NYT CROSSWORD • TUESDAY, DECEMBER 30, 2025

NYT Crossword Answers Dec 30, 2025

Complete answer list for the December 30, 2025 New York Times Crossword. Across and Down, every clue, every answer — plus the full grid below.

By Geoffrey Schorkopf and Will EisenbergEdited by Will ShortzGrid 15×1576 clues

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Across 37

  1. 1Scoundrels ↗CADS
  2. 5Pointed end of a pen ↗NIB
  3. 8Parts not filled in ↗GAPS
  4. 12Cookies with their name embossed on them ↗OREOS
  5. 14Prefix with -metric ↗ISO
  6. 15Attracts ↗LURES
  7. 17Something to wave with pride? ↗LGBTQFLAG
  8. 19Sardinia, e.g., to Sardinians ↗ISOLA
  9. 20"Absolument!" ↗OUIOUI
  10. 21Fizzled out completely ↗WENTPFFT
  11. 23"Nothing but ___!" (reaction to a swish) ↗NET
  12. 24In the style of ↗ALA
  13. 26Brand of cooler named for a mythical beast ↗YETI
  14. 27Play loudly, as from a speaker ↗BLARE
  15. 29Break away (from) ↗SECEDE
  16. 33[That looks delicious …] ↗DROOL
  17. 36Flashy cycling maneuvers ↗BMXTRICKS
  18. 38Shared by us ↗OURS
  19. 39What a new hire might learn, with "the" ↗ROPES
  20. 40"That's not good!" ↗OHNO
  21. 41"Sunday Night Football" producer ↗NBCSPORTS
  22. 43Floating markers ↗BUOYS
  23. 44Wet floor? ↗SEABED
  24. 45"That's not good!" ↗YIKES
  25. 47Opera excerpt ↗ARIA
  26. 49Casual turndown ↗NAH
  27. 50Psychic's alleged ability, for short ↗ESP
  28. 53They're pulled to garner media attention, informally ↗PRSTUNTS
  29. 57Music's Run the Jewels or Rae Sremmurd, e.g. ↗RAPDUO
  30. 59Sudden shocks ↗JOLTS
  31. 60Spend money on "Wheel of Fortune" ... which won't help much for solving 17-, 21-, 36-, 41- and 53-Across! ↗BUYAVOWEL
  32. 62Upside-down frown ↗SMILE
  33. 63Exist ↗ARE
  34. 64Skip over, in speech ↗ELIDE
  35. 65Mimicked ↗APED
  36. 66Perfect score in Olympic diving ↗TEN
  37. 67Many bills in tip jars ↗ONES

Down 39

  1. 1The eyes of an emoticon, typically ↗COLON
  2. 2Make a case (for) ↗ARGUE
  3. 3Opposite of credit ↗DEBIT
  4. 4"And ___ bed" ↗SOTO
  5. 5Nothing ↗NIL
  6. 6Dr. Seuss' "And to Think That ___ It on Mulberry Street" ↗ISAW
  7. 74 on a par 3, e.g. ↗BOGEY
  8. 8Hard-to-clean-up sparkly stuff ↗GLITTER
  9. 9Like good omens ↗AUSPICIOUS
  10. 10College instructor, for short ↗PROF
  11. 11"To thine own ___ be true" ↗SELF
  12. 13Sudden, powerful gust of wind ↗SQUALL
  13. 16Used a stool, say ↗SAT
  14. 18Athleisure brand originally from Italy ↗FILA
  15. 22Homes on branches ↗NESTS
  16. 25___ Day (April observance) ↗ARBOR
  17. 27Climactic fight in a video game ↗BOSSBATTLE
  18. 280% filled ↗EMPTY
  19. 30Fun word to shout into a canyon ↗ECHO
  20. 31Fashion inits. in Manhattan ↗DKNY
  21. 32Those, en español ↗ESOS
  22. 33Puts on, as a jacket ↗DONS
  23. 34Yokel ↗RUBE
  24. 35Apex predator of the ocean ↗ORCA
  25. 37Marks, as a ballot square ↗XESIN
  26. 39"The Thinker" sculptor ↗RODIN
  27. 42Pored over ↗PERUSED
  28. 43Not act up ↗BEHAVE
  29. 46___ Sea (arm of the Arctic Ocean) ↗KARA
  30. 48Making a plate appearance ↗ATBAT
  31. 50Scientist Hubble with a telescope named after him ↗EDWIN
  32. 51Fuzzy-feeling leather ↗SUEDE
  33. 52Extremes of the earth ↗POLES
  34. 53Nightwear, informally ↗PJS
  35. 54Oblong tomato type ↗ROMA
  36. 55Lose traction ↗SLIP
  37. 56"OK, go ahead" ↗SURE
  38. 58Casual collared shirt ↗POLO
  39. 61Desire ↗YEN