NYT Crossword December 22, 2025 Answers

Across

1A Deep sleeps 5 6A High-speed Amtrak train 5 11A Word with punching or sleeping 3 14A One of a battery's poles 5 15A Older but ___ 5 16A Under the weather 3 17A Saxophone, trumpet, piano and bass, perhaps 11 19A Day-___ paint 3 20A "Garfield" dog 4 21A "It's freezing!" 3 22A Typical "Survivor" locales 5 24A Rapper ___ Uzi Vert 3 25A Yoda and Obi-Wan Kenobi, for two 11 28A Fish that may have an electric charge 3 29A Stammering sounds 3 30A Indignation 7 31A What each U.S. senator represents 5 33A Raggedy ___ 3 34A Breyers competitor 4 35A Some exams allow them 9 39A Cops, slangily 4 42A Rode the bench 3 43A Yoga pose 5 47A Enjoying great success 7 49A What electric cars don't use 3 51A Like a 49-Across gauge that's near "Empty" 3 52A Overly fussy 11 54A Bit of forensic evidence 3 55A Pink ___ (rock band) 5 56A Singer DiFranco 3 57A Bill 4 58A Mideast export 3 59A Cheat … or a punny hint to the four sets of circled letters 11 63A French "a" 3 64A Hearing-related 5 65A Playwright Chekhov 5 66A Kind of lamp that's energy-efficient 3 67A Easily irritated 5 68A Romeo and Juliet, agewise 5

Down

1D Persuades with flattery 7 2D Doing keto, perhaps 7 3D Creator of Firefox and Thunderbird 7 4D Woodworking tool 4 5D Orderly arrangement: Abbr. 3 6D Oscars and Grammys, e.g. 6 7D Wispy clouds 5 8D Approx. 3 9D Harper ___, author of "To Kill a Mockingbird" 3 10D Monet or Manet 6 11D Don't blow it! 7 12D Reaction to pollen, e.g. 7 13D Shiny coatings 7 18D Lyft competitor 4 23D Heart attack risk factor 6 25D Cherokee maker 4 26D "The kissing disease" 4 27D Em, to Dorothy 4 32D Foot, in baby talk 6 33D Word after fire or carpenter 3 36D Actor Morales 4 37D Drug agent, informally 4 38D "No sweat!" 4 39D Ball batted up and behind the catcher, say 7 40D Length of a pithy joke 7 41D Released from jail early 7 44D Pasta preference 7 45D Nine-sided figure 7 46D Stirs from sleep 7 48D Is over by 6 49D With a light touch 6 50D Suffix with problem 4 53D Gold standard 5 57D Scourge 4 60D Shade of color 3 61D Surgery sites, in brief 3 62D Beanie or bowler 3