NYT CROSSWORD • WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2025

NYT Crossword Answers Dec 3, 2025

Complete answer list for the December 3, 2025 New York Times Crossword. Across and Down, every clue, every answer — plus the full grid below.

By Victor BarocasEdited by Will ShortzGrid 15×1578 clues

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Across 37

  1. 1Young fellows ↗LADS
  2. 5Tied up, as hay ↗BALED
  3. 10Surrounded by ↗AMID
  4. 14Plant-based spread ↗OLEO
  5. 15Echo speaker ↗ALEXA
  6. 16Largest company headquartered in Oregon ↗NIKE
  7. 171967 hit by the Who, per 68-Across ↗FORMILESICANSEE
  8. 20Words after "happily ever after" ↗THEEND
  9. 21Bit of ink ↗TAT
  10. 22Lack of connectivity ↗GAP
  11. 23Long-haired bovine ↗YAK
  12. 24Anabolic steroids, e.g., informally ↗PEDS
  13. 27College football rival of Michigan, for short ↗OSU
  14. 291978 song by Gloria Gaynor, per 68-Across ↗SURVIVEIWILL
  15. 34Lead-in to pop or lit ↗BRIT
  16. 36Award with a "Best New American Theater Work" category ↗OBIE
  17. 37Midmonth time ↗IDES
  18. 38Linseed oil source ↗FLAX
  19. 39Shampoo often in a green bottle ↗PRELL
  20. 40Remain unresolved ↗PEND
  21. 41Cause for a miner celebration? ↗LODE
  22. 42Animal in more than 70 Bugs Bunny titles ↗HARE
  23. 43Hospital count ↗BEDS
  24. 442008 hit by Katy Perry, per 68-Across ↗AGIRLIKISSED
  25. 47One of a trio encountered by Ricitos de Oro ↗OSO
  26. 48Egyptian sun deity ↗ATEN
  27. 49Solid-rock connector ↗ASA
  28. 52Forehead marker at the start of Lent ↗ASH
  29. 54Long-running procedural franchise ↗CSI
  30. 57Removes forcibly ↗EJECTS
  31. 591973 Bob Marley song covered by Eric Clapton, per 68-Across ↗THESHERIFFISHOT
  32. 63Currency of Yemen ↗RIAL
  33. 64Language in which "maunga roa" means "long mountain" ↗MAORI
  34. 65Unimpressive rating ↗POOR
  35. 66TV's Griffith, Kaufman or Samberg ↗ANDY
  36. 67"Take this job and shove it!" ↗IQUIT
  37. 68Wise counselor of sci-fi who might not be great at karaoke? ↗YODA

Down 41

  1. 1Elevated ↗LOFTY
  2. 2Greeting among the lei community? ↗ALOHA
  3. 3Jeter in Cooperstown ↗DEREK
  4. 4Not too many ↗SOME
  5. 5Like Picard vis-à-vis Kirk ↗BALDER
  6. 6Drink that may come in a yard ↗ALE
  7. 7Jean-Paul Sartre's "___ Chemins de la Liberté" ↗LES
  8. 8Kind of strategy ↗EXIT
  9. 9Obama-era immigration program, informally ↗DACA
  10. 10Novelist Patchett ↗ANN
  11. 11Following bad advice ↗MISGUIDED
  12. 12Store with iconic blue totes ↗IKEA
  13. 13Like certain thoughts and pockets ↗DEEP
  14. 18Advice ↗INPUT
  15. 19Yours, in French ↗ATOI
  16. 25"Slavonic Dances" composer ↗DVORAK
  17. 26Omsk's region ↗SIBERIA
  18. 28Stole ↗SWIPED
  19. 29Philly b-ball squad ↗SIXERS
  20. 30Superlatively contemptible ↗VILEST
  21. 31Slithering swimmer ↗EEL
  22. 32Google app with the slogan "Search what you see" ↗LENS
  23. 33Drug featured in "How to Change Your Mind" ↗LSD
  24. 34Online commentary site ↗BLOG
  25. 35Band that helped popularize "pay-what-you-want" pricing with their album "In Rainbows" ↗RADIOHEAD
  26. 38Home to the Tamiami Trail: Abbr. ↗FLA
  27. 39Aphrodite's second letter ↗PHI
  28. 43Golden-tan dog of multiple films ↗BENJI
  29. 45Blue area on a Scottish map ↗LOCH
  30. 46Think that it's appropriate ↗SEEFIT
  31. 49Cold call? ↗ACHOO
  32. 50Got out of a chair ↗STOOD
  33. 51"Ad ___ per aspera" (motto of Kansas) ↗ASTRA
  34. 52Razor brand ↗ATRA
  35. 53Guarded area for many athletes ↗SHIN
  36. 5518-wheeler ↗SEMI
  37. 56Modern country that includes most of ancient Mesopotamia ↗IRAQ
  38. 58Award with a "Best Record-Breaking Performance" category ↗ESPY
  39. 60Sneakily clever ↗SLY
  40. 61Letters of indebtedness ↗IOU
  41. 62Day before taking the SAT: Abbr. ↗FRI