Daily Puzzle Solution
NYT Crossword
Wednesday, December 3, 2025
The New York Times crossword puzzle for Wednesday, December 3, 2025 features 78 clues. Today's puzzle has an average answer length of 4.8 letters. The longest answer is "FORMILESICANSEE".
Total Clues
78
Longest
FORMILESICANSEE
Avg Length
4.8
Shortest
YAK
Featured Clue
"1967 hit by the Who, per 68-Across"
15 Letters
FORMILESICANSEE
ALLComplete Solution List
Plant-based spread
4OLEO
Hospital count
4BEDS
Young fellows
4LADS
Long-haired bovine
3YAK
Surrounded by
4AMID
Remain unresolved
4PEND
Take this job and shove it!
5IQUIT
Not too many
4SOME
Elevated
5LOFTY
Kind of strategy
4EXIT
Echo speaker
5ALEXA
Solid-rock connector
3ASA
Linseed oil source
4FLAX
Midmonth time
4IDES
College football rival of Michigan, for short
3OSU
1967 hit by the Who, per 68-Across
15FORMILESICANSEE
Lack of connectivity
3GAP
Award with a "Best New American Theater Work" category
4OBIE
Animal in more than 70 Bugs Bunny titles
4HARE
Forehead marker at the start of Lent
3ASH
Language in which "maunga roa" means "long mountain"
5MAORI
Currency of Yemen
4RIAL
One of a trio encountered by Ricitos de Oro
3OSO
Unimpressive rating
4POOR
Tied up, as hay
5BALED
Jeter in Cooperstown
5DEREK
1973 Bob Marley song covered by Eric Clapton, per 68-Across
15THESHERIFFISHOT
Words after "happily ever after"
6THEEND
Novelist Patchett
3ANN
Bit of ink
3TAT
Removes forcibly
6EJECTS
Egyptian sun deity
4ATEN
2008 hit by Katy Perry, per 68-Across
12AGIRLIKISSED
Greeting among the lei community?
5ALOHA
1978 song by Gloria Gaynor, per 68-Across
12SURVIVEIWILL
Cause for a miner celebration?
4LODE
Long-running procedural franchise
3CSI
TV's Griffith, Kaufman or Samberg
4ANDY
Jean-Paul Sartre's "___ Chemins de la Liberté"
3LES
Wise counselor of sci-fi who might not be great at karaoke?
4YODA
Anabolic steroids, e.g., informally
4PEDS
Like Picard vis-à-vis Kirk
6BALDER
Obama-era immigration program, informally
4DACA
Largest company headquartered in Oregon
4NIKE
Lead-in to pop or lit
4BRIT
Store with iconic blue totes
4IKEA
Drink that may come in a yard
3ALE
Like certain thoughts and pockets
4DEEP
Shampoo often in a green bottle
5PRELL
Following bad advice
9MISGUIDED
Slavonic Dances composer
6DVORAK
Cold call?
5ACHOO
Slithering swimmer
3EEL
Got out of a chair
5STOOD
Stole
6SWIPED
Ad ___ per aspera (motto of Kansas)
5ASTRA
Advice
5INPUT
Razor brand
4ATRA
Superlatively contemptible
6VILEST
Home to the Tamiami Trail: Abbr.
3FLA
Band that helped popularize "pay-what-you-want" pricing with their album "In Rainbows"
9RADIOHEAD
Drug featured in "How to Change Your Mind"
3LSD
Blue area on a Scottish map
4LOCH
Online commentary site
4BLOG
Yours, in French
4ATOI
Guarded area for many athletes
4SHIN
Aphrodite's second letter
3PHI
Philly b-ball squad
6SIXERS
Google app with the slogan "Search what you see"
4LENS
Sneakily clever
3SLY
18-wheeler
4SEMI
Letters of indebtedness
3IOU
Golden-tan dog of multiple films
5BENJI
Think that it's appropriate
6SEEFIT
Omsk's region
7SIBERIA
Day before taking the SAT: Abbr.
3FRI
Modern country that includes most of ancient Mesopotamia
4IRAQ
Award with a "Best Record-Breaking Performance" category
4ESPY