NYT CROSSWORD • MONDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2025
NYT Crossword Answers Dec 15, 2025
Complete answer list for the December 15, 2025 New York Times Crossword. Across and Down, every clue, every answer — plus the full grid below.
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Across 36
- 1___ Nicholas ↗SAINT
- 6Judge's seat, from the French ↗BANC
- 10N.Y.C. airport ↗JFK
- 13"Star Wars" droid, familiarly ↗ARTOO
- 14Side's length squared, for a square ↗AREA
- 15Thrilla in Manila boxer ↗ALI
- 16Recharge one's batteries ↗RESTUP
- 18Prepared to bathe ↗DISROBED
- 20Cool ___ cucumber ↗ASA
- 21"Balderdash!" ↗LIES
- 23Filled in (for), for short ↗SUBBED
- 24Schmoozed (with) ↗HOBNOBBED
- 27Good, long bath ↗SOAK
- 28Slight injury from tripping ↗STUBBEDTOE
- 30Bridge support ↗TRUSS
- 32Karl Marx's "___ Kapital" ↗DAS
- 33Do one better than ↗TOP
- 36President Hoover ↗HERBERT
- 39"You take credit cards?" response ↗YESWEDO
- 42Unconventional ↗ODD
- 43Alternative to the pill, in brief ↗IUD
- 45Dog-___ (like the pages in some books) ↗EARED
- 46Foreign-language movie that you don't have to read subtitles for ↗DUBBEDFILM
- 50Location for a goatee or soul patch ↗CHIN
- 52Enchanted ↗BEDAZZLED
- 55Big-beaked tropical bird ↗TOUCAN
- 57One-named Brazilian soccer star ↗PELE
- 58"If you ask me …," to texters ↗IMO
- 59Camp sleeping spots … or a hint to this puzzle's circled letters ↗BUNKBEDS
- 61Sci-fi writer Isaac ↗ASIMOV
- 63Suitable, as a unit in a bldg.? ↗APT
- 64Tales of yore ↗LORE
- 65Join in marriage ↗UNITE
- 66Lo-___ graphics ↗RES
- 67One-named Grammy winner from Ireland ↗ENYA
- 68___ Cottontail ↗PETER
Down 40
- 1Wife of Abraham, in the Bible ↗SARAH
- 2"You ___ right!" ↗ARESO
- 3"Ridiculous!" ↗ITSABSURD
- 4"I'm kidding!!," in "Wayne's World" ↗NOT
- 5Artist Henri de ___-Lautrec ↗TOULOUSE
- 6One who's rotten from the start ↗BADSEED
- 7Singer Grande, to fans ↗ARI
- 8Loch ___ monster ↗NESS
- 9Opera great Enrico ↗CARUSO
- 10Sluglike "Star Wars" crime boss ↗JABBA
- 11On ___ (looking great, in slang) ↗FLEEK
- 12Colonial-era pirate captain ↗KIDD
- 17Mr. ___ (Dr Pepper competitor) ↗PIBB
- 19Orchestral woodwind ↗OBOE
- 22Be on the wane ↗EBB
- 25Crash-investigating org. ↗NTSB
- 26Turning point in W.W. II ↗DDAY
- 29When doubled, an African fly ↗TSE
- 30But, briefly ↗THO
- 31Like a ripe strawberry ↗RED
- 33Re-election restriction ↗TERMLIMIT
- 34Many a Wordsworth poem ↗ODE
- 35Pea holder ↗POD
- 37Part of a barbecue rack ↗RIB
- 38Ernest in the Country Music Hall of Fame ↗TUBB
- 40Suddenly stops working, as an engine ↗SEIZESUP
- 41Gov. Tim ___, 2024 running mate ↗WALZ
- 44Beyond the continental shelf, say ↗DEEPSEA
- 46Comic actor Van Dyke ↗DICK
- 47Lacking the capacity ↗UNABLE
- 48Prez before 10-Across ↗DDE
- 49"Deck the Halls" syllables ↗FALA
- 50Two-door auto ↗COUPE
- 51Outings for foxhounds ↗HUNTS
- 53Show feelings onstage ↗EMOTE
- 54Capital of Delaware ↗DOVER
- 55Lift on the slopes ↗TBAR
- 56Like bright signs on the Las Vegas Strip ↗NEON
- 60Funny in a subtle way ↗DRY
- 62Suffix with Benedict or elephant ↗INE