Daily Puzzle Solution
NYT Crossword
Tuesday, December 23, 2025
The New York Times crossword puzzle for Tuesday, December 23, 2025 features 75 clues. Today's puzzle has an average answer length of 5.1 letters. The longest answer is "CHRISTMASCOOKIE".
Total Clues
75
Longest
CHRISTMASCOOKIE
Avg Length
5.1
Shortest
NEO
Featured Clue
"Classic Yuletide treat"
15 Letters
CHRISTMASCOOKIE
ALLComplete Solution List
Highly capable
5ADEPT
Tokarczuk who won the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature
4OLGA
Take responsibility
6STEPUP
Ctrl-S command
4SAVE
Reject, as a bill
4VETO
Short video
4CLIP
Nothing, in Nogales
4NADA
Prefix with classic
3NEO
Prayer ender
4AMEN
Clever
6ASTUTE
With all judges present
6ENBANC
Playground retort
4AMSO
Biblical garden
4EDEN
Cries out
5YELPS
Sgt. or cpl.
3NCO
Oh, really?
8ISTHATSO
Carve
4ETCH
Unfortunate accident
6MISHAP
Antitrust enforcement org.
3FTC
Longtime CBS procedural with multiple spinoffs
4NCIS
This should clear things up!
5LASIK
Take advantage of
3USE
Alternative to épée or foil, in British English
5SABRE
Alternative to check or credit card
4CASH
Cry from a movie director
6ANDCUT
Brownish-yellow fabric
5KHAKI
Classic Halloween treat
9CANDYCORN
1990s internet option
6DIALUP
Dream Team country, for short
3USA
Appropriately named bus driver on "The Simpsons"
4OTTO
Institution of higher education, to a Brit
3UNI
Lead-in to "drink and be merry"
3EAT
Sleeper's breathing problem
5APNEA
Classic classroom party treat
7CUPCAKE
Highly pleased about
7PROUDOF
Go off a ski jump, say
8CATCHAIR
Short version of an impactful story
8VIGNETTE
Aspen or pine
4TREE
Reporter's big get
5SCOOP
Org. regulating water safety
3EPA
Tried to identify, in a way, as a wrapped gift
5SHOOK
Colored, as church glass
7STAINED
___ de Rossi, "Arrested Development" actress
6PORTIA
Classic Hanukkah treat
13CHOCOLATECOIN
Classic Yuletide treat
15CHRISTMASCOOKIE
It's part of the job
4TASK
Secondary subject for a college student
5MINOR
"Where'd you hear that?"
7SAYSWHO
Insect that emerges en masse every 13 or 17 years
6CICADA
Just for grins
8ALLINFUN
Nailed, as a test
4ACED
That's correct
3YES
Once ___ a time
4UPON
In a fitting way
5APTLY
Escape (The ___ Colada Song)
4PINA
Flat-bottomed boat
4SCOW
Former N.B.A. star Shawn with the nickname "Reign Man"
4KEMP
Big Apple org. that's going to blazes?
4FDNY
Make negative remarks about
6HATEON
Character played by Bruce Lee on "The Green Hornet"
4KATO
Finn
4HUCK
Resident of Pisa or Lucca
6TUSCAN
Condition that may require an inhaler
6ASTHMA
Kind of salad whose dressing contains anchovies
6CAESAR
Top execs, colloquially ... or what 20-, 28-, 39- and 59-Across are, phonetically?
6CSUITE
Not on the up and up, slangily
3SUS
Middle name for Lennon starting in 1969
3ONO
Get more than a little mad
6SEERED
One of three on the pitchfork in "American Gothic"
4TINE
Drink slowly
3SIP
Like many a dress shirt, with "in"
6TUCKED
Sallie or Fannie follower
3MAE
Breaks (into), as a computer system
5HACKS
Sign of peace
4DOVE
Hand-y communication method, for short?
3ASL