Daily Puzzle Solution
NYT Crossword
Monday, December 22, 2025
The New York Times crossword puzzle for Monday, December 22, 2025 features 76 clues. Today's puzzle has an average answer length of 5.0 letters. The longest answer is "JEDIMASTERS".
Total Clues
76
Longest
JEDIMASTERS
Avg Length
5.0
Shortest
SAT
Featured Clue
"Yoda and Obi-Wan Kenobi, for two"
11 Letters
JEDIMASTERS
ALLComplete Solution List
Older but ___
5WISER
Rode the bench
3SAT
High-speed Amtrak train
5ACELA
Raggedy ___
3ANN
Deep sleeps
5COMAS
French "A"
3UNE
Yoga pose
5ASANA
Indignation
7OUTRAGE
Pink ___ (rock band)
5FLOYD
Day-__ paint
3GLO
Word with punching or sleeping
3BAG
Garfield dog
4ODIE
Approx.
3EST
Singer DiFranco
3ANI
Hearing-related
5AURAL
Playwright Chekhov
5ANTON
Stammering sounds
3ERS
Easily irritated
5TESTY
Persuades with flattery
7CAJOLES
Rapper ___ Uzi Vert
3LIL
Cops, slangily
4POPO
Wispy clouds
5CIRRI
Woodworking tool
4ADZE
It's freezing!
3BRR
Yoda and Obi-Wan Kenobi, for two
11JEDIMASTERS
One of a battery's poles
5ANODE
Cheat ... or a punny hint to the four sets of circled letters
11SHORTCHANGE
Some exams allow them
9OPENNOTES
Monet or Manet
6ARTIST
What electric cars don't use
3GAS
Fish that may have an electric charge
3EEL
Overly fussy
11PERSNICKETY
Creator of Firefox and Thunderbird
7MOZILLA
Oscars and Grammys, e.g.
6AWARDS
Enjoying great success
7ONATEAR
Doing keto, perhaps
7ONADIET
Typical "Survivor" locales
5ISLES
Kind of lamp that's energy-efficient
3LED
Bit of forensic evidence
3DNA
What each U.S. senator represents
5STATE
Harper ___, author of "To Kill a Mockingbird"
3LEE
Like a 49-Across gauge that's near "Empty"
3LOW
Orderly arrangement: Abbr.
3SEQ
Romeo and Juliet, agewise
5TEENS
Don't blow it
7BIGLEAD
Breyers competitor
4EDYS
Mideast export
3OIL
Bill
4BEAK
Under the weather
3ILL
Saxophone, trumpet, piano and bass, perhaps
11JAZZQUARTET
Em, to Dorothy
4AUNT
Reaction to pollen, e.g.
7ALLERGY
No sweat
4EASY
Pasta preference
7ALDENTE
Length of a pithy joke
7ONELINE
Nine-sided figure
7NONAGON
With a light touch
6GENTLY
Word after fire or carpenter
3ANT
Cherokee maker
4JEEP
Gold standard
5KARAT
Lyft competitor
4UBER
Actor Morales
4ESAI
Suffix with problem
4ATIC
Heart attack risk factor
6STRESS
Foot, in baby talk
6TOOTSY
Ball batted up and behind the catcher, say
7POPFOUL
Drug agent, informally
4NARC
Shiny coatings
7GLOSSES
Released from jail early
7PAROLED
The kissing disease
4MONO
Surgery sites, in brief
3ORS
Shade of color
3HUE
Scourge
4BANE
Stirs from sleep
7AWAKENS
Is over by
6ENDSAT
Beanie or bowler
3HAT