Daily Puzzle Solution
LA Times Crossword
Monday, December 22, 2025
The Los Angeles Times crossword puzzle for Monday, December 22, 2025 features 78 clues. Today's puzzle has an average answer length of 4.8 letters. The longest answer is "eatyourheartout".
Total Clues
78
Longest
eatyourheartout
Avg Length
4.8
Shortest
PEW
ALLComplete Solution List
Chapel bench
3PEW
Poker buy-ins
5ANTES
Tightly closed
4SHUT
Work hard for
4EARN
Jackie on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
4CHAN
Crossword hint
4CLUE
Guys and Dolls composer Frank
7LOESSER
Prefix with gram
4SONO
Hundred Acre Wood joey
3ROO
Roman robes
5TOGAS
Med. plan option
3HMO
Follow-up film
6SEQUEL
Rutger of "Blade Runner"
5HAUER
Selling point
5ASSET
Mardi Gras, for one (abbr.)
3TUE
Difficult situation
8QUANDARY
Devil Inside band
4INXS
MA, ME, MI, and MO, but not MU
3STS
Been ___, done that
5THERE
Smile joyously
4BEAM
Blasting letters
3TNT
Middle daughter of King Lear
5REGAN
___ vera gel
4ALOE
Feminine Spanish pronoun
4ELLA
Finds a purpose for
4USES
Baker's sheetful
5BATCH
Ring-shaped island.
5ATOLL
Ocean State sch.
3URI
Chicken ___ king
3ALA
...as ___ on TV
4SEEN
Welcome to Maui!
5ALOHA
The Simpsons creator Groening
4MATT
Taunting remark
15eatyourheartout
In large quantities
12handoverfist
Antarctic body of water with penguin rookeries
7rosssea
"Othello" frenemy
4iago
Handmade backyard nest box, and an apt description of 18-, 23-, 37-, and 50-Across
9birdhouse
Blender setting for pumpkin pie filling
5puree
Root beer brand owned by Coca-Cola
5barqs
Rather often
9quitealot
Letter-shaped pipe joints
4ells
__ of burden: plow-pulling animals
6beasts
NHL legend known as "The Great One"
12waynegretzky
Final tally
3SUM
Hollowed out
5CORED
Cropped up
5AROSE
FDR energy project
3TVA
At __, soldier!
4EASE
Indigenous Alaskan
5ALEUT
Name on a former lake in Central Asia
4aral
Ames' locale
4IOWA
Manhattan Project scientist Harold
4UREY
Well, maybe
6IGUESS
Big birds of Australia
4EMUS
Alpine "song"
5YODEL
Saintly glow
4HALO
Learning by repetition
4ROTE
Multicolored horse
4ROAN
Airport pickup figs.
4ETAS
Escape in a hurry
4FLEE
Vietnamese soup
3PHO
Sleeve
3ARM
All the ___ (very popular)
4RAGE
Go on, git!
4SHOO
Genuflect
5KNEEL
Merit badge holder
4SASH
School basics
4ABCS
Masked vigilante whose name is Spanish for "fox"
5zorro
Brings forward for display
8trotsout
Country between Finland and Norway
6sweden
Dirt pie cookie
4oreo
English county south of Suffolk
5essex
Factual
4TRUE
Audit firm pro
3CPA
Salty drop
4TEAR
French yes
3OUI
Top Gun org.
3USN
Aswan's river
4NILE
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