Sunday, December 21, 2025 - New York Times Crossword Answers!

Below you will find all New York Times Crossword Answers for Sunday, December 21, 2025

All Across Clues and Answers:

Across 1 : Some Arctic transports
Across 10 : S.E.C. football powerhouse, for short
Across 14 : 1950s hangout with a jukebox
Across 20 : Game piece made of four squares
Across 21 : The Kite Runner protagonist
Across 22 : Skulks
Across 23 : Joins gradually
Across 24 : Doggone it!
Across 25 : Treatment
Across 26 : Blue colorant obtained from the indigo plant
Across 27 : Wrangler alternative
Across 28 : Brightly colored Mediterranean flowers
Across 30 : Rap's Run-___
Across 31 : Course catalog?
Across 32 : When Aries transitions to Taurus
Across 34 : Sweetly, on scores
Across 35 : I'll pass
Across 36 : Input of certain mining
Across 38 : Montalbán who played Khan in Star Trek II
Across 40 : Timer setting
Across 42 : Areas of influence
Across 45 : Mental health org.
Across 46 : Fraudulently make seem like
Across 48 : Covers completely
Across 49 : Wyoming peak
Across 51 : Like a corporation with a new logo, perhaps
Across 54 : Comment from someone caught in the rain
Across 56 : Yellow avenue in Monopoly
Across 58 : A bit off, say
Across 59 : Hyatt alternative
Across 60 : Hard-boiled genre
Across 62 : TheForce.net for Star Wars, for example
Across 64 : Dark side
Across 65 : Former big name in browsers
Across 67 : U.F.O.-watching org.
Across 68 : By way of, informally
Across 70 : Kemo ___ (the Lone Ranger)
Across 71 : Sailor's patron
Across 72 : Fleetwood Mac hit named for a Celtic goddess
Across 76 : Daddy
Across 79 : Eponymous British financier James ___
Across 81 : By saying this you mean well
Across 82 : Wrap seller
Across 83 : Adopted, as a pet
Across 85 : Wasn't folded in a suitcase, say
Across 87 : Developed, as baby teeth
Across 89 : Sci-fi miniaturizer
Across 91 : Emanations
Across 93 : Boldly face
Across 94 : Kind of cipher in which A becomes B, B becomes C, e.g.
Across 95 : Guardians, on a scoreboard
Across 96 : Bit of birdspeak
Across 98 : Damp, mildewy quality
Across 99 : They hold water
Across 102 : Silence
Across 103 : Lying faceup
Across 104 : ___ Park, Calif.
Across 105 : Air
Across 107 : Disney subsidiary
Across 111 : A little help?
Across 112 : Evaded, as a sensitive issue
Across 114 : Some pings, in brief
Across 115 : Fie on ___! (Shakespearean cry)
Across 116 : Skips over
Across 118 : Few and far between
Across 119 : Regulars at parks with ramps, informally
Across 121 : Reply after having one's memory jogged
Across 122 : Some time ago
Across 123 : What's done is done!
Across 124 : Stick (to)
Across 125 : Garden interloper
Across 126 : Church parts crossing naves

All Down Clues and Answers:

Down 1 : Make furious
Down 2 : The Family Circus cartoonist Bil ___
Down 3 : Tennis line judge's ruling
Down 4 : Duke Ellington classic with the lyric That was my heart serenading you
Down 5 : West side of L.A.?
Down 6 : Is there still time for me to join you?
Down 7 : 51 to the hour
Down 8 : Stage direction
Down 9 : Phillipa of Broadway
Down 10 : Grammy winner Erykah
Down 11 : ___ Gorman, The Hill We Climb poet
Down 12 : Copy
Down 13 : Iced-tea-and-lemonade refreshments
Down 14 : Spending romp
Down 15 : Output of certain mining
Down 16 : Counterpart of a sub
Down 17 : Fast start?
Down 18 : Father, familiarly
Down 19 : Mentally overpower, with out
Down 28 : Like most moccasins
Down 29 : Great Dane of cartoons, informally
Down 33 : More livid
Down 37 : Keister, in Leicester
Down 39 : 2015 chart-topping hit for the Weeknd
Down 40 : Symbolic for its time
Down 41 : Shoe company with an iconic checkerboard design
Down 42 : Descendant
Down 43 : Apple
Down 44 : Is without
Down 47 : Rabid in appearance
Down 50 : Woman's nickname that sounds like two letters
Down 51 : Rice-A-___
Down 52 : Borderlands director ___ Roth
Down 53 : Hiding place
Down 55 : Gene pools?
Down 57 : Org. with its own alphabet
Down 61 : Abbr. not found on most smartphones
Down 63 : Aren't ___ lucky one?!
Down 66 : It has a lot of secretaries
Down 67 : Shirt collar stiffener
Down 69 : Where to find six presents in this puzzle?
Down 71 : Knock 'em dead
Down 72 : Coolidge who sang the theme for Octopussy
Down 73 : Just getting started with
Down 74 : Green shade
Down 75 : What Joe Montana was in the '80s
Down 76 : A TD scores six of these
Down 77 : Fancy, that!
Down 78 : Prickly denizen of coral reefs
Down 80 : Famed lawyer in the 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial
Down 81 : Most minimal
Down 84 : Some Korean exports
Down 86 : Calmed deceptively
Down 88 : Baseball slugger's stat
Down 90 : Bird used to deliver messages on Game of Thrones
Down 92 : Blueprints
Down 97 : Author Zora Neale ___
Down 98 : Noodled on, with over
Down 100 : Girlfriend in Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Down 101 : Informant
Down 103 : Ta-ta!
Down 104 : Tricky pool shot
Down 106 : Someone enjoying a walk in the park
Down 108 : Mentally with it
Down 109 : ___ four
Down 110 : Fits one inside the other
Down 112 : Porcine
Down 113 : Essential
Down 117 : It might be good for a change
Down 119 : One who knows the drill?
Down 120 : Teslas, e.g., for short

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