Daily Puzzle Solution
NYT Crossword
Wednesday, December 10, 2025
The New York Times crossword puzzle for Wednesday, December 10, 2025 features 81 clues. Today's puzzle has an average answer length of 4.9 letters. The longest answer is "NATURERESERVES".
Total Clues
81
Longest
NATURERESERVES
Avg Length
4.9
Shortest
PEI
Featured Clue
"Protected lands for plants and animals"
14 Letters
NATURERESERVES
ALLComplete Solution List
Third-party holding
6ESCROW
J.F.K. Library architect
3PEI
Time piece?
3ERA
Red "Inside Out" character
5ANGER
Or ___ what?
4ELSE
Used to have
5OWNED
Verbal hesitations
3UHS
Thunderbolt wielder
4ZEUS
Bit of condensation
4BEAD
Longtime NASCAR sponsor
3STP
Like some boarding school attire
6PREPPY
__ been had!
4WEVE
OUT OF ORDER! 🚫🚫🚫 USE STAIRS UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE!
9ESCALATOR
Like voice mail messages, for example
11PRERECORDED
One who is acting?
4DOER
Type of flooded field
9RICEPADDY
Some pearls of wisdom
4SAWS
Familiar with the tricks of
4ONTO
___ Chinmoy, 20th-century Indian spiritual leader
3SRI
Diocese assemblies
6SYNODS
Healthier version of a breakfast side dish
11VEGGIEBACON
City NE of Olympia
6TACOMA
Final boss in the game God of War
4ARES
Green dispensaries?
4ATMS
Software accessed via an online browser
6WEBAPP
Game-tying goal
6EVENER
Alters the shape of
5WARPS
Release steam
4VENT
Emulates a dog around the family dinner table
4BEGS
Rapper who co-starred in 1994's "Above the Rim"
5TUPAC
OUT OF ORDER! 🚫🚫🚫 PAPER TRAY REQUIRES MAINTENANCE!
7PRINTER
Shoo away, in a way
6SWATAT
OUT OF ORDER! 🚫🚫🚫 USE SECOND-FLOOR BATHROOM INSTEAD!
6TOILET
No __!
5DOUBT
Corp. money bigwig
3CFO
Love poem opener
11ROSESARERED
Corn container
4SILO
Protected lands for plants and animals
14NATURERESERVES
First name in daring jumps
4EVEL
Dell competitor
4ACER
Beehive State athlete
3UTE
Hole in the wall?
7RATTRAP
Article of pool equipment
4RACK
Singer Amos
4TORI
You can say that again!
4AMEN
Sensitivity
4TACT
Ax, so to speak
3END
Secret identity of Don Diego de la Vega
5ZORRO
Iconic repeated Keanu Reeves role
3NEO
Children's author Carle who wrote "The Very Hungry Caterpillar"
4ERIC
Standing
5ERECT
One of four rhyming letters
3ETA
Elf product
3TOY
Sowing machine
6SEEDER
Modern prefix with village
3ECO
To your health, in Germany.
6PROSIT
Aachen article
3DAS
Party starters, in brief
3MCS
[Don't open this at the office!]
4NSFW
Some needle work, in brief
4TATS
Nuts
6WACKOS
Several things in a pagoda
5TIERS
"The Matrix" character, with "the"
6ORACLE
"There is more to life than increasing its ___": Gandhi
5SPEED
Status of 23-, 44- and 69-Across, as indicated by their clues and placement in the grid
11UNDERREPAIR
__ Minor
4URSA
Songwriter Guthrie
4ARLO
Sloth, e.g.
3SIN
___ gaz (carbonated: Fr.)
4AVEC
Some N.F.L. linemen
3DTS
Prize that a prospector pries
3ORE
Fire up
3REV
Org. opposed to "speciesism"
4PETA
Common street sign symbol
5ARROW
Grassy section
3SOD
Performer of the 1992 dance song "Supermodel (You Better Work)"
6RUPAUL
"Community" character played by Donald Glover
4TROY
Trampoline mats
4BEDS
Apt letters missing from _ _stra_ _
4REIN
Greek figures with multiple heads
6HYDRAS
Source of 3.5 million quotations, for short
3OED