Daily Puzzle Solution
NYT Crossword
Friday, December 12, 2025
The New York Times crossword puzzle for Friday, December 12, 2025 features 69 clues. Today's puzzle has an average answer length of 5.5 letters. The longest answer is "IKNOWRIGHT".
Total Clues
69
Longest
IKNOWRIGHT
Avg Length
5.5
Shortest
TOE
Featured Clue
"You're telling me"
10 Letters
IKNOWRIGHT
ALLComplete Solution List
Doesn't just talk
4ACTS
Personal records
5BESTS
Jobs announcement of 2010
4IPAD
Succors
4AIDS
Part of a golf club
3TOE
Grounds
5CAUSE
Padlocked fasteners
5HASPS
Duino Elegies poet
5RILKE
Give a bad hand?
4ABET
Binary
4DUAL
Gross!
3UGH
STONE
3PIT
Tell Mama singer James
4ETTA
Some free spots, for short
4PSAS
Word with wet or sweat
4SUIT
Main component of a "gutbucket," a jug band instrument
7WASHTUB
[Waaaaah!]
3SOB
What blue crabs do roughly 20 times in their lifetimes
4MOLT
It's cool to drink
4ICEE
Skater's braking method with the back foot positioned horizontally
5TSTOP
Vaudeville highlight
4SKIT
You're telling me
10IKNOWRIGHT
"Don't leave me!," e.g.
4PLEA
Variety of orange named for a European city
8VALENCIA
See 5-Down
10APPLESAUCE
ACE, e.g.
5SERVE
Relative of a craft fair
7ARTEXPO
16 in a Sweet Sixteen
5TEAMS
You might pull one out for a guest
7SOFABED
Floats
5HANGS
Photo session workers
8STYLISTS
Impressively accurate pass, in football slang
4DART
Pulitzer-winning journalist Applebaum
4ANNE
With 38-Across, one way to sit
10CRISSCROSS
Part of NOW
5WOMEN
Saves, as a digital location
4PINS
News feed, perhaps
10RAWFOOTAGE
Conspiracy theorist's accessory
10TINFOILHAT
"I haven't told you the best part ..."
10THERESMORE
Feel gross
3AIL
Thick confection used for cake icing
7FONDANT
Fiddlesticks!
5SHOOT
Clichéd line from the side of a product package
10ASSEENONTV
Rocky road ingredient?
7ASPHALT
Workshop debris
7SAWDUST
Bind
5TIEUP
Sticks a fork in
5STABS
Disney princess in New Orleans
5TIANA
Distinction for a classic underground work
10CULTSTATUS
Butcher shop buys
5LOINS
Thoroughly evaluate
3VET
Pleasing to the palate
5SAPID
Kid's parent
4GOAT
Buss It rapper Banks
5ERICA
Arm of the Dept. of Labor
4OSHA
Way
4PATH
Performance that isn't prerecorded
7LIVESET
French 101 verb
4ETRE
Each
4APOP
That's the truth
5FACTS
Company whose logo has a hidden arrow between its fourth and fifth letters
5FEDEX
Colleague who might be solutions-oriented?
10LABPARTNER
Physics unit equivalent to roughly 624 gigaelectronvolts
3ERG
Possible need for entry
4VISA
Hagfish lookalikes
4EELS
Tropical plants said to bring good fortune
10MONEYTREES
Whitehouse in D.C., e.g.: Abbr.
3SEN
Word from the Greek for "folded paper"
7DIPLOMA
Part of a cabinet.
4KNOB