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NYT Crossword
Sunday, December 7, 2025

The New York Times crossword puzzle for Sunday, December 7, 2025 features 140 clues. Today's puzzle has an average answer length of 5.3 letters. The longest answer is "MOTIONDETECTOR".

Total Clues

140

Longest

MOTIONDETECTOR

Avg Length

5.3

Shortest

NNE

Featured Clue

"<i>Sir Isaac Newton?</i>"

14 Letters

MOTIONDETECTOR

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Come out on top

Suffix with hypn-

Pittsburgh-to-Buffalo dir.

Gives a thumbs-up

A "bear of very little brain"

<i>John James Audubon?</i>

Trees commonly confused with birches

TV tavern visited by Mayor Quimby

Lab provisions?

<i>Sir Isaac Newton?</i>

14MOTIONDETECTOR

<i>Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison?</i>

Cantankerous captain of fiction

Stumble or lurch

New York university based in Manhattan

Summer camper's conveyance

Bit of letter-shaped hardware

<i>Sir Edmund Hillary?</i>

<i>Gregor Mendel?</i>

14SEEDYCHARACTER

Oui : non :: ja : ___

It's often rapped but never spoken

<i>Samuel Morse?</i>

Outfit that may have a hood

Lake that's home to the world's largest freshwater island

Victorian-era prescription for melancholy

Like the Red Sea after a visit from Moses

Dictionary tag: Abbr.

Rain on your wedding day, perhaps

Sister to Lex Luthor

Harper Valley ___ (1968 hit)

Emmy-winning actor Ray

They'll make it up to you

Kofi ___, former secretary general of the United Nations

Like beds on lazy Saturdays

With love, musically

Basic tenet of improv

<i>Orville and Wilbur Wright?</i>

<i>Henry Ford?</i>

A urinal, according to Duchamp

Deposit that might gather interest?

Food and water, e.g.

Rock climber's handhold

Gone to great lengths

Slim margin of victory

The duck in "Peter and the Wolf"

Part of a wooden bench

Trips around the sun

Unexpected endings

Michigan in Chicago: Abbr.

Sets of points, in math

Starter, perhaps

Where one's trip begins

Arabic greeting and farewell

Give a darn, again?

<i>Galileo Galilei?</i>

Solos at a party, say

College located in Cedar Rapids

<i>Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung?</i>

Future birthplace of Captain Kirk

Broadcast to squad cars, in brief

That sounds awful

In other words, in other words

Grant a mortgage, say

Amelia ___, maid of children's literature

"Golly, that's cool!"

Bit of letter-shaped hardware

Musical tool popularized by T-Pain

Jeepers creepers!

One chain X one furlong

And giving __, up the chimney he rose

One of the Fab Four

Is felt strongly

Pest whose name is a homophone for what you might do when you see it

Word after you or wanna

Firmly establishes

Crazy Horse and fellow tribespeople

Personification of England, Scotland and Wales

"Vous ___ ici" (French map phrase)

Canned fuel used in making fondue

Jelly you wouldn't pair with peanut butter

Its showers bring flowers: Abbr.

Farm-share program, for short

Arrival announcement

Oldest independent state in the Arab world

McFlurry flavor

Indian flatbread

Actress Rowlands

Sonic the Hedgehog company

Feodor I, for one

Made more enticing

French fashion inits.

Self-proclaimed "Rap God"

Like professional publications

Alter, as a T-shirt for a Phish concert, say

Something for canines to sink their canines into

Like many Russian housing blocks

___ Lannister, "Game of Thrones" queen

Kind of nurse or suit

Wish one could take back

She-shed's counterpart

Like some nails found in a drugstore

Not just theoretical

Catherine of "Best in Show" and "A Mighty Wind"

Like many couples at theaters

Drab color for una casa

Morning times, in brief

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