NYT CROSSWORD • MONDAY, DECEMBER 8, 2025

NYT Crossword Answers Dec 8, 2025

Complete answer list for the December 8, 2025 New York Times Crossword. Across and Down, every clue, every answer — plus the full grid below.

By Dan Kammann and Zhouqin BurnikelEdited by Will ShortzGrid 15×1578 clues

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Across 39

  1. 1Sir's counterpart ↗MADAM
  2. 6Folded Mexican snack ↗TACO
  3. 10Young chap ↗LAD
  4. 13"___ is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings": Robert Benchley ↗OPERA
  5. 14Sean of "The Lord of the Rings" ↗ASTIN
  6. 16Chicken ___ king ↗ALA
  7. 17Wyoming skiing mecca ↗JACKSONHOLE
  8. 19Female pig ↗SOW
  9. 20Gold, in Spanish ↗ORO
  10. 21Dessert with icing ↗CAKE
  11. 22Motor City hoopster ↗PISTON
  12. 24Run out of clothes? ↗STREAK
  13. 26Like an envelope that's ready to be sent ↗SEALED
  14. 28___ Major (constellation) ↗URSA
  15. 30"Enola Holmes" actress ___ Bobby Brown ↗MILLIE
  16. 32Bicycle shorts material ↗LYCRA
  17. 35Computer image ↗SCAN
  18. 37ID checkers at an airport ↗TSA
  19. 39Gallery-filled Big Apple neighborhood ↗SOHO
  20. 40Finger or toe … or, when read as two words, what you can do to the ends of 17- and 62-Across and 10- and 34-Down ↗DIGIT
  21. 41"Get outta here!" ↗SCAT
  22. 42Artificial colorant ↗DYE
  23. 43Half of a train track ↗RAIL
  24. 44"That's boring!" ↗HOHUM
  25. 45Starting point ↗ORIGIN
  26. 48Grand ___ (achievement in baseball or tennis) ↗SLAM
  27. 50Hardest to find ↗RAREST
  28. 52"Let me clarify ..." ↗IMEANT
  29. 56Gesture suggesting "I see what you did there" ↗SLYNOD
  30. 58Top poker cards ↗ACES
  31. 60Monarch at Versailles ↗ROI
  32. 61Golfer's target ... or prize ↗CUP
  33. 62End successfully ↗WORKOUTWELL
  34. 65Comedian Wong ↗ALI
  35. 66Medieval stringed instruments ↗LUTES
  36. 67"___, meenie, miney, mo" ↗EENIE
  37. 68Crunchy sandwich, for short ↗BLT
  38. 69Camp shelter ↗TENT
  39. 70Religious ceremonies ↗RITES

Down 39

  1. 1Magic charms ↗MOJOS
  2. 2Not together ↗APART
  3. 3Interior design ↗DECOR
  4. 4Genesis boat ↗ARK
  5. 5The eyes may have it ↗MASCARA
  6. 6Scuba gear ↗TANK
  7. 7Remnants of a volcanic spew ↗ASHES
  8. 8Corp. exec overseeing engineers, say ↗CTO
  9. 9Stuff on an artist's palette ↗OILPAINT
  10. 10Eleventh-hour ↗LASTDITCH
  11. 11Potatoes, in Indian cooking ↗ALOO
  12. 12From ___ to dusk ↗DAWN
  13. 15Actor Sam of "Jurassic Park" ↗NEILL
  14. 18Acorn droppers ↗OAKS
  15. 23Salt, in Paris ↗SEL
  16. 25Money across the Atlantic ↗EURO
  17. 27Messages on which you might be cc'd ↗EMAILS
  18. 29Iraqis and Iranians ↗ASIANS
  19. 31Biblical brother of Jacob ↗ESAU
  20. 32Psychedelic tab ↗LSD
  21. 33Toy on a string that's not a kite ↗YOYO
  22. 34Center of a stone fruit ↗CHERRYPIT
  23. 36Film special effects, for short ↗CGI
  24. 38After-hours source of $$$ ↗ATM
  25. 40Lost moisture ↗DRIEDOUT
  26. 41Nonspecific amount ↗SOME
  27. 44Pet that stores food in cheek pouches ↗HAMSTER
  28. 46Author Fleming ↗IAN
  29. 47What empty stomachs do ↗GROWL
  30. 49In ___ of ↗LIEU
  31. 51No longer available ↗TAKEN
  32. 53"There ___ enough hours in the day" ↗ARENT
  33. 54"That's the truth!" ↗NOLIE
  34. 55Mosaic pieces ↗TILES
  35. 56Covering over a wound ↗SCAB
  36. 57Pause in the action ↗LULL
  37. 59"It's gonna ___ you!" ↗COST
  38. 63Hwy. ↗RTE
  39. 64Early Chinese dynasty ↗WEI