NYT CROSSWORD • SUNDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2025

NYT Crossword Answers Dec 7, 2025

Complete answer list for the December 7, 2025 New York Times Crossword. Across and Down, every clue, every answer — plus the full grid below.

By Kate JensenEdited by Will ShortzGrid 21×21140 clues

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Across 67

  1. 1Fancy dos ↗COIFS
  2. 6"Count me out" ↗IPASS
  3. 11Cantankerous captain of fiction ↗AHAB
  4. 15Lab provisions? ↗ALPO
  5. 19Bit of letter-shaped hardware ↗UBOLT
  6. 20Attended ↗WASAT
  7. 21New York university based in Manhattan ↗PACE
  8. 22A "bear of very little brain" ↗POOH
  9. 23Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison? ↗POWERCOUPLE
  10. 25John James Audubon? ↗BIRDBRAIN
  11. 27Victorian-era prescription for melancholy ↗SEAAIR
  12. 28They'll make it up to you ↗LIARS
  13. 30Stumble or lurch ↗REEL
  14. 31Pittsburgh-to-Buffalo dir. ↗NNE
  15. 32Dictionary tag: Abbr. ↗VAR
  16. 34Summer camper's conveyance ↗CANOE
  17. 36Emmy-winning actor Ray ↗LIOTTA
  18. 38Samuel Morse? ↗CABLEGUY
  19. 43Sir Edmund Hillary? ↗MOUNTAINGOAT
  20. 46Lake that's home to the world's largest freshwater island ↗HURON
  21. 47Bit of cacao ↗NIB
  22. 49Come out on top ↗PREVAIL
  23. 50Suffix with hypn- ↗OTIC
  24. 51Trees commonly confused with birches ↗ASPENS
  25. 54Deposit that might gather interest? ↗ORE
  26. 55Cheeky ↗SASSY
  27. 59Sir Isaac Newton? ↗MOTIONDETECTOR
  28. 62Cattle calls ↗LOWS
  29. 63"Harper Valley ___" (1968 hit) ↗PTA
  30. 64TV tavern visited by Mayor Quimby ↗MOES
  31. 65Shoe covering ↗GAITER
  32. 67It's often rapped but never spoken ↗GAVEL
  33. 68Like beds on lazy Saturdays ↗UNMADE
  34. 70Cuts (back) ↗PARES
  35. 71Outfit that may have a hood ↗ONESIE
  36. 73Kofi ___, former secretary general of the United Nations ↗ANNAN
  37. 74Like the Red Sea after a visit from Moses ↗PARTED
  38. 76Rain on your wedding day, perhaps ↗OMEN
  39. 77… ↗ETC
  40. 79Oui : non :: ja : ___ ↗NEIN
  41. 80Gregor Mendel? ↗SEEDYCHARACTER
  42. 83Hint ↗TRACE
  43. 85Gives a thumbs up ↗OKS
  44. 86Basic tenet of improv ↗YESAND
  45. 87Sister to Lex Luthor ↗LENA
  46. 88With love, musically ↗AMOROSO
  47. 91A urinal, according to Duchamp ↗ART
  48. 92Remedies ↗CURES
  49. 93Henry Ford? ↗DRIVINGFORCE
  50. 98Orville and Wilbur Wright? ↗AIRHEADS
  51. 100Give a darn, again? ↗REMEND
  52. 101Food and water, e.g. ↗NEEDS
  53. 103College located in Cedar Rapids ↗COE
  54. 104"That sounds awful!" ↗UGH
  55. 105Noble title ↗EARL
  56. 108Bit of letter-shaped hardware ↗ORING
  57. 110Unexpected endings ↗TWISTS
  58. 115Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung? ↗DREAMTEAM
  59. 118Galileo Galilei? ↗STARWITNESS
  60. 120Genesis ↗GERM
  61. 121Roof overhang ↗EAVE
  62. 122Weirdly spooky ↗EERIE
  63. 123Church staple ↗ORGAN
  64. 124"Vous ___ ici" (French map phrase) ↗ETES
  65. 125Part of a wooden bench ↗SLAT
  66. 126"In other words," in other words ↗IDEST
  67. 127Trips around the sun ↗YEARS

