATTO
  27. 44Not mucho ↗POCO
  28. 47Sound from fans ↗WHIR
  29. 49A little work ↗ERG
  30. 50Pitch, roll and ___ (rotations along the three-dimensional axes) ↗YAW