NYT CROSSWORD • MONDAY, DECEMBER 22, 2025

NYT Crossword Answers Dec 22, 2025

Complete answer list for the December 22, 2025 New York Times Crossword. Across and Down, every clue, every answer — plus the full grid below.

By Suzanne OliverEdited by Will ShortzGrid 15×1576 clues

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The Grid

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Across 39

  1. 1Deep sleeps ↗COMAS
  2. 6High-speed Amtrak train ↗ACELA
  3. 11Word with punching or sleeping ↗BAG
  4. 14One of a battery's poles ↗ANODE
  5. 15Older but ___ ↗WISER
  6. 16Under the weather ↗ILL
  7. 17Saxophone, trumpet, piano and bass, perhaps ↗JAZZQUARTET
  8. 19Day-___ paint ↗GLO
  9. 20"Garfield" dog ↗ODIE
  10. 21"It's freezing!" ↗BRR
  11. 22Typical "Survivor" locales ↗ISLES
  12. 24Rapper ___ Uzi Vert ↗LIL
  13. 25Yoda and Obi-Wan Kenobi, for two ↗JEDIMASTERS
  14. 28Fish that may have an electric charge ↗EEL
  15. 29Stammering sounds ↗ERS
  16. 30Indignation ↗OUTRAGE
  17. 31What each U.S. senator represents ↗STATE
  18. 33Raggedy ___ ↗ANN
  19. 34Breyers competitor ↗EDYS
  20. 35Some exams allow them ↗OPENNOTES
  21. 39Cops, slangily ↗POPO
  22. 42Rode the bench ↗SAT
  23. 43Yoga pose ↗ASANA
  24. 47Enjoying great success ↗ONATEAR
  25. 49What electric cars don't use ↗GAS
  26. 51Like a 49-Across gauge that's near "Empty" ↗LOW
  27. 52Overly fussy ↗PERSNICKETY
  28. 54Bit of forensic evidence ↗DNA
  29. 55Pink ___ (rock band) ↗FLOYD
  30. 56Singer DiFranco ↗ANI
  31. 57Bill ↗BEAK
  32. 58Mideast export ↗OIL
  33. 59Cheat … or a punny hint to the four sets of circled letters ↗SHORTCHANGE
  34. 63French "a" ↗UNE
  35. 64Hearing-related ↗AURAL
  36. 65Playwright Chekhov ↗ANTON
  37. 66Kind of lamp that's energy-efficient ↗LED
  38. 67Easily irritated ↗TESTY
  39. 68Romeo and Juliet, agewise ↗TEENS

Down 37

  1. 1Persuades with flattery ↗CAJOLES
  2. 2Doing keto, perhaps ↗ONADIET
  3. 3Creator of Firefox and Thunderbird ↗MOZILLA
  4. 4Woodworking tool ↗ADZE
  5. 5Orderly arrangement: Abbr. ↗SEQ
  6. 6Oscars and Grammys, e.g. ↗AWARDS
  7. 7Wispy clouds ↗CIRRI
  8. 8Approx. ↗EST
  9. 9Harper ___, author of "To Kill a Mockingbird" ↗LEE
  10. 10Monet or Manet ↗ARTIST
  11. 11Don't blow it! ↗BIGLEAD
  12. 12Reaction to pollen, e.g. ↗ALLERGY
  13. 13Shiny coatings ↗GLOSSES
  14. 18Lyft competitor ↗UBER
  15. 23Heart attack risk factor ↗STRESS
  16. 25Cherokee maker ↗JEEP
  17. 26"The kissing disease" ↗MONO
  18. 27Em, to Dorothy ↗AUNT
  19. 32Foot, in baby talk ↗TOOTSY
  20. 33Word after fire or carpenter ↗ANT
  21. 36Actor Morales ↗ESAI
  22. 37Drug agent, informally ↗NARC
  23. 38"No sweat!" ↗EASY
  24. 39Ball batted up and behind the catcher, say ↗POPFOUL
  25. 40Length of a pithy joke ↗ONELINE
  26. 41Released from jail early ↗PAROLED
  27. 44Pasta preference ↗ALDENTE
  28. 45Nine-sided figure ↗NONAGON
  29. 46Stirs from sleep ↗AWAKENS
  30. 48Is over by ↗ENDSAT
  31. 49With a light touch ↗GENTLY
  32. 50Suffix with problem ↗ATIC
  33. 53Gold standard ↗KARAT
  34. 57Scourge ↗BANE
  35. 60Shade of color ↗HUE
  36. 61Surgery sites, in brief ↗ORS
  37. 62Beanie or bowler ↗HAT