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NYT Crossword
Sunday, December 14, 2025

The New York Times crossword puzzle for Sunday, December 14, 2025 features 136 clues. Today's puzzle has an average answer length of 5.3 letters. The longest answer is "OOHIMSOSCARED".

Total Clues

136

Longest

OOHIMSOSCARED

Avg Length

5.3

Shortest

EPA

Featured Clue

"False alarm announcement?"

13 Letters

OOHIMSOSCARED

ALLComplete Solution List

Game of Thrones actor Gillen

Jedi-in-training

Render ___ Caesar ...

They turn red litmus paper blue

Pollution-fighting org.

No ___, ands, or buts!

Who said "It's hard to be humble when you're as great as I am"

Plant watcher, for short

It's a numbers game

Camera type, in brief

Hair-raising stuff?

Ruler before 1917

Marvel superhero who can manipulate weather patterns

Football blocker?

#1 choice, in slang

TV host Brzezinski

Major coin producer

False alarm announcement?

13OOHIMSOSCARED

Something fun to take out for a spin

Shaquille O'Neal's alma mater, for short

First chimpanzee to orbit Earth

Paul whose house is one of the 16 historic sites of Boston's Freedom Trail

Astronaut Ochoa, the first Hispanic woman in space

black-ish airer

Site of some Santa sightings

Longtime record label of Elvis Presley

Remodel and resell some real estate

Nickname for Mark's unsevered best friend in "Severance"

Like the number of Oscars vis-à-vis the number of Emmys

Beat poet Cassady

Parts of a hand

River that borders the Black Forest

Clothing for SWAT teams

Season to enjoy une glace

¬ or ~, in logic

___ on the past

"The Simpsons" character who becomes obsessed with crossword puzzles

"I mean, kind of ..."

Like some milk, idiomatically

Marching band tempo setters

Indication of bad service

Like a bubble bath

Surgery sites, in brief

Subject of Newton's first law

Fiddler on the Roof matchmaker

Prefix with natal

The brother in "Am I my brother's keeper?"

Gaspard de la Nuit composer

Director DuVernay

Variety of violet

Drink known also as "honey wine"

Letters for an unscheduled event

Resident of Honolulu, e.g.

Doll that comes in multiple body types, skin tones, eye colors and hair colors

Enjoying a soak

Touchless payment tech

Brand name for naproxen

Video game character with an endless appetite

Early track star Jim

Surveyed, with "out"

Fundamental rules of math

Be in a chat room but not chat

Articles are written in this

Parts of many robots in robot-sumo

Turns back the clock, maybe?

Part of a legendary boast

Soldiers with long arms

Urban safety hazard

Sierra automaker

Australia's largest carnivorous mammal

Area inside the free-throw line, in basketball slang

Alternative to the euro, in brief

Ballpark figure

Word used 10 times in Roger Ebert's review of "North" (1994)

Opposite of volunteer

Addresses angrily

Skips all the ceremony?

What might be made while clasping one's hands

Cheat on, in a way

1980 horror film starring William Hurt ... or what the shaded squares contain?

13ALTEREDSTATES

Like many indie films

Adele song with the lyric "I must have called a thousand times"

Did some school reporting?

Sci-fi sequel of 1986

Ren faire prop akin to a halberd

Exceptionally hard timber

Particularly particular

Play a part, or part of a play

Starship's medical facility

Put into piles, perhaps

He had a Billboard Hot 100 hit with "Rubber Duckie"

Reluctant to ask out one's crush, maybe

Where high schoolers work on their numbers?

Ernst Stavro Blofeld, to James Bond

Parking space for an Airstream, say, in brief

Non-premium option in a rideshare app

Hair-care item associated with Black culture

Thumbprint alternative on iPhones

Gaming mogul Gabe

Like YouTube offerings

Shylock's security

Amy Winehouse, e.g.

Other, to Octavio

Like lowercase i's and j's

Tortilla de patatas, por ejemplo

Like soft rolls

Interview guest whom Ali G calls "my man Buzz Lightyear here"

Brief announcements from a pilot

Wordless entertainment

___ alla bolognese (slow-cooked sauce)

Many characters in the 2007 comedy "Superbad"

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