Daily Puzzle Solution
NYT Crossword
Monday, December 8, 2025
The New York Times crossword puzzle for Monday, December 8, 2025 features 77 clues. Today's puzzle has an average answer length of 4.7 letters. The longest answer is "JACKSONHOLE".
Total Clues
77
Longest
JACKSONHOLE
Avg Length
4.7
Shortest
ALI
Featured Clue
"Wyoming skiing mecca"
11 Letters
JACKSONHOLE
ALLComplete Solution List
Comedian Wong
3ALI
Top poker cards
4ACES
Starting point
6ORIGIN
Let me clarify
6IMEANT
Computer image
4SCAN
Medieval stringed instruments
5LUTES
Get outta here!
4SCAT
Sir's counterpart
5MADAM
Monarch at Versailles
3ROI
Young chap
3LAD
Run out of clothes?
6STREAK
___, meenie, miney, mo
5EENIE
Eleventh-hour
9LASTDITCH
Religious ceremonies
5RITES
Crunchy sandwich, for short
3BLT
Magic charms
5MOJOS
Camp shelter
4TENT
Motor City hoopster
6PISTON
The eyes may have it
7MASCARA
Genesis boat
3ARK
Sean of "The Lord of the Rings"
5ASTIN
Dessert with icing
4CAKE
Major constellation?
4URSA
Scuba gear
4TANK
Interior design
5DECOR
Not together
5APART
Gesture suggesting "I see what you did there"
6SLYNOD
Folded Mexican snack
4TACO
Wyoming skiing mecca
11JACKSONHOLE
Half of a train track
4RAIL
Corp. exec overseeing engineers, say
3CTO
"Enola Holmes" actress ___ Bobby Brown
6MILLIE
End successfully
11WORKOUTWELL
Remnants of a volcanic spew
5ASHES
Like an envelope that's ready to be sent
6SEALED
"___ is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings": Robert Benchley
5OPERA
Gallery-filled Big Apple neighborhood
4SOHO
"That's boring!"
5HOHUM
Hardest to find
6RAREST
Potatoes, in Indian cooking
4ALOO
Female pig
3SOW
Gold, in Spanish
3ORO
Golfer's target ... or prize
3CUP
Chicken ___ king
3ALA
Stuff on an artist's palette
8OILPAINT
Bicycle shorts material
5LYCRA
Artificial colorant
3DYE
Grand achievement in baseball or tennis
4SLAM
ID checkers at an airport
3TSA
Acorn droppers
4OAKS
Mosaic pieces
5TILES
Nonspecific amount
4SOME
Film special effects, for short
3CGI
What empty stomachs do
5GROWL
That's the truth
5NOLIE
Biblical brother of Jacob
4ESAU
Actor Sam of "Jurassic Park"
5NEILL
There ___ enough hours in the day
5ARENT
Author Fleming
3IAN
No longer available
5TAKEN
In ___ of
4LIEU
Pet that stores food in cheek pouches
7HAMSTER
Covering over a wound
4SCAB
Money across the Atlantic
4EURO
From ___ to dusk
4DAWN
Iraqis and Iranians
6ASIANS
After-hours source of $$$
3ATM
Toy on a string that's not a kite
4YOYO
Center of a stone fruit
9CHERRYPIT
Lost moisture
8DRIEDOUT
Pause in the action
4LULL
Early Chinese dynasty
3WEI
Salt, in Paris
3SEL
Hwy.
3RTE
Psychedelic tab
3LSD
Messages on which you might be cc'd
6EMAILS
"It's gonna ___ you!"
4COST