Daily Puzzle Solution
NYT Crossword
Thursday, December 11, 2025
The New York Times crossword puzzle for Thursday, December 11, 2025 features 76 clues. Today's puzzle has an average answer length of 4.9 letters. The longest answer is "IMAGINEDRAGONS".
Total Clues
76
Longest
IMAGINEDRAGONS
Avg Length
4.9
Shortest
IPO
Featured Clue
"<i>Puff ... Komodo ... Smaug ...</i>"
14 Letters
IMAGINEDRAGONS
ALLComplete Solution List
Some ways off
4AFAR
Bus. page news
3IPO
Suisse peak
4ALPE
English town known for its salt
5EPSOM
Quote from Homer
3DOH
Plane divider
5AISLE
Collect, as rewards
4REAP
Cry over spilt milk?
4OOPS
No harm, no foul
5ITSOK
Huggers?
4ARMS
Right-leaning type
7ITALICS
Stead
4LIEU
Puts two and two together, say
4ADDS
Spoils
4LOOT
Against
4ANTI
Word with heavy or scrap
5METAL
Reunion group
4CLAN
Prepares to throw
4AIMS
Greek goddess swallowed by her father and rescued by her future husband
4HERA
<i>Puff ... Komodo ... Smaug ...</i>
14IMAGINEDRAGONS
Work of Bellini or Bizet
5OPERA
Cable staple since 1972
3HBO
Lottery-style gambling game
4KENO
<i>Fish ... scuba ... Army ...</i>
10THINKTANKS
Contraction that's a homophone of 20-Across
3ILL
Landing area in a long jump
7SANDPIT
Wrapper at a Japanese restaurant
4NORI
Super trendy
3HOT
A replay might be seen in this
5SLOMO
Take inspiration from
5OWETO
Columbus's smallest ship
4NINA
<i>SEAL ... SWAT... B ...</i>
10DREAMTEAMS
<i>Utopia ... 10 ... ideal ...</i>
14PICTUREPERFECT
Echo starter
5ALEXA
Slip (out), in a way
4SEEP
In the style of
3ALA
Coin with 12 stars on it
4EURO
Author Zora ___ Hurston
5NEALE
Electrified Olympic weapon
4EPEE
Subject of an Oscars announcement
5EMCEE
Warms up for a race, say
4JOGS
Steps up to, as the line
4TOES
Sign for cheap admission
3SRO
What a dog might do to its owner
4LICK
Acting collectively
5ASONE
Dreamcast developer
4SEGA
Sustainable start?
3ECO
Alan of PBS's "Scientific American Frontiers"
4ALDA
Organization promoting international goodwill
10PEACECORPS
Something learned the hard way, often
10LIFELESSON
Toward the back of the boat
3AFT
Narrow openings
5SLITS
Cybersecurity concern
4HACK
Nick of "Cape Fear"
5NOLTE
Be worthy of
5MERIT
Universal donor's type, informally
4ONEG
Electrical units
4OHMS
Hand sanitizer eliminates the need to do this
5RINSE
Un-solid-ify
4MELT
Pan in the butt?
4GOAT
"Lux-ur-ious!"
7OOHLALA
Children's author Blyton
4ENID
2022 book paying tribute to a 1960s rock legend
4JIMI
Art class staple
5PAPER
Ray Charles's first #1 R&B single (1954)
10IGOTAWOMAN
Abrupt endings, of a sort
4TKOS
Quizzes
4ASKS
Sol's sister
4LUNA
Quit
5ENDED
Big Apple debut in 2010
4IPAD
Maze runners, sometimes
4MICE
This clue's number, for the youngest U.S. president
3AGE
Big wheels in the Vatican?
10POPEMOBILE
____-Cone
3SNO
New Zealand parrot whose name sounds like a Korean automaker
3KEA
Popular stick-figure webcomic
4XKCD