NYT Crossword December 21, 2025 Answers

Across

1A Some Arctic transports 9 10A S.E.C. football powerhouse, for short 4 14A 1950s hangout with a jukebox 8 20A Game piece made of four squares 9 21A "The Kite Runner" protagonist 4 22A Skulks 6 23A Joins gradually 9 24A "Doggone it!" 4 25A Treatment 6 26A Blue colorant obtained from the indigo plant 4 27A Wrangler alternative 3 28A Brightly colored Mediterranean flowers 8 30A Rap's Run-___ 3 31A Course catalog? 4 32A When Aries transitions to Taurus 5 34A Sweetly, on scores 5 35A "I'll pass" 3 36A Input of certain mining 4 38A Montalbán who played Khan in "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan" 7 40A Timer setting 4 42A Areas of influence 7 45A Mental health org. 3 46A Fraudulently make seem like 9 48A Covers completely 5 49A Wyoming peak 5 51A Like a corporation with a new logo, perhaps 9 54A Comment from someone caught in the rain 8 56A Yellow avenue in Monopoly 7 58A A bit off, say 6 59A Hyatt alternative 4 60A Hard-boiled genre 4 62A TheForce.net for "Star Wars," for example 7 64A Dark side 3 65A Former big name in browsers 8 67A U.F.O.-watching org. 4 68A By way of, informally 4 70A Kemo ___ (the Lone Ranger) 4 71A Sailor's patron 6 72A Fleetwood Mac hit named for a Celtic goddess 8 76A Daddy 3 79A Eponymous British financier James ___ 7 81A By saying this you mean well 4 82A Wrap seller 4 83A Adopted, as a pet 6 85A Wasn't folded in a suitcase, say 7 87A Developed, as baby teeth 6 89A Sci-fi miniaturizer 9 91A Emanations 5 93A Boldly face 5 94A Kind of cipher in which A becomes B, B becomes C, e.g. 6 95A Guardians, on a scoreboard 3 96A Bit of birdspeak 7 98A Damp, mildewy quality 4 99A They hold water 7 102A Silence 4 103A Lying faceup 6 104A ___ Park, Calif. 5 105A Air 5 107A Disney subsidiary 4 111A A little help? 3 112A Evaded, as a sensitive issue 12 114A Some pings, in brief 3 115A "Fie on ___!" (Shakespearean cry) 4 116A Skips over 6 118A Few and far between 4 119A Regulars at parks with ramps, informally 9 121A Reply after having one's memory jogged 6 122A Some time ago 4 123A "What's done is done!" 9 124A Stick (to) 6 125A Garden interloper 4 126A Church parts crossing naves 9

Down

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