Daily Puzzle Solution
NYT Crossword
Thursday, December 4, 2025
The New York Times crossword puzzle for Thursday, December 4, 2025 features 76 clues. Today's puzzle has an average answer length of 5.0 letters. The longest answer is "CARAMELDELITE".
Total Clues
76
Longest
CARAMELDELITE
Avg Length
5.0
Shortest
PAL
Featured Clue
"<i>Italian "darling" + Top-shelf</i>"
13 Letters
CARAMELDELITE
ALLComplete Solution List
Mate
3PAL
__ upon a midnight dreary ...
4ONCE
Actress Rooney
4MARA
Put into practice
3USE
Name of eight English kings
5HENRY
Sweetie
3BAE
Flexible
5AGILE
Stink
4ODOR
Onetime Volvo competitor
4SAAB
Multiheaded monster of myth
5HYDRA
Evil one
5SATAN
Prefix with tracking
3GEO
Veterinarian's interest
7ANIMALS
Org. with a fraud hotline
3IRS
Like kilts and some drapes
7PLEATED
Concession admission
5ILOSE
<i>Auto + Consumed</i>
10CARBONDATE
"Niiiiice!"
3OOH
Stop right there!
3INN
<i>Three squared + Slide</i>
11NINETIESKID
Hoopsters might hang on to them
4RIMS
Get the win over
4BEST
___ Luís, Brazilian city of 1.1+ million
3SAO
<i>Northern tribe + Toe trouble</i>
11CREEPINGOUT
<i>Italian "darling" + Top-shelf</i>
13CARAMELDELITE
Heard, but not seen
4ORAL
Traditional roofing material for a Cape Cod-style house
5CEDAR
Letters on Ivan Drago's tracksuit in "Rocky IV"
4CCCP
One who expects the apocalyptic worst
6DOOMER
Sharp fingernail, humorously
5TALON
Fruit so named for its wrinkly skin
4UGLI
Dances around
5HORAS
Curling current
4EDDY
Deep shade of green
4MOSS
Brand with "counting sheep" mascots
5SERTA
Precocious literary resident of the Plaza Hotel
6ELOISE
Aims to sell for, as a price
4ASKS
Posture
8CARRIAGE
Turns the volume way up
8CRANKSIT
Uncool bunch
5NERDS
Oranges, but not apples
6CITRUS
Eyebrow, essentially
3ARC
Buzzed, in a way
4HIGH
Last name in "The Last Jedi"
3REN
<i>Also + Frozen water</i>
10TOOKNOTICE
Follows through on one's R.S.V.P., say
5COMES
"___ is a revolt against fate": André Malraux
3ART
Cavuto of cable news
4NEIL
Toy with a scent trademarked by Hasbro
7PLAYDOH
Tourist hot spot in Uttar Pradesh
4AGRA
Secrete
4HIDE
Primitive
5EARLY
Noggin
5MELON
Clutch producer
3HEN
Go around
5ORBIT
Besmirches
4TARS
Speed equal to roughly 767 miles per hour
7MACHONE
Two-time Grammy-winning Easton
6SHEENA
Stein's contents
3ALE
Element of a certain belt
8ASTEROID
Cosmetics alternative to Essie
3OPI
A little rusty, perhaps
8CORRODED
Period of abstinence, for some
4LENT
Hawaii, often, on a map
5INSET
Swinton of 2024's "The Room Next Door"
5TILDA
Noted name in clowns
6RONALD
Mama's mama
4NANA
Jazz great Anita
4ODAY
Advanced degree
3NTH
When tripled, a 1962 Elvis movie title
5GIRLS
It'll find a way, for short
3GPS
Head of the design firm behind One Dallas Center
5IMPEI
Falsify, as a photo
6DOCTOR
Troupe for troops, in brief
3USO
Input on an alcohol retailer's website
3AGE
Greenhorn
3CUB