Daily Puzzle Solution
NYT Crossword
Monday, December 15, 2025
The New York Times crossword puzzle for Monday, December 15, 2025 features 76 clues. Today's puzzle has an average answer length of 4.8 letters. The longest answer is "STUBBEDTOE".
Total Clues
76
Longest
STUBBEDTOE
Avg Length
4.8
Shortest
IUD
Featured Clue
"Slight injury from tripping"
10 Letters
STUBBEDTOE
ALLComplete Solution List
Recharge one's batteries
6RESTUP
President Hoover
7HERBERT
Enchanted
9BEDAZZLED
Sci-fi writer Isaac
6ASIMOV
Alternative to the pill, in brief
3IUD
Karl Marx's "__ Kapital"
3DAS
N.Y.C. airport
3JFK
Prepared to bathe
8DISROBED
Thrilla in Manila boxer
3ALI
Tales of yore
4LORE
Star Wars droid, familiarly
5ARTOO
Unconventional
3ODD
If you ask me, to texters
3IMO
Loch ___ monster
4NESS
Lo-___ graphics
3RES
Cool ___ cucumber
3ASA
Do one better than
3TOP
Balderdash
4LIES
Big-beaked tropical bird
6TOUCAN
You take credit cards? response
7YESWEDO
Singer Grande, to fans
3ARI
You ___ right!
5ARESO
I'm kidding!, in "Wayne's World"
3NOT
Join in marriage
5UNITE
Opera great Enrico
6CARUSO
Bridge support
5TRUSS
Artist Henri de ___-Lautrec
8TOULOUSE
Filled in (for), for short
6SUBBED
One-named Brazilian soccer star
4PELE
Slight injury from tripping
10STUBBEDTOE
Foreign-language movie that you don't have to read subtitles for
10DUBBEDFILM
Side's length squared, for a square
4AREA
Judge's seat, from the French
4BANC
Good, long bath
4SOAK
Cottontail
5PETER
Nicholas.
5SAINT
Suitable, as a unit in a bldg.?
3APT
Orchestral woodwind
4OBOE
One-named Grammy winner from Ireland
4ENYA
Dog-___ (like the pages in some books)
5EARED
Schmoozed (with)
9HOBNOBBED
Ridiculous
9ITSABSURD
Sluglike "Star Wars" crime boss
5JABBA
One who's rotten from the start
7BADSEED
Wife of Abraham, in the Bible
5SARAH
Colonial-era pirate captain
4KIDD
Location for a goatee or soul patch
4CHIN
Mr. ___ (Dr Pepper competitor)
4PIBB
Camp sleeping spots ... or a hint to this puzzle's circled letters
8BUNKBEDS
On ___ (looking great, in slang)
5FLEEK
But, briefly
3THO
Outings for foxhounds
5HUNTS
Suddenly stops working, as an engine
8SEIZESUP
Deck the Halls syllables
4FALA
Crash-investigating org.
4NTSB
Pea holder
3POD
Lacking the capacity
6UNABLE
When doubled, an African fly
3TSE
Two-door auto
5COUPE
Part of a barbecue rack
3RIB
Comic actor Van Dyke
4DICK
Beyond the continental shelf, say
7DEEPSEA
Like a ripe strawberry
3RED
Re-election restriction
9TERMLIMIT
Show feelings onstage
5EMOTE
Ernest in the Country Music Hall of Fame
4TUBB
Turning point in W.W. II
4DDAY
Gov. Tim ___, 2024 running mate
4WALZ
Be on the wane
3EBB
Prez before 10-Across
3DDE
Lift on the slopes
4TBAR
Funny in a subtle way
3DRY
Capital of Delaware
5DOVER
Like bright signs on the Las Vegas Strip
4NEON
Suffix with Benedict or elephant
3INE
Many a Wordsworth poem
3ODE