Daily Puzzle Solution
NYT Crossword
Thursday, December 18, 2025
The New York Times crossword puzzle for Thursday, December 18, 2025 features 78 clues. Today's puzzle has an average answer length of 4.8 letters. The longest answer is "EXQQMYFRENCH".
Total Clues
78
Longest
EXQQMYFRENCH
Avg Length
4.8
Shortest
CUE
Featured Clue
"Follow-up to an oath"
12 Letters
EXQQMYFRENCH
ALLComplete Solution List
Word with ball or card
3CUE
Platoon setting, for short
3NAM
Mushroom in ramen
5ENOKI
Go off on
6RAILAT
Tight ___
3SIT
Crosses off
6XESOUT
Web access co.
3ISP
Jake's love in "The Sun Also Rises"
5BRETT
Trunks
5TORSI
Helpful
5OFUSE
The time of one's life?
3AGE
OK signal
3NOD
Mama's mama
4NANA
Botch
5MISDO
Live
5ONAIR
Soldier
3TIN
Dig in
3EAT
Smooth transition
5SEGUE
Lengthy pitch
5SPIEL
Fluid for a lighter
6BUTANE
Platoon sgt., e.g.
3NCO
Volleyball team count
3SIX
Lake ___, body formerly known as Lac du Chat
4ERIE
Levels
6STRATA
Get schooled
5LEARN
Preserved, in a way
5DRIED
He said "Every great film should seem new every time you see it"
5EBERT
Reveal private data of, in modern lingo
3DOX
Some radar blips
4UFOS
Feats performed on knights' quests
11DARINGRESQQ
Follow-up to an oath
12EXQQMYFRENCH
"Colorful" Atlantic Coast Conference team
12SYRAQQORANGE
"We're the best!," e.g.
5BOAST
One versed in verse
4POET
Ceremony
4POMP
Visibly embarrassed
3RED
Bit of aerial arts equipment
4HOOP
It comes from the heart
5AORTA
Appropriate inappropriately
5USURP
Point at the wrong person
11UNJUSTLYAQQ
Off-line, online
3IRL
Bear with a message
6SMOKEY
Glide down a piste
3SKI
Agcy. that takes many forms
3IRS
Some queens
4BEDS
Beyond impressive, informally
9SCARYGOOD
"That's what she said" and others
9INNUENDOS
Alley components
5LANES
Spirits
7LIQUORS
Title for a J.D.
3ESQ
Coming right up
4NEXT
Hosts, for short
3MCS
Lives
6EXISTS
Greeting from Kermit
4HIHO
Eel, at a sushi bar
5UNAGI
Rae of "Insecure"
4ISSA
Fair
4EXPO
Teeming (with)
4RIFE
___ Mawr
4BRYN
Caribbean music genre
3SKA
No longer relevant
4MOOT
I... guess so
4SURE
T.H. White's "The ___ and Future King"
4ONCE
In a class by oneself
9UNEQUALED
Fabrication expert
4LIAR
N.F.L. div.
3QTR
"Ratatouille" topper
5TOQUE
Knockoff version of a bejeweled Imperial egg, e.g.
9FAUXBERGE
One of several in a watch
4GEAR
___ Nation (activist organization since 1990)
5QUEER
About 35,000 for the Taj Mahal: Abbr.
4SQFT
NaOH
3LYE
Barred from competing, for short
4DQED
Microdosing drug
3LSD
Name that sounds like a computer guidebook
7EMANUEL
Trail Blazers' grp.
3NBA
"Quit ___ yappin'!"
3YER
"Severance" actress Tullock
3JEN