Down 73

  1. 1Solos at a party, say ↗CUPS
  2. 2The duck in "Peter and the Wolf" ↗OBOE
  3. 3Future birthplace of Captain Kirk ↗IOWA
  4. 4Pest whose name is a homophone for what you might do when you see it ↗FLEA
  5. 5Gone to great lengths ↗STRIVEN
  6. 6___ Jima ↗IWO
  7. 7One of the Fab Four ↗PAUL
  8. 8Jelly you wouldn't pair with peanut butter ↗ASPIC
  9. 9Arabic greeting and farewell ↗SALAAM
  10. 10Canned fuel used in making fondue ↗STERNO
  11. 11Broadcast to squad cars, in brief ↗APB
  12. 12Slim margin of victory ↗HAIR
  13. 13One chain x one furlong ↗ACRE
  14. 14Amelia ___, maid of children's literature ↗BEDELIA
  15. 15Its showers bring flowers: Abbr. ↗APR
  16. 16Grant a mortgage, say ↗LOANTO
  17. 17Where one's trip begins ↗POINTA
  18. 18"Golly, that's cool!" ↗OHNEAT
  19. 24Rock climber's handhold ↗CRAG
  20. 26Russian crepes ↗BLINIS
  21. 29Starter, perhaps ↗SOUP
  22. 33Is felt strongly ↗RUNSDEEP
  23. 35Firmly establishes ↗ENROOTS
  24. 37Crazy Horse and fellow tribespeople ↗OGLALAS
  25. 38Bite down hard ↗CHOMP
  26. 39Musical tool popularized by T-Pain ↗AUTOTUNER
  27. 40Personification of England, Scotland and Wales ↗BRITANNIA
  28. 41Sets of points, in math ↗LOCI
  29. 42"Jeepers creepers!" ↗YIPES
  30. 44Pied-à-___ ↗TERRE
  31. 45Michigan, in Chicago: Abbr. ↗AVE
  32. 48Word after you or wanna ↗BET
  33. 51"And giving ___, up the chimney he rose" ↗ANOD
  34. 52Nullify ↗NEGATE
  35. 53___-cat ↗SCAREDY
  36. 56Like many Russian housing blocks ↗SOVIETERA
  37. 57Made more enticing ↗SWEETENED
  38. 58French fashion inits. ↗YSL
  39. 60Oldest independent state in the Arab world ↗OMAN
  40. 61Alter, as a T-shirt for a Phish concert, say ↗TIEDYE
  41. 66Idealist ↗ROMANTIC
  42. 67Actress Rowlands ↗GENA
  43. 69She-shed's counterpart ↗MANCAVE
  44. 70Like some nails found in a drugstore ↗PRESSON
  45. 72Geek (out) ↗NERD
  46. 73Drone or queen ↗ANT
  47. 75Want from ↗ASKOF
  48. 76Catherine of "Best in Show" and "A Mighty Wind" ↗OHARA
  49. 78Uncouth ↗CRASS
  50. 81Farm-share program, for short ↗CSA
  51. 82Hint ↗CLUE
  52. 84Self-proclaimed "Rap God" ↗EMINEM
  53. 85___ chart ↗ORG
  54. 89Like many couples at theaters ↗ONDATES
  55. 90McFlurry flavor ↗OREO
  56. 92Something for canines to sink their canines into ↗CHEWTOY
  57. 93Toil ↗DRUDGE
  58. 94Wish one could take back ↗REGRET
  59. 95Arrival announcement ↗IMHERE
  60. 96___ Lannister, "Game of Thrones" queen ↗CERSEI
  61. 97Like professional publications ↗EDITED
  62. 99Indian flatbread ↗ROTI
  63. 102Trap ↗SNARE
  64. 106Not just theoretical ↗REAL
  65. 107It runs hot ↗LAVA
  66. 109Drab color for una casa ↗GRIS
  67. 111Concerning ↗INRE
  68. 112Sonic the Hedgehog company ↗SEGA
  69. 113Feodor I, for one ↗TSAR
  70. 114Taxpayer IDs ↗SSNS
  71. 116Morning times, in brief ↗AMS
  72. 117Encountered ↗MET
  73. 119Kind of nurse or suit ↗WET